Daniel Randall Roebuck (born March 4, 1963) is an American television and movie actor, writer and producer, primarily in movies, soap operas and television.
Roebuck was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He appeared in his first movie role in 1981. From 1992 to 1995, he played Andy Griffith's assistant, final private investigator and right-hand man, Cliff Lewis, on the television drama Matlock, replacing Clarence Gilyard, during the 1993-94 season, and he also had a recurring role as the corrupt officer, Insp. Rick Bettina in Nash Bridges. He has appeared in numerous other guest roles in television programs and has appeared in many feature films including River's Edge, Dudes, and Final Destination. He also played the role of US Marshal Bob Biggs in the films, The Fugitive and U.S. Marshals. He appeared as Mr. Banks in the movie Agent Cody Banks and its sequel.
One of Roebuck's more memorable roles was as Jay Leno in the HBO made-for-tv movie The Late Shift. Leno has often commented positively on Roebuck's performance whenever a guest brings up the movie on the show. In 2003, he acted in the digital film world collective event of the production Red Riding Hood. This Randal Kleiser directed HD motion picture is shot for the most part with live-on-demand 3D virtual filming stage technology.
In 2005, he appeared in the television drama Lost as Dr. Arzt. He has been a writer and producer for the Monsterama series, and appeared in some episodes of the series. Roebuck recently starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Quints as well as the Nickelodeon Original Movie, Shredderman Rules.
He also will guest star in an upcoming episode of Bones, be the voice of Morris Green in the upcoming Rob Zombie animated film The Haunted World of El Superbeasto and star in the upcoming film, A Fork in the Road.
He performed at age nine in local events, and by age 13, had traveled the tri-state area as a clown in a regional circus. He continued to hone his craft by acting, directing and writing plays and performing a magic act at local area clubs that evolved into a stand-up comedy routine. Making the move to Los Angeles at age 21, Roebuck won stage roles in such presentations as the U.S. premiere of Sarcophagus at L.A.T.C., No Time for Sergeants and the world premiere stagings of Holy Toledo and Who Killed Orson Welles. He won praise for one of his first movie roles, the haunting, stoned-out teenage murderer, in Tim Hunter's searing drama, River's Edge. A familiar face to fans of the hit TV series Matlock, in which he played legal assistant Clifford Lewis for three seasons, Roebuck has logged roles in such telefilms as Caught in the Crossfire, Runaway Father, the small screen remake of The Dirty Dozen and The Killing Mind on Lifetime. . He also shared a small piece of television history with a role in the episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation which resurrected Leonard Nimoy's Mr. Spock and introduced the new TV series
