A wire-haired comedian turned supporting character actor, Kevin Pollak began doing stand-up at age ten by lip-synching to the routines of Bill Cosby. Eschewing college for comedy, this Bay Area native began touring at 20 and, after winning second place in the San Francisco International Comedy Competition in 1982, moved his base to L.A., where he landed gigs at such comedy clubs as The Improv and honed his dead-on impressions of William Shatner and Peter Falk (moving only one eye), among others. In 1987, Pollak made his first foray into feature films with the "madcap" flop "Million Dollar
