An American actor, writer and director. He is known for his role in Napoleon Dynamite as Uncle Rico, and more recently as recurring character Roger Linus on Lost.
Pickin' & Grinnin'
2010 • Director
The Pretender
1996 - 2000 • Director
Only the Good Survive
2023 • Cult Leader
The White Lotus
2021 - 2025 • Greg Hunt
Dream Corp LLC
2016 - • Dr. Roberts
Supernatural
2005 - 2020 • Martin Creaser
Wish Upon a Unicorn
2020 • Bud
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
2020 • Self
Hawaii Five-0
2010 - 2020
3 Days with Dad
2019 • Tim
Glass Jaw
2018 • Sam Austin
The X-Files
1993 - 2018 • Salvatore Matola
All About the Money
2017 • Jon Waters
The Axe Murders of Villisca
2016 • Greg
You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night
2016 • Himself
Operation Chromite
2016 • Gen Hoyt Vandenberg
Falsely Accused
2016 • Gus
Durant's Never Closes
2016 • Dizzy Dean
Endgame
2015 • Principal Thomas
Pass the Light
2015 • Franklin
Americons
2015 • Billy
Taken 3
2014 • (Mark) Casey
Sons of Anarchy
2008 - 2014 • Magoo
The Bridge
2013 - 2014 • Bob
Bad Turn Worse
2013 • Sheriff Shep
24
2001 - 2010 • Joseph Wald
The Last Survivors
2014 • Carson
Locker 13
2014 • Archie
Psych
2006 - 2014 • Strabinsky
Eternity: The Movie
2014 • Barry Goldfield, Jr.
Faults
2014 • Terry
Nikita
2010 - 2013 • The Engineer
Skinwalker Ranch
2013 • Hoyt
Byron's Theme
2012
A True Story
2013 • Richard Simpkins
CSI: NY
2004 - 2013 • Jim Warren
Noobz
2012 • Greg Lipstein
Taken 2
2012 • Casey
Napoleon Dynamite
2012 - 2012
Unicorn City
2012 • Shadow Hawk
5 Time Champion
2011 • Melvin Glee
Deep in the Heart
2012 • Dick Wallrath
Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
2011 • Tom Sutter
Natural Selection
2011 • Peter
Lost
2004 - 2010 • Roger Linus
Cold Case
2003 - 2010 • Bill Shepard
Good Intentions
2010 • Sheriff Ernie
Crazy on the Outside
2010 • Edgar
ER
1994 - 2009 • Defense Attorney Marty Nesmith
Elsewhere
2009 • Mr. Tod
Around June
2008 • Murry
South of Heaven
2008 • Hood 1
Bar Starz
2008 • Ricky Fabulous
Taken
2008 • Mark Casey
Las Vegas
2003 - 2008
Frank
2007 • Colin York
The Comebacks
2007 • Barber
Fathom
2007
September Dawn
2007 • John D. Lee
American Pastime
2007 • Ed Tully
The Astronaut Farmer
2006 • FBI Agent Killbourne
Car Babes
2006 • Gary
Stick It
2006 • Brice Graham
The Sasquatch Gang
2006 • Chilcutt
Carnivàle
2003 - 2005 • Texas Ranger
Waterborne
2005 • Ritter
Confessions of an Action Star
2005 • Donald Buckheim
2004 • Uncle Rico
The Rundown
2003 • Harvey
The Snow Walker
2003 • Pierce
Northfork
2003 • Arnold
The Big Empty
2003 • Elron
The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
2001 • Broots
Jackpot
2001 • Sunny Holiday / Glen Allen Johnson
The Pretender 2001
Beverly Hills, 90210
1990 - 2000
1996 - 2000 • Broots
Chicago Hope
1994 - 2000
Twin Falls Idaho
1999 • Lawyer Jay Harrison
Seinfeld
1989 - 1998 • Homeless Man
Men in Black
1997 • Van driver
Martin
1992 - 1997 • Shawn McDermott
Casualties
1997 • Bill Summers
The Maze
1997 • Dr. Holmes
Strange Luck
1995 - 1996 • Henry Bloom
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
1996 • Steve
Get Shorty
1995 • Ronnie Wingate
Bakersfield P.D.
1993 - • Ray Coombs
L.A. Law
1986 - 1994 • Hotel Desk Clerk
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993 • Rob Sundheimer
Quantum Leap
1989 - 1993 • Flash McGrath
Four Eyes and Six-Guns
1992
Jake and the Fatman
1987 - 1992
Fever
1991 • Bobby
The Grifters
1990 • Drunk's Friend
Falcon Crest
1981 - 1990
Tour of Duty
1987 - 1990
Rainbow Drive
1990 • Azzolini
Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog
1989 • Max (as Jonathan Gries)
Kill Me Again
1989 • Alan Swayzie
Tattingers
1988 - 1989
The Twilight Zone
1985 - 1989
Cagney & Lacey
1981 - 1988
Fright Night Part 2
1988 • Louie
The Monster Squad
1987 • Desperate Man
Number One with a Bullet
1987 • Bobby Sweet
Running Scared
1986 • Det. Tony Montoya
TerrorVision
1986 • OD
Real Genius
1985 • Lazlo Hollyfeld
The Jeffersons
1975 - 1985
High School U.S.A.
1984 • Leo Bandini
1983 • Dirty Curt
September Gun
1983 • Brian Brian
Joysticks
1983 • King Vidiot
240-Robert
1979 - 1981
Swap Meet
1979 • Doug
More American Graffiti
1979 • Ron
Sunnyside
1979 • Wild Child
Mulligan's Stew
1977 -
The Chicken Chronicles
1977 • Tom
Will Penny
1967 • Horace
1999 • Associate Producer