Stink Fisher (born William Fisher; July 30, 1970) is an American actor and restaurant owner who lives in
Collingswood, New Jersey
Collingswood is a borough in Camden County, New Jersey, located east of Center City Philadelphia. As of the 2010 U.S. census, the borough's population was 13,926,[Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...]
in
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Cherry Hill is a township within Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the township had a population of 74,553, which reflected an increase of 3,508 (+4.94%) from the 71,045 counted in the 2010 census. , Fisher played high school football at
Cherry Hill High School East
Cherry Hill High School East (also known as Cherry Hill East or CHE) is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Cherry Hill, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, operating as p ...
. He played college football for the
University of Minnesota
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Golden Gophers
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and at
Rowan University
Rowan University is a public research university in Glassboro, New Jersey, with a medical campus in Stratford and medical and academic campuses in Camden. It was founded in 1923 as Glassboro Normal School on a site donated by 107 residents.
...
.
["Phila. publisher is doing its bit for Alex's Lemonade.", '']Philadelphia Inquirer
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'', May 19, 2005. "Bill 'Stink' Fisher of Collingswood, who played football at Cherry Hill High School East, as well as The University of Minnesota and Rowan University..."
Fisher used to own The Pop Shop, a 1950s-themed restaurant with locations in Collingswood and
Medford.
[
He has been in movies such as '']Invincible
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* ''Invincible'' (2001 drama film), a drama by Werner Herzog about Jewish cabaret during the rise of Nazism
* ''Invincible'' (2001 TV film), a fantasy / martial arts TV movie starring Billy Zane
...
'', '' The Longest Yard'', and most recently appeared as Ruth's father in ''The Lovely Bones
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'' and as Muscle Guy in '' Going the Distance''. Fisher has appeared on ''The Sopranos
''The Sopranos'' is an American Crime film#Crime drama, crime drama television series created by David Chase. The story revolves around Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a New Jersey-based American Mafia, Italian-American mobster, portraying h ...
'', ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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'', and ''Throwdown with Bobby Flay
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At the beginning of each show, Flay rec ...
''. He appeared in the ''Body of Proof
''Body of Proof'' is an American medical/crime comedy-drama television series that ran on ABC from March 29, 2011, to May 28, 2013, and starred Dana Delany as medical examiner Dr. Megan Hunt. The series was created by Christopher Murphey and p ...
'' episode "Missing
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Film
* ''Missing'' (1918 film), an American silent drama directed by James Young
* ''Missing'' (1982 film), an American historical drama directed by Costa-Gavras
* ''Missing'' (2007 film) (''Vermist''), a Bel ...
" in 2011, and in the '' Blue Bloods'' episode "Growing Boys" in 2013. In 2015, Fisher played Aaron Helzinger in the "Knock Knock" episode as well as the "Damned If You Do" episode of '' Gotham'' season 2. In 2016 he joined the cast of "Crossbreed" directed by Brandon Slagle
Brandon Slagle is an American filmmaker and former actor, known for his films ''The Black Dahlia Haunting'' and ''House of Manson''. In 2016 news of his film "Crossbreed" went viral when the casting of Vivica A. Fox' as the President of the United ...
which co-starred Vivica A. Fox
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as the first African-American female President in a feature film.
As a free agent, he was signed in 1993 with the New York Jets
The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Jets compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The J ...
in the NFL before being cut and later played for the Montreal Allouettes
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of the Canadian Football League
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.[Scanlon, John]
"For Stink Fisher, ''Crossbreed'' is the sweet smell of success"
''Courier-Post
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'', May 24, 2018. Accessed October 28, 2018. "He played football at Cherry Hill High School East in the mid-1980s, then at the University of Minnesota, then at Rowan University in Glassboro, delaying his 1998 graduation as a psychology major for five years while chasing a pro football dream, almost realizing it as a 300-pound defensive end with the New York Jets in '93 — they cut him just before the season — and eventually playing for the Montreal Alouettes in Canada."
Filmography
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1970 births
Male actors from New Jersey
American male film actors
American male television actors
Jewish American male actors
Living people
Cherry Hill High School East alumni
People from Cherry Hill, New Jersey
People from Collingswood, New Jersey
American restaurateurs
Rowan Profs football players
Minnesota Golden Gophers football players
Players of American football from New Jersey
Sportspeople from Camden County, New Jersey
21st-century American Jews