Don Stark

• Name — Don Stark • Birth Name — Donald Martin Stark • Born — 5 July 1954 • Birthplace — New York City, New York, U.S. • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1973–present • Education — California State University, Northridge

As a child, Stark and his family relocated to Los Angeles, California, settling in the San Fernando Valley. Stark graduated from Grover Cleveland High School in Reseda, California, in 1972. He played football for the school team, and he won leading roles in the theater arts department. He portrayed Marvin Hudgens in Dark of the Moon, Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls, Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, and, in an award-winning Shakespeare Festival scene, the title role in Othello. After high school, Stark attended California State University, Northridge, originally studying business before deciding to major in theater arts.

Stark is probably best recognized as Bob Pinciotti, the bumbling next-door neighbor of the Forman family and the father of Donna Pinciotti (Laura Prepon) on the FOX sitcom That '70s Show. Stark's roles in movies include Switchblade Sisters (1975), Tilt (1979), Evilspeak (1981), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and The Couch Trip (1988), as well as a small role as a clerk in the comedy film Feds (1988). He has also been a guest on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and had a small role in the Star Trek film Star Trek: First Contact. He had a small role in an episode of Supernatural as a victim of a ghost that had been summoned by ritual to murder. He also guest starred on Viper, Disney Channel's Cory in the House, Stargate SG-1 and CSI. He had a supporting role in the 1996 television series Time Cop. In addition, he appeared in iCarly's movie: iGo to Japan as Freight Dog, the pilot who flies the gang over to Tokyo, Japan. Stark appears in the first episode of the 1987 TV series Beauty and the Beast as one of the attackers who puts Linda Hamilton's character "Catherine" in Central Park where the beast, or "Vincent", played by Ron Perlman, finds her and helps her, which begins the series. He appeared as David in the film My Name is Jerry. He appeared as the Prime Minister of Russia in the episode of Cory in the House, "Air Force One Too Many". He plays the boss, Stan, in the web series Corey & Lucas For the Win. He also provided his voice for Rhino in few episodes of Spider-Man: The Animated Series. One of his more recent appearances was as a mobster in the episode of Castle, "Murder He Wrote". He also had a small, uncredited role as a principal in Anger Management, "Charlie Lets Kate Take Charge". Stark plays the role of Oscar Kincade in the television series Hit the Floor. He played Uncle Frank in the 2015 film Hello, My Name Is Doris. He played Judge Talbertson in the 2017 Scorpion episode, "Who Let the Dog Out ('Cause Now It's Stuck In a Cistern')". Also in 2017, Stark played Bernie Greenfield, a drug-addicted Hollywood executive in There's...Johnny!.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1975 — Welcome Back, Kotter — Student Extra — Episodes: "Welcome Back (Pilot)" and "Whodunit?" • 1975–1977 — The Streets of San Francisco — Jim Riley / Henry Brown — Episodes: "School of Fear" and "Innocent No More" • 1978 — Black Sheep Squadron — Radio Operator — Episode: "Wolves in the Sheep Pen" • 1978 — Police Story — Ron — Episode: "A Chance to Live" • 1978 — CHiPs — Officer Allen — Episode: "Family Crisis" • 1978 — Return Engagement — Waiter — Television movie • 1979 — Quincy, M.E. — Henessey — Episode: "Semper-Fidelis" • 1984 — Riptide — Matt — Episode: "Where the Girls Are" • 1985 — Hell Town — Joe — Episode: "Love and the Four Corners" • 1986 — The Twilight Zone — Punk #2 — Episode: "A Day in Beaumont/The Last Defender of Camelot" • 1986–1987 — Sledge Hammer! — Kurt Kruggle — Episodes: "Under the Gun" and "Sledgepoo" • 1987 — Beauty and the Beast — Stocky Guy — Episode: "Once Upon a Time in the City of New York" • 1987 — Cagney & Lacey — Perry DeScarfo — Episode: "Video Verite" • 1988 — The Charmings — Marty — Episode: "Birth of a Salesman" • 1988 — Night Court — Monroe — Episode: "Chrizzi's Honor" • 1988 — General Hospital — Ripley — 13 episodes • 1989 — Beauty and the Beast — Eddie — Episode: "Brothers" • 1989 — Starting Now — Chuck — Television movie • 1989 — A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story — Officer Driscoll — Television movie • 1989 — Hardball — Unknown — Episode: "The Cleveland Indian" • 1991 — Equal Justice — Sergeant Samuelson — Episode: "The Big Game and Other Crimes" • 1991 — The Man in the Family — Cha Cha — 7 episodes • 1991 — Empty Nest — Timmy — Episode: "Almost