Steven Weber (actor)

Steven Weber
Weber in 2010
Born	Steven Robert Weber (1961-03-04) March 4, 1961 Briarwood, Queens, New York, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1984–present
Spouse(s)	Finn Carter (m. 1985–92) Juliette Hohnen (m. 1995–2013)
Children	2

Steven Robert Weber (born March 4, 1961) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Brian Hackett on the television show Wings which aired from April 1990 to May 1997 on NBC and as Sam Blue in Once and Again.

Early life

Weber was born in Briarwood, Queens, New York. His mother, Fran, was a nightclub singer, and his father, Stuart Weber, was a nightclub performer and manager of Borscht Belt comedians. His family was Jewish. Weber graduated from Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts (1979) and the State University of New York at Purchase.

Career

Weber started appearing in TV commercials while still in the third grade. After leaving college he became a member of the Mirror Repertory Company and appeared opposite legendary actress Geraldine Page in several productions before winning a role as Julianne Moore's ill-tempered and ill-fated boyfriend on the CBS daytime drama As the World Turns in 1985–1986. He appeared in several motion pictures and TV mini-series, such as The Flamingo Kid, Hamburger Hill, and the acclaimed The Kennedys of Massachusetts (as the young John F. Kennedy).

His most well-known role is as Brian Hackett, a skirt-chasing airplane pilot on the sitcom Wings. Several years later, Weber starred in his own short-lived half-hour comedy Cursed, joined the cast of ABC's Once and Again as the tortured artist Sam Blue, and starred the next year in the acclaimed show The D.A. once again for ABC. Weber also had a lead role in the 1990s hit movie Single White Female.

Weber first appeared on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and in 2001-2002 took over for Matthew Broderick as Leo Bloom in the Broadway production of The Producers. In 2005, he appeared alongside Kevin Spacey in London at the Old Vic's production of National Anthems. Weber also wrote and produced 2003's Clubland, a Showtime movie in which he and Alan Alda played father and son talent agents in 1950s New York City (for which Alda was nominated for an Emmy). He appeared in three Stephen King adaptations: Stephen King's Desperation (film) (2006), You Know They Got a Hell of a Band from the Nightmares & Dreamscapes (2006) mini-series, and in the television mini-series version of Stephen King's The Shining (1997), playing the alcoholic, murderous Jack Torrance. In 1998, he played the voice of wisecracking Alsatian Charlie B. Barkin in An All Dogs Christmas Carol, a role he earlier played in 1996 in All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series In 2006, he rejoined former Wings co-star Tony Shalhoub in a guest role on Monk. The same year, Weber played the role of network boss Jack Rudolph in the NBC series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

In 2008, Weber starred in Alliance Group Entertainment's feature film Farm House, where he played Samael, a mysterious vineyard owner. Weber also guest starred on the drama series Brothers and Sisters as Graham Finch, a business specialist. He also guest-starred on Psych as Jack Spencer, Shawn Spencer's uncle and Henry Spencer's brother. He also starred on Desperate Housewives in 2008. Weber appeared as a recurring guest on the 2008–2009 season of the CBS crime drama Without a Trace.

He was recently part of the cast of the now cancelled ABC show Happy Town and had a major role in the TV movie A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! in which he played the villain Hugh J. Magnate, Jr.

He stars occasionally in the live action comic Puddin', alongside actor Eddie Pepitone.

Since 2012, Weber has provided the voices of several characters on the Disney XD animated series Ultimate Spider-Man.

In 2014, Weber rejoined former Wings star Rebecca Schull in Chasing Life. They are both recurring characters.

Personal life

Weber was married to actress Finn Carter from 1985 to 1992. In 1995, he became engaged to Juliette Hohnen, then the Los Angeles bureau chief for MTV News, and they married on July 29 that year at Highclere Castle in Berkshire, UK, not far from her native London. She filed for divorce on February 6, 2013, after 17 years of marriage. The couple has two sons: John "Jack" Alexander Hohnen-Weber, born January 15, 2001, in Santa Monica, California, and Alfred "Alfie" James, born February 25, 2003.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	The Flamingo Kid	Paul Hirsch
1985	Flanagan	Sean
1985	Walls of Glass	N/A
1987	Hamburger Hill	Sfc. Dennis Worcester
1987	The Little Fox	Adult Vic	Voice only English dub
1989	Kojak: Fatal Flaw	Conrad St. John	Television movie
1989	When We Were Young	Ben Kirkland	Television movie
1990	Angels	N/A
1990	In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the Killing	Matt Fisher	Television movie
1991	Deception: A Mother's Secret	Terry	Television movie
1992	Single White Female	Sam Rawson
1993	In the Company of Darkness	Kyle Timler	Television movie
1993	The Temp	Brad Montroe
1994	Betrayed by Love	Agent Jeff Avery	Television movie
1994	Benders	The Man
1995	Just Looking	Craig
1995	Take Out the Beast	Drummond	Short film
1995	Jeffrey	Jeffrey
1995	Leaving Las Vegas	Marc Nussbaum
1995	Dracula: Dead and Loving It	Harker
1998	I Woke Up Early the Day I Died	Policeman in Alley
1998	Sour Grapes	Evan Maxwell
1998	Thanks of a Grateful Nation	Jared Gallimore	Television movie
1998	Break Up	Officer Andrew Ramsey
1998	An All Dogs Christmas Carol	Charlie B. Barkin	Voice only Direct-to-video film
1999	At First Sight	Duncan Allanbrook
1999	Love Letters	Andrew Ladd	Television movie
1999	Late Last Night	Jeff	Television movie
2000	Timecode	Darren Fetzer
2000	Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes	Hutch Rimes
2000	Common Ground	Gil Roberts	Television movie
2000	Joseph: King of Dreams	Simeon
2001	Club Land	Stuey Walters	Television movie
2004	The Twelve Days of Christmas Eve	Calvin Carter	Television movie
2005	Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical	Jack Stone	Television movie
2005	Sexual Life	David Wharton
2005	Inside Out	Norman
2005	The Amateurs	Howard
2006	Stephen King's Desperation	Steve Ames	Television movie
2007	Choose Connor	Lawrence Connor
2007	More of Me	Rex	Television movie
2008	Farm House	Samael
2009	My One and Only	Wallace MacAllister
2010	Son of Mourning	Lt. Governor Fitch
2011	A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!	Hugh J. Magnate	Television movie
2011	A Little Bit of Heaven	Rob Randolph
2013	Crawlspace	Aldon Webber
2015	Drive, She Said	Dr. Kurtz

