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Stuart Pankin

Stuart Pankin

28 movies on Netflix

Biography

Stuart Pankin is an American actor who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at Dickinson College and Columbia University. He performed at St. Vincent Summer Theatre and became known on television for playing Bob Charles, an anchor, on Not Necessarily the News, and for voicing Earl Sinclair on Dinosaurs. His other television roles include Mike Dooley on Nearly Departed and an Orthodox Jew on Curb Your Enthusiasm. His early film work included Dudley Laywicker, an asthmatic musician and magician, in Hollywood Knights. He played Jimmy in Fatal Attraction (1987) and a self-important lawman in Arachnophobia (1990). He was Commander Plank in three Zenon films: Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999), Zenon: The Zequel (2001), and Zenon: Z3 (2004). In Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (1997) he was the brother of Wayne Szalinski. For IMAX theaters, he played an absent-minded professor in the edutainment 3D films Encounter in the Third Dimension and Misadventures in 3D.

80years old

Turns 81 on April 8in 178 days

  • Born Philadelphia
  • Star sign: AriesThe sign runs March 21 to April 19

Movie Career

Films
28
Career span
42 years1980 to 2022

Genres

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Best known for

The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.

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  1. Fatal Attraction1987 Drama, Thrilleras Jimmy

    IMDb rating 6.9113K votes

  2. Arachnophobia1990 Comedy, Fantasy, Horroras Sheriff Lloyd Parsons

    IMDb rating 6.581K votes

  3. Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves1997as Gordon Szalinski

    IMDb rating 5.019K votes

  4. Congo1995as Boyd

    IMDb rating 5.454K votes

  5. Life Stinks1991as Pritchard

    IMDb rating 5.913K votes

  6. Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century1999as Commander Edward Plank

    IMDb rating 6.49.3K votes

  7. Striptease1996as Alan Mordecai

    IMDb rating 4.652K votes

  8. Mannequin Two: On the Move1991as Mr. James

    IMDb rating 4.57.4K votes

Most often with

Frank Marshall directed two of these films, Fred Olen Ray two. Three actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.

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Films together

Box office

What Stuart Pankin's films earned in cinemas worldwide.

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Combined worldwide box office

$666 million

11 of the 28 films have a worldwide figure.

Of the 28 films: 11 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 9 never in cinemas; 7 figure not found.

  • 11Worldwide figure
  • 1US gross only
  • 9Never in cinemas
  • 7Figure not found

Highest grossing

The eight biggest films earned 99% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.

  1. 1
    Fatal Attraction1987as Jimmy
    $320M48.1% of the total
  2. 2
    Congo1995as Boyd
    $152M22.8% of the total
  3. 3
    Striptease1996as Alan Mordecai
    $113M17.0% of the total
  4. 4
    Arachnophobia1990as Sheriff Lloyd Parsons
    $53M8.0% of the total
  5. 5
    An Eye for an Eye1981as Nicky LaBelle
    $7.7M1.2% of the total
  6. 6
    Hangar 181980as Sam Tate
    $6.0M0.9% of the total
  7. 7
    Life Stinks1991as Pritchard
    $4.1M0.6% of the total
  8. 8
    $3.8M0.6% of the total
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994), $3.3 millionBig Bully (1996), $2.0 millionThe Vagrant (1992), $5,900

$5.4 millionfrom the other 3 films with a worldwide figure, 1% of the total