Jack Blessing
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Jack Blessing is an American actor.

Career

Blessing is best known for playing Jack Powers in George Lopez
George Lopez (TV series)
"The George Lopez Show" redirects here. For the late-night program hosted by the same comedian, see Lopez Tonight.George Lopez is an American sitcom starring comedian George Lopez...

, MacGillicudy in Moonlighting
Moonlighting (TV series)
Moonlighting is an American television series that aired on ABC from March 3, 1985, to May 14, 1989. The network aired a total of 66 episodes...

, Mr. Donner in The Naked Truth
The Naked Truth
-Literature:* The Naked Truth , a fictional memoir by Leslie Nielsen* The Naked Truth , a commentary on film ratings-Film:* The Naked Truth , a 1914 silent Italian film* The Naked Truth...

, and for making various appearances in television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 and film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

.

Filmography

Film
YearFilmRoleNotes
1978 The Defection of Simas Kudirka
The Defection of Simas Kudirka
The Defection of Simas Kudirka is a 1978 television movie based on actual events, featuring Alan Arkin as Simas Kudirka, a Lithuanian merchant seaman in Soviet-era 1970 who attempts to defect to the United States by jumping onto a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. Among the movie's awards are two Emmys and...

Kabek Television movie
1979 Women at West Point Tom Fenton
1981 Miracle on Ice
Miracle on Ice
The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22...

Mark Pavelich
Galaxy on Terror Cos aka Planet of Horrors
1985 Amos
Amos
-First name:* Amos , one of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible**Book of Amos, his writings* Amos, son of Nephi and his son Amos, two minor figures in the Book of Mormon...

Scott Lasher Television movie
1986 Hamburger... The Motion Picture
Hamburger... The Motion Picture
Hamburger... The Motion Picture is a 1986 teen sex comedy film directed by Mike Marvin and starring Leigh McCloskey. In the film, main character Russell has been expelled from multiple schools because of his crude behavior. To be able to collect his trust fund, he needs to earn a college diploma...

Nacio Herb Zipser
Blind Justice Larry Television movie
Children of a Lesser God
Children of a Lesser God
Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 American romantic drama film directed by Randa Haines and written by Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff. An adaptation of Medoff's Tony Award-winning stage play of the same name, the film stars William Hurt and Marlee Matlin as two employees at a school for the deaf:...

Announcer Voice role
1987 LBJ: The Early Years
LBJ: The Early Years
LBJ: The Early Years was a television movie that appeared on the NBC network in February 1987, depicting the life of former President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson from 1934 until 1963...

Billy Bob Television movie
Tonight's the Night
Tonight's The Night
-Films:* Tonight's the Night , a 1934 British film starring Leslie Fuller* An alternative title for the 1954 film Happy Ever After-Musicals:*To-Night's the Night...

Peter
Summer School
Summer School (film)
Summer School is a 1987 film directed by Carl Reiner about the travails of a high school gym teacher who is forced to teach a remedial English class for a bunch of maladjusted goof-off students. It stars Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, and Courtney Thorne-Smith. The original music score was composed by...

Student
Strange Voices Dr. Dorfman Television movie
1989 Uncle Buck
Uncle Buck
Uncle Buck is a 1989 John Hughes comedy film starring John Candy, Amy Madigan, Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffman, and Macaulay Culkin, and co-stars Jay Underwood and Laurie Metcalf.-Plot:Bob Russell Uncle Buck is a 1989 John Hughes comedy film starring John Candy, Amy Madigan, Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby...

Additional Voices
1990 Joshau's Heart Nick Television movie
The Sprit of '76 Voice Talent
Working Tra$h
Working Trash
Working Tra$h is a 1990 television film and one of the first TV movies made for the then-burgeoning Fox Network. The film stars George Carlin and also features a young Ben Stiller in his first leading role.-Cast:*George Carlin as Ralph...

R. Judson Kimbrough Television movie
1991 The Marla Hanson Story Joel
1992 The Last of His Tribe Tom Waterman
Miss America: Behind the Crown Eric Chandler
Samantha
Samantha (film)
Samantha is a 1992 American film starring actress Martha Plimpton. Though at the time already a film actress for nearly ten years, this was the first vehicle in which Plimpton was the star. The film co-starred Mary Kay Place, Hector Elizondo, Ione Skye and Dermot Mulroney...

Herman Hathaway
1994 The New Age
The New Age
The New Age was a British literary magazine, noted for its wide influence under the editorship of A. R. Orage from 1907 to 1922. It began life in 1894 as a publication of the Christian Socialist movement; but in 1907 as a radical weekly edited by Joseph Clayton, it was struggling...

