Josh Pais

Josh Pais

1964-06-21 New York City, New York, USA 58 Credits

Biography

Josh Pais (born June 21, 1964) is an American actor of film and television. He has appeared in many Hollywood films, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (in which he both was in the costume and was the voice) as Raphael, Music of the Heart, Scream 3, It Runs in the Family, Little Manhattan and Find Me Guilty. He played Assistant M.E. Borak in 15 episodes of the series Law & Order, between 1990 and 2002. He also played the Spanish teacher in the film Assassination of a High School President. ...

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The Friend

The Friend

2025

as Jerry

6.5
Acting

When a solitary writer adopts and bonds with a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend, she begins to come to terms with her past and her own creati...

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

2025

as Brad

6.0
Acting

With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increa...

Checkout

Checkout

2023

as Dov

Acting

Dov, an undercover Mossad agent, gets called for retirement, just as the Mossad's number one target walks into the Turkish hotel where he was statione...

You Hurt My Feelings

You Hurt My Feelings

2023

as Josh Pais

6.4
Acting

A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.

Spoiler Alert

Spoiler Alert

2022

as Scott

7.0
Acting

Journalist Michael Ausiello embarks on a rollercoaster ride of emotions when Kit Cowan, his partner of 14 years, is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Funny Pages

Funny Pages

2022

as Lewis

5.7
Acting

A teenage cartoonist rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.

The Mimic

The Mimic

2021

as The Neurotic Lawyer

4.1
Acting

Based on a true story, ‘the Narrator’ is befriended by his young new neighbor, after he joins the local newspaper team. Obsessed with the idea that ‘t...

Motherless Brooklyn

Motherless Brooklyn

2019

as William Lieberman

6.7
Acting

New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed ...

Joker

Joker

2019

as Hoyt Vaughn

8.1
Acting

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychop...

The Land of Steady Habits

The Land of Steady Habits

2018

as Larry Eastwood

5.5
Acting

After leaving his wife and his job to find happiness, Anders begins a clumsy, heartbreaking quest to reassemble the pieces of his fractured life.

Crown Heights

Crown Heights

2017

as District Attorney Maffeo

6.6
Acting

When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.

Going in Style

Going in Style

2017

as Chuck Lofton

6.7
Acting

Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very b...

Bakery in Brooklyn

Bakery in Brooklyn

2016

as Lawyer

5.2
Acting

Brooklyn, New York. After the sudden death of their aunt Isabelle, Vivien and Chloe inherit her historic bakery. Vivien wants to keep up the tradition...

The Family Fang

The Family Fang

2016

as Freeman

5.8
Acting

A brother and sister return to their family home in search of their world famous parents who have disappeared.

I Saw the Light

I Saw the Light

2016

as Dore Schary

6.3
Acting

Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musi...

5 Flights Up

5 Flights Up

2014

as Jackson

6.0
Acting

A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real estate-related iss...

That Awkward Moment

That Awkward Moment

2014

as Fred

6.1
Acting

Best pals Jason and Daniel indulge in casual flings and revel in their carefree, unattached lives. After learning that the marriage of their friend Mi...

Touchy Feely

Touchy Feely

2013

as Paul

4.7
Acting

Abby is a sought after massage therapist and a free spirit, while her brother Paul thrives on routine, running a failing dental practice with his assi...

Syrup

Syrup

2013

as Davidson

5.5
Acting

A slacker hatches a million-dollar idea. But, in order to see it through, he has to learn to trust his attractive corporate counterpart. Based on Max ...

The Normals

The Normals

2012

as Dr. Honeysack

5.3
Acting

With a debt collector hot on his trail, Harvard graduate Billy Schine enrolls in a clinical drug trial to make a quick buck. Carted out of New York Ci...

Price Check

Price Check

2012

as Doug Cain

5.2
Acting

A middle aged, middle class, former music industry executive with a stay-at-home wife and son toils away at a supermarket chain. When a new high energ...

Arbitrage

Arbitrage

2012

as John Aimes

6.3
Acting

A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for ...

Detachment

Detachment

2011

as Meredith's Father

7.6
Acting

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Bar...

Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective

Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective

2011

as Self

7.7
Acting

A year in the making, Still Screaming is the definitive documentary on the making of the iconic Scream movies. Dive into the fascinating success story...

The Key Man

The Key Man

2011

as Dr. Abraham Meyer

3.8
Acting

An insurance salesman gets mixed up with two gangsters in effort to make more money and provide for his family, but things don't go as he planned.

