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Fred Melamed

Highest Rated: 96% Peak Season (2023)

Lowest Rated: 40% Lovesick (1983)

Birthday: May 13, 1956

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Fred Melamed was widely known for his acting on the big screen. Melamed's earliest roles were in film, including "Lovesick" (1983) with Dudley Moore, the Woody Allen comedic drama "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) and the comedy adventure "Ishtar" (1987) with Warren Beatty. He also appeared in "The Pick-Up Artist" (1987), "Suspect" (1987) and "Another Woman" (1988). He continued to work steadily in film throughout the nineties and the 2010s, appearing in the Isaac Mizrahi dramedy "Hollywood Ending" (2002), the dramatic comedy "A Serious Man" (2009) with Michael Stuhlbarg and "The Dictator" (2012) with Sacha Baron Cohen. He also worked in television during these years, including a part on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (NBC, 1999-). More recently, he tackled roles in "In A World..." (2013), "HairBrained" (2014) with Brendan Fraser and the drama "Blumenthal" (2014) with Brian Cox. He also appeared in the Chadwick A Boseman musical drama "Get On Up" (2014) and the Bobby Cannavale comedic drama "Adult Beginners" (2015). Melamed most recently acted in the Pierce Brosnan romantic comedy "Some Kind Of Beautiful" (2015).

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Highest rated movies

96% 88% Peak Season
Watchlist
96% 78% Shiva Baby Watchlist
92% 71% In a World ...
Watchlist
91% 74% Bone Tomahawk Watchlist 90% 77% Together Together Watchlist 90% 74% Brawl in Cell Block 99 Watchlist 90% 55% The Vigil Watchlist
89% 68% A Serious Man
Watchlist
80% 68% Get On Up Watchlist 76% 67% Dragged Across Concrete Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
96% 88% Peak Season George Friedman (Character) - 2023
46% 45% Cat Person Dr. Resnick (Character) $55.5K 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fuzzy Head The Quadruped (Character) - 2023
57% 57% Diary of a Spy James (Character) - 2022
47% 49% Rumble Mayor (Voice) - 2021
90% 77% Together Together Marty (Character) $1.4M 2021
96% 78% Shiva Baby Joel (Character) $45.1K 2020
90% 55% The Vigil Dr. Kohlberg (Character) $50.3K 2019
58% 21% Lying and Stealing Dimitri Maropakis (Character) - 2019
76% 67% Dragged Across Concrete Mr. Edmington (Character) - 2018
49% 58% The Spy Who Dumped Me Roger (Character) $33.5M 2018
No Score Yet 100% Silver Lake Howard (Character) - 2018
90% 74% Brawl in Cell Block 99 Mr. Irving (Character) - 2017
55% 35% Lemon Howard (Character) $29.1K 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Dark Side Howard (Character) - 2015
91% 74% Bone Tomahawk Clarence (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet You Are Whole Norman (Character) - 2015
80% 68% Get On Up Syd Nathan (Character) $30.5M 2014
56% 50% Blumenthal Jimmy Basmati (Character) - 2013
92% 71% In a World ... Sam (Character) $3.0M 2013
71% 7% Fred Won't Move Out Bob (Character) - 2012
89% 68% A Serious Man Sy Ableman (Character) $9.2M 2009
40% 37% Lovesick Psychoanalyst (Character) - 1983

TV

Credit
84% 70% Reboot Alan (Character) 2022
93% 81% Superstore Richard (Guest Star) 2020
100% 94% Adventure Time Gumbald/Punchbowl (Guest Voice),
Gumbald (Guest Star)
2017-2018
No Score Yet 84% Life in Pieces Dave (Guest Star) 2018
95% 88% Brooklyn Nine-Nine DC Parlov (Guest Star) 2016-2017
97% 80% Lady Dynamite Bruce Ben-Bacharach (Character) 2016-2017
93% 85% Fargo Howard Zimmerman (Guest Star) 2017
88% 87% Trial & Error Howard Mankiewicz (Guest Star) 2017
94% 86% Casual Charles Cole (Character) 2015-2016
95% 85% New Girl J. Cronkite Valley-Forge (Guest Star) 2016
89% 75% Girls Avi Mensusen (Guest Star) 2015
69% 75% Benched Judge Nelson (Guest Star) 2014
93% 91% The Good Wife Judge Alan Karpman (Guest Star) 2011 2014
54% 67% The Crazy Ones Himself (Guest Star) 2013-2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet How Sex Changed the World Narrator 2013
78% 83% Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Dan Goldbert (Guest Star) 2010
No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Unknown (Guest Star) 2010