Don Lake

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.8562

Gender

Male

Birthday

26-Nov-1956

Age

(70 years old)

Place of Birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Also Known As
  • Donald Lake

Don Lake

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 voice role as Stu Hopps in Zootopia. He is also known as Dr. Carl Whitehorn on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. After graduating from the California Institute of the Arts, he returned to Toronto to join the Second City Touring Company, and later was promoted to The Second City. He also appeared in the Netflix comedy series Space Force.


Credits

Really Weird Tales Really Weird Tales (1986) Character: 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 Murder Sees the Light (1986) Character: 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 there Benny finds himself involved with murders, satanism, and unfriendly nature.
The Rocket Boy The Rocket Boy (1989) Character: 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 hair off human heads.
Super Mario Bros. Super Mario Bros. (1993) Character: 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 hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.
Hot Shots! Hot Shots! (1991) Character: Doctor
The gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper Harley is a talented but unstable fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing the family name. His mission is to avenge his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers. He also gets involved in a relationship with Ramada Thompson, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. Hot Shots! makes fun of a variety of other films, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys.
Almost Heroes Almost Heroes (1998) Character: 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 Lewis and Clark.
A Mighty Wind A Mighty Wind (2003) Character: 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 concert in his honor, at the request of his son.
110 Lombard 110 Lombard (1988) Character: Frankie
Three single guys share their personal problems as well as a loft apartment.
The Pink Chiquitas The Pink Chiquitas (1987) Character: 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 investigate.
Wagons East! Wagons East! (1994) Character: Lt. Bailey
After the 1860s Wild West, a group of misfit settlers - including ex-doctor Phil Taylor, prostitute Belle, and homosexual bookseller Julian - decide they cannot live in their current situation in the west. They hire a grizzled alcoholic wagon master by the name of James Harlow to take them on a journey back to their hometowns in the East.
Police Academy Police Academy (1984) Character: 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 opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!
Waiting for Guffman Waiting for Guffman (1997) Character: 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 that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.
The Big Town The Big Town (1987) Character: 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 gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.
Lookin' to Get Out Lookin' to Get Out (1982) Character: 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 Las Vegas to turn their luck around.
Zootopia Zootopia (2016) Character: 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 means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.
Smother Smother (2008) Character: 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 couple.
The Best of SCTV The Best of SCTV (1988) Character: N/A
Guy Caballero and Edith Prickley try to persuade the FCC to renew SCTV's license.
Rugrats: Tales from the Crib: Three Jacks & A Beanstalk Rugrats: Tales from the Crib: Three Jacks & A Beanstalk (2006) Character: 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 to be a magic fairy, and the beans they threw out the window grow into a gigantic beanstalk.
Avalon High Avalon High (2011) Character: 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 studies in nearby Washington D.C. Her new high school, Avalon High, seems like a typical high school with the stereotypical students: Lance the jock, Jennifer the cheerleader, Marco, the bad boy/desperado, and Will, the senior class president, quarterback, and all around good guy. But not everyone at Avalon High is who they appear to be, not even Ellie herself. Eventually, it becomes apparent that Avalon High is a situation where the ancient Arthurian legend is repeating itself.
Hostage for a Day Hostage for a Day (1994) Character: Lieutenant Sneed
Harried suburban man Warren Kooey fakes a hostage situation in order to get the money he needs to escape his humdrum life.
Corner Gas: The Movie Corner Gas: The Movie (2014) Character: 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, Saskatchewan face their biggest crisis ever. Brent and the gang discover that the town’s been badly mismanaged, leaving residents with little choice but to pack up and leave. As residents make one last rally to save Dog River as they know it, they discover a devious plan by a corporate chain that would change life for Dog Riverites forever.
Short Circuit 2 Short Circuit 2 (1988) Character: 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 use him for their own nefarious purposes.
Grudge Match Grudge Match (2013) Character: 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.
Best in Show Best in Show (2000) Character: 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 America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives -- the Mayflower Dog Show. The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as the great country that has bred them.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Character: Mossberg
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.
Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm (1999) Character: HBO Director
Mock documentary about Seinfeld writer Larry David featuring contributions from his friends and colleagues. Larry makes a return to stand-up comedy and prepares to film a television special for HBO. This is the original special that gave birth to the long-running award-winning HBO series.
Blue Monkey Blue Monkey (1987) Character: 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 room where the doctors diagnose him as suffering from an unknown bacteria, and a strange parasite which emerges from his mouth as a large slimy wormlike creature. Soon, there are more cases of bacterial infection, but the more immediate problem for the hospital is the wormlike creature which after accidental exposure to a genetic growth stimulant grows to monstrous proportions and starts a reign of terror and bloodshed in the hospitals abandoned wing.
Zootopia 2 Zootopia 2 (2025) Character: Stu Hopps (voice)
After cracking the biggest case in Zootopia's history, rookie cops Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde find themselves on the twisting trail of a great mystery when Gary De'Snake arrives and turns the animal metropolis upside down. To crack the case, Judy and Nick must go undercover to unexpected new parts of town, where their growing partnership is tested like never before.
Return to Me Return to Me (2000) Character: 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 instantly not with his date but with the sharp-witted waitress. Everything seems to be going great until an unbelievable truth is revealed, one that could easily break both of their hearts for good.
Sodbusters Sodbusters (1994) Character: 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 aid.
Hands of a Stranger Hands of a Stranger (1987) Character: Grady
A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.
John Candy: I Like Me John Candy: I Like Me (2025) Character: Self - Actor, Wagons East
Those who knew iconic funnyman John Candy best share his story, in their own words, through never-before-seen archival footage, imagery, and interviews.
Dumb and Dumber To Dumb and Dumber To (2014) Character: 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.
Downsizing Downsizing (2017) Character: 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 afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.
Mascots Mascots (2016) Character: Buddy Campbell
Eager contestants don big heads and furry suits to vie for the title of World's Best Mascot.
The Dink The Dink (2026) Character: Gary
Desperate to save a struggling country club and earn his father's respect, a washed-up tennis pro is compelled to break a sacred vow and do the unthinkable: play pickleball.
RocketMan RocketMan (1997) Character: 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, but is in danger of emerging as a hero when his new colleagues need him to save them from the unforgiving surface of the red planet.
The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave (2000) Character: 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 operation.
Beethoven's 2nd Beethoven's 2nd (1993) Character: 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 is that Missy's owner, Regina, wants to sell the puppies and tear the clan apart. It's up to Beethoven and the Newton kids to save the day and keep everyone together.
Speed Zone Speed Zone (1989) Character: 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 distress. Jackie Chan's car is not in this one, but many new cars make up for that. Who will win? Who will crash? Who will not even finish? Sit down and buckle up for the ride of your life.
For Your Consideration For Your Consideration (2006) Character: 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 generates awards buzz.
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) Character: Tour Guide
The now estranged bandmates of Spinal Tap are forced to reunite for one final concert, hoping it will solidify their place in the pantheon of rock 'n' roll.



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