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Richard Kind
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- #001
George Clooney was the best man at Richard Kind's wedding.
- #002
Richard Kind married Dana Stanley in Central Park in New York City. Dana is the executive director of Project ALS, an organization that raises money to research treatments for Lou Gehrig's disease.
- #003
Along with Michael Boatman, Richard Kind is one of only two actors who appeared in all 145 episodes of Spin City (1996).
- #004
Richard Kind and Nathan Lane played the same roles at different times: Max Bialystock in 'The Producers' and Nathan Detroit in 'Guys and Dolls'.
- #005
Richard Kind studied pre-law at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, but took a year off before law school to try his luck at acting. He worked in theater for 10 years before moving into television.
- #006
At the St. James Theatre, Richard Kind took on the role of Max Bialystock in the Broadway hit 'The Producers', alongside Spin City (1996) co-star Alan Ruck.
- #007
As of 2014, Richard Kind had appeared in three films nominated for Best Picture: A Serious Man (2009), Toy Story 3 (2010) and Argo (2012), the last of which won in that category.
- #008
Along with Patrick Warburton, Richard Kind appears in radio commercials for Horizon Air, a smaller subsidiary of Alaska Airlines, in the Seattle metropolitan area, playing Lewis & Clark.
- #009
Richard Kind appears on Broadway as Andre Thibault in 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'.
- #010
Richard Kind was a member of Second City's Chicago and Los Angeles companies.
- #011
Richard Kind is the only actor to appear in both Stargate (1994) and Stargate: Atlantis (2004).
- #012
Richard Kind is a graduate of Pennsbury High School in Levittown, Pennsylvania.
- #013
Richard Kind's father, Samuel, was a jeweler in Princeton, New Jersey, and died in 1998. His mother, Alice, was a housewife. His sister, Joanne, is also a housewife.
- #014
Richard Kind was awarded the 2003 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Musical for 'Bounce' at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- #015
Richard Kind is the father of Skyler Kind, Samantha Kind and Max Kind.
- #016
Richard Kind auditioned for the role of Bloat in Finding Nemo (2003). The role went to Brad Garrett, who voiced the lead character Dim in A Bug's Life (1998).
- #017
Richard Kind has played a mayor twice on a TV series: he played a corrupt mayor in a two-episode arc in season 2 of Leverage (2008), and he had a recurring role as the besieged mayor of Gotham (2014).
- #018
Richard Kind is the eldest of two brothers.
- #019
Richard Kind has played a character named 'Ira' in FOUR separate TV projects: the TV movies Sands of Oblivion and Survivor's Remorse, and episodes of the TV series Young Sheldon and Trauma.
- #020
Richard Kind sneezes three times in a row in real life.
- #021
As of July 2024, Richard Kind has played seven characters named "Marty."
- #022
Richard Kind is James C. Stanley's son-in-law.
- #023
In 1996, Richard Kind's character on Spin City named a napkin Sheldon for a bit related to the series. He would later go on to work on the series Young Sheldon.
- #024
In 2022, Richard Kind was inducted into the Pennsbury High School Hall of Fame.
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