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Benjamin Joseph Manaly Novak (born July 31, 1979) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, author, and producer. He gained traction as a comedian during the early 2000s before becoming a field agent for the MTV reality prank show Punk'd (2003). Novak had his breakout with a leading role as Ryan Howard on seasons 1–8 of the NBC mockumentary sitcom The Office (2005–2013). His acting, writing and producing for the show earned him two Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Writers Guild of America Award, alongside five nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. In the late 2000s, Novak had supporting roles in the films Reign Over Me (2007) and Inglourious Basterds (2009). In the 2010s, he portrayed musician Robert B. Sherman in Saving Mr. Banks (2013) and Marvel Comics character Alistair Smythe in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014). He had a starring role as Harry J. Sonneborn in the biographical film The Founder (2016) and voiced Baker Smurf in The Smurfs (2011) and The Smurfs 2 (2013). In television, he had a recurring role as Lucas Pruit on the HBO series The Newsroom (2014). In the 2020s, Novak made his film directorial debut with Vengeance (2022), which he also produced and starred in. He created and wrote the FX on Hulu anthology series The Premise (2021). In addition to his film and television career, Novak authored the books One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories (2014) and The Book with No Pictures (2014). Description above from the Wikipedia article B.J. Novak, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
B. J. Novak
Smithson Utivich
for Smithson Utivich in Quentin Tarantino’s Killer Crow (Mini -Series)
Suggested by steveolilbrother
After the success of Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino began to publicly toy with the idea of making an excised section of the original Inglourious Basterds script. Killer Crow’s story involved a platoon of black soldiers who have been court-martialed and are due to be hanged in London. In typical QT fashion, the plot focused heavily on revenge, as the black soldiers escape and seek out the white officers one by one, meeting up with the Basterds in the process. After building the idea up for some time, Tarantino eventually backed off of it, claiming that it would need another polish before it could ever see the light of day.
