Lee Arenberg

Lee Arenberg (born July 18, 1962) is an American actor. He played Pintel, one of Captain Barbossa's crew of miscreants, in "Pirates of the Caribbean".

Career

He has guest starred on all the "Star Trek" spin-offs ", , ", and "". In both his first and last appearances ("The Nagus" and "United"), he coincidently played a character named Gral (one was a Ferengi and the other a Tellarite). In 1992 Lee appeared on the TV series Night Court. Arenberg also played the recurring role of bookie Mike Moffit in two episodes of "Seinfeld". In one episode, he and George Costanza had a parking dispute, while in another his thumbs were accidentally broken while trying to repair Jerry Seinfeld's car trunk. He also guest starred in the fifth season of "Friends" in an episode titled "The One with the Inappropriate Sister". He had a bit part as a bumbling Hold-up Man in Robocop 3. Lee also played Dr. Moyer in the first episode of the third season of Scrubs. Dr. Moyer becomes the victim of 'New Eliot's' personality as she coolly and confidently dismantles his abrasive personality. He also starred as the dwarf Elwood Gutworthy in Dungeons and Dragons (2000), and the pirate Pintel in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy.He guest starred as "Hair Plugs" in Grounded ForLife(2001).

Personal life

Arenberg was born in Palo Alto, California. In his leisure time, he enjoys golf, cooking, blues harmonica, video games, and pitching for his softball team Bubblin' Crude, which is made up of other actors, many of whom are friends from high school. He is involved with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and other children's health causes, and animal rights organizations, participating regularly in fund raising efforts on behalf of those charitable causes.

External links

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* [http://www.leearenberg.com/ Official site]