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Kevin E. Pollak (born on October 30, 1957) is an American actor, impressionist, and comedian.

As an actor, Pollak's trademark is usually playing the best friend or confidant characters to the leading men, as he did in Ricochet, End of Days, A Few Good Men (1992) and The Wedding Planner. However, Pollak has played a wide variety of parts; he played a gangster in The Whole Nine Yards (2000) and a criminal in The Usual Suspects (1995). He also briefly hosted Celebrity Poker Showdown in its first season. As a comedian, Pollak's most popular work was his 1992 HBO special Stop With the Kicking: Kevin Pollak in Concert, directed by comedian David Steinberg and produced by Boston comedy writer Martin Olson.

Pollak is also known for having one of the best Christopher Walken impersonations in show business. One specific Walken impression routine, "Frankenstein never scared me", has become one of the most requested sound bites on the Bob and Tom Show, and the routine is a code word to see if another person is a Bob and Tom fan. In an appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Pollak recounted that he was invited to introduce Walken at the unveiling of his Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, despite the fact that the two had never met.

Pollak is also notorious for is his impression of William Shatner; specifically, imitations of the performances Shatner gave in his best-known role as Star Trek Captain James T. Kirk. In a 1994 special edition of Canadian TV Guide, published to commemorate the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Pollak writes a guide of how to do an impersonation of Kirk. Shatner himself has said that Pollak does the best impersonation of him that he had ever seen.

In December 2006, he played Karl Kreutzfeld in the Sci Fi Channel miniseries The Lost Room.

• Million Dollar Mystery (1987)
• Willow (1988)
• Avalon (1990)
• L.A. Story (1991)
• Another You (1991)
• Ricochet (1991)
• A Few Good Men (1992)
• The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them (1993)
• Indian Summer (1993)
• Wayne's World 2 (1993)
• Grumpy Old Men (1993)
• Clean Slate (1994)
• Miami Rhapsody (1995)
• The Usual Suspects (1995)
• Canadian Bacon (1995)
• Casino (1995)
• Grumpier Old Men (1995)
• Chameleon (1995)
• House Arrest (1996)
• That Thing You Do! (1996)
• Perversions of Science (Boxed In) (TV) 1997)
• Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)
• The Don's Analyst (1998)
• Buffalo '66 (1998)
• Hoods (1998)
• From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries) (1998)
• Outside Ozona (1998)
• She's All That (1999)
• The Sex Monster (1999)
• Deterrence (1999)
• End of Days (1999)
• Deal of a Lifetime (1999)
• The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
• Steal This Movie (2000)
• The Wedding Planner (2001)
• 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)
• Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)
• Stolen Summer (2002)
• Juwanna Mann (2002)
• Mother Ghost (2002)
• Santa Clause 2 (2002)
• Rolling Kansas (2003)
• Blizzard (2003)
• Seven Times Lucky (2004)
• The Whole Ten Yards (2004)
• Hostage (2005)
• Niagara Motel (2005)
• The Aristocrats (HBO) (2005)
• The Lost Room (Sci Fi Channel miniseries) (2006)
• Shark (2007)
• Picture This (2007)

• Kevin Pollak's official website
• Kevin Pollak at the Internet Movie Database