Fred Melamed

Acting

Fred Melamed

Born

1956-05-13 (70)

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

95 titles

Fred Melamed (born May 13, 1956 in New York City) is an American actor and writer. He received his theatrical training at Hampshire College and the Yale School of Drama. At Yale, he was a Samuel F. B. Morse College Graduate Fellow. He was also a nominee for the Irene Ryan Award, a prize conferred upon the most promising young actors in the United States. While still at Yale, he was an instructor at the well-known performing arts camp, Stagedoor Manor.

Known for

Law & Order poster
7.3

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

Law & Order

1990

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit poster
8.0

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

The Good Wife poster
7.6

Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.

The Good Wife

2009

Brooklyn Nine-Nine poster
8.2

A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

2013

Fargo poster
8.3

A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

Fargo

2014

Curb Your Enthusiasm poster
8.1

The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

2000

Film credits

2020s · 14 titles

Rumble poster
6.7

In a world where monster wrestling is a global sport and monsters are superstar athletes, teenage Winnie seeks to follow in her father’s footsteps by coaching a loveable underdog monster into a champion.

Rumble

2021

Junk poster
10.0

It’s nighttime in LA: a pill-addled screenwriter struggles with writer’s block; across town, two young drifters with a lost dog search for their stolen car.

Junk

2024

Together Together poster
6.3

When young loner Anna is hired as the surrogate for Matt, a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love.

Together Together

2021

Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass poster
6.4

Small-town Kansas hairdresser Gail Daughtry's fiancé uses his 'celebrity sex pass' on Jennifer Aniston, prompting Gail to travel to LA with her friend Otto to find her own pass, Jon Hamm, to even the score.

Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass

2026

Shiva Baby poster
7.1

College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.

Shiva Baby

2021

Cat Person poster
5.8

When Margot, a college sophomore, goes on a date with the older Robert, she finds that IRL Robert doesn’t live up to the Robert she has been flirting with over texts.

Cat Person

2023

The Vigil poster
5.8

A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity.

The Vigil

2020

Father Joe poster
NR

Set in 1990s Manhattan, the film will see Sutherland play a priest who declares a one-man war on the city’s criminal underworld. Pacino steps into the role of a powerful mob boss whose empire collides with Father Joe’s violent crusade, while Anderson plays a young woman caught between danger and redemption under the priest’s protection.

Father Joe

2027

Fuzzy Head poster
3.4

Insomnia-ridden Marla is on the run after the murder of her mother. Now, Marla must confront her everlasting void to find out the truth of what really happened and at last, undo all that's been done.

Fuzzy Head

2023

Diary of a Spy poster
4.8

Anna is a washed-up intelligence officer whose last mission left 7 people dead. Drunk, broke, and alone she is given the chance for one last mission: to seduce and recruit a valuable asset connected to the Saudi Royal Family. As she gets closer and closer to her target, Anna finds she is in over her head and she must decide between accomplishing her mission or finding a way to save herself.

Diary of a Spy

2022

Easy's Waltz poster
2.0

A down-on-his-luck comedian-crooner navigates modern Las Vegas with old-school Vegas personalities.

Easy's Waltz

2025

Peak Season poster
5.8

An emotionally adrift young woman forges an unexpected bond with a wilderness guide when she and her fiance take a summer holiday in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Peak Season

2024

Don't Trip poster
NR

After getting fired from his assistant job, a young struggling screenwriter hatches a plan to befriend a powerful producer’s troubled nepo-baby son in order to sell his screenplay. But when the nepo-baby learns of his plan things go awry.

Don't Trip

2025

The Trial poster
NR

Joseph K. stands before the judgement of the law and demands to know: "Of what crime have I been accused?"

The Trial

2023

2010s · 24 titles

The Dictator poster
6.3

The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

The Dictator

2012

Passengers poster
7.0

A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.

Passengers

2016

Bone Tomahawk poster
6.9

During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.

Bone Tomahawk

2015

The Spy Who Dumped Me poster
6.4

A couple of thirtysomething best friends unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one’s ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail.

The Spy Who Dumped Me

2018

Hail, Caesar! poster
5.9

When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.

Hail, Caesar!

2016

Brawl in Cell Block 99 poster
7.0

After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.

Brawl in Cell Block 99

2017

Dragged Across Concrete poster
6.6

Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.

