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David Kaufman
Kaufman in 2023
Born	(1961-07-23) July 23, 1961 (age 63) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Alma mater	UCLA
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1982–present
Spouse	Lisa Picotte ​(m. 1990)​
Children	2, including Grace

David Kaufman (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor. He is best known for his voice roles of Dexter Douglas in Freakazoid!, Jimmy Olsen in various DC projects beginning with Superman: The Animated Series, the titular protagonist in Danny Phantom, Aldrin in The Buzz on Maggie, Marty McFly in Back to the Future, and Stuart Little in the animated series of the same name. He often serves as a voice double for Michael J. Fox.

Early life

Kaufman was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. His father is Jewish, while his mother is Catholic. Kaufman began acting at a young age in his hometown when his kindergarten teacher handed him the plum lead role of Santa Claus in the class Christmas play.

At the age of 18, Kaufman moved from St. Louis to attend UCLA; he was a student in the Department of Theater Arts.

Career

Since his college years, Kaufman has studied and worked extensively as a professional actor in films and television.

He has worked with the Daly family of actors on several projects: He worked with Tim Daly on Superman: The Animated Series and its subsequent spin-offs, playing Jimmy Olsen. He also appeared with Daly in the series Wings in 1995 with his wife Lisa; the two portrayed a couple whose wedding Daly's character Joe and his fiancée Helen crash. He worked with Daly's sister Tyne Daly on Kids Like These, and reprised the role of Jimmy Olsen in Justice League: Doom.

Kaufman has also worked as a commercial actor. One of his most prominent roles was as a dancing stockboy in a 1989 commercial for Hi-C Ecto Cooler.

Personal life

On June 30, 1990, Kaufman married actress Lisa Picotte; together, they have two children who are also actors, including Grace Kaufman and Henry Kaufman. He came out as bisexual on Celebrate Bisexuality Day in 2021.

Filmography

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Television series

Films

Video games

Commercials

• AT&T (starring with Ray Walston)
• Pepsi (starring with Cindy Crawford)
• Blockbuster (starring with Magic Johnson)
• Kid Cuisine (voice of K. C. Penguin)

as well as spots for Honda, Hi-C Ecto-Cooler, Maxwell House, Dentyne, Chili's, Midas, Wendy's, Twiglets and British Petroleum, among others.

Stage work

Kaufman has earned several Los Angeles area critics' awards and nominations.

He has been a member of the West Coast Ensemble in Los Angeles for over ten years, performing such varied roles as:

• Skeets Miller in Floyd Collins
• Prosecutor Gilmer in To Kill a Mockingbird
• George Lewis in Kaufman and Hart's Once in a Lifetime
• Orestes in Electra
• Tyler in Sondheim and Furth's Merrily We Roll Along
• Ronnie Shaughnessy in The House of Blue Leaves
• Callimaco in Machiavelli's The Mandrake
• Eugene Jerome in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues
• Paul Palmer in James Duff's A Quarrel of Sparrows at The Court Theatre in Los Angeles
• Stewie in the premiere of Richard Greenberg's Night and Her Stars at South Coast Repertory.

References

1. Bloom, Nate (January 20, 2009). "Interfaith Celebrities: Loving Leah and Liev, Too". InterfaithFamily. Archived from the original on November 17, 2017 – via www.interfaithfamily.com. His father, he told me, is Jewish, but secular. His mother is a practicing Catholic, ...
2. Hi-C Ecto Cooler commercial (1989). RetroStatic (YouTube video). April 27, 2016 – via YouTube.
3. Pennington, Gail (August 20, 2015). "Grace Kaufman, actor". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
4. Kaufman, David (September 23, 2021). "This pretty much sums it up. #BiVisibilityDay 💗💜💙" (Tweet). Archived from the original on September 23, 2021. Retrieved March 27, 2023 – via Twitter.
5. ^ "David Kaufman (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved November 10, 2023. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
6. Haas, Pete (September 1, 2013). "Double Fine's Broken Age Cast Includes Jack Black, Jennifer Hale". Cinema Blend. Retrieved September 2, 2013.

External links

• David Kaufman at IMDb 

• 1961 births
• 21st-century American Jews
• American bisexual male actors
• American male film actors
• American male stage actors
• American male television actors
• American male video game actors
• American male voice actors
• Bisexual Jews
• Jewish American male actors
• LGBTQ people from Missouri
• Living people
• Male actors from St. Louis
• UCLA Film School alumni