Jim Staahl
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Goodnight, Beantown
Character: Frank Fletcher
Matt Cassidy and Jennifer Barnes are reluctantly paired to anchor the news at a fictional TV station in Boston, Massachusetts, due to the sudden ratings drop....
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Character: Restaurant Manager
The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else....
Faerie Tale Theatre
Character: Palace Guard
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales....
Bobby's World
Character:
Bobby Generic lives in a typical suburban neighborhood and uses his overactive imagination to discover a world of daring adventure, incredible wonder and lots of laughs — all in pint-sized perspective....
Mork & Mindy
Character: Nelson Flavor
A wacky alien comes to Earth to study its residents and the life of the human woman he boards with is never the same....
The King of Queens
Character: Mr. Halliburton
Life’s good for deliveryman Doug Heffernan, until his newly widowed father-in-law, Arthur, moves in with him and his wife Carrie. Doug is no longer the king of his domain, and instead of having a big screen television in his recently renovated basement, he now has a crazy old man....
Movie Credits
Max Dugan Returns
Character: Man at Shoe Store
An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life....
Mae West
Character:
Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex....
Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Character: Jim Swenson
Mock documentary about Seinfeld writer Larry David featuring contributions from his friends and colleagues. Larry makes a return to stand-up comedy and prepares to film a television special for HBO. This is the original special that gave birth to the long-running award-winning HBO series....
Airplane II: The Sequel
Character: International Inquirer Reporter (uncredited)
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine....
Class Reunion
Character: Egon von Stoker
Lizzie Borden High's class of '72 are going through the motions at their tenth-year reunion, until deranged alum Walter Baylor, driven insane by a sadistic senior-year prank, escapes from the mental institution and crashes the party. When guests start getting bumped off, the other alumni, including snooty yacht salesman Bob Spinnaker, class tease Bunny Packard, and class zero Gary Nash, spring into action to uncover the culprit....
Spies Like Us
Character: Bud Schnelker
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war....
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
Character: Santa Claus (voice)
When his beloved Grandma appears to be missing on Christmas Eve, young Jake Spankenheimer goes on the misadventure of a lifetime to try and prove that Santa Claus is indeed real. With his spirit, smarts and determination, Jake must outmaneuver his greedy and curvaceous Cousin Mel and the all-powerful businessman Austin Bucks to the disbelief of his doting parents, rebellious sister and goofy Grandpa. All the while, it is up to Jake to save Santa from his fretful fate in this colorful Christmas m...
Popples
Character: Dad
Bonnie and Billy have to rescue the Popples when their parents accidentally send them to Goodwill following a surprise remodel of the family's attic....
Cracking Up
Character:
What would happen if a 9.7 magnitude earthquake were to strike the L.A. area? This is what "Cracking Up" looks at from the lighter side. The movie is composed of individual skits of original material by the actors spun around this hypothetical disaster....
I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood
Character: Man #1 at Party
In this HBO special, comedian Martin Short appears in a series of sketches, vignettes and musical performances about Hollywood, featuring some of his classic characters like Ed Grimley, Jackie Rogers Jr., Lawrence Orbach and Troy Soren, and co-starring some of his colleagues from "SCTV" and "Saturday Night Live."...