Raye Birk (born May 27, 1943, Flint, Michigan) is an American film and television actor best known for playing the role of Pahpshmir in the first and last of the Naked Gun movies. He was the main villain in Naked Gun 33​1â„3: The Final Insult. He has also starred in Due South as the terrorist Francis Bolt in the Episodes “All the Queens Horses”, “Red, White and Blue”, “Call of the Wild Part One” and “Call of the Wild Part Two”. He also had roles in the X-Files and Babylon 5. His other film credits include roles in Best Defense (1984), Amazon Women on the Moon (1987), Throw Momma from the Train (1987), Doc Hollywood (1991) and Star Trek: Insurrection (1998).
In addition to these roles, he had a frequently occurring role as the assistant principal on The Wonder Years; starting with the pilot episode, when he had a conference with Kevin Arnold’s parents for throwing food in the cafeteria. While generally antagonist, a more sympathetic role on the show was seen in the award winning episode “Goodbye” where he confides in Kevin that he is Kevin’s new math teacher as Kevin’s hardnosed algebra teacher has just died. He was also on a pair of Home Improvement episodes as one of Tim’s poker buddies. Raye appeared in several episodes on the TV series Night Court. He appeared twice on The Golden Girls, both times playing a wedding caterer.
Furthermore, in 1985, 1986 and 1992, he appeared on three episodes of Cheers as Walt Twitchell, a mailman who got into minor altercations with Cliff Clavin. Birk reprised the role of Twitchell in a 2002 episode of the Cheers spinoff series, Frasier, in which the title character (played by Kelsey Grammer) returned to Boston and re-acquainted himself with old friends from the bar. He played a recurring role on Coach as university band director Riley Pringle from 1989 to 1993. He also appeared in an episode of Mr. Belvedere as an accordion player.
In 2004–2008, he played Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.
Raye has been married to his wife Candace Barrett for 41 years. They have one son, Joshua, who is a professor of medieval history.
Raye Birk Biography / Wiki
| Name | Raye Birk |
| Also Know | Ray Birk |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Flint, Michigan, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1943-05-27 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 79 |
| Deathday |
Raye Birk Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Mister Roberts | Dowdy | 1984-03-18 | Set aboard a navy cargo ship during World War II, this comedic drama follows Lt. Doug Roberts (Robert Hays, Airplane!), who battles boredom and a tyra… |
| A Christmas Carol | Marley’s Ghost | 1981-12-21 | Televised stage performance based on Charles Dickens’ novella…. |
| New Neighbors | 2016-09-15 | In the face of the killings and assaults on black lives, a mother is determined to keep her two sons safe once they’ve moved to a new neighborhood…. | |
| Aftermath: A Test of Love | Dr. Frenzel | 1991-03-10 | Based on a true story, an adoring wife and mother is taken hostage during a robbery and brutally murdered…. |
| The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | Pahpshmir | 1988-12-02 | When the incompetent Lieutenant Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II…. |
| Challenger | Joseph Kilminster | 1990-02-25 | A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its e… |
| Deadly Messages | Harding | 1985-02-21 | Laura Daniels, single and bored, finds new interest in life when she discovers an old ouija board. It appears, however, that the object’s previous own… |
| The Stepford Children | George Larson | 1987-01-01 | In this sequel to The Stepford Wives, Steven and Laura Harding (along with their kids David and Mary) have moved to the quiet community of Stepford, C… |
| Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It. | Mort Catafalque | 1970-09-04 | A gas is let loose upon the world that kills anyone over 25 years old…. |
| Throw Momma from the Train | Pinsky | 1987-12-11 | Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. Wh… |
| Burglar | The Jogger | 1987-03-20 | Bernice “Bernie” Rhodenbarr is a burglar by trade, and she runs a bookstore as well. Her friend Carl Hefler is a dog groomer. After a successful burgl… |
| Illegal in Blue | Gary Dedmarch | 1995-08-28 | A cop taking personal leave after he witnesses money stolen from the police property room becomes involved with a beautiful singer who may have killed… |
| After Jimmy | John Davies | 1996-09-24 | This is a story of Jimmy, a high school senior, who is struggling with his school life, family pressures, future choices. When it becomes too much, Ji… |
| Class Act | Principal Kratz | 1992-06-05 | Duncan is a genius straight A student, Blade is juvenile delinquent. But because of a mix up with their school records, everyone thinks each is the ot… |
| Cries from the Heart | 1994-10-16 | Michael, a young autistic boy who has trouble with verbalization but a real talent for technology, uses a computer to plead for help after being moles… | |
| Naked Gun 33â…“: The Final Insult | Papshmir | 1994-03-18 | Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for wh… |
| Doc Hollywood | Simon Tidwell, First Patient | 1991-08-02 | After leaving Washington D.C. hospital, plastic surgeon Ben Stone heads for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. After a ca… |
| Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again | Judge Brown | 1990-05-06 | The classic comic book characters created by John L. Goldwater are brought to tv in a slightly older version. Here the characters are adults returning… |
| Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson | Sam Morgan | 1989-02-12 | Ken Malansky, a law student of Perry Mason’s, is accused of murdering a fellow student. Perry is reluctant to take on his case as the victim was the s… |
| Star Trek: Insurrection | Son’a Doctor | 1998-12-11 | When an alien race and factions within Starfleet attempt to take over a planet that has “regenerative” properties, it falls upon Captain Picard and th… |
| Sweet Land | Postal Clerk | 2005-10-21 | Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband…. |
| A Serious Man | Dr. Len Shapiro | 2009-09-30 | It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him…. |
| Amazon Women on the Moon | Vanya | 1987-09-18 | Acclaimed director John Landis (Animal House, The Blues Brothers) presents this madcap send-up of late night TV, low-budget sci-fi films and canned-la… |
| Factotum | Heathercliff | 2005-04-25 | This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of “Factotum” author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live … |
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