Michael Lembeck

Michael Lembeck (born June 25, 1948) is an American actor and television and film director.
==Life and career==
Lembeck was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Caroline Dubs and Harvey Lembeck, an actor and comedian. He began acting in the late 1960s and directing in the 1970s.
His most notable acting role was as Julie Cooper (Mackenzie Phillips)'s husband, Max Horvath, on the sitcom One Day at a Time. He played newscaster Clete Meizenheimer on the series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
In 1975, he appeared on Barney Miller in the episode "Hair" as Officer Guardeno. He also played Kaptain Kool of the fictional band Kaptain Kool and the Kongs on The Krofft Supershow from 1976 to 1978. He is also known for his role as Vinnie Fazio in The Boys in Company C in 1978. He was a member of the cast of the 1985–1986 situation comedy Foley Square. He appeared with his father, actor Harvey Lembeck, in an episode of The Partridge Family in 1971.
Lembeck has had collaborations with the late actor Peter Boyle in both The Santa Clause 2 and its sequel The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. Lembeck also directed Boyle in a number of episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond.
Lembeck's first film appearance came in the 1968 film Hang 'Em High where he portrays a store clerk with two spoken lines. He later acted in The In-Laws. He directed The Santa Clause 2 and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, as well as the Nia Vardalos film Connie and Carla and Tooth Fairy.
Lembeck now works as a full-time film and TV director. He won an Emmy for his work on the Friends episode "The One After the Super Bowl" (sic). He also directed 20 other episodes of the series.
==Family==
Lembeck is married to his second wife, retired actress Lorna Patterson, with whom he has two children.
== Awards ==
Lembeck's work has received recognition from the Directors Guild of America, and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (also known as the ATAS).
* 1996 WON - Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series ("The One After the Superbowl") (Friends)
* 1999 Nominated - Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series ("The One Where Everybody Finds Out") (Friends)
* 2000 Nominated - Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series ("The One That Could Have Been (Part 1 & 2)") (Friends)
* 2012 Nominated - Directors Guild award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Programs (Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure)
* 2017 Nominated - Directors Guild award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Programs (A Nutcracker Christmas)
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Credited as	Credited as	Credited as	Role 	Notes
Year	Title 	Director 	Producer 	Actor 	Role 	Notes
1968	Hang 'Em High 	 	 	 	Store Clerk 	film debutuncredited
1969	Gidget Grows Up 	 	 	 	Arnold 	Television Movie
1972	Haunts of the Very Rich 	 	 	 	Johnny Delmonico 	Television Movie
1973	A Summer Without Boys 	 	 	 	Burt 	Television Movie
1973	Blood Sport 	 	 	 	Rueben 	Television Movie
1975	It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman 	 	 	 	Joe 	Television Movie
1976	Flannery and Quilt 	 	 	 	Quilt's Grandson 	Television Movie
