David Ury
David Brian Ury (born September 30, 1973) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, YouTuber, and Japanese translation specialist.
Ury was born and raised in Sonoma, California. He graduated from Sonoma Valley High School, where he acted in theatre productions. He earned a bachelor's degree in linguistics at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and studied abroad in Japan, where he became fluent in Japanese. Ury is a descendant of German Jewish impressionist painter Lesser Ury.
Since studying abroad in Tokyo, Ury and has worked as a translator in film, television, and manga and currently (As of May 2011) translates and writes English adaptations for manga. Ury moved to Los Angeles in August 2001 where he began performing stand-up comedy. Cartoonist Keith Knight, a neighbor of his, described Ury's acting career as "Spooge man" and "a cavalcade of reprobates, sleazeballs, derelicts, & weirdos."
Ury has made several film and television appearances, including an episode of Tim Kring's Crossing Jordan and in Shoot 'Em Up. He also appeared in Heroes, Malcolm in the Middle, Life, Without a Trace, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Zeke and Luther, and The Librarians. In March 2015, Ury was cast for Rob Zombie's slasher film 31 as Schizo-Head. A character actor, Ury has died on screen in almost every role he has portrayed.
Ury also has several YouTube channels/accounts/personalities and alter-egos, which include Karaoke Steve and Ken Tanaka, the fictional adopted twin brother of David Ury. Tanaka is described as an Ashkenazi Jewish man adopted as an infant by Japanese parents Hideo and Mari Tanaka, and raised in Shimane Prefecture of Japan; he returns to Los Angeles to find his birth parents Jonathan and Linda Smith.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 13.944 |
Birthday | 1973-01-01 |
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2015
Little Boy
7.183/508
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31
5.42/766
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The Revenant
6.175/246
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2007
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
6.35/5018
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5.4/5
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Pearblossom Hwy
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Lake Los Angeles
6.7/6
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2019
3 from Hell
5.826/456
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2004
Able Edwards
6.667/3
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2016
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7.205/821
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2007
Shoot 'Em Up
6.469/1815
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2019
Loners
3.7/3
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2019
To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 From Hell
7.3/3
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2020
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
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Kajillionaire
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Coffee Town
6.516/96
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Paparazzi
5.3/185
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2006
Dark Ride
4.6/85
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Faith Based
4.9/12
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Black Widow
4.9/12
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2022
1-800-Hot-Nite
4.75/8
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2022
Babylon
7.408/2881
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Babylon
2023
Do Not Watch
0/0
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2024
Little Death
10/1
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A Blind Bargain
0/0
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