Dragged Across Concrete

2019

Lying and Stealing poster
5.8

Hoping to leave his criminal lifestyle behind him, a successful art thief teams up with a sexy con woman to pull off the ultimate heist and set himself free.

Lying and Stealing

2019

Get On Up poster
6.8

A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

Get On Up

2014

Some Kind of Beautiful poster
5.6

By day, Richard Haig is a successful and well-respected English professor at renowned Trinity College in Cambridge. By night, Richard indulges his own romantic fantasies with a steady stream of beautiful undergraduates. But Richard has grown tired of the game and is looking for something more meaningful and lasting. So when Kate, Richard’s tanned, athletic, 25-year-old American girlfriend tells him that she is pregnant, Richard is thrilled. He looks forward to having a family of his own, being a father his children could be proud of, not some sex-fueled bobcat. There is only one problem. Richard’s not in love with Kate. Richard is in love with Kate’s sister, Olivia. He had been in love with her ever since he first saw her.

Some Kind of Beautiful

2014

In a World... poster
6.3

An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voice-over star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.

In a World...

2013

Adult Beginners poster
5.4

A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move in with his estranged pregnant sister, brother-in-law and three year-old nephew in the suburbs — only to become their manny. Faced with real responsibility, he may finally have to grow up — but not without some bad behavior first.

Adult Beginners

2014

Lemon poster
4.4

Isaac has seen better days. His acting career is tanking, his blind girlfriend of 10 years plans to leave him, and his own family singles him out as a constant disappointment. Even as he takes a chance on new romance, he struggles to define his place in a world that has seemingly turned against him.

Lemon

2017

Hairbrained poster
5.4

A fourteen-year-old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where he makes friends with a mature student.

Hairbrained

2013

A Very Tight Place poster
NR

Trapped in a Port-o-Sans by a maniacal neighbor and left for dead, Curtis Johnson must figure out how to escape -- or die. Based on the short story by Stephen King.

A Very Tight Place

2011

Chicanery poster
6.0

Darren Flare is an Emmy Award-winning, slightly dim newscaster, who is about to stumble on the story of the decade: the capture of the FBI's most wanted terrorist, the Imam Abdul Mohammed Zaleeka.

Chicanery

2017

Kid Gambled poster
NR

Peer-pressured to steal a case of beer by his hooligan friends, a stoned anxiety-stricken teenager wobbles through the aisles of a Las Vegas convenience store battling his own self doubts and wild hallucinations. Featuring Fred Melamed (A Serious Man, In a World, Lady Dynamite).

Kid Gambled

2017

Fred Won't Move Out poster
5.0

Fred (Elliott Gould) lives with his Alzheimers' struggling wife, Susan in their home of over fifty years. Fred's grown up children try to convince him to move into a care home alongside Susan, however, he does not approve of this idea.

Fred Won't Move Out

2012

No artwork available
6.0

You are cordially invited to join Brett Gelman and his Hollywood friends for a lively night of dining, tasty showbiz chit-chat, and psychological torture.

Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends

2014

No artwork available
4.0

A comedy that follows the relatives of Harold Blumethal, a legendary playwright who made his career parodying his family in his work and died laughing at his own joke.

Blumenthal

2013

Silver Lake poster
7.5

The story centers on Nathan (Starr) as he examines his life and relationships with friends, his girlfriend Mary (Woll) and her young daughters, plus his larger-than-life mentor (Fred Melamed).

Silver Lake

2018

No artwork available
9.0

A spiritual missionary is mistaken for a serial killer in a sleepy British seaside town.

You Are Whole

2015

Smart Pipe poster
7.0

Everything in our lives is connected to the internet, so why not our toilets? Take a tour of Smart Pipe, the hot new tech startup that turns your waste into valuable information and fun social connectivity.

Smart Pipe

2014

The Dark Side poster
NR

Intercut with their evolving relationship is real-life footage and interviews with local firefighters who lost their homes during the catastrophe. Mirroring the hurricane's power to cross and obliterate boundaries, the film creates a jarring, unconventional juxtaposition between personal emotional intimacy and large-scale urban trauma and climate-related disaster.

The Dark Side

2015

1980s · 13 titles

The Mission poster
7.4

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.

The Mission

1986

The Mission poster
7.4

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.

The Mission

1986

Hannah and Her Sisters poster
7.5

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

Hannah and Her Sisters

1986

Crimes and Misdemeanors poster
7.4

A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.

Crimes and Misdemeanors

1989

Another Woman poster
6.8

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.

Another Woman

1988

Suspect poster
6.6

When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger, a Washington lobbyist, agrees, and together the pair begins their own investigation of events.

Suspect

1987

The Pick-up Artist poster
5.7

A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.

The Pick-up Artist

1987

Radio Days poster
7.0

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

Radio Days

1987

Ishtar poster
4.6

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.

Ishtar

1987

The Manhattan Project poster
6.2

A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home town in order to construct his own nuclear bomb, win a national science fair, and expose the government's secrets.

The Manhattan Project

1986

The Good Mother poster
5.7

After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.

The Good Mother

1988

Sticky Fingers poster
5.8

Two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly and Hattie, are asked by a drug-dealing friend-of-a-friend, Diane, to baby-sit a bag containing nearly a million dollars while she scoots out of town in order to avoid trouble. Once the money is in their possession, however, temptation proves too much for them.

Sticky Fingers

1988

Lovesick poster
5.9

Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.

Lovesick

1983

Undated · 4 titles

Series credits

Law & Order poster
7.3

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

Law & Order

1990

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit poster
8.0

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

The Good Wife poster
7.6

Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.

The Good Wife

2009

Brooklyn Nine-Nine poster
8.2

A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

2013

Fargo poster
8.3

A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

Fargo

2014

Curb Your Enthusiasm poster
8.1

The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

2000

30 Rock poster
7.5

Liz Lemon, the head writer for a late-night TV variety show in New York, tries to juggle all the egos around her while chasing her own dream.

30 Rock

2006

New Girl poster
7.4

Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward, she's comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys—especially at home.

New Girl

2011

Superstore poster
7.5

A hilarious workplace comedy about a unique family of employees at a super-sized mega store. From the bright-eyed newbies and the seen-it-all veterans to the clueless summer hires and the in-it-for-life managers, together they hilariously tackle the day-to-day grind of rabid bargain hunters, riot-causing sales and nap-worthy training sessions.

Superstore

2015

Solar Opposites poster
7.8

A family of aliens from a much better world must take refuge in middle America after the destruction of their planet. Their mission: protect the Pupa, a living super computer that will one day evolve into its true form, consume them and terraform the Earth.

Solar Opposites

2020

WandaVision poster
8.2

Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.

WandaVision

2021

WandaVision poster
8.2

Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.

WandaVision

2021

Summer Camp Island poster
7.7

Oscar and Hedgehog are dropped off at a strange summer camp, full of fantastical things ranging from magical camp counselors to sticky notes that are portals to other dimensions.

Summer Camp Island

2018

Summer Camp Island poster
7.7

Oscar and Hedgehog are dropped off at a strange summer camp, full of fantastical things ranging from magical camp counselors to sticky notes that are portals to other dimensions.

Summer Camp Island

2018

American Crime Story poster
7.6

An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.

American Crime Story

2016

The Morning Show poster
7.7

A behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning, exploring the unique challenges faced by the men and women who carry out this daily televised ritual.

The Morning Show

2019

Barry poster
7.9

A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.

Barry

2018

Life in Pieces poster
7.2

Comedy about one big happy family and their sometimes awkward, often hilarious and ultimately beautiful milestone moments as told by its various members. Of the three siblings, middle child Matt may have just found his true love, his co-worker, Colleen; his coddled youngest brother, Greg, and his wife, Jen, are overwhelmed by the birth of their first child; and the eldest, Heather, and her husband, Tim, are dreading their impending empty nest so much, they're considering having another baby. Their parents are Joan the family's adoring matriarch who would do anything for her kids - as long as she agrees with it - and John, the gregarious patriarch who's searching for ways to soften the blow of turning 70. As the family's lives unfold in four short stories each week, they try to savor these little pieces of time that flash by but stay with you forever, because these moments add up to what life's all about.

Life in Pieces

2015

Childrens Hospital poster
7.0

A hospital isn't a place for lazy people. It's a place for smart people who take care of people who aren't smart enough to keep themselves healthy. So begins Children's Hospital, a parody series that follows the lives, loves and laughs of a hospital staff.

Childrens Hospital

2008

Doctor Odyssey poster
6.5

Max is the new on-board doctor for a luxury cruise ship where the small but mighty medical team navigate unique medical crises and each other, miles from shore.

