Bronson Alcott Pinchot (born May 20, 1959) is an American actor and
voice artist. He is best known for playing Balki Bartokomous on the
ABC sitcom Perfect Strangers (1986â€"93). He also performed in films,
such as Risky Business (1983), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), True Romance
(1993), Beverly Hills Cop III (1994), "The Langoliers" (1995), It's My
Party (1996), Courage Under Fire (1996) and The First Wives Club
(1996), as well as on television series, such as Lois & Clark: The New
Adventures of Superman and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. In 2012, he
starred in his own reality series, The Bronson Pinchot Project on the
DIY Network.Pinchot has worked extensively as an audiobook narrator,
with over 100 recordings as of 2014. 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).Pinchot appeared in several feature
films, such as Risky Business, Beverly Hills Cop, The First Wives
Club, True Romance, Courage Under Fire and It's My Party. He also
played Dennis Kemper in the short-lived NBC sitcom Sara. Pinchot was
hired to replace Fisher Stevens as Ben Jabituya in the 1986 film Short
Circuit, but Pinchot eventually left the production in order to begin
work on Perfect Strangers, and Stevens was subsequently rehired for
the role.Starting in 1986, Pinchot played Balki Bartokomous on the
long-running ABC sitcom Perfect Strangers. When the show concluded
filming its eight-season run in September 1992 (with the condensed
final season airing during the summer of 1993), Pinchot immediately
secured the starring role on a new sitcom for CBS, entitled The
Trouble with Larry. The series premiered just three weeks after ABC's
Perfect Strangers finale in August 1993, and one episode (which never
aired) was directed by Mark Linn-Baker, Pinchot's co-star on
Strangers. After three weeks of dismal ratings and poor reviews, The
Trouble with Larry was canceled. Pinchot would subsequently get
rehired by Perfect Strangers producers Tom Miller and Bob Boyett for
roles on two more of their sitcoms: Step By Step, where he played
French hairdresser Jean-Luc Rieupeyroux in early 1997, and, that fall,
on Meego, where he played an alien who crash-landed on Earth and took
up residence with an American family.
voice artist. He is best known for playing Balki Bartokomous on the
ABC sitcom Perfect Strangers (1986â€"93). He also performed in films,
such as Risky Business (1983), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), True Romance
(1993), Beverly Hills Cop III (1994), "The Langoliers" (1995), It's My
Party (1996), Courage Under Fire (1996) and The First Wives Club
(1996), as well as on television series, such as Lois & Clark: The New
Adventures of Superman and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. In 2012, he
starred in his own reality series, The Bronson Pinchot Project on the
DIY Network.Pinchot has worked extensively as an audiobook narrator,
with over 100 recordings as of 2014. 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).Pinchot appeared in several feature
films, such as Risky Business, Beverly Hills Cop, The First Wives
Club, True Romance, Courage Under Fire and It's My Party. He also
played Dennis Kemper in the short-lived NBC sitcom Sara. Pinchot was
hired to replace Fisher Stevens as Ben Jabituya in the 1986 film Short
Circuit, but Pinchot eventually left the production in order to begin
work on Perfect Strangers, and Stevens was subsequently rehired for
the role.Starting in 1986, Pinchot played Balki Bartokomous on the
long-running ABC sitcom Perfect Strangers. When the show concluded
filming its eight-season run in September 1992 (with the condensed
final season airing during the summer of 1993), Pinchot immediately
secured the starring role on a new sitcom for CBS, entitled The
Trouble with Larry. The series premiered just three weeks after ABC's
Perfect Strangers finale in August 1993, and one episode (which never
aired) was directed by Mark Linn-Baker, Pinchot's co-star on
Strangers. After three weeks of dismal ratings and poor reviews, The
Trouble with Larry was canceled. Pinchot would subsequently get
rehired by Perfect Strangers producers Tom Miller and Bob Boyett for
roles on two more of their sitcoms: Step By Step, where he played
French hairdresser Jean-Luc Rieupeyroux in early 1997, and, that fall,
on Meego, where he played an alien who crash-landed on Earth and took
up residence with an American family.
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