Additional Voices Voice role
1999 Murder at 75 Birch Detective Todd Holman Television mocie
2000 Ground Zero
Ground zero
The term ground zero describes the point on the Earth's surface closest to a detonation...

Sportscaster aka California Quake (USA: DVD title)
Above Suspicion
Above Suspicion
Above Suspicion is a 1995 suspense thriller written by William H. Macy, who also has a small role in the film. The film stars Christopher Reeve as a paralyzed police officer who plots to murder his unfaithful wife and her lover...

Nick
Thirteen Days
Thirteen Days (film)
Thirteen Days is a 2000 docudrama directed by Roger Donaldson about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, seen from the perspective of the US political leadership. Kevin Costner stars, with Bruce Greenwood featured as John F. Kennedy....

John Scali
2006 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is a 2006 American comedy film, directed by Adam McKay and starring Will Ferrell. The film also features John C. Reilly, Michael Clarke Duncan, Leslie Bibb, Amy Adams, Gary Cole, Jane Lynch, and Sacha Baron Cohen. Various Saturday Night Live alumni also...

Jarvis
Open Season
Open Season (film)
Open Season is a 2006 computer-animated comedy film, written by Steve Bencich and Ron J. Friedman and directed by Jill Culton, Roger Allers, and Anthony Stacchi, and production designed by Michael Humphries...

Additional Voices
2007 Shrek the Third
Shrek the Third
Shrek the Third is a 2007 American animated film, and the third film in the Shrek series. It was produced by Jeffrey Katzenberg for DreamWorks Animation, and is distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was released in U.S. theaters on May 18, 2007...

Additional Voices Video game (uncredited)
Television
YearSeriesRoleNotes
1980 Goodtime Girls
Goodtime Girls
Goodtime Girls was a short-lived situation comedy produced by Garry Marshall and his associates, Thomas L. Miller, Edward K. Milkis, and Robert L. Boyett, which ran on ABC from January 22, 1980 to August 29, 1980...

N/A "Homefront" (Season 1, Episode 1)
1981 Quincy M.E. Dr. Lindeman "Slow Boat to Madness: Part 1" (Season 7, Episode 3)
"Slow Boat to Madness: Part 2" (Season 7, Episode 4)
M*A*S*H Capt. Rollins "Snappier Judgement" (Season 10, Episode 8)
1983 Small & Frye Chip Frye 6 episodes
Remington Steele
Remington Steele
Remington Steele is an American television series, co-created by Robert Butler and Michael Gleason. The series, starring Stephanie Zimbalist and Pierce Brosnan, was produced by MTM Enterprises and first broadcast on the NBC network from 1982 to 1987. The series blended the genres of romantic...

George Plummer "Steele Away with Me" (Season 2, Episode 1)
1985 Family Ties
Family Ties
Family Ties is an American sitcom that aired on NBC for seven seasons, from 1982 to 1989. The sitcom reflected the move in the United States from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s. This was particularly expressed through the relationship between young...

Leonard "Oh, Donna" (Season 3, Episode 13)
"Cold Storage" (Season 3, Episode 21)
George Burns Comedy Week
George Burns Comedy Week
George Burns Comedy Week was a comedy anthology television series broadcast in the United States by CBS as part of its 1985 fall lineup.As he was age 89 when the show premiered, George Burns was billed as the oldest person ever to "star" in a television series...

N/A "Disaster at Buzz Creek"
1986 Moonlighting
Moonlighting (TV series)
Moonlighting is an American television series that aired on ABC from March 3, 1985, to May 14, 1989. The network aired a total of 66 episodes...

MacGillicudy 17 episodes; 1986–1989
1987 Stingray
Stingray (TV series)
Stingray is a children's marionette television show, created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and produced by AP Films for ATV and ITC Entertainment from 1964–65. Its 39 half-hour episodes were originally screened on ITV in the UK and in syndication in the USA. The scriptwriters included Gerry and...

N/A "Playback" (Season 2, Episode 3)
CBS Summer Playhouse
CBS Summer Playhouse
CBS Summer Playhouse is an American anthology series that ran from June 12, 1987 to August 22, 1989 on CBS. It aired unsold television pilots during the summer season.-Overview:...

Jerry "In the Lion's Den" (Season 1, Episode 16)
thirtysomething Jeff Haggis "We Gather Together" (Season 1, Episode 6)
1988 Day by Day
Day by Day (TV series)
Day by Day is an American sitcom starring Douglas Sheehan, Linda Kelsey, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Courtney Thorne-Smith , and Thora Birch...

