Mark Metcalf

Mark Metcalf is one of those actors I quietly cheer for, because making an audience genuinely despise your character takes real skill. A man from small-town Findlay, Ohio, schooled at Michigan, somehow became the go-to face for sneering authority figures and aggrieved martinets, and I love wondering how that specialty formed. Leading roles get the glamour, but stories collapse without craftsmen who anchor the edges and earn an honest "I hate that guy." His move into film producing suggests a maker's instinct that runs deeper than performing. I am happy to give this kind of indispensable character actor a quiet round of applause.

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Name (English)

Mark Metcalf

Name (Japanese)

マーク・メトカーフ

Reading

まーく・めとかーふ

Born

March 11, 1946 (age 80)

Origin

Findlay, Ohio, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dog

High school

Westfield High School

University

University of Michigan

• Official sitehttp://www.markmetcalf.net/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Metcalf
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%88%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%95
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3294184

Tags

• Ohio
• actor
• television actor
• film producer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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