milestones
Year
Milestone
1978 
Earliest TV work included the role of Tom Fink in the CBS mystery miniseries, "The Dain Curse"
1979 
Played one of the leading roles in the off-Broadway musical, "Leave It to Beaver Is Dead", produced by Joseph Papp as part of the New York Shakespeare Festival
1980 
Returned to the NY Shakespeare Festival to play Treplev in a revival of Chekhov's "The Sea Gull"
1981 
First major film work, playing a leading role in the independently made feature, "Rent Control"
1984 
Performed on Broadway as "Franz, a Servant" and "Dennis, a Technician" in the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine hit musical, "Sunday in the Park with George"
1986 
Played the recurring guest role of Bob Wheeler on the popular NBC sitcom, "Night Court"
 
Played Lt. Commander Data on the syndicated sci-fi adventure series, "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
1989 
Returned to features to play a role in "Miss Firecracker"
1994 
Reprised the role of Data in the feature "Star Trek: Generations"
1996 
Cast as scientists in two blockbuster hits, "Independence Day" and "Phenomenon"
1996 
Again played Data in "Star Trek: Final Contact"
1997 
Returned to Broadway to star as John Adams in the musical revival of "1766"
1997 
Played a foppish cruise director foil to Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in the comedy "Out to Sea"
1998 
Returned as Data for "Star Trek: Insurrection"
1999 
Co-starred as manager Earl Mills in the HBO biopic "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge"
1999 
Voiced the animated Conon O'Brien in "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut"
2000 
Offered comic turn as Stromboli in the ABC/Disney TV musical "Geppetto"
2000 
Had an uncredited appearance in "Dude, Where's My Car?"
2001 
Reprised role of Data in "Star Trek: Nemesis"
2002 
Played criminal mastermind Devlin Bowman in the Dana Carvey comedy "Master of Disguise"
2004 
Appeared in Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator"
2005 
Guest-stared on "Enterprise," (UPN) playing the great-great-grandfather of Dr. Noonien Soong (creator of Data)
2005 
Cast as Dr. Nigel Fenway in the failed CBS series "Threshold"
2006 
Played the CEO of a besieged cosmetics company in the comedy "Material Girls"
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