Please Give

Please Give

2010

as Adam

6.2
Acting

In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.

Gentlemen Broncos

Gentlemen Broncos

2009

as Todd Keefe

5.7
Acting

A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.

Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass

2009

as Ken Feinman

6.0
Acting

An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.

Adventureland

Adventureland

2009

as Mr. Lewin

6.4
Acting

In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared ...

Reunion

Reunion

2009

as Saul

Acting

Ten years after the death of a close friend, a group of Yale graduates who formed a secret society to make the world a better place reunite, only to d...

Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York

2008

as Ophthalmologist

7.6
Acting

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as ...

Teeth

Teeth

2008

as Dr. Godfrey

5.4
Acting

Dawn is an active member of her high-school chastity club but, when she meets Tobey, nature takes its course, and the pair answer the call. They sudde...

Assassination of a High School President

Assassination of a High School President

2008

as Padre Newelll

5.7
Acting

After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief. Bobby prints an article f...

Lifelines

Lifelines

2008

as Ira Bernstein

4.0
Acting

Mom Nancy, a schoolteacher, is unable to handle the constant barrage of hostility from her three children. Husband Ira is ineffectual in helping his w...

Watching the Detectives

Watching the Detectives

2007

as Andy

6.4
Acting

Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he...

Year of the Dog

Year of the Dog

2007

as Robin

5.4
Acting

A secretary's life changes in unexpected ways after her dog dies.

Unconscious

Unconscious

2006

as Warner Wilcott

6.0
Acting

Six different people all believe an unconscious and unidentified man in a hospital is their missing person. A film about being unconscious . . . or no...

Find Me Guilty

Find Me Guilty

2006

as Harry Bellman

6.6
Acting

Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.

Little Manhattan

Little Manhattan

2005

as Ronny

7.2
Acting

Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walked into his life, actually into his karate class. But befor...

Confess

Confess

2005

as Allen Kelner

4.1
Acting

A young ex-hacker, disgruntled with his life, lashes back at those deemed responsible, uploading unfavorable video footage of them on the internet.

The Station Agent

The Station Agent

2003

as Carl

7.4
Acting

When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a w...

It Runs in the Family

It Runs in the Family

2003

as Barney

6.0
Acting

This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile

Phone Booth

Phone Booth

2003

as Mario

6.9
Acting

A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light f...

7th Street

2003

Director

5.0
Directing

Prepare for a unique glimpse into the seismic impact of gentrification on a neighborhood in New York City's East Village -- Alphabet City, which was o...

Porn 'n Chicken

Porn 'n Chicken

2002

as Prof. Hoffman

3.2
Acting

In 1996, five overworked Yale undergrads formed a club to watch porno films on weekends while ingesting mass quantities of fried chicken and Miller Hi...

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind

2001

as Princeton Professor

7.9
Acting

From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician, ...

Swimming

Swimming

2000

as Neil Wheeler

5.1
Acting

Swimming is a bittersweet and intimate look at friendship, love and growing up. The easy life of summertime in Myrtle Beach is turned upside down for ...

Scream 3

Scream 3

2000

as Wallace

6.0
Acting

While Sidney Prescott and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises...

Music of the Heart

Music of the Heart

1999

as Dennis

6.7
Acting

Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.

A Civil Action

A Civil Action

1998

as Law Clerk

6.5
Acting

Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obses...

Rounders

Rounders

1998

as Weitz

7.0
Acting

A young reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.

Safe Men

Safe Men

1998

as Mitchell

5.5
Acting

Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the loca...

Colin Fitz

Colin Fitz

1997

as Cathartic Fan

5.0
Acting

Two security guards, Paul and Grady, are hired to guard the grave of dead rock legend, Colin Fitz. Through the course of one bizarre night, these two ...

I'm Not Rappaport

I'm Not Rappaport

1996

as Rodney

5.6
Acting

Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still ...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

1990

as Raphael (voice) / Passenger In Cab

6.7
Acting

A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in ninjitsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.

Jacknife

Jacknife

1989

as Rick

6.3
Acting

A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who rem...

The Next Big One: A Comedy with Three Potential Problems

N/A

as Weatherman Phil

Acting

Bee Mitty, a high-ranking employee at an omnipotent techfirm, must help Ian - her depressed, activist brother - move into their Auntie's house while a...

Karma Local

N/A

as Charlie

Acting

An engaging comic thriller about a young Indian newsstand clerk who stumbles onto a more exciting life when he agrees to mind a stranger's package at ...