Age: 55
male
European-American businessman, entrepreneur, actor, voice actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Brian Stepanek is from Cleveland, Ohio. His career began in Chicago, where he excelled in musical theater, toured with The Second City, and won a Joseph Jefferson Award for his portrayal of Bill Snibson in Me and My Girl. After moving to Los Angeles, he gained wide recognition playing the eccentric janitor Arwin Hawkhauser on Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. He also produced, co-wrote, and starred in the silent slapstick series Brian O'Brien. Brian appeared as the nefarious and bigoted maitre d, Graham Kindell, opposite Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in the Oscar-winning film Green Book. His TV credits include Young Sheldon, where he delivered a memorable recurring performance as the irritable Hubert Givens; Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn (as Tom Harper); and reprising his role from the animated Loud House series as Lynn Loud Sr. for the live-action Paramount Plus series The Really Loud House. Brian has also recurred on Two and a Half Men, Best Foot Forward, and For All Mankind, among others. He has appeared in numerous Michael Bay films and recently returned to his musical theater roots when he appeared as Max Bialystock in the musical The Producers at the Renaissance Theatre in Mansfield, Ohio.
Brian Stepanek
DJ's Dad
for DJ's Dad in MONSTER HOUSE (LIVE ACTION REMAKE)
Suggested by enzotakerian
A live action remake of the animated movie from 2006. I found an early draft script of the original movie online and there were parts that they did not add in the final cut, but should have: like seeing the actual "heart" of the house, which is the furnace with the brick wall behind it pulsating like actual heartbeats. In the 1980's, a crazy old hermit supposedly dies of a heart attack while yelling at a boy for accidentally skidding across his lawn. Since then, the boy, DJ, has been noticing strange things happening at the old man's house: like moaning sounds coming from inside, and the outside structure actually MOVING from time to time. And when DJ's friend, Chowder, rings the doorbell, the house itself turns into a monster and attacks, but always returns to normal when grownups are coming. As Halloween approaches, DJ and Chowder, and their new friend, Jenny, devise a plan to take down the monster house, and save the neighborhood. It will have the humor and heart of the old movie, and the scary intensity of Stranger Things.
