David Hyde Pierce
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David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959) is an American actor. He starred as psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier from 1993 to 2004, and won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award for the role. Pierce also received the 2007 Tony Award for playing Lieutenant Frank Cioffi in the musical Curtains. He is also widely known for playing Frank Prady in eight episodes of the television legal drama The Good Wife, and Henry Newman in the comedy film Wet Hot American Summer and its subsequent television spin-offs. Pierce has played supporting roles in many films, including Joan Micklin Silver's Crossing Delancey (1988), Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King (1991), Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Mike Nichols' Wolf (1994), and Oliver Stone's Nixon (1995). He has also starred in the cult romantic comedy Down with Love (2003), and the dark comedy film The Perfect Host (2010). His voice roles include Disney Pixar's A Bug's Life (1998), Osmosis Jones (2001), and Treasure Planet (2002). Besides his performance in Curtains, Pierce also had Broadway roles as Sir Robin in Monty Python's Spamalot, Vanya in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and Horace Vandergelder in the 2017 revival of Hello, Dolly!; the latter two of which Pierce was nominated for a Tony Award. In 2015, he directed the Broadway musical It Shoulda Been You.
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- Brave Sir Robin
- You Won't Succeed On Broadway by David Hyde Pierce
- All For One featuring Hank Azaria
- Knights Of The Round Table/the Song That Goes Like This (reprise) featuring Hank Azaria
- Find Your Grail featuring Hank Azaria
- Act 2. In the Same Boat Completed by Debra Monk
- Monks Chant / He Is Not Dead Yet featuring Hank Azaria
- His Name Is Lancelot featuring Hank Azaria
- Wake Up
- Finale by David Hyde Pierce
- The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage
- You Won't Succeed On Broadway featuring Todd Ellison
- Brave Sir Robin featuring Todd Ellison
- Run Away! featuring Steve Rosen
- Knights of the Round Table/The Song That Goes Like This (Reprise) featuring Steve Rosen
- Find Your Grail featuring Steve Rosen
- All For One featuring Steve Rosen
- Monks Chant / He Is Not Dead Yet featuring Hank Azaria
- Better Angels
- His Name Is Lancelot featuring Hank Azaria
- Scene 3: The Office Of Charlotte Wallace featuring Catherine O'Hara
- Scene 1: A Restaurant featuring Catherine O'Hara
- Take A Leap featuring John Tartaglia
- Scene 2: Dr. Stuart Framingham's Office featuring Catherine O'Hara
