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Patrick Fischler (born December 29, 1969) is an American actor best known for his roles as Jimmy Barrett on the drama series ''Mad Men'', Dharma Initiative worker Phil on the drama series ''Lost'' and Detective Kenny No-Gun on the police drama ''Southland''. He has had more than 60 film and television credits, including the films ''Mulholland Drive'' (2001), ''Ghost World'' (2001), ''Old School'' (2003), ''The Black Dahlia'' (2006) and ''Dinner for Schmucks'' (2010). A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Fischler co-founded the Los Angeles-based theater group Neurotic Young Urbanites. During a performance there, he was approached by an agent to audition for the action film ''Speed'' (1994), his first film credit. After guest starring on several television shows, Fischler received increased exposure for his role on ''Mad Men'', for which he based his character in part on entertainer Joey Bishop. Fischler filmed his parts for ''Lost'' and ''Southland'' simultaneously and, although originally only slated for two ''Lost'' episodes, he actually appeared in nine. Fischler recently portrayed real-life gangster Mickey Cohen in the 2011 video game ''L.A. Noire'', which utilized facial performance-capture technology to convert performances in the game's graphics. Two years later he played gangster Meyer Lansky in scenes with Cohen's character in the TNT mini-series Mob City. In 2012, he appeared in ''One for the Money'', a crime thriller adapted from Janet Evanovich's novel of the same name. The Santa Monica restaurant "Patrick's Roadhouse" was started by his father and is named for him. ==Early life and career== Patrick Fischler was born in Los Angeles, California on December 29, 1969. His father, Bill, purchased a restaurant on the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica, when Fischler was five years old and named it "Patrick's Roadhouse" after him. The restaurant has since become a hotspot for such celebrities as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sean Penn, Goldie Hawn and Johnny Carson. After graduating from high school, Fischler attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he met and started dating his future wife, actress Lauren Bowles, the half-sister of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus.〔 After graduating from Tisch, Fischler and Bowles moved back to Los Angeles, where, along with other New York University graduates, they, formed a theater group called Neurotic Young Urbanites.〔 An agent who saw Fischler perform at a Neurotic Young Urbanites production arranged for him to attend an audition for the 1994 action film ''Speed'', which became Fischler's first film acting job. In the film, Fischler played one of the men trapped inside an elevator that nearly falls due to an attack by a bomber.〔 In 1998, Fischler starred in the independent film ''The Week That Girl Died'', a romantic comedy about three long-time friends in a small New England fishing town. For the part, he received a best lead actor award by the American Film Institute International Film Festival's New Directions jury, which honors independent films. Fischler also appeared in David Lynch's 2001 psychological thriller ''Mulholland Drive'' as a man describing a horrible nightmare he had. He also appeared in the 2002 television film ''Gilda Radner: It's Always Something'', a biopic about comedian Gilda Radner, where he played the real-life comedian Eugene Levy. He appeared in the films ''Twister'' (1996), ''Ghost World'' (2001), and ''Old School'' (2003).〔 and ''The Great Buck Howard'' (2008), and played assistant district attorney Ellis Loew in Brian De Palma's 2006 crime film ''The Black Dahlia''. The character was referred to in the film as "Jewboy", Film reviewer Stephen Cole called his role in that film "a caricature that is as coarsely anti-Semitic as any sequence in Mel Gibson’s ''The Passion of the Christ''." Fischler also appeared as a guest star in television shows ''Angel'',〔 ''Nash Bridges'', ''Burn Notice'',〔 ''Lie to Me'',〔 ''Bones'', ''Cold Case'', ''Monk'', ''Star Trek: Enterprise'', ''Girlfriends'', ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', ''CSI: Miami'' and ''CSI: NY''.〔 By 2009, he had more than 60 film and television credits.〔 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「Patrick Fischler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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