Like Being in Love" • 1991 — The Golden Girls — Sheriff — Episode: " • 1992 — Blossom — Cop #2 — Episode: "Three O'Clock and All Is Hell" • 1992 — Civil Wars — Marty DeMeo — Episode: "Whippet 'Til It Breaks" • 1992 — Sinatra — Unknown — Television miniseries • 1993 — Elvis and the Colonel: The Untold Story — Dutch — Television movie • 1993 — Baywatch — Policeman — Episode: "The Tower" • 1993 — South of Sunset — Bus Driver — Episode: "Satyricon" • 1993 — Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Ashrock — Episode: "Melora" • 1994 — Viper — Manny — Episode: "Safe as Houses" • 1994 — Beverly Hills, 90210 — David's Shrink — Episode: "Heartbreakers" • 1994 — NYPD Blue — Richard Corday — Episode: "Black Men Can't Jump" • 1994 — Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man — IRS Agent / Additional Voice (voice) — Episode: "T.V. or Not to Be" and "Not So Easy Riders" • 1994 — Silk Stalkings — Tony – Strip Club Manager — Episode: "The Deep End$ • 1994 — Ellen — Repairman — Episode: "The Refrigerator" • 1995 — Charlie Grace — Detective Simms — Episodes: "Take Me to the Pilot" and "The Kid" • 1995–1996 — Bless This House — Lenny — 16 episodes • 1995–1997 — Spider-Man — Rhino / Alex O'Hirn (voice) — 8 episodes • 1996 — Picket Fences — Stubby Muller — Episode: "Dante's Inferno" • 1996 — Murder One — Carmine D'Nardis — Episodes: "Chapter Seven, Year Two" and "Chapter Eight, Year Two" • 1997 — Dark Skies — Gallagher — Episode: "Both Sides Now" • 1997 — Murder Live! — Man in Yellow Suit — Television movie • 1997–1998 — Timecop — Eugene Matuzek — 9 episodes • 1997 — Diagnosis Murder — Detective Dave Groeber — Episode: "Blood Brothers Murder" • 1997 — L.A. Heat — Treat Donnelly — Episode: "Chester Nut" • 1998 — Brooklyn South — George Hauer — Episode: "Exposing Johnson" • 1998–2006 — That '70s Show — Bob Pinciotti — Main cast • 1998 — Early Edition — Stan Kowaleski — Episode: "Walk, Don't Run" • 1998 — Michael Hayes — Rutigliano — Episode: "Imagine: Part 2" • 2000 — Diagnosis Murder — Stanley Bomgarden — Episode: "All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Die" • 2001 — That's Life — Alan Derwin — Episode: "Idiots" • 2002 — Maybe It's Me — Ed — Episode: "The Lab Partner Episode" • 2002–2004 — Curb Your Enthusiasm — Stu Braudy — 3 episodes • 2003 — CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Sam Hopkins — Episode: "Grissom Versus the Volcano" • 2004–2005 — Father of the Pride — Vincent (voice) — 10 episodes • 2006 — Stargate SG-1 — Sal — Episode: "Memento Mori" • 2007 — The Young and the Restless — Minister Frank McCallister — 1 episode • 2007 — Supernatural — Jay Wiley — Episode: "Hollywood Babylon" • 2007 — Cory in the House — Russian Prime Minister — Episode: "Air Force One Too Many" • 2008 — iCarly — Freight Dog — Episode: "iGo to Japan" • 2008 — Dirty Sexy Money — Detective Moffett (uncredited) — Episode: "The Family Lawyer" • 2010 — Melissa & Joey — Phil DeMarco — Episode: "Pilot" • 2011 — Workshop — Terry Tompkins — 4 episodes • 2011 — Law & Order: LA — Mayor Jack Velman — Episode: "East Pasadena" • 2012 — The Mentalist — Armon Gagnon — Episode: "Not One Red Cent" • 2012–2014 — Castle — Vincent Cardano — Episodes: "Murder He Wrote" and "Driven" • 2012 — NCIS — Marty Fiero — Episode: "The Good Son" • 2012 — American Horror Story — Kit's Lawyer — Episode: "Dark Cousin" • 2013 — Anger Management — Principal — Episode: "Charlie Lets Kate Take Change" • 2013–2018 — Hit the Floor — Oscar Kincade — Main cast • 2013 — Blockhead — Marcos — Episode: "Linus and the Landlord" • 2014 — Red Sleep — Dr. George Reed — Episode: "Adapt" • 2015 — The Mindy Project — Don Castellano — Episode: "Mindy and Ninny" • 2015 — The Good Wife — Manny Hofstedter — Episode: "KSR" • 2016 — The Odd Couple — Mr. Blaustein — Episode: "All the Residents' Men" • 2016 — Maron — Gerry — 5 episodes • 2016 — Rosewood — Captain Roy Murillo — Episode: "Eddie & the Empire State of Mind" • 2016 — The Strain — James O'Neill — Episode: "Do or Die" • 2017 — NCIS — Auto Mechanic — Episode: "Voices" • 2017 — There's...Johnny! — Bernie Greenfield — 3 episodes • 2017 — Scorpion — Judge Kramer — Episode: "Who Let the Dog Out ('Cause Now It's Stuck in a Cistern)" • 2018 — Shameless — Congressman Wayne Ubberman — Episode: "Weirdo Gallagher Vortex" • 2019 — General Hospital — Judge Benjamin — Episode: Feb 20, 2019 • 2022 — Dollface — Craig Wiley — Episode: "Homecoming Queen" • 2023–2024 — That '90s Show — Bob Pinciotti — 9 episodes • 2024–present — The Family Business — Senator Patrick Pettway — Recurring cast

• Year — Title — Voice role — Notes • 2025 — Delta Force: Black Hawk Down Campaign — Hawke Executive

Don Stark is recorded as actor, film director, singer and comedian.