David Ury

Known for ActingBorn 1973-01-01 (age 53)

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Little Death

Breaking Bad

Better Call Saul

Outer Banks

Malcolm in the Middle

The Mentalist

Grimm

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Bones

Charmed

Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage

Community

Justified

Rizzoli & Isles

Lie to Me

Tacoma FD

Magnum P.I.

Life

Free Bert

Babylon

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Private Practice

Raising Hope

Heroes

Mom

Little Boy

Fresh Off the Boat

A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits

The Haunted Hathaways

Able Edwards

The Rookie: Feds

The Librarians

Without a Trace

Masters of Sex

Crossing Jordan

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

Lodge 49

Lake Los Angeles

Powers

Touch

Shoot 'Em Up

Coffee Town

Kajillionaire

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

The Revenant

To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 From Hell

Violent Ends

3 from Hell