Tim Stack
Timothy Stack's career as a supporting comedic actor in popular sitcoms and box-office hits eventually gave way to writing and producing prime-time shows "My Name Is Earl" and "Raising Hope." After completing a degree at Boston College, Stack headed to Los Angeles, where he joined joined the improv troupe the Groundlings in 1979. After initial television appearances on the "Mary Tyler Moore" spinoff "Lou Grant," he began to win small parts on other 1980s primetime sitcom staples, and in such big-screen comedies as the Rodney Dangerfield college farce, "Back to School." In the early '90s Stack played patriarch Martin Lewis on the fledgling Fox network's comedy "Parker Lewis Can't Lose." His three-year stint on the show led to further sitcom work, and soon he went back to comedy writing, eventually scripting, producing, and acting on the "Baywatch"-style beach-show parody "Son of the Beach." But the series lasted only one season, and Stack went back to the drawing board while still doing occasional voice-over work and appearing on TV and in films, notably the 2000 Tom Hanks adventure movie "Cast Away." By 2005, Stack had hooked up with Greg Garcia for the successful trailer-park-set redemption comedy, "My Name Is Earl." Stack helped write and produce the show, while also portraying a pill-popping local celebrity and drunk named, not coincidentally, Tim Stack. After four successful seasons of "Earl," Stack and Garcia launched the family comedy "Raising Hope" in 2010.
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Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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93% |
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Bound by Flesh | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2012 |
35% |
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Scary Movie 3 | Carson Ward (Character) | $110.0M | 2003 |
No Score Yet |
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The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue | Lampy (Voice) | - | 1998 |
50% |
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The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars | Lampy (Voice) | - | 1998 |
0% |
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It's Pat | Doctor (Character) | $50.3K | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Justin Case | Officer Swan (Character) | - | 1988 |
77% |
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The Brave Little Toaster |
Lampy / |
- | 1987 |
20% |
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The Aviator | First Officer (Character) | - | 1985 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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57% | 88% | The Girls on the Bus | Writer | 2024 |
82% | 96% | Sprung |
George (Guest Star), Consulting Producer |
2021-2022 |
50% | 85% | LA to Vegas | Hot Tea (Guest Star) | 2018 |
47% | 44% | The Millers | Writer | 2015 |
96% | 90% | Raising Hope |
Unknown (Guest Star), Writer |
2013 |
82% | 88% | My Name Is Earl |
TV's Tim Stack (Guest Star), Writer |
2005-2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Celebrity Family Feud | Contestant | 2008 |
63% | No Score Yet | Justice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Son of the Beach |
Notch Johnson (Character), Executive Producer |
2000-2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Matters | Writer | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wings | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nurses | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1994 |
89% | 92% | Seinfeld | Dwayne (Guest Star) | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 88% | The Wonder Years | Mr. Plenitzer (Guest Star) | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Parker Lewis | Mr. Martin Lewis (Character) | 1990-1992 |
82% | 90% | Tales From the Crypt | Unknown (Character) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | 94% | The Golden Girls | Agent Bell (Guest Star) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Free Spirit | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1989 |
No Score Yet | 79% | ALF | Jim (Guest Star) | 1989 |
83% | No Score Yet | thirtysomething |
Maitre D' / |
1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | It's a Living | Raymond (Guest Star) | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Punky Brewster | Simon P. Chillings (Guest Star) | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Facts of Life | Carl (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982-1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laverne & Shirley | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |