Stephen Tobolowsky
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| Nickname: |
Stephen Tobolowsky / Stephen Tobolowski / Steven Tobolowsky / |
| Known for: |
Memento, Groundhog Day, The Insider |
| Birth name: |
Stephen Harold Tobolowsky |
| Birthday: |
30 May 1951, Dallas, Texas, USA |
| Height: |
6' 2" (1.88 m) |
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Trivia

He played Principal Flutie in the unaired "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) pilot episode.

Turned down the role of Al on "Home Improvement" (1991).

He was named one of the 100 coolest people in L.A. by Buzz Magazine in the 1990s, he later lost this honor to Andy Dick.

Was almost murdered twice in one week in Hartford, Connecticut by different people. As he admitted, "That's unusual." The first instance occurred when he was in a pub with Beth Henley . After a brawl with a man who was attacking Henley, he was held at gunpoint at the pub. Later that week, when he and Henley went to a pizza parlor next to the pub, where he was stabbed. Fortunately, the knife only partly penetrated his belt buckle.

One of the actor's heroes is his late aunt, 'Hermine Tobolowsky', known as the "mother of the Texas Equal Rights Amendment".

Edwin Tobolowsky is his third cousin.

His name is pronounced tow-buh-law-skee

To develop a plotline for the 1986 film True Stories (1986) he and rocker David Byrne once stared wordlessly for two hours at Byrne's. On the wall were hundreds of pencil drawings of ideas for the film by Byrne. That very night, he wrote a thirty-page treatment for the film and was soon hired as a writer.