Mark Fite
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Mark Fite is an American actor and comedian. He has appeared in a number of movies and television shows. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Fite is a founding member of the comedy group 2 Headed Dog with comedians Jim Turner
, Dave (Gruber) Allen, and Craig Anton
. He is well known for creating roles and performing in many hit comedy shows including Bob's Office Party, The Rudy Casoni Show, Girly Magazine Party, Clowntown City Limits, and Wife Swappers.
Fite has worked with several prestigious theatre companies in Los Angeles, including The Actors' Gang, Theater of NOTE, and Padua Hills Playwrights' Festival where he worked with acclaimed writers Murray Mednick
, Leon Martell, Marlane Meyer, and John Steppling
.
Fite has appeared in numerous television shows, including SpongeBob SquarePants
, Grey's Anatomy, Rules of Engagement, The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show, Friends
, Seinfeld
, and NewsRadio
.
Fite's varied film credits include Fight Club
, Independence Day
, Godzilla
, Off The Lip, Elephant Sighs (with Ed Asner), and in 2011, a short film for Dior opposite Academy Award winning actress Marion Cotillard, directed by John Cameron Mitchell.
In 2009, Fite performed in the world premiere comedy Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas alongside Matthew Modine
and French Stewart
at the Geffen Playhouse
in Los Angeles, CA.
Fite graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Theater Arts.
Fite is a founding member of the comedy group 2 Headed Dog with comedians Jim Turner
Jim Turner (comedian)
Jim Turner is an American actor and comedian, born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His father, George Turner, was in the Air Force and moved his family around often during Jim's youth to places including Quebec, Arizona, and Iowa. Turner married Lynn Freer in 1992 and they have a son, Otto...
, Dave (Gruber) Allen, and Craig Anton
Craig Anton
Craig Ward Anton is an American actor and comedian. Anton is most notable for being one of the original cast of comedians on sketch comedy television series MADtv and for his role as Lloyd Diffy in the Disney Channel Original Series Phil of the Future.-Early life and career:Anton, eldest son of...
. He is well known for creating roles and performing in many hit comedy shows including Bob's Office Party, The Rudy Casoni Show, Girly Magazine Party, Clowntown City Limits, and Wife Swappers.
Fite has worked with several prestigious theatre companies in Los Angeles, including The Actors' Gang, Theater of NOTE, and Padua Hills Playwrights' Festival where he worked with acclaimed writers Murray Mednick
Murray Mednick
Murray Mednick is an American playwright and poet. He's best known as founder of the Padua Hills Playwrights Workshop/Festival, where he served as artistic director from 1978 to 1995...
, Leon Martell, Marlane Meyer, and John Steppling
John Steppling
John Steppling was a German-American silent film actor.He moved to America at a young age and entered film in 1912 aged 42. He starred in a total of 230 films between then and 1928...
.
Fite has appeared in numerous television shows, including SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series, created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg. Much of the series centers on the exploits and adventures of the title character and his various friends in the underwater city of "Bikini Bottom"...
, Grey's Anatomy, Rules of Engagement, The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show, Friends
Friends
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
, Seinfeld
Seinfeld
Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...
, and NewsRadio
NewsRadio
NewsRadio is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from 1995 to 1999. The series was created by executive producer Paul Simms, and was filmed in front of a studio audience at CBS Studio Center and Sunset Gower Studios...
.
Fite's varied film credits include Fight Club
Fight Club (film)
Fight Club is a 1999 American film based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. The film was directed by David Fincher and stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter. Norton plays the unnamed protagonist, an "everyman" who is discontented with his white-collar job...
, Independence Day
Independence Day (film)
Independence Day is a 1996 science fiction film about an alien invasion of Earth, focusing on a disparate group of individuals and families as they converge in the Nevada desert and, along with the rest of the human population, participate in a last-chance counterattack on July 4 – the same...
, Godzilla
Godzilla (1998 film)
Godzilla is a 1998 science fiction monster disaster film film co-written and directed by Roland Emmerich. It is a loose remake of the 1954 giant monster classic Godzilla. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin. The film relates a tale of a nuclear incident...
, Off The Lip, Elephant Sighs (with Ed Asner), and in 2011, a short film for Dior opposite Academy Award winning actress Marion Cotillard, directed by John Cameron Mitchell.
In 2009, Fite performed in the world premiere comedy Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas alongside Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine
Matthew Avery Modine is an award-winning American actor. His film roles include Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, the title character in Alan Parker's Birdy, high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, football star turned spy Alec McCall in Funky Monkey and the...
and French Stewart
French Stewart
Milton French Stewart , better known by his stage name French Stewart, is an American actor, best known for his role as Harry Solomon on the 1990s sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun.-Early life:...
at the Geffen Playhouse
Geffen Playhouse
The Geffen Playhouse is a not for profit performing arts theater in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Originally named the Westwood Playhouse, UCLA purchased the property in 1993. UCLA's then chancellor, Charles E. Young, appointed Gil Cates Producing Director...
in Los Angeles, CA.
Fite graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Theater Arts.
External links
- Mark Fite at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...