Brian Stepanek

Acting

Brian Stepanek

Born 1971-02-06 · Cleveland, Ohio, USA

European-American businessman, entrepreneur, actor, voice actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Brian Stepanek is from Cleveland, Ohio. His career began in Chicago, where he excelled in musical theater, toured with The Second City, and won a Joseph Jefferson Award for his portrayal of Bill Snibson in Me and My Girl. After moving to Los Angeles, he gained wide recognition playing the eccentric janitor Arwin Hawkhauser on Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. He also produced, co-wrote, and starred in the silent slapstick series Brian O'Brien. Brian appeared as the nefarious and bigoted maitre d, Graham Kindell, opposite Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in the Oscar-winning film Green Book. His TV credits include Young Sheldon, where he delivered a memorable recurring performance as the irritable Hubert Givens; Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn (as Tom Harper); and reprising his role from the animated Loud House series as Lynn Loud Sr. for the live-action Paramount Plus series The Really Loud House. Brian has also recurred on Two and a Half Men, Best Foot Forward, and For All Mankind, among others. He has appeared in numerous Michael Bay films and recently returned to his musical theater roots when he appeared as Max Bialystock in the musical The Producers at the Renaissance Theatre in Mansfield, Ohio.

Acting credits

Green Book poster
8.2

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

Green Book

2018

Over the Hedge poster
6.6

A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating – and learns a lesson about family himself.

Over the Hedge

2006

Home poster
6.8

When Earth is taken over by the overly-confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while all Boov get busy reorganizing the planet. But when one resourceful girl, Tip, manages to avoid capture, she finds herself the accidental accomplice of a banished Boov named Oh. The two fugitives realize there’s a lot more at stake than intergalactic relations as they embark on the road trip of a lifetime.

Home

2015

Tom & Jerry poster
6.7

Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse get kicked out of their home and relocate to a fancy New York hotel, where a scrappy employee named Kayla will lose her job if she can’t evict Jerry before a high-class wedding at the hotel. Her solution? Hiring Tom to get rid of the pesky mouse.

Tom & Jerry

2021

Bolt poster
6.6

Bolt is the star of the biggest show in Hollywood. The only problem is, he thinks it's real. After he's accidentally shipped to New York City and separated from Penny, his beloved co-star and owner, Bolt must harness all his "super powers" to find a way home.

Bolt

2008

The Island poster
6.7

In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.

The Island

2005

Charlotte's Web poster
6.2

Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.

Charlotte's Web

2006

Charlotte's Web poster
6.2

Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.

Charlotte's Web

2006

Pain & Gain poster
6.3

Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed attempts, they abduct rich businessman Victor Kershaw and convince him to sign over all his assets to them. But when Kershaw makes it out alive, authorities are reluctant to believe his story.

Pain & Gain

2013

Dark Skies poster
6.4

From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, their safe and peaceful home quickly unravels. When it becomes clear that the Barret family is being targeted by an unimaginably terrifying and deadly force, Daniel and Lacey take matters in their own hands to solve the mystery of what is after their family.

Dark Skies

2013

Murder by Numbers poster
6.2

Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.

Murder by Numbers

2002

Transformers poster
6.8

Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.

Transformers

2007

Kissing Jessica Stein poster
6.0

Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement. The advertisement has been placed by 'lesbian-curious' Helen Cooper, a thirtysomething art gallerist.

Kissing Jessica Stein

2002

Friday After Next poster
6.4

Craig and his cousin Day-Day have finally moved out of their parents' houses and into their own crib, working nights at a local mall as security guards. When their house is robbed on Christmas Eve they set out to track down the culprit.

Friday After Next

2002

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 poster
5.9

Puppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents Papi and Chloe upside down when their rambunctious, mischievous puppies present one challenge after another. But when their human owners end up in trouble, the tiny pups will stop at nothing to save them - because in good times and hard times, the family always sticks together. So Papi, Chloe and the puppies embark on a heroic adventure, proving once again that big heroes come in small packages.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2

2011

The Loud House Movie poster
7.2

The Loud family travel to Scotland and discover they are descendants of Scottish royalty as they move into their giant ancestral castle.

The Loud House Movie

2021

No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie poster
7.1

Lincoln and the Louds are ecstatic to welcome their new Gran-Gran, Myrtle, into the family with a tropical wedding celebration; but the festivities are cut short when an old nemesis from Myrtle's secret agent past appears on the island.

No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie

2024

A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or Nice poster
6.7

Desperate to get off Santa's Naughty List before Christmas, Lincoln resorts to hacking into the North Pole computers and putting himself on the nice list. But when the hack gets out of control, he ends up reversing the Naughty\/Nice lists around the world and turning the North Pole itself Naughty. Lincoln enlists his family to go to the North Pole and try to fix the mess he made. Teaming up with his new frenemy, Duncan, the elf who first put him on the naughty list, Lincoln and the Louds must battle a now evil Santa and his minions to save Christmas.

A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or Nice

2025

LBJ poster
6.4

The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.

LBJ

2017

The Little Rascals Save the Day poster
6.4

When the Little Rascals are unable to raise enough money to save their grandma's bakery from shutting down, their only hope is to win a local talent show and use the prize money to save the shop.

The Little Rascals Save the Day

2014

Hatching Pete poster
5.5

Pete is very inconspicuous at school, unlike his extrovert mate Cleatis who's happy to don a chicken suit and be the school mascot, but unfortunately, Cleatis is allergic to the suit. When there's an uproar at the chicken's disappearance, Pete is forced into the limelight as the school's basketball reputation is at stake.

Hatching Pete

2009

Jingle All the Way 2 poster
5.2

Larry's daughter wants only one thing for Christmas - a talking bear. His daughter's step-dad intends to make sure that Larry can't get one.

Jingle All the Way 2

2014

Transformers: Beginnings poster
6.9

On their home planet of Cybertron, the Autobots and Decepticons are involved in an explosive battle over the coveted AllSpark. With the fate of the universe at stake, the Autobots send it far from the reaches of the ruthless Megatron, leader of the Decepticons. But there are even more surprises in store when it crash-lands on Earth.

Transformers: Beginnings

2007

Daphne & Velma poster
6.1

Before their eventual team-up with Scooby and the gang, bright and optimistic Daphne and whip-smart and analytical Velma are both mystery-solving teens who are best friends but have only met online - until now. Daphne has just transferred to Velma's school, Ridge Valley High, an incredible tech-savvy institute with all the latest gadgets provided by the school's benefactor, tech billionaire Tobias Bloom. And while competition is fierce among the students for a coveted internship at Bloom Innovative, Daphne and Velma dig beyond all the gadgets and tech to investigate what is causing some of the brightest students in school to disappear - only to emerge again in a zombie-fied state.

Daphne & Velma

2018