Doctor Odyssey

2024

Black Monday poster
6.8

Travel back to October 19, 1987 – aka Black Monday, the worst stock market crash in Wall Street history – this is the story of how a group of outsiders took on the blue-blood, old-boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the world’s largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine, Don Henley's birthday party and the glass ceiling.

Black Monday

2019

House of Lies poster
6.6

Charming, fast talking Marty Kaan and his crack team of management consultants know how to play the corporate game better than anyone, by using every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals. In the board rooms, barrooms, and bedrooms of the power elite, corruption is business as usual and everyone's out for themselves first. Nothing is sacred in this scathing, irreverent satire of corporate America today.

House of Lies

2012

Room 104 poster
5.7

An anthology series set in a single hotel room, where every guest who comes to stay reveals a unique set of circumstances and quirks.

Room 104

2017

Marvel Studios Assembled poster
7.2

Go behind the scenes of the shows and movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, following the filmmakers, cast and crew, and Marvel heroes every step of the way.

Marvel Studios Assembled

2021

The Crazy Ones poster
6.1

Simon Roberts is eccentric, passionate, unpredictable and brilliant. He's also the first "Roberts" in the Lewis, Roberts + Roberts advertising agency. The second is his pragmatic daughter Sydney. As Sydney struggles to rein in her dad, the agency fights to stay at the top of the ad game, charming everyone from McDonald's bigwigs to Victoria's Secret models in the process!

The Crazy Ones

2013

Trial & Error poster
7.0

A bright-eyed New York lawyer takes his first big case defending an eccentric poetry professor accused of murdering his wife.

Trial & Error

2017

The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib poster
7.4

Framed for a corporate crime, an adult Ted Templeton turns back into the Boss Baby to live undercover with his brother, Tim, posing as one of his kids.

The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib

2022

Reboot poster
6.5

When Hulu reboots an early 2000s family sitcom, its dysfunctional cast is forced back together and now must deal with their unresolved issues in today’s fast-changing world.

Reboot

2022

Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America poster
5.5

An improvised, comedic approach to major events in American history in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States.

Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America

2026

Medical Police poster
6.4

Doctors Owen Maestro and Lola Spratt leave Children's Hospital and join a secret arm of the CDC to investigate and destroy a deadly global virus.

Medical Police

2020

Casual poster
6.6

A dysfunctional family tries to help each other navigate the modern dating scene. Recent divorcee Tara and her bachelor brother coach each other through the crazy world of dating (on-line and off), while living under the same roof again for the second time and raising her teenage daughter.

Casual

2015

The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza poster
5.0

A very scared man navigates a barrage of absurd, terrifying, and hilarious dreamscapes, exploring fears that are both deeply personal and strikingly universal.

The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza

2026

Benched poster
6.9

Nina is a dedicated, career driven corporate attorney who has a very public nervous breakdown after getting passed up for an expected promotion and now finds herself working as a public defender. Her personal and professional worlds are turned upside down when she joins the ranks of the legal world’s underdogs and very quickly realizes that the law isn't quite as fair as she once thought.

Benched

2014

Lady Dynamite poster
6.8

A single-camera half-hour comedy based on what Maria Bamford has accepted to be "her life." It's the sometimes surreal story of a woman who loses — and then finds — her s**t.

Lady Dynamite

2016

Viral Vignettes poster
10.0

Twelve one-act comedies that introduced us to 21 unique characters – stuck at home during the pandemic, trying to make sense of an unprecedented situation. A once-in-a-lifetime snapshot, capturing that period in all of its strangeness and unexpected humor.

Viral Vignettes

2020

In Search of Shakespeare poster
8.2

Complete four part series exploring the life of the world's greatest and most famous writer. Presenter-led, mixing travel, adventure, live action interviews and specially shot documentary and live action sequences with the RSC on the road. A history series - it focuses not on the plays, but on the history and sets the life of the poet in the extraordinary times in which he lived. We are introduced to the dark world of Queen Elizabeth's police state - a time of surveillance, militarism and foreign wars. We are reminded that Shakespeare lived through the Spanish Armada, the Gunpowder Plot, the colonisation of the New World and the beginnings of British power in America. But most importantly Shakespeare also lived through England’s Cultural Revolution: an enforced split with the old medieval English spirit world which was to lead the English people into a brave new Protestant future.

In Search of Shakespeare

2003