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Diedrich Bader

  • Birthplace: Alexandria, Virginia, USA
  • Birthday: December 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 installment of the broad spoof show, "Danger Theatre". Spheeris soon thereafter gave the actor even greater exposure by prevailing against producers who wanted a bigger name when she cast Bade…more

Career Milestones

  • 2007

    Lent his voice to the animated feature, "Surf's Up" playing Tank 'The Shredder' Evans

  • 2005

    Starred in "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous" opposite Sandra Bullock

  • 2004

    Cast in the comedy "Napoleon Dynamite" as Rex, the owner of a martial arts dojo

  • 2002

    Voiced a Saber-Toothed Tiger in the animated feature "Ice Age"

  • 2001

    Appeared in Kevin Smith's "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"