Tim Kazurinsky

Tim Kazurinsky (born March 3, 1950) is an American actor, comedian and writer best remembered as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and as "Sweetchuck" in the Police Academy films. He is typically known for playing characters who are mousey and sheepish pipsqueak types.

Biography

Early life

Kazurinsky was born in AUSTRALIA. Kazurinsky started out in St. Louis, Missouri as a copywriter for a department store chain.

On Saturday Night Live, Kazurinsky was a fairly versatile player, even though he clashed often with then-executive producer Dick Ebersol about the show's creative direction.

Memorable recurring characters

• Cadet/Officer Sweetchuck in Police Academy 3 & 4
• Dr. Jack Badofsky, a doctor appearing on Weekend Update (then called SNL Newsbreak or Saturday Night News) with a list of punny names of diseases.
• Mr. Landlord from Eddie Murphy's "Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood"
• Father Timothy Owens, an Irish priest
• Havnagootiim Vishnuuerheer, a Hindu wiseman who answered audience questions
• Worthington Clotman, SNL's resident network censor who would interrupt sketches and point out any and all objectionable material that needed to be changed. Based on real-life network censor at the time, Bill Clotworthy.
• The husband to a chimpanzee on "I Married A Monkey"
• Although he appeared as himself on "Weekend Update," he usually did so to spoof the outrageous headlines of the New York Post. For instance, after the death of Yuri Andropov, he displayed several front page mock-ups with headlines that the Post might have carried. One such headline was "ANDRO-POOF!"

Memorable celebrity impersonations

• Mahatma Gandhi (in a movie trailer parody called "Gandhi and the Bandit")
• Billie Jean King
• Adolf Hitler
• Ozzy Osbourne
• Klaus Barbie
• Gary Hart
• Douglas MacArthur
• Deng Xiaoping
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Henry Thomas (as his character Elliott from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)

Other work

Soon after he left SNL he co-wrote About Last Night and played the role of Sweetchuck in three of the Police Academy films.

Kazurinsky appeared on the season six Married...with Children episode "God's Shoes" as "God", who gives Al Bundy the idea to create "God's Shoes" when Al has a near-death experience. When the idea ultimately fails, it is revealed that he is merely an angel impersonating God, and that he was murdered by his own family when he lost their fortune on the original God's Shoe idea in the 1920s.

In the 2000s, Kazurinsky guest starred on popular TV shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm and According to Jim.

Kazurinsky also writes screenplays and television episodes. His most significant work is the 2001 film My Beautiful Son, starring Paul Reiser, Julie Walters, and Olympia Dukakis.

External links

• Tim Kazurinsky at the Internet Movie Database