Kevin Farrell "How to Succeed in Day Care" (Season 1, Episode 2)
"Out for a Stretch" (Season 2, Episode 9)
1988-1989
Amen
Amen (TV series)
Amen is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that ran from September 27, 1986 to May 11, 1991 on NBC. Set in Sherman Hemsley's real-life hometown of Philadelphia, Amen starred Hemsley as the deacon of a church and was part of a wave of successful sitcoms on NBC in the 1980s...

Lawrence Osborne "Get 'Em Up, Scout" (Season 3, Episode 5)
1989 China Beach
China Beach
China Beach is an American dramatic television series set at an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War. The title refers to My Khe beach in the city of Da Nang, Vietnam, which was nicknamed "China Beach" by unknown foreigners, most likely Americans...

Sgt. Masters "Afterburner" (Season 2, Episode 14)
Mancuso, FBI Swenson "Conflict of Interest" (Season 1, Episode 3)
1990 Empty Nest
Empty Nest
Empty Nest is an American sitcom that originally aired on NBC from 1988 to 1995. The series was created as a spin-off of The Golden Girls by creator and producer Susan Harris. For its first three seasons, Empty Nest was one of the year's top 10 most-watched programs...

Evan Phillips "Complainin' in the Rain" (Season 2, Episode 16)
1991 The Golden Girls
The Golden Girls
The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris, which originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a home in Miami, Florida...

Father Monroe "There Goes the Bride: Part 2" (Season 6, Episode 17)
Roseanne
Roseanne (TV series)
Roseanne is an American sitcom broadcast on ABC from October 18, 1988 to May 20, 1997. Starring Roseanne Barr, the show revolved around the Conners, an Illinois working class family...

Cyrano/Phil "Communicable Theater" (Season 3, Episode 18)
1994 SeaQuest DSV
SeaQuest DSV
seaQuest DSV is an American science fiction television series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon. It originally aired on NBC between 1993 and 1996. In its final season, it was renamed seaQuest 2032. Set in "the near future", seaQuest mixes high drama with realistic scientific fiction...

Gaye "The Stinger" (Season 1, Episode 16)
The Larry Sanders Show
The Larry Sanders Show
The Larry Sanders Show is a satirical television sitcom that aired from August 1992 to May 1998 on the HBO cable television network in the United States. It starred stand-up comedian Garry Shandling as vain, neurotic talk show host Larry Sanders, and centered on the running of his TV show, and the...

Dennis Markle "The Mr. Sharon Stone Show" (Season 3, Episode 8)
Diagnonis Murder Special Agt. Matthew Dickerson "The Last Laugh: Part 2" (Season 2, Episode 10)
1995 Cybill
Cybill
Cybill is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre, which aired on CBS from January 2, 1995 to July 13, 1998. Starring Cybill Shepherd, the series revolves around Cybill Sheridan, a twice-divorced single mother of two and struggling actress in her 40s, who has never gotten her show...

Stan "How Can I Call You My Ex-Husbands If You Won't Go Away?" (Season 1, Episode 2)
Northern Exposure
Northern Exposure
Northern Exposure is an American television series that ran on CBS from 1990 to 1995, with a total of 110 episodes.-Overview:The series was given a pair of consecutive Peabody Awards: in 1991–92 for the show's "depict[ion] in a comedic and often poetic way, [of] the cultural clash between a...

Professor Aaron Martin "The Graduate" (Season 6, Episode 17)
The Naked Truth
The Naked Truth
-Literature:* The Naked Truth , a fictional memoir by Leslie Nielsen* The Naked Truth , a commentary on film ratings-Film:* The Naked Truth , a 1914 silent Italian film* The Naked Truth...

Mr. Donner 20 episodes; 1995–1996
Life with Louie
Life with Louie
Life with Louie is an American animated series. The show is based on the childhood of stand-up comedian Louie Anderson, growing up with his family in Wisconsin.The first two episodes aired in primetime on Fox....

N/A "A Fish Called Pepper" (Season 1, Episode 4)
voice
1996 Dangeroous Minds Mr. Overton "Family Ties" (Season 1, Episode 5)
"Evolution" (Season 1, Episode 9)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe...

Dulmur "Trials and Tribble-ations" (Season 5, Episode 6)
Murder One
Murder One (TV series)
Murder One is an American legal drama series that first aired on the ABC network in the United States in 1995. The series was created by Steven Bochco, Charles H. Eglee, and Channing Gibson.-Premise:...

