Eddie McClintock

McClintock spent roughly a decade as the man American networks kept casting in comedies that did not last. Ned & Stacey, Stark Raving Mad as Jake Donovan, Greg the Bunny, Glory Days, Miss Match, Married to the Kellys, Big Day, Crumbs, My Boys: a long list of shows, most of them short-lived, with film work around the edges in The Sweetest Thing and Full Frontal in 2002.

Warehouse 13 changed the arithmetic. From 2009 he played Secret Service agent Pete Lattimer on Syfy, and the part fitted him precisely. He is a big, loose, physically comfortable performer, and the show handed him a premise silly enough to relax inside. The specific skill on display is selling an absurd artefact-of-the-week plot with a completely straight face, then puncturing it half a second later without ever sneering at the material. Genre television runs on actors who can do that and does not have many of them.

Since then it has been recurring parts and guest arcs: Jack Payne on Shooter, Tony on No Good Nick, Bobby on Fairly Legal, Billy on Better Off Ted, with earlier stints as Tim Sullivan on Bones and Jason Abbot on Moonlight. In 2023 he directed his first film, Miracle at Manchester, and starred in it, though that one is not among the credits listed here. The upcoming work is small and independent, I Survived and Pickleball Pete among it.