David Dean Bottrell

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David Dean Bottrell
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David Dean Bottrell in 2012
Born6 April 1959
Louisa, Kentucky
Occupation(s)Actor, comedian, screenwriter
Years active1983–present

David Dean Bottrell is an American actor, comedian and screenwriter best known for playing on numerous TV series & as Lincoln Meyer on 8 episodes of the ABC television series Boston Legal . He is also the author of "Working Actor: Breaking In, Making a Living and Making a Life in the Fabulous Trenches of Show Business" published by Ten Speed Press, a division of Random House. [1]

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Known for his quirky characterizations, he started his career in New York, working at such theatres as the Second Stage, the Public Theater, the Manhattan Punch Line and regionally at the Long Wharf Theatre and the Actors Theatre of Louisville. His television work includes guest starring roles on And the Band Played On , Head of the Class , JAG , Caroline in the City , Mad About You , Dharma & Greg , Days of Our Lives , Ugly Betty , Criminal Minds , iCarly , Castle , Bones , Harry's Law , NCIS , Justified , Mad Men , Longmire , Modern Family , Law & Order: SVU , Rectify and The Blacklist .

He also co-wrote (with Jessie Jones) the off-Broadway play Dearly Departed, [2] which he and Jones later adapted into a film version titled Kingdom Come , starring Whoopi Goldberg, LL Cool J and Jada Pinkett Smith, produced by Fox Searchlight Pictures. [3]

Bottrell has written about his experiences in the entertainment industry for the Huffington Post , [4] [5] Backstage , Salon.com and MetroSource magazine. [6] His short film, Available Men, premiered in the 2006 HBO Comedy Festival and went on to win 17 awards on the film festival circuit. On stage, he was one of the original cast members of both the Los Angeles and New York companies of the long-running comedy revue, Streep Tease: An Evening of Meryl Streep Monologues performed by an All-Male Company in which he performed his critically acclaimed 6-minute rendition of the entire plot of Out of Africa . [7]

In the summer of 2011, Bottrell (who is openly gay) [5] performed his comedic one-man show, David Dean Bottrell Makes Love: A One-Man Show to sold-out houses at the Rogue Machine Theatre in Los Angeles. In 2019, Bottrell brought a heavily revised version of the show to New York's Dixon Place [8] and, in January 2020, Penguin Random House Audio recorded a live version of the show, releasing it as an audiobook on 11 Feb. 2020. [9]

Bottrell has taught acting at UCLA and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (both the New York and Los Angeles campuses). He is also one of the producers of Sci-Fest, the first annual Los Angeles Science Fiction One-Act Play Festival, held annually in May. [10]

Filmography

Films

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
2010 For Christ's Sake Sam
Bad KittyMan(Short)
2012The Strangely NormalPrissy Dad(Short)
2014FistDr. Avery(Short)
2016 So B. It Dietz
2017The Lady KillersPaul's Client
(post-production)Christmas Eve Eve Or: the Things I Can't RememberPhil(Short)

TV

Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
1990 Head of the Class Chip (credited as David Bottrell)(TV Series), 1 episode: "The Reel Charlie Moore"
1993 And the Band Played On Man #3(TV Movie)
1995 JAG McKissick(TV Series), 1 episode: "Brig Break"
1996Shadow (TV Series)(credited as David Dean)(TV Series), 1 episode
Space: Above and Beyond Monitor #2 (credited as David Botrell)(TV Series), 1 episode: "Who Monitors the Birds?"
1997 Caroline in the City Customer #2 (credited as David Bottrell)(TV Series), 1 episode: "Caroline and the Novelist"
1998 Mad About You Animal Handler(TV Series), 1 episode: "There's a Puma in the Kitchen"
Dharma & Greg Patron (credited as David Botrell)(TV Series), 1 episode: "Old Yeller"
2000 Titus Bobby (credited as David Bottrell)(TV Series), 1 episode: "Sex with Pudding"
2006 Boston Legal Lincoln Meyer(TV Series), 8 episodes
2007 Women's Murder Club Oliver Duprix(TV Series), 1 episode: "To Drag & to Hold"
Ugly Betty Lawyer(TV Series), 1 episode: "Family/Affair"
2009 Criminal Minds Chad Brown(TV Series), 1 episode: "Amplification"
2010 iCarly Bob(TV Series), 1 episode: "iGot a Hot Room"
Castle Byron H. Singer(TV Series), 1 episode: "Murder Most Fowl"
2011Away(TV Movie)
Harry's Law Pastor Darcy(TV Series), 1 episode: "Bad to Worse"
Days of Our Lives Al(TV Series), 1 episode: "6 episodes"
2012The WatcherDr. Kramon(TV Series), 1 episode: "The Good Doctor"
NCIS Assistant Director of Operations Donald Linder(TV Series), 1 episode: "You Better Watch Out"
Holly's HolidayMaitre D'(TV Movie)
True Blood Professor Kannell(TV Series), 1 episode: "Gone, Gone, Gone"
2013 Mad Men Preacher(TV Series), 1 episode: "In Care Of"
Save Me Brian(TV Series), 1 episode: "Whatever the Weather"
Justified Alvin(TV Series), 1 episode: "This Bird Has Flown"
2014HairapyKevin Q(TV Series), 4 episodes
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Bruce Grady(TV Series), 1 episode: "Let's Make a Deal"
Bones Tripp Warshaw(TV Series), 1 episode: "The Cold in the Case"
American Koko Sparrow(TV Series), 1 episode: "Don't Black Girls Go to Baptist Church Anymore"
2015 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Stan(TV Series), 1 episode: "Melancholy Pursuit"
Longmire Jerry Napek(TV Series), 1 episode: "Highway Robbery"
Mandie and EarringParty Dad(TV Series), 1 episode
Dig John Donaldson(TV Series), 1 episode: "Trust No One"
2016 Rectify Daniel's Therapist(TV Series), 2 episodes: "Happy Unburdening" and "All I'm Sayin'"
Mistresses Father O'Brian(TV Series), 1 episode: "The Show Must Go On"
Modern Family Mr. Wilkerson(TV Series), 1 episode: "Thunk in the Trunk"
2017 The Blacklist Conductor(TV Series), 1 episode: "Dr. Bogdan Krilov (No. 29) "
2018-2019After Forever (TV Series)Paul #2(TV Series), 13 episodes

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References

  1. ↑ Working Actor: Breaking in, Making a Living, and Making a Life in the Fabulous Trenches of Show Business. Ten Speed Press. 19 February 2019.
  2. ↑ ""Dearly Departed" by David Bottrell & Jesse Jones - the Theatre of Western Springs - June 2002". Archived from the original on 2 November 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
  3. ↑ Holden, Stephen (11 April 2001). "FILM REVIEW; Off to the Cemetery With Laughter, Tears and Belches". The New York Times.
  4. ↑ "David Dean Bottrell". Huffington Post .
  5. 1 2 "Getting It Straight". Huffington Post . 8 July 2010.
  6. ↑ Metrosource Magazine
  7. ↑ Brian Scott Lipton (11 September 2009). "David Dean Bottrell, Roy Cruz, Taylor Negron, et al. to Return in Streep Tease".
  8. ↑ "David Dean Bottrell Makes Love".
  9. ↑ "David Dean Bottrell Makes Love: A One-Man Show by David Dean Bottrell: 9780593207079 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  10. ↑ "Sci-Fest Team". Archived from the original on 4 December 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
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