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Jim Rash

Highest Rated: 90% Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Lowest Rated: 10% Slackers (2002)

Birthday: Jul 15, 1971

Birthplace: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

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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Highest rated movies

90% 89% Captain America: Civil War Watchlist
88% 79% The Descendants
Watchlist
87% 68% Thoroughbreds Watchlist
83% 84% The Way, Way Back
Watchlist
76% 77% Bernard and Huey Watchlist
74% 57% Sky High
Watchlist
68% 82% Long Weekend Watchlist 65% 90% Fly Me to the Moon Watchlist 40% 82% Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs Watchlist 36% 14% Downhill Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
65% 90% Fly Me to the Moon Lance Vespertine (Character) $20.3M 2024
No Score Yet 64% Out of Office Unknown (Character) - 2022
68% 82% Long Weekend Larry (Character) $528.0K 2021
10% 49% Lazy Susan Phil (Character) - 2020
36% 14% Downhill Director,
Screenwriter
$8.3M 2020
40% 82% Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs Prince Average (Voice) - 2019
76% 77% Bernard and Huey Bernard (Character) - 2017
87% 68% Thoroughbreds Producer $2.7M 2017
90% 89% Captain America: Civil War M.I.T. Liaison (Character) $408.1M 2016
No Score Yet 71% Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run Cecil Turtle (Voice) - 2015
83% 84% The Way, Way Back Lewis (Character),
Director,
Screenwriter,
Executive Producer
$21.4M 2013
88% 79% The Descendants Screenwriter $82.6M 2011
74% 57% Sky High Mr. Grayson/Stitches (Character) $63.9M 2005
10% 50% Slackers Head T.A. Philip (Character) $4.8M 2002

TV

Credit
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