Lee Arenberg
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Lee Arenberg | |
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 Arenberg at the 2015 Magic City Comic Con | |
| Born | July 18, 1962 Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Spouses | Lisa Derrick
(m. 1999; div. 2006)Katie Meehan (m. 2007) |
Lee Arenberg (born July 18, 1962)[citation needed] is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Pintel, one of Captain Barbossa's crew, in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. He also had a recurring role as the dwarf Grumpy in the television series Once Upon a Time. He attended UCLA as a theatre major.
Career
[edit]Arenberg attended Santa Monica High School with future "brat pack" actors Sean Penn, Robert Downey Jr. and Emilio Estevez,[1][2] and co-wrote a play with Estevez which was directed by Penn.[citation needed] Lee's first professional job was in 1986 at the Mark Taper Forum in "Ghetto", a play directed by Gordon Davidson. Within weeks he was cast in three films, including the role of Norton in the feature Tapeheads (1988) opposite the film's co-stars Tim Robbins and John Cusack. Guest appearances on television began in 1987 with the hit sitcom Perfect Strangers (1986), and have continued with memorable roles such as the parking space-stealing New Yorker Mike Moffitt on Seinfeld (1992) and as the murderous rock promoter opposite Katey Sagal and Sam Kinison in Tales from the Crypt (1989), as well as roles on Arli$$ (1996), and Friends (1994). Arenberg can also be seen in the role of the well endowed studio head Bobby G. on the controversial short-lived Fox sitcom Action (1999) opposite series star Jay Mohr.
Arenberg has also guest starred on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise. Coincidentally, in two of his appearances, ("The Nagus" and "United"), he played a character named Gral, one a Ferengi and the other a Tellarite. In 1992, Lee appeared on the TV series Night Court. Arenberg also played the recurring role of bookie Mike Moffitt in two episodes of Seinfeld. In "The Parking Space", he and George Costanza had a parking dispute, while in "The Susie" his thumbs were accidentally broken while trying to repair Jerry Seinfeld's car trunk.
He also guest starred in the fifth season of Friends in an episode titled "The One with the Inappropriate Sister". He guest starred on an episode of Brotherly Love entitled "Motherly Love". He had a bit part as a bumbling Hold-up Man in RoboCop 3. Lee also played Dr. Moyer in the Scrubs episode "My Own American Girl". He also starred as the dwarf Elwood Gutworthy in Dungeons & Dragons (2000), and the pirate Pintel in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. He guest starred as "Hair Plugs" in Grounded for Life (2001). A graduate of Santa Monica High in 1980, he starred as the regular character "Grumpy/Leroy" on the hit ABC television series Once Upon a Time.[1][2] As he confirmed when speaking at the Farpoint Star Trek Convention in Timonium, Maryland, Arenberg's character Pintel did not return in the fourth Pirates film.
Arenberg's face as skeletal Pintel from Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, can be seen popping up in the treasure caves on Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island in Disneyland.[3]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Film | Role | Director | Notes |
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| 1987 | Cross My Heart | Parking Attendant | Armyan Bernstein | |
| 1988 | Tapeheads | Norton | Bill Fishman | |
| 1989 | The Wizard | Armageddon Registrar | Todd Holland | |
| 1990 | Brain Dead | Sacks | Adam Simon | |
| 1990 | Class of 1999 | Marv the Technician | Mark L. Lester | |
| 1992 | Bob Roberts | Religious Zealot | Tim Robbins | |
| 1993 | RoboCop 3 | Robber at donut shop | Fred Dekker | |
| 1993 | Freaked | The Eternal Flame | Alex Winter Tom Stern |
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| 1995 | Waterworld | Djeng | Kevin Reynolds | |
| 1997 | Warriors of Virtue | Mantose | Ronny Yu | |
| 2000 | Dungeons and Dragons | Elwood | Courtney Solomon | |
| 2003 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Pintel | Gore Verbinski | |
