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Bronson Alcott Pinchot (born May 20, 1959) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Balki Bartokomous in the ABC sitcom, ''Perfect Strangers'' (1986–93). He also appeared in feature films, such as ''Risky Business'' (1983), ''Beverly Hills Cop'' (1984), ''True Romance'' (1993), ''Beverly Hills Cop III'' (1994), ''It's My Party'' (1996), ''Courage Under Fire'' (1996) and ''The First Wives Club'' (1996), as well as on television series, such as The Prankster in ''Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman''. In 2012, he starred in his own reality series, ''The Bronson Pinchot Project'' on the DIY Network. Pinchot also worked extensively as an audiobook narrator, with over 100 recordings to his credit as of 2014.〔VanderMeer, Jeff (2014). (This Is the Best 5,453-Word Interview With Bronson Pinchot About Audiobooks You Will Ever Read ), 22 July 2015; URL accessed 13 November 2015〕 ''AudioFile'' magazine recognized him as Best Voice in Fiction & Classics for his 2010 renderings of Flannery O'Connor's ''Everything That Rises Must Converge'' (1965), Karl Marlantes's ''Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War'' (2009) and David Vann's ''Caribou Island'' (2011).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Narrator Profile: Bronson Pinchot )〕 == Personal life == Pinchot was born in Manhattan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Bronson Pinchot Biography )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Bronson Pinchot Biography )〕 His mother, Rosina (née Asta) was an Italian American and a typist, and his father, Henry (originally Poncharavsky) was of Russian descent and a bookbinder, who was born in New York and raised in Paris. His younger brother, Justin is also an actor. He was raised in Southern California, where he graduated from South Pasadena High School at the top of his class and was appointed valedictorian. He earned a full scholarship to Yale University, where he was placed in Morse College and graduated ''magna cum laude''. Pinchot began his Yale career in fine art, but after he was cast in a college play, a casting director discovered him, which resulted in his film debut, ''Risky Business''. In 1999, Pinchot spent a great deal of time in Harford, Pennsylvania, restoring the circa 1839 mansion of former Pennsylvania state Senator Edward Jones. He purchased six properties in the small, rural town of 1,300〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Harford, Pennsylvania PA, township profile (Susquehanna County) )〕 "in an effort to revive the town's 19th-century aesthetic". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bronson Pinchot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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