Detective Seybolt "Chapter Five, Year Two" (Season 2, Episode 5)
"Chapter Nine, Year Two" (Season 2, Episode 9)
"Chapter Eighteen, Year Two" (Season 2, Episode 18)
"Chapter Seventeen, Year Two" (Season 2, Episode 17)
1996-1997
1997 Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. Many of the situations from the show are based on the real-life experiences of lead actor Ray Romano, creator/producer Phil Rosenthal and the show's writing staff...

Dr. Hammond "Debra's Sick" (Season 1, Episode 13)
ER
ER (TV series)
ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

Roger Drummond "Post Mortem" (Season 3, Episode 12)
Home Improvement Dr. Breen "Room at the Top" (Season 7, Episode 3)
Cracker Detective Bobby Leary "'Tis Pity She's a Whore"
C-16: FBI N/A "Orange Kid"
Smart Guy
Smart Guy
Smart Guy is an American sitcom created by Danny Kallis. The series ran on The WB for three seasons from April 2, 1997 to May 16, 1999.-Premise:The show centers on the misadventures of boy genius T.J...

Mr. Delk "Book Smart"
Brooklyn South
Brooklyn South
Brooklyn South is an American ensemble police drama series that aired on CBS for only one season during the 1997-98 television season. The series was co-created by Steven Bochco, Bill Clark, David Milch and William M. Finkelstein. Bochco is the creator of many well-known police dramas such as Hill...

Officer Anthony Fiano "Love Hurts"
"Gay Avec"
1997-1998
Pensacola: Wings of Gold
Pensacola: Wings of Gold
Pensacola: Wings of Gold is a syndicated American action/adventure drama series based at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida. Episodes aired in several countries outside the US including Portugal, France, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Italy, Hungary and Australia...

Rudisill "Past Sins"
Profiler
Profiler (TV series)
Profiler was an American crime drama that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series follows the exploits of a criminal profiler working with the fictional FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force based in Atlanta, Georgia....

Burton "It Cuts Both Ways"
"Old Acquaintance"
The Practice
The Practice
The Practice is an American legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm. Running for eight seasons from 1997 to 2004, the show won the Emmy in 1998 and 1999 for Best Drama Series, and spawned the successful and lighter spin-off series Boston...

D.A. Horowitz "Hide and Seek"
1998 Maximum Bob
Maximum Bob
Maximum Bob was a short-lived television series that debuted in 1998 on ABC TV. Starring Beau Bridges, the show was based on Elmore Leonard's 1991 novel with the same title.-Premise:...

Agent Neff "Bay of Big's"
NYPD Blue
NYPD Blue
NYPD Blue is an American television police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan...

Dr. Swan "Brother's Keeper"
"Hearts and Souls"
1999 Touched by an Angel
Touched by an Angel
Touched by an Angel is an American drama series that premiered on CBS on September 21, 1994 and ran for 211 episodes and nine seasons until its conclusion on April 27, 2003. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson, the series stars Roma Downey, as an angel named Monica, and Della...

Howard Heller "My Brother's Keeper"
It's Like, You Know...
It's Like, You Know...
It's Like, You Know... was a short-lived American situation comedy television series broadcast by ABC, starring Jennifer Grey, Evan Handler, Steven Eckholdt, A.J. Langer and Chris Eigeman, about life in Los Angeles viewed through the eyes of a diehard New Yorker, Arthur Garment...

Mr. Lynch "Author! Author!"
"Coast to Coast"
2000 Any Day Now Mr. Schillings "The Dust of Life"
"Coast to Coast"
2000-2001
Judging Amy
Judging Amy
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly...

Russell Lynchburg "Convictions"
"The Cook of the Money Pot"
2000-2002
City of Angels Deputy Chief Shaw "SWAT's Happening"
2001 That's Life
That's Life (2000 TV series)
That's Life is an American dramedy series created by Diane Ruggiero, that was broadcast on CBS from October 1, 2000 to January 26, 2002.-Synopsis:...

Leo Kelley "Bad Chemistry"
2002 The X Files Dr. Jack Preijers "Audrey Pauley"
George Lopez
George Lopez (TV series)
"The George Lopez Show" redirects here. For the late-night program hosted by the same comedian, see Lopez Tonight.George Lopez is an American sitcom starring comedian George Lopez...

Jack Powers 20 episodes; 2002–2007
2009 The Closer
The Closer
The Closer is an American crime drama, starring Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Georgia police detective who often closes her cases using sometimes-questionable methods...

Dr. Dennis Blair "Walking Back the Cat"
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...

Officer Danny Finn "Coup de Grace"

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