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	American Playhouse	Tom Driscoll	Episode: "Pudd'nhead Wilson"
1985	As the World Turns	Kevin Gibson	Episode: "The Ceremony"
1987	Crime Story	Gary Holiday	Episode: "Little Girl Lost"
1990–1997	Wings	Brian Michael Hackett	172 episodes
1990	The Kennedys of Massachusetts	President John F. Kennedy	3 episodes
1991	Tales from the Crypt	Dale Sweeney	Episode: "Mournin' Mess"
1993	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Colonel Day	Episode: "The Siege"
1995–1997	Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man	Brian Hackett	2 episodes
1996–1998	All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series	Charlie B. Barkin	19 episodes
1997	The Outer Limits	8x10 Man	Episode: "The Revelation of 'Becka Paulson"
1997	Extreme Ghostbusters	Francois Russo	Episode: "Dry Spells"
1997	The Shining	Jack Torrance	3 episodes Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television
1998	The Simpsons	Neil	Episode: "King of Hill"
1998–1999	Hercules	Odysseus	2 episodes
1998	The New Batman Adventures	J. Carroll Corcoran	Episode: "Judgement Day"
1999	Stark Raving Mad	Rod	Episode: "The Stalker"
2000–2001	Cursed	Jack Nagle	17 episodes
2000–2002	Once and Again	Sam Blue	10 episodes
2000–2002	Baby Blues	Dr. Gruber	2 episodes
2001	The Legend of Tarzan	Ed	Episode: "Tarzan and the Mysterious Visitor"
2003	The Lyon's Den	Allen Forrester	Episode: "Trick or Treat"
2003	I'm with Her	Kyle Britton	Episode: "The Last Action Queero"
2003	Fillmore!	N/A	2 episodes
2004	The D.A.	Dist. Atty. David Franks	2 episodes
2004	Higglytown Heroes	Gardener Hero	Episode: "Twinkle Tooth"
2005	American Dad!	N/A	Episode: "Francine's Flashback"
2005	Masters of Horror	Frank Spivey	Episode: "Jenifer"
2005–2006	Will & Grace	Sam Truman	2 episodes
2006	Nightmares and Dreamscapes	Clark Rivingham	Episode: "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band"
2006–2007	Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip	Jack Rudolph	18 episodes
2007	Monk	Max Hudson	Episode: "Mr. Monk Is on the Air"
2007	Side Order of Life	James Kendall	Episode: "Funeral for a Phone"
2007	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Matthew Braden	3 episodes
2007–2008	Brothers & Sisters	Graham Finch	8 episodes
2008	Psych	Uncle Jack	Episode: "The Greatest Adventure in the History of Basic Cable"
2008	Without a Trace	Clark Medina	4 episodes
2008	Desperate Housewives	Lloyd	Episode: "City on Fire"
2009	Party Down	Ricky Sargulesh	Episode: "Celebrate Ricky Sargulesh"
2010	Happy Town	John Haplin	8 episodes
2010	In Plain Sight	Mike Faber	3 episodes
2011	Falling Skies	Dr. Michael Harris	3 episodes
2012–present	Ultimate Spider-Man	Norman Osborn / Green Goblin, Trapster, Venom, and Fancy Dan	22 episodes
2012	Hot in Cleveland	Kyle	2 episodes
2012	Wilfred	Jeremy	3 episodes
2012–2013	2 Broke Girls	Martin Channing	2 episodes
2012	Malibu Country	Pete	Episode: "Bro Code"
2013	Eve of Destruction	Dr. Karl Cameron	2 episodes
2013–2014	Dallas	Governor Sam McConaughey	5 episodes
2013	Childrens Hospital	John Tandy	Episode: "Old Fashioned Day"
2014	Regular Show	Jumpin' Jim	Episode: "Rigby in the Sky with Burrito"
2014–2015	Chasing Life	Dr. George Carver	13 episodes
2014–present	Murder in the First	Bill Wilkerson	10 episodes
2014	How to Get Away with Murder	Max St. Vincent	Episode: "It's All Her Fault"
2014–2015	NCIS: New Orleans	Councilman Douglas Hamilton	5 episodes
2015	Helix	Brother Michael	8 episodes
2015	Sleepy Hollow	President Thomas Jefferson	Episode: "What Lies Beneath"
2015	Community	Detective Butcher	Episode: "Ladders"
2015	iZombie	Vaughn Du Clark	5 episodes

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984–1985	The Real Thing	Billy
1984	Come Back Little Sheba	Bruce
1985	Homefront	Jeremy
1986	Loot	Various
2002–2003	The Producers	Leo Bloom	2005 "National Anthems" (play) The Old Vic
2009	The Philanthropist	Donald

External links

• Steven Weber at the Internet Movie Database
• Steven Weber at the Internet Broadway Database
• Steven Weber at Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Steven Weber's Huffington Post Blog