Kevin Sussman Biography

James B. Sikking is still probably best known for his yeoman work on the TV series 'Hill Street Blues' throughout most of the 80s. The Los Angeles native was born in 1934, the son of Unity ministers. His full name -- James Barrie Sikking -- was given to him as James M. Barrie (of 'Peter Pan' fame) was his parents' favorite author at the time. Graduating from El Segundo High School, Sikking's interest in acting started after participating in various college plays while a student at the University of California-Santa Barbara, UCLA and the University of Hawaii. He made his professional stage debut with a production of 'Damn Yankees' and broke into films with unbilled work in the films Five Guns West (1955) and The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956). He finally started receiving billing in the 1960s, albeit bit parts in films and TV, as minor villains or in-charge types with such roles as a professional assassin in Point Blank (1967), the head of vice squad in The New Centurions (1972), and a CIA agent in Scorpio (1973) coming his way. Sikking's first steady TV job was playing Dr. James Hobart for three years on the daytime soap 'General Hospital' during the 1970s. Moving into 'Grade A' quality films in the early 1980s, he still stayed pretty much in the background with little chance to shine such as his playing of Donald Sutherland's white-collar business buddy in the Oscar-winning Ordinary People (1980). It took his scene-stealing role as the gung-ho, often volatile and emotionally unpredictable Lt. Howard Hunter on 'Hill Street Blues,' however, to alter the course of his career. Following the show's demise after six seasons, Sikking continued to move around in the top supporting ranks, finding steady work on TV as David Howser, Neil Patrick Harris' doctor dad on 'Doogie Howser, M.D.' and in important roles in such mini-movies as 'Doing Time on Maple Drive.' Continuing in such movies as Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock (1984), Narrow Margin (1990) and The Pelican Brief (1994), typically playing various authoritarians, he had a rare movie co-lead in Final Approach (1991). Long married to wife Florine, whom he met while at UCLA, his son Andrew is also an actor.

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8.3 The Big Bang Theory S02E20 The Hofstadter Isotope2009 Download Genres: Comedy Director: Mark Cendrowski Artists: Simon Helberg, Kaley Cuoco, Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki Leonard is so upset when a friend from the comic book store begins dating Penny that he convinces Howard and Raj to take him to a bar so that he can pick up a woman of his own. Show description

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8.5 The Big Bang Theory S02E22 The Classified Materials Turbulence2009 Download Genres: Comedy Director: Mark Cendrowski Artists: Simon Helberg, Kaley Cuoco, Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki Penny's second date with Stuart has significant implications for Leonard. Howard enlists the guys' help with one of his NASA projects. Show description

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7.2 Burn After Reading 2008 Download Genres: Crime, Drama, Comedy Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Artists: Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton Osbourne Cox, a Balkan expert, is fired at the CIA, so he begins a memoir. His wife wants a divorce and expects her lover, Harry, a philandering State Department marshal, to leave his wife. A diskette falls out of a gym bag at a Georgetown fitness center. Two employees there try to turn it into cash: Linda, who wants money for elective surgery, and Chad, an amiable goof. Information on the disc leads them to Osbourne who rejects their sales pitch; then they visit the Russian embassy. To sweeten ... Show description

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7.2 Burn After Reading 2008 Download Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Artists: George Clooney, Hamilton Clancy, Alan, Frances McDormand Osbourne Cox, a Balkan expert, is fired at the CIA, so he begins a memoir. His wife wants a divorce and expects her lover, Harry, a philandering State Department marshal, to leave his wife. A diskette falls out of a gym bag at a Georgetown fitness center. Two employees there try to turn it into cash: Linda, who wants money for elective surgery, and Chad, an amiable goof. Information on the disc leads them to Osbourne who rejects their sales pitch; then they visit the Russian embassy. To sweeten ... Show description

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7.2 Burn After Reading 2008 Download Genres: Crime, Drama, Comedy Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Artists: Divorce Lawyer, Tuchman Marsh Man, Kevin Sussman, Alan Osbourne Cox, a Balkan expert, is fired at the CIA, so he begins a memoir. His wife wants a divorce and expects her lover, Harry, a philandering State Department marshal, to leave his wife. A diskette falls out of a gym bag at a Georgetown fitness center. Two employees there try to turn it into cash: Linda, who wants money for elective surgery, and Chad, an amiable goof. Information on the disc leads them to Osbourne who rejects their sales pitch; then they visit the Russian embassy. To sweeten ... Show description

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