Jim Rash
After making his bones as a journeyman actor specializing in loopy characters, Jim Rash began drawing name recognition in the early 2010s as the camp-happy college administrator on the NBC sitcom "Community" (NBC, 2009-15; Yahoo!, 2015) and as an Academy Award-winning writer. A North Carolina native with a spindly build and nerdy countenance, Rash found a groove as a sitcom character actor, inking his first cast job in 1999 on the television oddity "Thanks" (CBS, 1999). Honing his skills in the comedic cauldron of Los Angeles' famed Groundlings troupe, he joined a number of his cohorts on Comedy Central's "copumentary" lampoon "Reno 911!" (2003-07) as a local prone to bawdy calamity. In 2006, he landed among another talent-laden ensemble populating the shorter-lived Ted Danson vehicle "Help Me Help You" (ABC, 2006). In 2009, Rash took it to the next level on "Community," playing Craig Pelton, the daffy, cross-dressing, attention-hungry dean of the show's central community college. His popularity led to Rash being given full cast member status in its third season. He and writing collaborator Nat Faxon scored a major success on a different track, penning the Oscar-winning script for the 2011 George Clooney film "The Descendants." It set in motion their original feature project, "The Way, Way Back." Many in Hollywood designated Rash a talent on the uptick as an auteur, even as he became widely acknowledged for creating one of the zaniest characters on television.
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Jim Rash
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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65% |
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Fly Me to the Moon | Lance Vespertine (Character) | $20.3M | 2024 |
No Score Yet |
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Out of Office | Unknown (Character) | - | 2022 |
68% |
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Long Weekend | Larry (Character) | $528.0K | 2021 |
10% |
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Lazy Susan | Phil (Character) | - | 2020 |
36% |
|
Downhill |
Director, Screenwriter |
$8.3M | 2020 |
40% |
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Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs | Prince Average (Voice) | - | 2019 |
76% |
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Bernard and Huey | Bernard (Character) | - | 2017 |
87% |
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Thoroughbreds | Producer | $2.7M | 2017 |
90% |
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Captain America: Civil War | M.I.T. Liaison (Character) | $408.1M | 2016 |
No Score Yet |
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Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run | Cecil Turtle (Voice) | - | 2015 |
83% |
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The Way, Way Back |
Lewis (Character), Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
$21.4M | 2013 |
88% |
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The Descendants | Screenwriter | $82.6M | 2011 |
74% |
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Sky High |
Mr. Grayson/ |
$63.9M | 2005 |
10% |
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Slackers | Head T.A. Philip (Character) | $4.8M | 2002 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | 54% | After Midnight | Guest | 2024 |
56% | 64% | Krapopolis | Dionysus (Guest Voice) | 2023 |
97% | 86% | Harley Quinn | Riddler (Voice) | 2019-2020 2022-2023 |
100% | 86% | My Dad the Bounty Hunter | The Fixer (Voice) | 2023 |
No Score Yet | 28% | The Drew Barrymore Show | Guest | 2022 |
No Score Yet | 55% | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Guest | 2022 |
No Score Yet | 79% | American Housewife | Walker (Guest Star) | 2021 |
No Score Yet | 97% | Mike Tyson Mysteries | Marquess of Queensbury (Voice) | 2014-2020 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2020 |
95% | 88% | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | Dr. Jones (Guest Star) | 2020 |
92% | 45% | Star Wars Resistance | Flix (Voice) | 2018-2020 |
No Score Yet | 93% | DuckTales | Gyro Gearloose (Guest Voice) | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Star Wars Resistance Shorts | Flix (Voice) | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Big City Greens | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja | Principal Slimovitz (Voice) | 2012-2015 2017-2018 |
83% | 70% | The Joel McHale Show With Joel McHale | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2018 |
84% | 74% | Great News | Fenton Pelt (Guest Star) | 2018 |
62% | 51% | Superior Donuts | Mathers (Guest Star) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beyond Stranger Things | Host | 2017 |
92% | 90% | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Hotel Day Manager (Guest Star) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nobodies | Jim Rash (Guest Star) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Family Guy | Additional Voices (Guest Voice) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 86% | SuperMansion | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 90% | American Dad! | Puddin' (Guest Voice) | 2009 2016 |
92% | 57% | black-ish | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 63% | The Odd Couple | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lip Sync Battle | Contestant | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
7% | 59% | Dr. Ken | Devon Drake (Guest Star) | 2016 |
87% | 73% | Lucifer | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
90% | 83% | Rick and Morty | Glexo Slimslom (Guest Voice) | 2015 |
88% | 88% | Community |
Dean Pelton (Character), Unknown (Guest Star), Director |
2009-2015 |
70% | 72% | Glee | Lee Paulblatt (Guest Star) | 2014-2015 |
69% | 75% | Benched | Hatbrim Tony (Guest Star) | 2014 |
No Score Yet | 91% | The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson | Guest | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Writers' Room | Host | 2013-2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Soup |
Unknown (Character), Guest |
2013-2014 |
No Score Yet | 85% | The Looney Tunes Show | Cecil Turtle (Guest Voice) | 2012-2013 |
No Score Yet | 99% | Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated | J.R. Kipple (Guest Voice) | 2012 |
86% | 84% | RENO 911! | Andrew (Guest Star) | 2003-2004 2008-2009 |
77% | No Score Yet | Samantha Who? | Artist (Guest Star) | 2008 |
60% | 100% | Eli Stone | Bradley Kitsis (Guest Star) | 2008 |
50% | No Score Yet | Help Me Help You | Unknown (Character) | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 82% | That '70s Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002-2004 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jake in Progress | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
78% | 93% | Friends | Nervous Male Passenger (Guest Star) | 2004 |
14% | No Score Yet | It's All Relative | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
No Score Yet | 84% | NCIS | Dr. Joel Sanderson (Guest Star) | 2004 |
11% | No Score Yet | Coupling | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Baby Bob | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
No Score Yet | 83% | The Guardian | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
No Score Yet | 81% | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Todd Benton (Guest Star) | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | According to Jim | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Practice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
36% | No Score Yet | The Fighting Fitzgeralds | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hughleys | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thanks | Unknown (Character) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Clueless | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 96% | Becker | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
64% | No Score Yet | The Naked Truth | Harris Van Doren (Character) | 1997-1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cybill | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |