10 Best Movies and TV Shows

David Cross Movies and TV shows have proven him to be one of the best comedy actors in the last three decades. Cross began his career in entertainment as a stand-up comedian. He got his first gigs when he was 17 and then moved to New York City the day after he graduated from high school to try to pick up bigger opportunities. It was in the early 1990s that Cross finally picked up some attention when he moved to Los Angeles and joined the emerging comedy club scene there.

Thanks to his cast on The Ben Stiller ShowKreis has finally broken out. He met Bob Odenkirk, and they created Mr. Show with Bob and DaveAnd the rest is history. He started picking up movie roles and then ended up playing Tobias Funke Arrested developmentThe sitcom he remains best known for to this day. In the later years of his career, Cross worked on several different projects, stretching his acting to more than sketch comedy, and In 2014, he made his directorial debut for this movie Hits.

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Todd Margaret’s increasingly poor decisions (2010-2016)

David Cross played Todd Margaret

In 2010, David Cross was cashing in on the popularity he had on Arrested development To get his own TV show with him as the main star. in Todd Margaret’s increasingly poor decisions, Cross stars as Todd Margaret, an office temp worker who gets promoted When his boss (Arrested Development’s Will Arnett) hears him reciting self-help CD jargon and mistakenly thinks he’s helping a customer. Todd is set for an energy drink campaign in the UK and has no idea what he’s doing.

The first two seasons play out like a fish-out-of-water story. Todd was sent to the UK and was unfamiliar with British culture and customs. He’s also a habitual liar and can’t seem to trust his one employee, Dave (Blake Harrison). Director Spike Jonze also stars as one of Todd’s original supervisors in the series. The increasingly Poor decisions by Todd Margaret Spirals into a strange third season where everything is turned on its head. The series has a 72% Rotten Tomatoes score, with the third season at 80%.

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The Umbrella Academy (2024)

David Cross played C. Grossman

David Cross joined the cast of The Umbrella Academy In the final fourth season. The Netflix series is based on the comic books by My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way and artist Gabriel Bá. The show follows a group of seven people (one of them dead and a ghost) who are born with powers, bought from their parents, and raised by a man named Reginald Hargreaves to eventually save the world. However, they are cursed by the fact that an apocalypse is always happening and reset their world.

In the last season, the seven lose their powers and are on a new earth where their equivalents were never born, and a new group of heroes takes their place (the Sparrow Academy). However, the apocalypse is yet to come. Cross plays Sy Grossman, a man who asks the Hargreeves siblings to help save his daughter, Jennifer, but it soon turns out that he is not who he claims to be. Overall, the series was critically acclaimed, but the final season had the worst reviews at 55% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Sorry to Bother You (2018)

David Cross played Cash’s “White Voice”

David Cross has taken on several animated voice roles throughout his career. However, one of his strangest voice roles came in a live-action movie where he voices a real character in the film. Sorry to bother you is a dark comedy science fiction film that stars Leidy Stanfield as Cassius “Cash” Green, a black man who gets a job as a telemarketer to help pay the bills. However, he struggles to make almost any sales thanks to his voice, so one of his co-workers teaches him how to use a “white voice.”

David Cross is the “white voice” Cash starts using on the phone At work, and he is suddenly a great success. He gets promoted, but his boss tells him he must always use his “white voice.” Finally, everything goes off the rails when it turns out his company is involved in some very strange scientific gene-modifying experiments. Sorry to bother you It has a 93% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and the film won Best First Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards.

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Men in Black (1997)

David Cross played Newton, Morgue Attendant

While David Cross appeared in several films when he moved to Los Angeles, the film role that got him the most attention was as Newton in Men in Black. The movie arrived a couple of years later Mr. Show with Bob and Dave Started airing on HBO, which is likely how Cross caught the attention of director Barry Sonnenfield. of course, Men in Black was a movie about a secret organization involved in alien population control On Earth, with Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith in the lead.

Cross’s character Newton was the morgue attendant who let Kay (Jones) and Jay (Smith) into the morgue. However, when he starts killing flies in front of Edgar (the alien bug villain), he gets slid to the ceiling. Cross returns for the second movie as a video store owner (Newton survived the sliming), and Jay tries to improve his life, to possibly disastrous lengths. The first movie was a monster success, making $589 million on a $90 million budget and creating a franchise.

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Ghost World (2001)

David Cross played Gerrold

Although it may seem surprising, Ghost World is based on a comic book by Daniel Clowes. The 2001 adaptation by Terry Zwigoff is about Two high school best friends, Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), who try to figure out what’s next In the summer after their high school graduation. When they start spending time with a middle-aged man named Seymour (Steve Buscemi), things start to get weird, and the two begin to drift apart as they see different futures.

David Cross plays the character of Gerrold, a pushing record collector in the film. The role is small, but it allowed Cross to take part in one of the better comic book movies that had nothing to do with superheroes. Ghost World Received critical acclaim, certified fresh at 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, and picked up an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Thora Birch and Steve Buscemi both earned Golden Globe nominations for their performances.

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The Post (2017)

David Cross played Howard Simmons

In 2017, David Cross had an opportunity to work with Steven Spielberg in the political thriller The mail. The film is about the Washington Post Release of the Pentagon Papers and the fallout of the decision. Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks take the lead roles in the movie as the publisher and longtime executive editor of the newspaper. David Cross takes on the role of Howard Simmons, the managing editor of The Washington Post During the Watergate scandal (which happened after these events).

The film was a minor success at the box office, but it was a critical success, sitting at 88% positive on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics praised the film’s period setting and look, as well as the ensemble cast. However, despite the praise, the film only earned two Oscar nominations, one for Best Picture and one for Best Actress (Strip). The Golden Globes nominated it in six categories, but it lost them all.

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Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995-1998)

David Cross played various roles

The show that made David Cross and Bob Odenkirk into stars is Mr. Show with Bob and Dave. The two comedians created the show after meeting in Los Angeles on the comedy scene, and it debuted in 1995 as an HBO original series. It was a sketch comedy show with Odenkirk and Cross writing and performing in all the sketches. Unlike other sketch comedy shows like Saturday Night Live And Crazy TVThe show was mostly surreal sketches that went in the strangest directions.

It was also unique in that it took place in a comedy club like setting with people sitting at tables with drinks, watching the show live, although it also cut to pre-recorded moments. The sketch comedy ran for four seasons and 30 episodes. There were also guests, including Zack Schwartz, Brian Passehn, Sarah Silverman, and others. Mr. Show with Bob and Dave Was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards And influenced shows like Kay & Peele, Tim and Eric awesome showAnd The weirdest kids you know.

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Kung Fu Panda (2008)

David Cross played Crane

Kung Fu Panda Put together a great voice cast for the Furious Five, the warriors who worked alongside Jack Black’s Po the Panda. The cast includes Angelina Jolie as Tigress, Seth Rogen as Mantis, Lucy Liu as Viper, Jackie Chan as Monkey, and David Cross as Crane. Cross voiced Crane for several editions of the seriesIncluding the first three movies of the series, the short films Secrets of the Furious Five And Secrets of the ScrollAnd the TV especially Kung Fu Panda Holiday.

The first movie in the franchise was a massive success that spawned a franchise. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, losing to wall-e. However, the franchise has still grown in huge ways, including movies and TV shows with a worldwide box office gross of over $2 billion. Cross did not appear in the fourth movie in the Kung Fu Panda series, as none of the Furious Five other than Mantis has a voice role in the film.

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

David Cross played Rob Eakin

David Cross has appeared in several comedy movies in his career, but in 2004, he appeared in a drama that was far from funny. Eternal sunshine of the Spotless Opinion is one of the best movies of the early 2000s, a romantic science drama directed by Michel Gondry. The film stars Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet as Joel and Clementine, two people who fall in and out of love. In this world, people can pay to erase their memories, which is what Clementine chooses to do.

However, when Joel agrees to do the same thing, the movie shows their life together as it slowly falls apart in his mind. David Cross stars as Rob Eakin, a friend of Joel’s who reveals to him what Clementine hasAlthough he was paid to remain silent. Eternal sunshine of the Spotless Opinion was critically acclaimed, with a certified fresh 92% on Rotten Tomatoes. It won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and Winslet received a nomination for Best Actress.

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Arrested Development (2003-2019)

David Cross played Dr. Tobias Funke

The TV show that made David Cross a huge star was Arrested development. The sitcom centered on the Bluth family after the patriarch (Jeffrey Tambor) ends up in prison for his “creative accounting” practices. The show then followed his son Michael (Jason Bateman) as he tried to keep the family business afloat while everyone tried to spend the remaining money or mess everything up. The series has an incredible cast, including Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Tony Hale and Jessica Walter.

David Cross starred in the series as Tobias Fünke, Lindsey’s husband (Portia de Rossi), who once served as a psychiatrist and then a therapist, but later decided that his true future was to be an actor, although he never found success. The series was canceled after three seasons and 53 episodes but returned later on Netflix for two more seasons. It won six Emmy Awards with 25 nominations, and David Cross Earned a Satellite Award nomination in 2004.