David Ury
Acting
Born 1973-09-30
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David Brian Ury (born September 30, 1973) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, YouTuber, and Japanese translation specialist.
Ury was born and raised in Sonoma, California. He graduated from Sonoma Valley High School, where he acted in theatre productions. He earned a bachelor's degree in linguistics at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and studied abroad in Japan, where he became fluent in Japanese. Ury is a descendant of German Jewish impressionist painter Lesser Ury.
Since studying abroad in Tokyo, Ury and has worked as a translator in film, television, and manga and currently (As of May 2011) translates and writes English adaptations for manga. Ury moved to Los Angeles in August 2001 where he began performing stand-up comedy. Cartoonist Keith Knight, a neighbor of his, described Ury's acting career as "Spooge man" and "a cavalcade of reprobates, sleazeballs, derelicts, & weirdos."
Ury has made several film and television appearances, including an episode of Tim Kring's Crossing Jordan and in Shoot 'Em Up. He also appeared in Heroes, Malcolm in the Middle, Life, Without a Trace, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Zeke and Luther, and The Librarians. In March 2015, Ury was cast for Rob Zombie's slasher film 31 as Schizo-Head. A character actor, Ury has died on screen in almost every role he has portrayed.
Ury also has several YouTube channels/accounts/personalities and alter-egos, which include Karaoke Steve and Ken Tanaka, the fictional adopted twin brother of David Ury. Tanaka is described as an Ashkenazi Jewish man adopted as an infant by Japanese parents Hideo and Mari Tanaka, and raised in Shimane Prefecture of Japan; he returns to Los Angeles to find his birth parents Jonathan and Linda Smith.
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Filmography
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Acting
58 credits
The Mentalist
Breaking Bad
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Bones
Better Call Saul
Charmed
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Grimm
Heroes
Without a Trace
Community
Rizzoli & Isles
Malcolm in the Middle
Mom
Outer Banks
Magnum P.I.
Crossing Jordan
Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage
Justified
Private Practice
Lie to Me
Fresh Off the Boat
Raising Hope
The Librarians
The Hawk
Babylon
Life
The Rookie: Feds
Close to Home
Touch
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Tacoma FD
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Shoot 'Em Up
Powers
Rush Hour
The Haunted Hathaways
Woke
Little Boy
A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits
Kajillionaire
3 from Hell
Violent Ends
31
Paparazzi
Time of Death
The 41–Year–Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It
The Revenant
1-800-Hot-Nite
Faith Based
Little Death
Coffee Town
Dark Ride
To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 From Hell
Black Widow
A Blind Bargain
Able Edwards
Lake Los Angeles
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