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Michael McKean

Michael McKean
Michael McKean
Born: Oct 17, 1947 in New York City, New York
Occupation: Actor, Writer, Director,
Active: '80s-2000s
Major Genres: Comedy
Career Highlights: Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, Planes, Trains and Automobiles
First Major Screen Credit: Laverne & Shirley: Season 01 (1976)
55 Videos for Michael McKean
imps* (2009) Beautiful (2000) Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
Whatever Works (2009) Best in Show (2000) The Return of Spinal Tap (1992)
Adventures of Power (2007) Little Nicky (2000) Book of Love (1991)
Joshua (2007) True Crime (1999) Megaville (1991)
The Grand (2007) Final Justice (1998) Flashback (1990)
Arnie the Doughnut (2005) Small Soldiers (1998) Earth Girls Are Easy (1989)
The Aristocrats (2005) With Friends Like These... (1998) The Big Picture (1989)
The Producers (2005) Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997) Portrait of a White Marriage (1988)
A Mighty Wind (2003) Still Breathing (1997) Short Circuit 2 (1988)
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003) The Sunshine Boys (1997) Light of Day (1987)
Auto Focus (2002) Edie & Pen (1996) Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) (2002) No Strings Attached (1995) Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)
She Gets What She Wants (2002) The Pompatus of Love (1995) Clue (1985)
She Gets What She Wants (2002) Across the Moon (1994) D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
The Guru (2002) Airheads (1994) This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
The Guru (2002) Clean Slate (1994) This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
My First Mister (2001) Radioland Murders (1994) Used Cars (1980)
Never Again (2001) Man Trouble (1992) 1941 (1979)
On Edge (2001)
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Biography:

You knew him as Lenny Koznowski, the nasal, nerdish pal of Andrew Squiggy Squigman (David L. Lander) on the hit TV series Laverne and Shirley. Show-biz insiders knew Michael McKean as an intelligent, versatile actor and writer. Shedding himself of the Lenny image after Laverne and Shirley folded in 1983, McKean became involved in several ensemble comedy projects with such kindred spirits as Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner and Christopher Guest.

In the 1984 rockumentary spoof This Is Spinal Tap, McKean played the cockney-accented heavy metal musician David St. Hubbins. Apparently McKean enjoyed posing as an Englishman, inasmuch as he has done it so often and so well since Spinal Tap, most recently as Brian Benben's snippish boss on the cable TV sitcom Dream On.

In the early '90s, McKean was one of the stars of another, less memorable TV comedy, Grand, and appeared for two season on Saturday Night Live. He continues to land film roles, usually in comedies, including the successful The Brady Bunch Movie (1995). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.