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Let’s face it, we ALL love the iconic character Ben Matlock, and we need to talk more about. Just like criminal defense attorney, Ben Matlock, Joe and Tony get to the bottom of the truth of each episode.
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He has also appeared in various episodes of Entourage playing himself, directing the fictional series Five Towns. Joe and Tony (The 1 and 2 Matlock Fans) do an episode by episode deep analysis of the hit TV show ‘Matlock’. After Studio 60, he continued to direct episodes of Las Vegas. Beginning in September 2006, Busfield was a regular on the short lived Sorkin/Schlamme series, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, where he played Cal Shanley, the fictional show's director.
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Busfield also dabbles in directing television and has directed multiple episodes of thirtysomething, Without a Trace (on which he appeared as a divorce lawyer, in a wheelchair, for Jack Malone), and the Sorkin/Schlamme predecessor to The West Wing, Sports Night.
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Recurring television roles include White House correspondent Danny Concannon on The West Wing and the title character's incorrigible brother on the sitcom Ed, a show on which he was a co-executive producer and supervising producer. In 1997, Busfield starred in the Canadian television film Trucks. The Rat Pack Tue, 60 mins A successful entrepreneur is framed for the murder of a young actress and Matlock travels to California in search of the truth. Other film appearances include Sneakers (1992), Field of Dreams (1989) with Kevin Costner and First Kid (1996) with comedian Sinbad. In 1994, Busfield starred in the film Little Big League. Also in that year, he starred in the film The Skateboard Kid. After appearing in Phil Alden Robinson's Sneakers, Busfield went to London in 1993 to make the television film Wall Of Silence, in which he played Ephraim Lipshitz, a Mossad agent infiltrating a community of Hasidic Jews. In a 1987 episode of Matlock "The Rat Pack," he played a feature role. Produced by Steven Spielberg, The Byrds of Paradise with Arlo Guthrie may be the most memorable for its setting in Hawaii and its offbeat characters. Later he was cast in the lead of other series, although none have lasted very long. He would win an Emmy Award for this role. Immediately prior to being cast on the 1980s series thirtysomething, he was still often playing teenagers and young adults, and the producers of the show asked him to grow his beard so he'd look old enough for the role. Busfield's first television series was Trapper John, M.D., in which he played the physician son of the title character. He reprised the role in the 1987 sequel to that film, Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise. In 1984 Busfield landed his first major film part, as Arnold Poindexter in Revenge of the Nerds. He plays the part of a mortar gunner on the practice range. In 1981, Busfield had a small part in the blockbuster Stripes with Bill Murray and Harold Ramis. Busfield was born in Lansing, Michigan, the son of drama professor Roger and secretary Jean Busfield.