Bronson Pinchot

Pinchot has also performed in films including Risky Business (1983), The Flamingo Kid (1984), After Hours (1985), True Romance (1993) and The First Wives Club (1996), and in television series such as Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1994–1995), Clueless (1996), Ray Donovan (2015), Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–2020), Lodge 49 (2019) and The Residence (2025). In 2012, he starred in his own reality series, The Bronson Pinchot Project, on the DIY Network. Pinchot has worked extensively as an audiobook narrator, with over 400 recordings as of 2024. In 2010, he was named as AudioFile magazine's Best Voice in Fiction & Classic and Audible's Narrator of the Year. Pinchot has also won six Audie Awards, including for Male Solo Narration for his rendering of Christopher Healy's The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw (2012).

• Born — 20 May 1959 • Birthplace — New York City, U.S. • Education — Yale University (BA, MFA) • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1983–present

Pinchot was born in New York City on May 20, 1959. He grew up with his mother, two brothers, and a sister. His mother, Rosina, was a typist and house cleaner, while his father, a bookbinder born in New York and raised in Paris, abandoned the family. This abandonment plunged the family into poverty. Pinchot's paternal grandparents were Russian immigrants who settled in France following the Russian Revolution. Upon returning to the United States, his father changed the family surname from Poncharavsky to Pinchot. When Pinchot was two and a half years old, the family moved to South Pasadena, California. In school, he faced bullying and was often mocked for his appearance, being called "ugly" and "fat". Pinchot excelled academically, graduating at the top of his class from South Pasadena High School. His achievements earned him a full scholarship to Yale University, where he lived at Morse College. Although he initially planned to study fine arts, he ultimately majored in theater studies, graduating with honors. After college, a casting director discovered Pinchot, which led to his film debut in Risky Business.

