David Brisbin

David Brisbin is an American actor who came to television through a long stretch of stage work. He spent his childhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota and studied at Augsburg College, where a drama department head encouraged his shift from choral music toward acting. Two years of theater in Bellingham, Washington came next, followed by experimental work in San Francisco and a decade in New York City, where he appeared in political and experimental theater, the film The Big Blue, and the daytime series All My Children and Another World. He starred from 1989 to 1991 as Benjamin Ernst, an accountant who buys an Arizona dude ranch, on Hey Dude. Supporting parts followed in Forrest Gump, Erin Brockovich (2000), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and Leaving Las Vegas, and he played Dr. Alexander Babcock on ER between 1998 and 2002. He was also Dr. Sugarman on Desperate Housewives and appeared on The West Wing.