| David Dean Bottrell | |
| Birth Date: | 6 April 1959 |
| Birth Place: | Louisa, Kentucky |
| Occupation: | Actor, comedian, screenwriter |
| Years Active: | 1983–present |
David Dean Bottrell is an American actor, comedian and screenwriter best known for playing on numerous TV series & as Lincoln Meyer on 8 episodes of the ABC television series Boston Legal. He is also the author of "Working Actor: Breaking In, Making a Living and Making a Life in the Fabulous Trenches of Show Business" published by Ten Speed Press, a division of Random House.[1]
Known for his quirky characterizations, he started his career in New York, working at such theatres as the Second Stage, the Public Theater, the Manhattan Punch Line and regionally at the Long Wharf Theatre and the Actors Theatre of Louisville. His television work includes guest starring roles on And the Band Played On, Head of the Class, JAG, Caroline in the City, Mad About You, Dharma & Greg, Days of Our Lives, Ugly Betty, Criminal Minds, iCarly, Castle, Bones, Harry's Law, NCIS, Justified, Mad Men, Longmire, Modern Family, , Rectify and The Blacklist.
He also co-wrote (with Jessie Jones) the off-Broadway play Dearly Departed,[2] which he and Jones later adapted into a film version titled Kingdom Come, starring Whoopi Goldberg, LL Cool J and Jada Pinkett Smith, produced by Fox Searchlight Pictures.[3]
Bottrell has written about his experiences in the entertainment industry for the Huffington Post,[4] [5] Backstage, Salon.com and MetroSource magazine.[6] His short film, Available Men, premiered in the 2006 HBO Comedy Festival and went on to win 17 awards on the film festival circuit. On stage, he was one of the original cast members of both the Los Angeles and New York companies of the long-running comedy revue, Streep Tease: An Evening of Meryl Streep Monologues performed by an All-Male Company in which he performed his critically acclaimed 6-minute rendition of the entire plot of Out of Africa.[7]
In the summer of 2011, Bottrell (who is openly gay)[5] performed his comedic one-man show, David Dean Bottrell Makes Love: A One-Man Show to sold-out houses at the Rogue Machine Theatre in Los Angeles. In 2019, Bottrell brought a heavily revised version of the show to New York's Dixon Place[8] and, in January 2020, Penguin Random House Audio recorded a live version of the show, releasing it as an audiobook on 11 Feb. 2020.[9]
Bottrell has taught acting at UCLA and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (both the New York and Los Angeles campuses). He is also one of the producers of Sci-Fest, the first annual Los Angeles Science Fiction One-Act Play Festival, held annually in May.[10]
| 2010 | For Christ's Sake | Sam | |
| Bad Kitty | Man | (Short) | |
| 2012 | The Strangely Normal | Prissy Dad | (Short) |
| 2014 | Fist | Dr. Avery | (Short) |
| 2016 | So B. It | Dietz | |
| 2017 | The Lady Killers | Paul's Client | |
| (post-production) | Christmas Eve Eve Or: the Things I Can't Remember | Phil | (Short) |
| 1990 | Head of the Class | Chip (credited as David Bottrell) | (TV Series), 1 episode: "The Reel Charlie Moore" |
| 1993 | And the Band Played On | Man #3 | (TV Movie) |
| 1995 | JAG | McKissick | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Brig Break" |
| 1996 | Shadow (TV Series) | (credited as David Dean) | (TV Series), 1 episode |
| Monitor #2 (credited as David Botrell) | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Who Monitors the Birds?" | ||
| 1997 | Caroline in the City | Customer #2 (credited as David Bottrell) | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Caroline and the Novelist" |
| 1998 | Mad About You | Animal Handler | (TV Series), 1 episode: "There's a Puma in the Kitchen" |
| Dharma & Greg | Patron (credited as David Botrell) | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Old Yeller" | |
| 2000 | Titus | Bobby (credited as David Bottrell) | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Sex with Pudding" |
| 2006 | Boston Legal | Lincoln Meyer | (TV Series), 8 episodes |
| 2007 | Women's Murder Club | Oliver Duprix | (TV Series), 1 episode: "To Drag & to Hold" |
| Ugly Betty | Lawyer | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Family/Affair" | |
| 2009 | Criminal Minds | Chad Brown | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Amplification" |
| 2010 | iCarly | Bob | (TV Series), 1 episode: "iGot a Hot Room" |
| Castle | Byron H. Singer | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Murder Most Fowl" | |
| 2011 | Away | (TV Movie) | |
| Harry's Law | Pastor Darcy | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Bad to Worse" | |
| Days of Our Lives | Al | (TV Series), 1 episode: "6 episodes" | |
| 2012 | The Watcher | Dr. Kramon | (TV Series), 1 episode: "The Good Doctor" |
| NCIS | Assistant Director of Operations Donald Linder | (TV Series), 1 episode: "You Better Watch Out" | |
| Holly's Holiday | Maitre D' | (TV Movie) | |
| True Blood | Professor Kannell | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Gone, Gone, Gone" | |
| 2013 | Mad Men | Preacher | (TV Series), 1 episode: "In Care Of" |
| Save Me | Brian | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Whatever the Weather" | |
| Justified | Alvin | (TV Series), 1 episode: "This Bird Has Flown" | |
| 2014 | Hairapy | Kevin Q | (TV Series), 4 episodes |
| Bruce Grady | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Let's Make a Deal" | ||
| Bones | Tripp Warshaw | (TV Series), 1 episode: "The Cold in the Case" | |
| American Koko | Sparrow | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Don't Black Girls Go to Baptist Church Anymore" | |
| 2015 | Stan | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Melancholy Pursuit" | |
| Longmire | Jerry Napek | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Highway Robbery" | |
| Mandie and Earring | Party Dad | (TV Series), 1 episode | |
| Dig | John Donaldson | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Trust No One" | |
| 2016 | Rectify | Daniel's Therapist | (TV Series), 2 episodes: "Happy Unburdening" and "All I'm Sayin'" |
| Mistresses | Father O'Brian | (TV Series), 1 episode: "The Show Must Go On" | |
| Modern Family | Mr. Wilkerson | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Thunk in the Trunk" | |
| 2017 | The Blacklist | Conductor | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Dr. Bogdan Krilov (No. 29) " |
| 2018-2019 | After Forever (TV Series) | Paul #2 | (TV Series), 13 episodes |