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Paul Reiser (born March 30, 1957) is an American comedian, actor, television personality, author, screenwriter and musician. He is most widely known for his role on the long-running television sitcom Mad About You.
Reiser was born in New York City, the son of Helen, a homemaker, and Sam Reiser, a wholesale health food distributor. Reiser attended the East Side Hebrew Institute on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City. He earned his bachelor's degree at Binghamton University, where he majored in music (piano, composition). He was active in campus theater productions and founded "The Little Theater That Could", an on-campus community theater organization located in Hinman College, Reiser's dorm community. It was later renamed Hinman Production Company. Reiser eventually found his calling when he performed in New York City comedy clubs during university summer breaks.
After honing his skills as a stand-up comic in New York City, he had a breakout film role in 1982 when he appeared in Diner, a coming-of-age film by Barry Levinson. Reiser's character, Modell, a closet stand-up comedian, effectively brought Reiser's comic abilities to the attention of Hollywood. The film also helped boost the careers of his co-stars Kevin Bacon, Steve Guttenberg, and Mickey Rourke. He followed this success playing a detective in 1984's Beverly Hills Cop, a role he reprised in the 1987 sequel, Beverly Hills Cop II. Reiser also had roles in James Cameron's 1986 movie Aliens where he played the infamous character Burke; in The Marrying Man (1991), and in the comedy Bye Bye Love (1995).
Actors: Bettina Böhler (editor), Stephan Kampwirth (actor), Bettina Reitz (producer), Caroline von Senden (producer), Benno Fürmann (actor), Simone von Zglinicki (actress), Margarita Broich (actress), Sven Pippig (actor), Mathias Schwerbrock (producer), Florian Panzner (actor), Peter Kurth (actor), Christian Petzold (writer), Christian Petzold (director), Matthias Matschke (actor), Nina Hoss (actress),
Plot: Philipp Gerber is a smart, but self-satisfied car salesman. In an inattentive moment at the wheel of his car, he runs over a biker and drives away. As he has feelings of guilt, he tries to find out more about the accident's victim and learns that the boy lies seriously injured in a hospital. Philipp wants to tell his mother Laura Reiser the truth, but he doesn't. After a carefree holiday with his girlfriend Katja, he learns that the boy is dead. Meanwhile, Laura staggers between grief and the desire for revenge. One evening, she can't bear it any more and jumps off a bridge, but Philipp saves her life...
Keywords: accident, bike, death-of-child, ford, hit-and-run, hospital, mother, red, suicide-attemptActors: Carol Leifer (writer), Renée Taylor (actress), Carol Leifer (producer), Carol Leifer (actress), Jerry Seinfeld (actor), Paul Reiser (actor), Phyllis Diller (actress), Julie Brown (actress), Shelley Berman (actor), Bud Cort (actor), Pat Corley (actor), Colin Quinn (actor), Edy Williams (actress), Mona May (costume designer), Ian Ogilvy (actor),
Genres: Comedy,