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Patrick Fischler Biography
Patrick Fischler is an American actor who is best known to viewers for his roles as Jimmy Barrett on the drama series Mad Men.
Dharma Initiative worker Phil on the drama series Lost and Detective Kenny No-Gun on the police drama Southland. He has had more than 60 film and television credits, including the films Mulholland Drive of 2001, Ghost World of 2001, Old School of 2003, The Black Dahlia of 2006 and Dinner for Schmucks of 2010. In the 2011 video game L.A. Noire, Fischler portrayed real-life gangster Mickey Cohen.
It utilized facial performance capture technology to convert performances in the game’s graphics. He played gangster Meyer Lansky two years later in scenes with Cohen’s character in the TNT miniseries Mob City. He appeared in One for the Money, a crime thriller adapted from Janet Evanovich’s novel of the same name in 2012. His father started the Santa Monica restaurant Patrick’s Roadhouse and is named for him.
Patrick Fischler Age
Born on December 29, 1969.
Patrick Fischler Net Worth
Patrick Fischler has a net worth of $18 Million. He earns $1,000,000 per year, $83,333.33 per month and $19,230.77 per week.
Patrick Fischler Height
Patrick stands at a height of 1. 61 metres and weighs 77 kg.
Patrick Fischler Early Life/Education/Career
Patrick Fischler was born in Los Angeles, California, on December 29, 1969. When Fischler was five years old, his father, Bill, purchased a restaurant on the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica and named it “Patrick’s Roadhouse” after him. The restaurant has since become a hotspot for such celebrities as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sean Penn, Goldie Hawn and Johnny Carson.
Fischler attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts upon graduating from high school. There he met and started dating his future wife, actress Lauren Bowles. The half-sister of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Fischler and Bowles moved back to Los Angeles after graduating from Tisch. In Los Angeles along with other New York University graduates, they formed a theater group called Neurotic Young Urbanites.
An agent who saw Fischler perform at a Neurotic Young Urbanites production arranged for him to attend an audition for the 1994 action film Speed, which became Fischler’s first film acting job. Fischler played one of the men trapped inside an elevator that nearly falls due to an attack by a bomber in the film. Fischler in 1998 starred in the independent film The Week That Girl Died, a romantic comedy about three long-time friends in a small New England fishing town.
For the part, he received a best lead actor award by the American Film Institute International Film Festival’s New Directions jury, which honors independent films. Fischler also appeared in David Lynch’s 2001 psychological thriller Mulholland Drive as a man describing a horrible nightmare he had.
He also appeared in the 2002 television film Gilda Radner: It’s Always Something, a biopic about comedian Gilda Radner, where he played the real-life comedian Eugene Levy. He appeared in the films Twister (1996), Ghost World (2001) and Old School (2003). and The Great Buck Howard (2008) and played assistant district attorney Ellis Loew in Brian De Palma’s 2006 crime film The Black Dahlia.
The character was referred to in the film as “Jewboy”, Film reviewer Stephen Cole called his role in that film “a caricature that is as coarsely anti-Semitic as any sequence in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.” Fischler also appeared as a guest star in television shows Angel, Nash Bridges, Burn Notice, Lie to Me, Bones, Cold Case, Monk, Star Trek: Enterprise, Girlfriends, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY.
By 2009, he had more than 60 film and television credits.
Patrick Fischler Recognition
Fischler auditioned for the role of insult comic Jimmy Barrett on the AMC drama series Mad Men, of which he was a fan. A writer from The New York Times Magazine called Alex Witchel sat in on Fischler’s audition and said he was “breathtakingly good”. Jimmy Barrett the character, is a client of the advertising company within the show and his wife sleeps with protagonist Don Draper, played by Jon Hamm.
Matthew Weiner the series creator and executive producer cast Fischler because he felt the actor had a “New York quality” that he wanted the character to have. Weiner said of him: “Patrick has this tremendous edge. There was something very old-fashioned about the way he dealt with the character.” Fischler said entertainer Joey Bishop was a major influence on how he played the role because he wanted Jimmy Barrett to have a charming element to him and make people laugh even while he said horrible things, as Bishop did.
Fischler received a great deal of exposure and increase in name recognition after his role on Mad Men. During one episode, Fischler’s character tells Don’s wife Betty about her husband’s infidelity, then confronts Don and tells him off about his cheating. Fischler called receiving that script “the highlight of my career so far”, adding: “After Mad Men I got a lot of ‘How dare you speak to Don Draper like that? …
People, mainly women, were mad at me that I told Don off. I took it as a compliment.” Fischler had been in talks to appear on the Showtime drama series Californication, but he was unable to do so due to scheduling conflicts with Mad Men. Fischler became a recurring cast member on both the ABC drama series Lost and the NBC police drama Southland starting in 2009.
He constantly flew back and forth between Hawaii, where Lost is filmed and Los Angeles, where Southland is filmed, while simultaneously dealing with his wife’s pregnancy to do so. Fischler said the Lost producers were incredibly accommodating” to his schedule. He played Detective Kenny No-Gun; series creator Ann Biderman described him as a “brilliant, incredibly versatile actor” on Southland.
He ended up guest starring in nine, appearing in the fifth season as Phil, a member of the Dharma Initiative during a part of the show set in 1977 Although originally expected to appear in only two Lost episodes. When he auditions for the role, Fischler did not know the storyline was moving from the present to the past, and did not learn it until he was handed his first script.
Fischler said, “This is not a joke: a year ago if you were to ask me what are the two shows I want to be on, I would have said Mad Men and Lost” In a May 2009 interview.
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