Biography
Fred Melamed (born May 13, 1956 in New York City) is an American actor and writer. He received his theatrical training at Hampshire College and the Yale School of Drama. At Yale, he was a Samuel F. B. Morse College Graduate Fellow. He was also a nominee for the Irene Ryan Award, a prize conferred upon the most promising young actors in the United States. While still at Yale, he was an instructor at the well-known performing arts camp, Stagedoor Manor.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Maclunkey Treasure Island
2025
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
The Star Wars Minute Podcast and The George Lucas Talk Show are proud to return to Dynasty Typewriter on March 15 to stage their LIVE reading of the o...
Peak Season
2024
as George
An emotionally adrift young woman forges an unexpected bond with a wilderness guide when she and her fiance take a summer holiday in Jackson Hole, Wyo...
Little Death
2024
as Augustus
A middle-aged filmmaker on the verge of a breakthrough. Two kids in search of a lost backpack. A small dog a long way from home.
Cat Person
2023
as Dr. Resnick
When Margot, a college sophomore, goes on a date with the older Robert, she finds that IRL Robert doesn’t live up to the Robert she has been flirting ...
Fuzzy Head
2023
as The Quadruped
Insomnia-ridden Marla is on the run after the murder of her mother. Now, Marla must confront her everlasting void to find out the truth of what really...
Diary of a Spy
2022
as James
Anna is a washed-up intelligence officer whose last mission left 7 people dead. Drunk, broke, and alone she is given the chance for one last mission: ...
Together Together
2021
as Marty
When young loner Anna is hired as the surrogate for Matt, a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will...
Shiva Baby
2021
as Joel
College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family...
Rumble
2021
as Mayor (voice)
In a world where monster wrestling is a global sport and monsters are superstar athletes, teenage Winnie seeks to follow in her father’s footsteps by ...
The Vigil
2020
as Dr. Kohlberg
A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity.
Lying and Stealing
2019
as Dimitri
Hoping to leave his criminal lifestyle behind him, a successful art thief teams up with a sexy con woman to pull off the ultimate heist and set himsel...
Dragged Across Concrete
2019
as Mr. Edmington
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes th...
Silver Lake
2018
as Howard
The story centers on Nathan (Starr) as he examines his life and relationships with friends, his girlfriend Mary (Woll) and her young daughters, plus h...
The Spy Who Dumped Me
2018
as Roger
A couple of thirtysomething best friends unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one’s ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartme...
Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017
as Mr Irving
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force...
Kid Gambled
2017
as Repair Man
Peer-pressured to steal a case of beer by his hooligan friends, a stoned anxiety-stricken teenager wobbles through the aisles of a Las Vegas convenien...
Chicanery
2017
as Arthur Schekner
Darren Flare is an Emmy Award-winning, slightly dim newscaster, who is about to stumble on the story of the decade: the capture of the FBI's most want...
Lemon
2017
as Howard
Isaac has seen better days. His acting career is tanking, his blind girlfriend of 10 years plans to leave him, and his own family singles him out as a...
Passengers
2016
as Observatory (voice)
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passe...
Hail, Caesar!
2016
as Communist Writer
When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.
Bone Tomahawk
2015
as Clarence
During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. ...
Some Kind of Beautiful
2015
as Piggott
By day, Richard Haig is a successful and well-respected English professor at renowned Trinity College in Cambridge. By night, Richard indulges his ow...
You Are Whole
2015
as Norman
A spiritual missionary is mistaken for a serial killer in a sleepy British seaside town.
Smart Pipe
2014
as Andrew Gold
Everything in our lives is connected to the internet, so why not our toilets? Take a tour of Smart Pipe, the hot new tech startup that turns your wast...
Adult Beginners
2014
as Story Book Reader (voice)
A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move ...
Get on Up
2014
as Syd Nathan
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends
2014
as Fred
You are cordially invited to join Brett Gelman and his Hollywood friends for a lively night of dining, tasty showbiz chit-chat, and psychological tort...
Hairbrained
2013
as Benny Greenberg
A fourteen-year-old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where he makes friends with a mature student.
In a World...
2013
as Sam Sotto
An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voice-over st...
Blumenthal
2013
as Jimmy Basmati
A comedy that follows the relatives of Harold Blumethal, a legendary playwright who made his career parodying his family in his work and died laughing...
Fred Won't Move Out
2012
as Bob
Fred (Elliott Gould) lives with his Alzheimers' struggling wife, Susan in their home of over fifty years. Fred's grown up children try to convince him...
The Dictator
2012
as Head Nuclear Scientist
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
A Serious Man
2009
as Sy Ableman
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him....
Hollywood Ending
2002
as Pappas
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman fi...
Husbands and Wives
1992
as Mel (uncredited)
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are ...
Shadows and Fog
1991
as Undesirables Onlooker
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989
as The Dean (uncredited)
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an ...
The Good Mother
1988
as Dr. Payne
After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influ...
Another Woman
1988
as Patient's Voice / Engagement Party Guest
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acousti...
Sticky Fingers
1988
as The Cop (voice) (uncredited)
Two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly and Hattie, are asked by a drug-dealing friend-of-a-friend, Diane, to baby-sit a bag containing nearly...
Suspect
1987
as Morty Rosenthal
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and ...
The Pick-up Artist
1987
as George
A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.
Ishtar
1987
as Caid of Assari
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the ...
Radio Days
1987
as Bradley (uncredited)
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944,...
The Mission
1986
as Don Cabeza (voice) (uncredited)
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter i...
The Mission
1986
as Cabeza (voice) (uncredited)
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter i...
The Manhattan Project
1986
as Howard
A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home town in order to construct his own nuclear bomb, wi...
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
as Dr. Grey
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her ...
Lovesick
1983
as Analyst
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
Don't Trip
N/A
A struggling screenwriter falls into a dangerous relationship with a powerful producer's son.
Interpersonal Exopolitics
N/A
as Hank
Mankind's relationship with Extraterrestrials, itself, and its vices are explored through sex, song & soda.
The Bookie & the Bruiser
N/A
In 1959 New York, a pensive Jewish fellow named Rivner befriends an oversized Italian-American tough named Boscolo from the Lower East Side. Both men ...