NEIL FLYNN

'Neil Richard Flynn' (born 13 November 1960) is an American actor who is perhaps best known for his role as Janitor in the show ''Scrubs''.

Contents

Biography

Personal life

Career

Filmography

References

External links

Biography

Personal life

Flynn was born in Waukegan, Illinois. As a student at Waukegan East High School in 1978, he and partner Mike Shklair won an Illinois Individual Events championship for “Humorous Duet Acting.” After graduating from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, in 1982, Flynn returned to Chicago to pursue an acting career. Flynn participated on the nationally renowned Bradley University Speech Team.

Career

During his time in Chicago, he acted with the renowned Goodman and Steppenwolf Theaters. Flynn was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award (Actor in a Principal Role, for ''The Ballad of the Sad Cafe'', 1986). He also performed with ImprovOlympic and the Second City Comedy Troupe.
In ''Scrubs'', Neil Flynn was originally only cast for the first episode ("Pilot," "My First Day") but was so popular he became a regular. Although his role on ''Scrubs'' has been Flynn's most visible to date, he has had small roles in a variety of different TV shows and movies, including ''Seinfeld'', ''That 70's Show'', ''Baby's Day Out'', '', ''My Boys'', and ''Smallville''. He also played a Chicago Transit Authority police officer in ''The Fugitive''. This role was used in a subplot of the ''Scrubs'' episode ("My Friend the Doctor") when one of the characters notices Flynn's Scrubs character "The Janitor" in the film. Flynn had a minor role in ''Mean Girls'' as Chip Heron, the father of Lindsay Lohan's character, Cady Heron. Next to that he played the part of an anonymous police officer in '', but this scene was cut out of the final version of the film, though it can be viewed in the straight to DVD spin-off film '', and in the deleted scenes of the Anchorman DVD. He also had a minor role in ''Major League'' as a longshoreman. Flynn had a role on Phil Hendrie's animated pilot that wasn't picked up by FOX. He was also the first baseman in the movie ''Rookie of the Year''.^[1]
Flynn was once in an episode of The Drew Carey Show where he played the fake husband/partner of Scrubs co-star Christa Miller while Christa's character, Kate, was housesitting. He also appeared on Seinfeld, playing one of the police officers Elaine begged for help from, but he growled instead wanting to see the catfight. In addition to his TV and movie credits, Neil Flynn has done voice acting for the animated series ''Buzz Lightyear of Star Command'' and as the Plumber in the Ratchet & Clank video game series for the Playstation 2 . He also was the voice of a fashion policeman in Kim Possible.
Flynn often plays the role of a police officer in many of his performances, as seen in The Fugitive, Baby's Day Out, Chain Reaction, , and in an episode of CSI (Season two episode 36 "Identity Crisis"). He has also played the role of a janitor in an episode of Clone High, entitled . In this role, however, his character is an overwhelmingly kind and tolerant man, contrary to his role in Scrubs. A squirrel runs by when this character first appears, a nod to the Scrubs janitor's general obsession with squirrels.

Filmography

★ ''Major League'' (1989) as Longshoreman

★ ''Rookie Of The Year'' (1993) Chicago Cubs first baseman, Stan Okie

★ ''The Fugitive'' (1993) Transit cop. On Scrubs, JD later on sees him playing his role in the Fugitive and spends the episode trying to get him to admit it.

★ ''Baby's Day Out'' (1994) Cop in the park

★ ''Chain Reaction'' (1996) Cop on roof of observatory, gets shot by a rifle

★ ''Seinfeld'' (1997) as a Cop (the one Elaine complains to about her co-worker)

★ ''Home Alone 3'' (1997) as a cop who responds to a 911 call made by Alex Pruitt.

★ ''The Drew Carey Show'' (1998) as Scott Honey in ''Kate's Family''

★ ''That '70s Show'' (1999) as a bouncer, who won't let Eric into a nightclub

★ ''Buzz Lightyear of Star Command'' (2000) as XR (voice)

★ ''Scrubs'' (2001— ) as Janitor

★ ''Clone High'' (2002–2003) as various characters (voice)

★ ''Smallville'' as Mr. Dinsmore (2003–2004)

★ '' (2004) as Cop (only in a deleted scene)

★ ''Mean Girls'' (2004) as Chip Heron

★ ''Hoot'' (2006) as Mr. Eberhart

★ ''Joey'' (2006) as Father O'Neil (Joey and The Holding Hands)

★ ''Re-Animated'' (2006) as a board of director

★ ''The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show'' (2007) as the 500th hitchhiker (T-Bones TV)

★ '' (2007) as a police officer.

References

1. ''Rookie of the Year'' at IMDB

External links

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★ Cast biography at scrubstv.com