Steve Guttenberg
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Steve Guttenberg (August 24, 1958), sometimes credited as Steven Guttenberg, is an American actor. Guttenberg was a popular movie star throughout much of the 1980s, and is best known for starring roles in the first four Police Academy films, Three Men and a Baby, Cocoon, and Short Circuit. In the 1990s, he worked on a number of children's films and low budget movies. Despite his lack of high profile roles since 1990's Three Men and a Little Lady, his name remains well known in American popular culture.
In an episode of The Simpsons, "Homer the Great," a satire of the Freemasons, mention his name in a rousing drinking song cataloging how they secretly manipulate society: "Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star? We do!".
Currently, Guttenberg has a recurring role on the critically acclaimed series Veronica Mars.
He also appears as a lead in the NBC made-for-TV remake of The Poseidon Adventure, which aired on November 20, 2005. He played "Richard Clarke," a failing writer having an affair with a massage therapist when the boat tips over.
Major film roles
- The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
- P.S. Your Cat Is Dead (2002)
- Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)
- Zeus and Roxanne (1997)
- It Takes Two (1995)
- Home for the Holidays (1995)
- The Big Green (1995)
- Three Men and a Little Lady (1990)
- Don't Tell Her It's Me (1990)
- High Spirits (1988)
- Cocoon: The Return (1988)
- Three Men and a Baby (1987)
- Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
- Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)
- The Bedroom Window (1987)
- Short Circuit (1986)
- Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986)
- Bad Medicine (1985)
- Cocoon (1985)
- Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)
- Police Academy (1984)
- The Day After (1983) (TV movie)
- The Man Who Wasn't There (1983)
- Diner (1982)
- Can't Stop the Music (1980)
- The Boys from Brazil (1978)
- The Chicken Chronicles (1977)