• Illustration — Pinchot at the 39th Primetime Emmy Awards, 1987 Pinchot appeared in several feature films, such as Hot Resort, Risky Business, Beverly Hills Cop, The First Wives Club, True Romance, Courage Under Fire, and It's My Party. He also played Dennis Kemper in the short-lived NBC sitcom Sara. Pinchot was hired to replace Fisher Stevens as Ben Jabituya in the 1986 film Short Circuit, but Pinchot eventually left the production in order to begin work on Perfect Strangers, and Stevens was subsequently rehired for the role. Starting in 1986, Pinchot played Balki Bartokomous on the long-running ABC sitcom Perfect Strangers. When the show concluded filming its eight-season run in September 1992 (with the condensed final season airing during mid- 1993), Pinchot secured the starring role on a new sitcom for CBS, entitled The Trouble with Larry. The series premiered just three weeks after ABC's Perfect Strangers finale in August 1993, and one episode (which never aired) was directed by Mark Linn-Baker, Pinchot's co-star on Strangers. After three weeks of dismal ratings and poor reviews, The Trouble with Larry was canceled. Pinchot would subsequently be rehired by Perfect Strangers producers Tom Miller and Bob Boyett for roles on two more of their sitcoms: Step By Step where he played French hairdresser Jean-Luc Rieupeyroux in early 1997, and late the same year in Meego where he played an alien who crash-landed on Earth. In 2008, Pinchot read the audio version of The Learners, author Chip Kidd's followup to The Cheese Monkeys. He also voiced Max, the fully restored Black 1964 VW Beetle, in the 2009 Volkswagen "Das Auto" campaign. Between 2009 and 2014, Pinchot narrated over 100 audiobooks. In 2010, Pinchot read the audio version of the novels Matterhorn and Blood Oath. For the Blackstone Audio collection Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, he provided a reading of several stories, including Strangers on a Train. Pinchot also narrated for Christopher Healy's children's series, The Hero's Guide. He was recognized for his work with a number of awards, including Audible.com's 2010 Narrator of the Year. On February 12, 2012, Pinchot starred in a home restoration show on DIY Network titled The Bronson Pinchot Project. The program was based on his hobby of restoring old homes using salvaged materials. On March 8, 2018, it was announced that Pinchot would play George Hawthorne, the villainous, puritanical principal of Baxter High, who regularly clashes with Sabrina Spellman and her friends in the Netflix series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. The series premiered in October 2018. In 1999, he spent a great deal of time in Harford, Pennsylvania, restoring the circa 1839 mansion built by Joab Tyler (father of historian William Seymour Tyler) and later inhabited by former Pennsylvania state Senator Edward E. Jones. Pinchot purchased six properties in the small rural town of 1,300 residents "in an effort to revive the town's 19th-century aesthetic". In 2015 he filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy, claiming liabilities between $100,000 and $500,000. All of his properties in Harford were subsequently put up for sale. Pinchot told the Wilkes-Barre Citizens' Voice, "I have two skills: I can make old houses beautiful and I can make people laugh. Other than that I'm a waste of space. Well, I'm a dedicated son and brother, but I have no head for businesses." By April 2017, he owned two tiny homes, one measuring 77 square feet, the other 153 square feet.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1985 — Sara — Dennis Kemper — 13 episodes • 1985 — Amazing Stories — Director — Episode: "Mummy Daddy" • 1986 — Dave Thomas: The Incredible Time Travels of Henry Osgood — Charles Dickens — Television film • 1986 — Between Two Women — Photographer — Television film • 1986–1993 — Perfect Strangers — Balki Bartokomous / Mama / Cousin Bartok — 150 episodes • 1990 — ABC TGIF — Balki — Promotional programming • 1990 — The Great American Sex Scandal — Sanford Lagelfost / Jorge Jimenez / Arthur Lloyd / Magda — Television film • 1992 — Eek! The Cat — Additional voices • 1992 — Disney's Christmas Fantasy On Ice — Uncle Bronny / Jack Frost — Television special • 1993 — The Trouble with Larry — Larry Burton — 7 episodes • 1994/1995 — Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman — Kyle Griffin / The Prankster — 2 episodes • 1995 — The Langoliers — Craig Toomey — Miniseries; 2 episodes • 1995 — Dumb and Dumber — Dymbster (voice) — 2 episodes • 1995 — The Adventures of Hyperman — Valerie Knockisblokov (voice) — Episode: "Cosmo Not/The Brain Game" • 1996 — High Society — Arthur Zipkin — Episode: "Nip and Tuck" • 1996 — Duckman — Dr. Henri Ducharme (voice) — Episode: "A Room with a Bellevue" • 1996 — 3rd Rock from the Sun — Roy Albright — Episode: "Ab-dick-ted" • 1996 — Bruno the Kid — General Armando Castrato (voice) — 36 episodes • 1996 — Adventures from the Book of Virtues — The Man / The Dog (voices) — Episode: "Work" • 1996 — Clueless — Mr. Pomormo / Ka-feen — 2 episodes • 1996 1997 — Aaahh!!! Real Monsters — Dietrich Duchump Deitrich Dunlap (voices) — "Amulet of Enfarg/Bad Hair Day" "The Lips Have It/Escape Claws" • 1997 — Meego — Meego — 13 episodes • 1997 — High Incident — Matt Shukat — Episode: "Show Me the Money" • 1997 — The Angry Beavers — Truman / Brat (voices) — Episode: "House Broken/Stinky Toe" • 1997 — I Am Weasel — Oscar / Guard / Old Wardrobe Man (voices) — Episode: "I Are Big Star" • 1997 — Step by Step — Jean-Luc Rieupeyroux / Black Bart — 24 episodes • 1997 — Merry Christmas, George Bailey — Mr. Carter — Television film • 1997 2000 — Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child — Sonny the Toad / Killer Whale / Reindeer (voices) — "Thumbelina" "The Snow Queen" • 1998 — Hey Arnold! — Ronnie Matthews / Director / Chauffeur (voices) — 2 episodes • 1999 — The Wild Thornberrys — Franz Fensterkopf (voice) — 2 episodes • 2000 — Buzz Lightyear of Star Command — Shakey / Science (voices) — Episode: "Haunted Moon" • 2002 — Breaking News — Phillip — Episode: "Spin Art • 2003 — All Grown Up! — Pepe (voice) — Episode: "Chuckie's in Love" • 2005 — The Surreal Life — Himself — Season 5 Castmember • 2005 — Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Dr. Greg Ross — Episode: "Beast" • 2007 — Six Degrees — Thomas Johnson — Episode: "Ray's Back" • 2007 — Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Dr. Henry Carlisle — Episode: "Alternate" • 2008 — The Young and the Restless — Patrick Dalton — 6 episodes • 2010 — Hawaii Five-0 — Bastille — Episode: "Mana'o" • 2011 — The Problem Solverz — AI (voice) — Episode: "Videogamez" • 2011 — Shake It Up — Kashlack Hessenheffer — Episode: "Vatalihootsit It Up" • 2012–2013 — The Bronson Pinchot Project — Himself (host) — 20 episodes • 2014 — NCIS — George Burton — Episode: "Parental Guidance Suggested" • 2015 — The Mysteries of Laura — Head Chef J.T. Thompson — Episode: "The Mystery of the Frozen Foodie" • 2015 — Ray Donovan — Flip Brightman — 2 episodes • 2017 — The Untitled Action Bronson Show — Himself — Season 1 Episode 3 • 2018–2020 — Chilling Adventures of Sabrina — George Hawthorne — Recurring role, 8 episodes • 2019 — A Million Little Things — Berge — Episode: "Twelve Seconds" • 2019 — Lodge 49 — Dr. Kimbrough — 3 episodes • 2020 — Project Blue Book — David Dubrovsky — Episode: "Close Encounters" • 2021 — Black Monday — Douglas Blackmore — Episode: "Four!" • 2022 — NCIS: Hawaiʻi — Darrin Schwartz — Episode: "Nurture" • 2022 — The Mysterious Benedict Society — Yanis — Episode: "Commitment to All Things Cozy" • 2023 — Our Flag Means Death — Ned Lowe — Episode: "Calypso's Birthday" • 2025 — The Residence — Didier Gotthard — 8 episodes • TBA — Bishop — Dougray Dillon — TBD episodes

• Year — Title — Role — Artist • 1984 — "Neutron Dance" — Theater Manager — The Pointer Sisters