John Lehr
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John C. Lehr (born November 25, 1965), an American film and television actor and comedian.
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[edit] Personal
Lehr was born in Overland Park, Kansas. He is Jewish, having converted to Judaism in 2000.[1]
He graduated from Northwestern University in 1988
[edit] Stagework
Lehr is an alumnus of Mee-Ow, an improv group at Northwestern University.
[edit] Sitcom career
Lehr starred in the TBS television series, 10 Items or Less, which premiered in November of 2006.
Before 10 Items, he played Christina Applegate's brother in Jesse during its first season (1998).
[edit] Television commercials
[edit] Geico
Lehr played one of the Geico cavemen in a popular series of commercials for the auto insurance company Geico. Two of the other actors in the commercials were Jeffrey Daniel Phillips and Ben Weber.
Lehr appeared in the first ad, in which the caveman is a worker holding a boom mike on the set of a television commercial. He gets upset about the tenor of the commercial and its demeaning comments about caveman, and storms off the set.
In a later ad, he plays a caveman being counseled by a therapist played by Talia Shire.