| 2006 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | |||
| 2007 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | |||
| 2007 | Happily N'Ever After | Additional Voices | Paul J. Bolger | |
| 2012 | Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy | Billy Lee | Harold Cronk |
| Year | Film | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | In the Gray | Rob Holloway |
| Year | Film | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | In the Gray | screenwriter | Rob Holloway |
Television
[edit]| Year | Series | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Perfect Strangers | Leon | Episode: "Night School Confidential" |
| 1988 | Sledge Hammer! | Buzzy | Episode: "Sledge, Rattle 'n' Roll" |
| 1990 | Tales from the Crypt | Marty Slash | Episode: "For Cryin' Out Loud" |
| 1990, 1992 | Night Court | Mr. Dijilly / Mr. Abraham | 2 episodes |
| 1991-2 | The Idiot Box | Various characters | 4 episodes |
| 1992 | Live! From Death Row | Griffith | TV movie |
| Roseanne | The Ghost of Hallowe'en Past | Episode: "Halloween IV" | |
| 1992, 1997 | Seinfeld | Mike Moffitt | Episodes: "The Parking Space", "The Susie" |
| 1993 | Married... with Children | Sal | Episode: "Luck of The Bundys" |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation | Prak | Episode: "Force of Nature" | |
| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Gral | Episode: "The Nagus" | |
| 1994 | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Bok | Episode: "Bloodlines" |
| 1995 | Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | Major Domo | Episode: "Tempus, Anyone?" |
| 1996,1997,1998,2000 | Arli$$ | Various characters | 4 episodes |
| 1998 | The Mr. Potato Head Show | Bullyboy | Episode: "Equal Writes" |
| Friends | The Man | Episode: "The One with the Inappropriate Sister" | |
| 1999 | Star Trek: Voyager | Pelk | Episode: "Juggernaut" |
| 1999-2000 | Action (TV series) | Bobby Gianopolis | Miscellaneous episodes |
| 2000 | Two Guys and a Girl | Mugger / Irene's Dad | Episode: "Once Again from the Beginning" |
| 2000 | Walker, Texas Ranger | Lester Squigman | Episode: "Faith" |
| 2001 | My Wife and Kids | Kevin Anderson | Episode: "Jay Gets Fired" |
| 2003 | Charmed | Unidentified Demon | Episode: "Oh My Goddess (Part 1)" |
| Scrubs | Dr. Moyer | Episode: "My Own American Girl" | |
| 2005 | Star Trek: Enterprise | Tellarite Ambassador Gral | 2 Episodes |
| 2008 | Pushing Daisies | Arnaud Bailey | Episode: "Circus, Circus" |
| 2010 | The Iceman Chronicles | Judge Buttonwillow McKittrick | |
| 2011 | The Cape | Razer's Driver | Episode: "Razer" |
| Good Luck Charlie | Nick, Skyler's Fake Dad | Episode: "Monkey Business" | |
| 2011–18 | Once Upon a Time | Grumpy/Dreamy/Leroy | 55 episodes |
| 2013 | Californication | Ken (Charlie's boss)[4] | 3 episodes |
| Once Upon a Time in Wonderland | Leroy | Episode: "Down the Rabbit Hole" | |
| 2019 | American Gods | Alviss | Episode: "The Ways of the Dead" |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Interview With Lee Arenberg". www.officiallypluggedin.com. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
- ^ a b "Lee Arenberg Talks About Grumpy in Once Upon a Time Season 5, Pirates of The Caribbean & More [Interview] | Fox Force Five News". www.foxforcefivenews.com. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
- ^ Shaffer, Joshua C (July 17, 2017). Discovering the Magic Kingdom: An Unofficial Disneyland Vacation Guide - Second Edition. Synergy Book Publishing. p. 539. ISBN 978-0-9991664-0-6. Retrieved March 12, 2023.
- ^ Mitovich, Matt Webb (8 May 2012). "Scoop: Once Upon a Time's Grumpy Shows Californication Who's Boss". TVLine. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
External links
[edit]
- Lee Arenberg at IMDb
| International | |
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| National | |
| Artists | |
- American male film actors
- American male television actors
- Male actors from Palo Alto, California
- Santa Monica High School alumni
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- 1962 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American male actors
- 21st-century American male actors
- Jewish American male actors
- 21st-century American Jews