David Starzyk (born July 14, 1961) is an American actor.
Career
Starzyk has guest-starred in a number of notable television series, including ''
Home Improvement
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'', ''
Felicity'', ''
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
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'' ''
Pacific Blue'', ''
NYPD Blue
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'', ''
Days of Our Lives
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'', ''
The Young and the Restless
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'', ''
Charmed
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'', ''
Two and a Half Men
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'', ''
Criminal Minds
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'', ''
What I Like About You'', ''
Bones
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'', ''
The Practice
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'', ''
Boston Legal
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'', ''
Lost
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History
*Abbreviation of lost work, any work which is known to have bee ...
'', ''
Desperate Housewives
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'', ''
Veronica Mars
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'', ''
Victorious
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'', ''
90210'' ''
Person of Interest
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'' and among other series.
In 2010, he had a recurring role as Officer Pete, boyfriend to
Valerie Bertinelli
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's character, Melanie Moretti on
TV Land
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's original sitcom ''
Hot in Cleveland
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The series, which was TV Land's first original series, premiered on June 16, 2010, and was TV Land's highe ...
''.
Starzyk has also appeared in a series of successful and memorable
Chase Sapphire
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television commercials as well as in the feature films ''
To Save a Life
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'' and ''
Bring It On: Fight to the Finish'', both of which were released in 2009. He also starred in the movie ''
Haunted Echoes'' launched in 2008, alongside
Sean Young
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Young's early roles include the independent romance ''Jane Auste ...
,
M. Emmet Walsh
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and
Juliet Landau
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.
Personal life
He is married to actress Kimberley Ann Fitzgerald and he has two sons, Liam and Finn.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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1961 births
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
Male actors from Massachusetts
American male film actors
American male soap opera actors
American male television actors
Living people
Actors from Springfield, Massachusetts
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