Stuart Pankin

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Stuart Pankin (born April 8, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor.

One of his earliest film appearances was as asthmatic musician/magician Dudley Laywicker in Hollywood Knights. Pankin played Earl Sinclair in the TV sitcom Dinosaurs. Pankin was also an anchor on HBO's Not Necessarily the News and has appeared in numerous TV commercials.

He recently played an Orthodox Jew in Curb Your Enthusiasm. He has also starred in Zenon: Girl of the 21 Century, Zenon: The Zequel, and Zenon: Z3 as Commander Plank. Pankin also appeared in Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, as the brother of Wayne Szalinski.

More recently, Pankin also appeared as an absent-minded professor in a series of edutainment 3D films (Encounters in 3D and Misadventures in 3D), designed for large-screen Iwerks theatres. He is currently a spokesman in infomercials for the Phase 4 Orthotics shoe insert.

Although Pankin is well known for comedy roles and game show appearances, (The $100,000 Pyramid), he has sometimes also taken dramatic roles, such as a coworker of Michael Douglas' character in Fatal Attraction.