Lee Arenberg

Lee Arenberg
File:Lee Arenberg January 2015.jpg Arenberg in 2015
Born	(1962-07-18) July 18, 1962 Palo Alto, California
Occupation	Film, television actor
Years active	1987–present
Spouse(s)	Lisa Derrick (1999–2006)

Lee Arenberg (born July 18, 1962) is an American actor, best known for his role as Pintel, one of Captain Barbossa's crew, in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. He currently has a recurring role as the dwarf Grumpy in the television series Once Upon a Time. He attended UCLA as a theatre major.

Career

Arenberg attended Santa Monica High School with future "brat packer" actors Sean Penn, Robert Downey Jr. and Emilio Estevez, and co-wrote a play with Estevez which was directed by Penn. 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 (1989) 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 notoriously huge studio head, Bobby G., on the controversial syndicated comedy film Action (1999) opposite series star Jay Mohr.

Arenberg has also guest starred on all the Star Trek spin-offs 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 and 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 is currently starring as the regular character "Grumpy/Leroy" on the hit ABC television series "Once Upon a Time (TV series)". 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.

Filmography

Film

Actor

Year	Film	Role	Director	Notes
1987	Cross My Heart	Parking Attendant	Armyan Bernstein
1989	The Wizard	Ninja Gaiden Guy	Todd Holland
1993	Freaked	The Human Flame	Alex Winter Tom Stern
1997	Warriors of Virtue	Mantose	Ronny Yu
2000	Dungeons and Dragons	Elwood
2003	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Pintel	Gore Verbinski
2006	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Pintel	Gore Verbinski
2007	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	Pintel	Gore Verbinski
2012	Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy	Billy Lee	Harold Cronk

Producer

Year	Film	Director	Notes
2011	In the Gray	Rob Holloway

Writer

Year	Film	Role	Director	Notes
2011	In the Gray	screenwriter	Rob Holloway

Television

Year	Series	Role	Notes
1990	Tales from the Crypt	Marty Slash	Episode: "For Cryin' Out Loud"
1992	Live! From Death Row	Griffith	TV movie
1992, 1997	Seinfeld	Mike Moffitt (bookie)	Episode: "The Parking Space", "The Susie"
1993	Married...with Children	Sal	Episode: "Luck of The Bundys"
1993	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Prak	Episode: "Force of Nature"
1998	Friends	The Man	Episode: "The One with the Inappropriate Sister"
2001	My Wife and Kids	Kevin Anderson	Episode: "Jay Gets Fired"
2003	Charmed	Unidentified Demon	Episode: "Oh My Goddess (Part 1)"
2003	Scrubs	Dr. Moyer	Episode: "My Own American Girl"
2008	Pushing Daisies	Arnaud Bailey
2010	The Iceman Chronicles	Judge Buttonwillow McKittrick
2011	The Cape	Razer's Driver
2011	Good Luck Charlie	Skyler's Fake Dad
2011–present	Once Upon a Time	Grumpy/Dreamy/Leroy	20 Episodes
2013	Californication	Charlie's gay boss
2013	Once Upon a Time in Wonderland	Leroy

External links

• Lee Arenberg at the Internet Movie Database
• Lee Arenberg at AllMovie
• Official website