Biography
Donald Lake (born November 26, 1956) is a Canadian actor, writer, and television producer. He is frequently cast by director Christopher Guest, and is also a close friend and frequent collaborator of Bonnie Hunt. He had a role in The Bonnie Hunt Show, for which he received comedic praise. He also had roles in the comedy films Police Academy, Hot Shots!, Dumb & Dumber To, and Corner Gas: The Movie. He played more serious roles in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Super Mario Bros., along with a voi...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Downsizing
2017
as Leisureland Guide Matt
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and affo...

Mascots
2016
as Buddy Campbell
Eager contestants don big heads and furry suits to vie for the title of World's Best Mascot.

Zootopia
2016
as Stu Hopps (voice)
Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it ...

Corner Gas: The Movie
2014
as Jerome
It’s been a few years, and there’s still not a lot going on 40 kilometers from nowhere. But that’s all about to change as the fine folks of Dog River,...

Dumb and Dumber To
2014
as Dr. Meldman
20 years since their first adventure, Lloyd and Harry go on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for adoption.

Grudge Match
2013
as Video Game Producer
A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout -- 30 years after their last match.

Avalon High
2011
as Allie's Father
Elaine "Ellie" Harrison has just moved from Minnesota to Annapolis, Maryland while her parents take a year-long sabbatical to continue their medieval ...

Smother
2008
as Minister
After he's fired from his job, an everyday guy faces pressure from his wife to have a baby and from his mom, who has decided to move in with the young...

For Your Consideration
2006
as Love It Film Critic
The possibility of Oscar gold holds the cast and crew of an independent film in its grip after the performance of its virtually unknown, veteran star ...

Rugrats: Tales from the Crib: Three Jacks & A Beanstalk
2006
as Tom Thumb / Gingerbread Man (voice)
Aunt Moo, a kindly old cow, and her Children (The Rugrats) are given a bag of magical beans by a mysterious stranger. This stranger (Susie) turns out ...

A Mighty Wind
2003
as Elliott Steinbloom
Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion co...

Best in Show
2000
as Graham Chissolm
The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across Amer...

Return to Me
2000
as Transplant Man
It took a lot of cajoling to get Bob, a recently widowed architect, to go on a blind date at a quirky Irish-Italian eatery. Once there, he's smitten i...

Return to Me
2000
Screenplay
It took a lot of cajoling to get Bob, a recently widowed architect, to go on a blind date at a quirky Irish-Italian eatery. Once there, he's smitten i...

The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave
2000
as Don
Super Dave Osborne, our accident-prone stuntman hero, comes out of a self-imposed retirement to raise money for his new girlfriend's son's heart opera...

The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave
2000
Story
Super Dave Osborne, our accident-prone stuntman hero, comes out of a self-imposed retirement to raise money for his new girlfriend's son's heart opera...

Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm
1999
as HBO Director
Mock documentary about Seinfeld writer Larry David featuring contributions from his friends and colleagues. Larry makes a return to stand-up comedy an...

Almost Heroes
1998
as Elias
Two hapless explorers lead an ill-fated 1804 expedition through the Pacific Northwest in a hopeless, doomed effort to reach the Pacific Ocean before L...

RocketMan
1997
as Le Chirurgien du Vol
An accident-prone and obnoxious geek joins a NASA space mission to Mars. During the flight, he manages to put himself and the entire crew in jeopardy,...

Waiting for Guffman
1996
as Phil Burgess - Blaine Historian
Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn tha...

Wagons East!
1994
as Lt. Bailey
After the 1860s Wild West, a group of misfit settlers - including ex-doctor Phil Taylor, prostitute Belle, and homosexual bookseller Julian - decide t...

Hostage for a Day
1994
as Lieutenant Sneed
Harried suburban man Warren Kooey fakes a hostage situation in order to get the money he needs to escape his humdrum life.

Sodbusters
1994
as Roy Poulet
A group of homesteaders in 1875 are harassed by an evil, land-grabbing, gunslinging cattleman until a stranger with a mysterious past comes to their a...

Beethoven's 2nd
1993
as Window Display Manager
Beethoven is back -- and this time, he has a whole brood with him now that he's met his canine match, Missy, and fathered a family. The only problem i...

Super Mario Bros.
1993
as Sgt. Simon
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only ho...

Hot Shots!
1991
as Doctor
The gang that created Airplane and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this often hilarious spoof starring Charlie Sheen, who previously only ...

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991
as Mossberg
Set ten years after the events of the original, James Cameron’s classic sci-fi action flick tells the story of a second attempt to get rid of rebellio...

The Rocket Boy
1989
as Store Customer
In this Sci-fi Comedy a gentle video clerk has a secret double life as an intergalactic crime-fighter who must stop an evil alien from stealing the ha...

Speed Zone
1989
as Whitman
An illegal race that takes place over the United States and nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distre...

The Best of SCTV
1988
Guy Caballero and Edith Prickley try to persuade the FCC to renew SCTV's license.

Short Circuit 2
1988
as Manic Mike
Robot Johnny 5 moves to the city to help his friend Ben Jahrvi with his toy manufacturing enterprise, only to be manipulated by criminals who want to ...

110 Lombard
1988
as Frankie
Three single guys share their personal problems as well as a loft apartment.

Blue Monkey
1987
as Elliot Jacobs
While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency ro...

The Big Town
1987
as Patsy Fuqua
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional ga...

The Pink Chiquitas
1987
as Deputy Barney Drum
A pink meteor controlled by aliens lands near a small town and turns the local women into nymphos. A deputy sheriff and a local private eye investigat...

Really Weird Tales
1986
as Hugh Mullins (segment "Cursed With Charisma")
The movie consists of three odd and strange tales that each teach a different lesson.

Murder Sees the Light
1986
as Thornton
Private detective Benny Cooperman is hired to keep an eye on a controversial preacher who is in hiding in a picturesque lake resort, but once he gets ...

Police Academy
1984
as Mr. Wig
New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This o...

Lookin' to Get Out
1982
as Alfred Jordon - Registration Desk
Two gamblers must leave New York City after one loses a lot of money. Doing what all gamblers in trouble would do, they hurry to the gambling capital ...