David Ury

David Ury

Birthday: 1973-01-01

Place of birth:

Also known as:

imdb_id: nm1352845

Biography:

David Brian Ury (born September 30, 1973) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, YouTuber, and Japanese translation specialist. Ury was born and raised in Sonoma, California. He graduated from Sonoma Valley High School, where he acted in theatre productions. He earned a bachelor's degree in linguistics at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and studied abroad in Japan, where he became fluent in Japanese. Ury is a descendant of German Jewish impressionist painter Lesser Ury. Since studying abroad in Tokyo, Ury and has worked as a translator in film, television, and manga and currently (As of May 2011) translates and writes English adaptations for manga. Ury moved to Los Angeles in August 2001 where he began performing stand-up comedy. Cartoonist Keith Knight, a neighbor of his, described Ury's acting career as "Spooge man" and "a cavalcade of reprobates, sleazeballs, derelicts, & weirdos." Ury has made several film and television appearances, including an episode of Tim Kring's Crossing Jordan and in Shoot 'Em Up. He also appeared in Heroes, Malcolm in the Middle, Life, Without a Trace, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Zeke and Luther, and The Librarians. In March 2015, Ury was cast for Rob Zombie's slasher film 31 as Schizo-Head. A character actor, Ury has died on screen in almost every role he has portrayed. Ury also has several YouTube channels/accounts/personalities and alter-egos, which include Karaoke Steve and Ken Tanaka, the fictional adopted twin brother of David Ury. Tanaka is described as an Ashkenazi Jewish man adopted as an infant by Japanese parents Hideo and Mari Tanaka, and raised in Shimane Prefecture of Japan; he returns to Los Angeles to find his birth parents Jonathan and Linda Smith.

Played in movies:

Little Death

Score: 10.0

Babylon

Score: 7.4

Little Boy

Score: 7.2

A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits

Score: 7.2

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

Score: 6.9

Lake Los Angeles

Score: 6.7

Able Edwards

Score: 6.6

Shoot 'Em Up

Score: 6.5

Coffee Town

Score: 6.5

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Score: 6.4

Kajillionaire

Score: 6.3

The Revenant

Score: 6.2

To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 From Hell

Score: 6.0

3 from Hell

Score: 5.8

Pearblossom Hwy

Score: 5.4

31

Score: 5.4

Paparazzi

Score: 5.3

Black Widow

Score: 4.9

Dark Ride

Score: 4.6

1-800-Hot-Nite

Score: 4.6

Faith Based

Score: 4.5

Loners

Score: 3.3

Violent Ends

Score: 0.0

A Blind Bargain

Score: 0.0

Do Not Watch

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Breaking Bad

Score: 8.9

Better Call Saul

Score: 8.7

Malcolm in the Middle

Score: 8.5

The Mentalist

Score: 8.4

Outer Banks

Score: 8.3

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Score: 8.3

Grimm

Score: 8.3

Bones

Score: 8.2

Charmed

Score: 8.2

Justified

Score: 8.0

Community

Score: 8.0

Rizzoli & Isles

Score: 7.9

Tacoma FD

Score: 7.7

Life

Score: 7.7

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Score: 7.6

Private Practice

Score: 7.5

Heroes

Score: 7.5

Heroes

Score: 7.5

Raising Hope

Score: 7.4

Mom

Score: 7.3

Without a Trace

Score: 7.3

The Librarians

Score: 7.2

The Rookie: Feds

Score: 7.2

Crossing Jordan

Score: 7.2

Fresh Off the Boat

Score: 7.2

The Haunted Hathaways

Score: 7.1

Masters of Sex

Score: 7.1

Powers

Score: 6.7

Lodge 49

Score: 6.6

Touch

Score: 6.6

Close to Home

Score: 5.9

Woke

Score: 5.3

Rush Hour

Score: 5.2