Raye Birk

Raye Birk

Raye Birk (born May 27, 1943, Flint, Michigan) is an American film and television actor best known for playing the role of Pahpshmir in the first and last of the Naked Gun movies. He was the main villain in Naked Gun 33​1⁄3: The Final Insult. He has also starred in Due South as the terrorist Francis Bolt in the Episodes "All the Queens Horses", "Red, White and Blue", "Call of the Wild Part One"...

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A Serious Man

as Dr. Shapiro

Sweet Land

as Postal Clerk

Factotum

as Heathercliff

North Country

as Tom Motel Clerk

After Jimmy

as John Davies

The Big Squeeze

as Contractor

Illegal in Blue

as Gary Dedmarch

Barbarians at the Gate

as Travis Gaines

Class Act

as Principal Kratz

Doc Hollywood

as Simon Tidwell, First Patient

Under Cover

as Grimbach

Challenger

as Joseph Kilminster

Burglar

as The Jogger

The Stepford Children

as George Larson

Deadly Messages

as Harding

Best Defense

as Sonny

A Christmas Carol

as Marley's Ghost