Michael Panes
Michael Panes
One of those screen performers whose genial off-center quality practically predestined him to a career as a character actor, Michael Panes graduated from Brown University with a music degree before moving into film. He made one of his earliest impressions as Levi, a violin-toting, self-professed doppelganger of Peter Sellers (with horn-rimmed glasses) who turns up for a Hollywood get-together, in the star-studded ensemble comedy The Anniversary Party (2001). The performer then shifted genres ad extremis to play an oddball analyst - and the object of a sick patient's delusions - in Ari Kirschenbaum's mind-bending psycho thriller Fabled. Panes further unveiled his proclivity for offbeat assignments with a seriocomic portrayal of a dorky loser who graduates to the jet set after winning a pile of money on a reality game show, in indie helmer Greg Pritikin's Surviving Eden (2004) (a film he also co-produced), and evoked an early Gore Vidal in Douglas McGrath's Truman Capote biopic Infamous (2005), before re-teaming with that film's co-star, Peter Bogdanovich, for a small supporting turn in the Zoe Cassavetes-directed romantic comedy Broken English (2007). ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Michael Panes:
- Fabled with Desmond Askew , J. Richey Nash , Katheryn Winnick , Tony Cucci , Adam LeFevre , Doug Wert , Coleen Sexton , Brandon Johnson , Deven May , Theo Hausen , William Ryall , John O'Connor
- Eulogy with Hank Azaria , Jesse Bradford , Zooey Deschanel , Glenne Headly , Famke Janssen , Piper Laurie , Kelly Preston , Ray Romano , Rip Torn , Debra Winger , Micole Mercurio , Lucy Gunadi , Kevin Ruf , Lucy Boyle , Alex Moore , Michael Chapman , Vincent Castellanos , Lisa Maris , Rocco Sisto , Lana Novac , Denise Dowse , Curtis Garcia , Keith Garcia , Mark Harelik , Matthew Feder , Allisyn Ashley Arm , Jordan Moen , Natasha Sheridan , Rance Howard , Paget Brewster , Mary Schmidtberger , Emma Chapman , Brandon Waters , Monica Esswein , Aaron Salazar , Shaunci Trammel , Ward Stearns , Sara Botsford , John LaFayette , Brian Posehn , Eric Peirpoint , Sherman Howard , Rene Auberjonois , Claudette Nevins , Monica Potter
- Infamous with Toby Jones , Sandra Bullock , Daniel Craig , Peter Bogdanovich , Jeff Daniels , Hope Davis , Gwyneth Paltrow , Isabella Rossellini , Juliet Stevenson , Sigourney Weaver , John Benjamin Hickey , Lee Pace , Mark Rubin , Steve Schwelling , Glover Gill , Rey Arteaga , Justin Sherburn , Andrew Halbreich , Frank Curcio , Terru Bennett , Mitch Baker , Grant James , Sheila Bailey-Lucas , Richard Dillard , Glover Jamison Bennett , Marco Perella , Bethlyn Gerard , Libby Villari , Joey Basham , Marian Aleta Jones , Terri Zee , Richard Jones , Brian Shoop , Brady Coleman , Paul Mitchell Wright , Terri Pipkin , Ray Gestaut , Joe Cordi , Lee Ritchey , Brett Brock , Leticia Trejo , Brady Hender , Zachary Burnett , Brent McCoy , Gail Cronauer , Austin Chittim , Morgan Farris , Dennis Letts , Gabriel Folse , Charles Mooneyhan , J.D. Young , Steve Flanagin , Michael Conway
- Adam & Steve with Craig Chester , Malcolm Gets , Parker Posey , Chris Kattan , Melinda Dillon , Julie Hagerty , Sally Kirkland , Sandy Martin , Paul Sand , Jackie Beat , Lisa Frederickson , Todd Robert Anderson , Jennifer Echols , Noah Segan , Steve Geary , Jack Guzman , Maxine Prescott , Brandon Miller , Augi Amarino , La Na Shi
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