One of those screen performers whose genial off-center quality practically predestined him to a career as a character actor, Michael Panes graduated from Brown University with a music degree before moving into film. He made one of his earliest impressions as Levi, a violin-toting, self-professed doppelgänger of Peter Sellers (with horn-rimmed glasses) who turns up for a Hollywood get-together in the star-studded ensemble comedy The Anniversary Party (2001). The performer then shifted genres ad extremis to play an oddball analyst -- and the object of a sick patient's delusions -- in Ari Kirschenbaum's mind-bending psycho thriller Fabled. Panes further unveiled his proclivity for offbeat assignments with a seriocomic portrayal of a dorky loser who graduates to the jet set after winning a pile of money on a reality game show, in indie helmer Greg Pritikin's Surviving Eden (2004) (a film he also co-produced), and evoked an early Gore Vidal in Douglas McGrath's Truman Capote biopic Infamous (2005) before re-teaming with that film's co-star, Peter Bogdanovich, for a small supporting turn in the Zoe Cassavetes-directed romantic comedy Broken English (2007).
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Bat $#*! Crazy
Actor |
2011 | |||
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The Love Guide
Actor |
2011 | |||
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We Bought a Zoo
Actor |
2011 | |||
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(Untitled)
Actor |
2009 | |||
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Falling Up
Actor |
2009 | |||
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Broken English
Actor |
2007 | |||
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Watching the Detectives
Actor |
2007 | |||
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Infamous
Actor |
2006 | |||
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Adam & Steve
Actor |
2005 | |||
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The Californians
Actor |
2005 | |||
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Eulogy
Actor |
2004 | |||
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Surviving Eden
Actor, Co-producer |
2004 | |||
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Fabled
Actor |
2002 | |||
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The Anniversary Party
Actor |
2001 |