1976	ABC's Saturday Sneak Peek 	 	 	 	Kaptain Kool 	Television Movie
1977	Kaptain Kool and the Kongs Present ABC All-Star Saturday	 	 	 	Kaptain Kool 	Television Movie
1978	The Boys in Company C 	 	 	 	Vinnie Fazio 	Feature Film
1978	Having Babies III 	 	 	 	Russ Bridges 	Television Movie
1978	The Krofft Comedy Hour 	 	 	 	Kaptain Kool 	Television Movie
1978	The Bay City Rollers Met the Saturday Superstars 	 	 	 	Kaptain Kool 	Television Movie
1979	The In-Laws 	 	 	 	Tommy Ricardo 	Feature Film
1980	The Comeback Kid 	 	 	 	Tony 	Television Movie
1980	Gorp 	 	 	 	Kavell 	Feature Film
1980	Dan August: Once Is Never Enough 	 	 	 	unknown 	Television Movie
1981	On the Right Track 	 	 	 	Frank Biscardi 	Feature Film
1982	Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever 	 	 	 	Elliott Garfield 	Television Movie
1987	Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 	 	 	 	Abbie Hoffman 	Television Movie
1987	Ultraman: The Adventure Begins 	 	 	 	Scott Masterson (voice role)	Television Movie
1988	Side by Side 	 	 	 	Tony Mercer 	Television Movie
1988	Lady Mobster 	 	 	 	unknown 	Television Movie
1989	The Dream Team 	 	 	 	Ed 	Feature Film
1990	Joseph and His Brothers 	 	 	 	unknown (voice role) 	Short Film
1991	Acting Sheriff 	 	 	 	 	Television Movie
1993	Heartbeat 	 	 	 	Ted 	Television Movie
1996	Boys & Girls 	 	 	 	 	Television Movie
1998	Carly 	 	 	 	 	Television Movie
1999	True Love 	 	 	 	 	Television Movie
2000	The Peter Principle 	 	 	 	 	Television Movie
2000	From Where I Sit 	 	 	 	 	Television Movie
2001	Loomis 	 	 	 	 	Television Movie
2002	The Santa Clause 2 	 	 	 	 	Feature Film
2004	Connie and Carla 	 	 	 	 	Feature Film
2005	Untitled Oakley & Weinstein Project 	 	 	 	 	Television Movie
2006	The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause 	 	 	 	 	Feature Film
2006	So Here's What Happened 	 	 	 	 	Television Movie
2008	The Clique 	 	 	 	 	Direct-to-Video
2010	Tooth Fairy 	 	 	 	 	Feature Film
2011	Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure 	 	 	 	 	Direct-to-Video
Co-Producer
2011	The Bling Ring 	 	 	 	 	Television Movie
2013	Homeboys 	 	 	 	 	Television Movie
2016	A Nutcracker Christmas 	 	 	 	 	Television Movie
TBA 	Welcome to Pine Grove! 	 	 	 	 	Feature Film
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Credited as	Credited as	Credited as	Role 	Notes
Year 	Title 	Director 	Producer 	Actor 	Role 	Notes
1970 	The Young Lovers 	 	 	 	Student 	Episode: "A Simple Thing Called Justice"
1970-1974	Room 222 	 	 	 	Mickey Kaufman 	3 episodes
1971 	Dan August 	 	 	 	Ron 	Episode: "Death Chain"
1971 	The Partridge Family 	 	 	 	Marc 	Episode: "To Play or Not to Play?"
1971 	Make Room for Granddaddy 	 	 	 	Peter 	Episode: "The Greatest Ear in the Business"
1971 	The Funny Side 	 	 	 	Teenage Husband 	6 episodes
1973 	Love, American Style 	 	 	 	Bob 	Episode: "Love and the Mind Reader/Love and the Mr. and Mrs./Love and the Soap Opera"
segment "Love and the Mind Reader"
1975 	Happy Days 	 	 	 	Dooley 	Episode: "Crusin' "
1975 	Baretta 	 	 	 	Phil 	Episode: "The Coppelli Oath"
1975 	Barney Miller 	 	 	 	Detective Paul Gardeno 	Episode: "Hair"
1975 	The Rookies 	 	 	 	Gene/Maury 	2 episodes
1976 	The Krofft Supershow 	 	 	 	Kaptain Kool 	unknown episode
1976-1977	Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman 	 	 	 	Clete Meizenheimer 	39 episodes
