James Urbaniak
Birthday: 1963-09-17
Place of Birth: Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Biography: James Christian Urbaniak (born September 17, 1963) is an American actor. Urbaniak was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. He lives in Santa Monica, California with his wife Julie and their twins, son Severn Jerzy and daughter Esme Maeve. One of his first noteworthy roles was in the avant-garde playwright/director Richard Foreman's The Universe, for which Urbaniak won an Obie. He has also been acclaimed for his acting in the films Henry Fool and American Splendor, in the latter of which he played legendary illustrator R. Crumb. He was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his role in Thom Pain (based on nothing). He provides the voice for main character Dr. Thaddeus Venture on The Venture Bros. as well as the Doctor's brother Jonas Venture Junior and the super-villain Phantom Limb. In one of his lesser-known roles, Urbaniak played a pizza guy in the famous "Whassup?" television commercials for Budweiser. He also portrayed the moderator in "Human Centipede Anonymous", a Funny or Die short depicting three men who grapple with their past as a human centipede.
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B Movie
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The Nanny Diaries
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Fay Grim
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The Girl from Monday
A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the s...
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Sweet and Lowdown
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love ...
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You Don't Know Jack
Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide....
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Henry Fool
An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister....
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Taz: Quest for Burger
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Ride with the Devil
Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of...
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Drones
Brian Dilks is an Office Drone. He spends his days at OmniLink in comforting monotony: facilitating ...
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Plain Dirty
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The Sticky Fingers of Time
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Teknolust
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Beware the Gonzo
Eddie "Gonzo" Gilman is starting a revolution. When the wild-eyed rebel journalist is ousted from hi...
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The Music Never Stopped
Henry struggles to bond with his estranged son, Gabriel, who suffers from a brain tumor that prevent...
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The Last Romantic
In this eccentric comedy, a poet moves to New York looking for professional success and ends up enga...
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Upheaval
A neurotic and overly-presumptuous mother accuses her family's au pair of stealing a cherished heirl...
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Daypass
A short comedy about love after life. A dead but undying romantic returns from the grave to further ...
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Oppenheimer
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....
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Electric City
In a post-apocalyptic world, humanity lives in small settlements whose main activity is to produce e...
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Opera No. 1
A comical mini opera following the exploits of two goddesses interfering with the lives of mortals. ...
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Indoor Baseball
Noel works at an indoor baseball facility with her father where her day-to-day existence is overshad...
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Bitter Orange
Despite her short skirt and bobbed hair, Myrtle’s no flapper—she’s a career girl with her eye on the...
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iSteve
The story of the modern technology guru Steve Jobs from Apple's humble start to a global phenomenon....
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The Occupants
Lucy, has a new husband, a new home and a new baby, but old ghosts won't let her be. She has dedicat...
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Invitation to a Murder
A reclusive billionaire invites six seemingly random strangers to his island estate in the south of ...
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Chicago 10
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Such Good People
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American Splendor
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar...
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Gonzo Girl
A young college graduate toiling as an intern has dreams of making it big in publishing, and the cha...
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Ned Rifle
Henry’s and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But...
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The Rainbow Bridge
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The Fabelmans
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The Making of 'Fay Grim' or: How Do You Spell Espionage?
A short documentary about the making of 'Fay Grim.'...
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The Country Club
Worried about their father being laid off, two resourceful teenage girls hatch a plan to win the pri...
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Advantageous
In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, J...
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From the Head
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The Thrilling Adventure Hour Live
A concert film designed to bring the live Thrilling Adventure Hour experience to those unable to att...
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Breakup Season
A young man brings his girlfriend to his rural Oregon hometown to introduce her to his family, only ...
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Puddysticks
Burned-out video game designer Liz joins a society of traumatized adults that meet in secret and pla...
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Book of Christ
In this special, three experts explore the newly-discovered Book of Christ, the first and only book ...
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Condor's Nest
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The Boxtrolls
An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of...
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Manhattan Mixup
A homage to screwballs and mistaken identity films like The Great Dictator & North by Northwest,...
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The Other Also
A minimalist, atmospheric, meditation on the theme of "Love" or "Amour" that focuses on reconciliati...
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Advantageous
Gwen is the spokesperson for a radical technology that allows people to overcome their natural disad...
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Thelma the Unicorn
Thelma dreams of being a glamorous unicorn. Then in a rare pink and glitter-filled moment of fate, T...
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Rebel in the Rye
The life of celebrated but reclusive author J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the public...
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Grind
Four interconnected stories center around the gig economy, hustle culture, and evils of late-stage c...
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After Adderall
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Dave Made a Maze
Dave, an artist who has yet to complete anything significant in his career, builds a fort in his liv...
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Wonderstruck
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New...
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Sound of My Voice
A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to b...
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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Now a rising young lawyer, Elle Woods is about to make partner at her firm, but when she finds out h...
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Across the Universe
When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is...
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her ...
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No Such Thing
A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creat...
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The Book of Life
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Intern
A young, underappreciated intern at the ultra-hip magazine Skirt must learn to deal with kissy-face ...
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Death of a President
A fictional investigative documentary looks back on the "assassination" of George W. Bush and attemp...
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Grimm Fairy Tales Animated
Animated adaptation of the Zenescope Comics horror/fantasy series....
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Beauty
A young singer on the brink of a promising career finds herself torn between a domineering family, i...
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Tesla
The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched techno...
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Fortunes
After an impulsive visit to a fortuneteller, three friends discover that the power of suggestion has...
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Things Heard & Seen
A young woman discovers that both her husband and their new home harbor sinister secrets after they ...
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The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
A nationwide manhunt for Hank Venture leads to untold dangers and unexpected revelations, while The ...
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The Sisters Rosensweig
Three very different sisters reunite after a lengthy separation and discover humanity, respect, and ...
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CI...
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Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay
It’s batter up at Belle Reve and that can only mean that Amanda Waller, the penitentiary’s cold and ...
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For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close
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Test Screening
Oregon, 1982. Four teens suspect that a mysterious upcoming screening at their local cinema is the f...
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Laws of Man
A pair of U.S. marshals search for a wanted murderer in Nevada at the height of the Cold War and enc...
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Road
Two exes take a dual-purpose road trip: allow Margaret (Catherine Kellner), a freelance photographer...
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Marfa Lights
A young salesman from the city sells solar panels to a rural community, only to realize his boss sup...
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Every Heavy Thing
A journey centered around an ad-seller for one of the last alt-weeklies in the country, who, after w...
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Snake 'n' Bacon
Pilot Episode: "Psst. Wanna See a Crime Scene?" Cold opening, followed by a visit to a crime scene. ...
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Theatre People
Two no-name actors aren’t having the Broadway careers they dreamed of. The only thing that keeps the...
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Passengers
A flying feather awakens several estranged people in a subway, but for how long?...
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Hello Lonesome
Lonely since his wife left him and alienated from his daughter, a cantankerous voice-over artist str...
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