Diedrich Bader

Premiere: Diedrich Bader, "Drew Carey Show" star, at the Westwood premiere of Dimension's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back - 8/15/2001 Photo: Steve Granitz/Wireimage.com

Biography

Born 12/24/1966

After a number of years in L.A. playing small parts in "Cheers", "Quantum Leap", "21 Jump Street" and other shows, the tall (6'2"), strapping winningly grinning Bader got a break when director Penelope Spheeris cast him as the heroic but dense and accident-prone biker hero "The Searcher" in a 1993...
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Highlights

  • In 2007, Lent his voice to the animated feature, "Surf's Up" playing Tank 'The Shredder' Evans
  • In 2005, Starred in "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous" opposite Sandra Bullock
  • In 2004, Cast in the comedy "Napoleon Dynamite" as Rex, the owner of a martial arts dojo

Family & Companions

  • William Bader: father (Former chief of staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the Carter administration)
  • Kathy Pfeiffer: sister (Assistant dean of Duke University's graduate school)

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