1977 	The Brady Bunch Variety Hour 	 	 	 	Kaptain Kook 	Episode: "#1.1"
1978 	What Really Happened to the Class of '65? 	 	 	 	Nick Romansky 	Episode: "Class Clown"
1978 	The Bay City Roller Show 	 	 	 	Kaptain Kool 	Episode: "#1.1"
1979-1983	The Love Boat 	 	 	 	Joey 	5 episodes
1979-1984	One Day at a Time 	 	 	 	Max Horvath 	series regular; 49 episodes
1981 	Aloha Paradise 	 	 	 	Josh 	Episode: "Best of Friends/Success/Nine Karats"
1982 	Darkroom 	 	 	 	Barry 	Episode: "Who's There?"
1982 	Insight 	 	 	 	J. Walter 	Episode: "For Love or Money"
1983-1984	Fantasy Island 	 	 	 	Joe Manning/Dr. Russ Nicholas 	2 episodes
1985 	The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible	 	 	 	unknown 	Episode: Joseph and His Brothers"
1985 	Crazy Like a Fox 	 	 	 	Andy Farr 	Episode: "Is There a Fox in the House?"
1985-1986	Foley Square 	 	 	 	Peter Newman 	series regular; 14 episodes
1987 	Murder, She Wrote 	 	 	 	Arnie Wakeman 	Episode: "When Thieves Fall Out"
1987 	Pound Puppies 	 	 	 	Various Characters (voice role)	4 episodes
1987-1988	The Smurfs 	 	 	 	Additional Voices (voice role) 	2 episodes
1988-1989	Fantastic Max 	 	 	 	Additional Voiced (voice role) 	3 episodes
1989 	Doctor Doctor 	 	 	 	 	2 episodes
1989 	My Two Dads 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "I'm Dreaming of a Holiday Episode"
1989 	Coming of Age 	 	 	 	 	3 episodes
1989 	The Famous Teddy Z 	 	 	 	Landon Tarmac 	Episode: "Bobby the Chimp"
1989-1990	Coach 	 	 	 	 	7 episodes
1990 	Sugar and Spice 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "Breaking in Is Hard to Do"
1990 	The Marshall Chronicles 	 	 	 	 	2 episodes
1992 	Flying Blind 	 	 	 	 	5 episodes
1992 	Fish Police 	 	 	 	unknown (voice role) 	Episode: "The Two Gils"
1990-1993	Major Dad 	 	 	 	 	67 episodes
1993 	L.A. Law 	 	 	 	Mitchell Schein 	Episode: "Come Rain or Schein"
1993-1994	Love & War 	 	 	 	 	16 episodes
1994 	Good Advice 	 	 	 	 	4 episodes
1994-1999	Mad About You 	 	 	 	Mr. Shapiro 	23 episodes (director); Episode: "Two Tickets to Paradise" (actor)
1995 	Pride & Joe 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "Terror at 30,000 Feet"
1995 	High Society 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "Family Val's"
1995 	NewsRadio 	 	 	 	 	3 episodes
1995 	Double Rush 	 	 	 	Angus Black" 	13 episodes (director); Episode: "Snowings and Goings" (actor)
1995-2000	Friends 	 	 	 	 	24 episodes
1996 	The Naked Truth 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "Man Loses Load While Woman Can't Dump!"
1995-1996	Hope & Gloria 	 	 	 	 	8 episodes
1996 	Party Girl 	 	 	 	 	unknown episode
1996 	Caroline in the City 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "Caroline and the Cat Dancer"
1996 	Ellen 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "Harold and Ellen"
1996-1997	Everybody Loves Raymond 	 	 	 	 	5 episodes
1997 	Men Behaving Badly 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "It's Good to Be Dead"
1997 	Chicago Sons 	 	 	 	 	2 episodes
1997 	Over the Top 	 	 	 	 	10 episodes
1997-1999	Veronica's Closet 	 	 	 	 	4 episodes
1998 	House Rules 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "Pilot"
1998 	That's Life 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "The First One"
1998 	Encore! Encore! 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "The French Connection"
1998-2001	Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place 	 	 	 	 	22 episodes
1999 	Jesse 	 	 	 	 	2 episodes
1999-2000	Stark Raving Mad 	 	 	 	 	2 episodes
2000 	The Weber Show 	 	 	 	 	2 episodes; also known as "Cursed"
2001 	What About Joan 	 	 	 	 	4 episodes
2001 	Inside Schwartz 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "Event Night"
2001 	Off Centre 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "A Stroke of Genius"
2001 	According to Jim 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "Cheryl's Old Flame"
2003 	The 5 Coolest Things 	 	 	 	 	Television Miniseries Documentary
2007 	Greek 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "Liquid Courage"
2007 	Californication 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "Fear and Loathing at the Fundraiser"
2010 	Hot in Cleveland 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "Pilot"
2012-2013	Guys with Kids 	 	 	 	 	5 episodes
2012-2017	Baby Daddy 	 	 	 	Director 	97 episodes (director); 35 episodes (executive producer); Episode: "Over My Dead Bonnie" (actor)
2014 	Mystery Girls 	 	 	 	 	4 episodes
2015 	Mr. Robinson 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog"
2017 	One Day at a Time 	 	 	 	 	Episode: "Sex Talk"
Category:1948 births
Category:American male television actors
Category:American television directors
Category:Jewish American male actors
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Category:Male actors from New York City
Category:People from Brooklyn
Category:Film directors from New York City