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Kevin Pollak

American actor and comedian (born 1957)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
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Source-derived summary

Kevin Elliot Pollak is an American actor, comedian, impressionist and podcaster. He has appeared in over 90 films; his roles include Sam Weinberg in A Few Good Men, Jacob Goldman in Grumpy Old Men and its sequel Grumpier Old Men; Todd Hockney in The Usual Suspects, Phillip Green in Martin Scorsese's Casino, and Bobby Chicago in End of Days, Stu Smiley in Michael Moore's Canadian Bacon.

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The public source identifies “Kevin Pollak” as american actor and comedian (born 1957). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kevin, Pollak and American.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current 66-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kevin, Pollak and American providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kevin Pollak” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.