---
name: "Brian Baumgartner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brian-baumgartner"
fi1m_id: "brian-baumgartner"
imdb_id: "nm1580911"
tmdb_id: 94622
wikidata_id: "Q2924850"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "29 November 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T23:42:43.524845+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Brian Baumgartner

## Identity

Brian Baumgartner

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brian-baumgartner
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brian-baumgartner
- **IMDb ID:** nm1580911
- **TMDB ID:** 94622
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2924850
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Baumgartner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2924850, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1580911/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/94622

Director. Born 29 November 1972 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 29 November 1972, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- **Active:** 2005–2014
- **Also known as:** Brian Bruce Baumgartner 
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 1 directing, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 77 (1), 2010s 73 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Baumgartner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2924850, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1580911/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/94622

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*The Office*](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Brian Baumgartner is an American actor and director. Born on 29 November 1972 in Atlanta, Georgia, he graduated with a BFA in theatre from Southern Methodist University.

He is best known for playing Kevin Malone in the NBC series *The Office* (2005–2013), in which he also directed the episode 'After Hours' (2012). Other credits include *Ghostbusters* (2016), *Foxcatcher* (2014), *Four Christmases* (2008) and voice work in *Adventure Time* (2010) and *Trash Truck* (2020–2021).

Baumgartner has received a Daytime Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for his work on *The Office*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1)

- *Foxcatcher* (2014), Fi1m 82, as USA Wrestling Rep #3 — [page](https://film.one/film/foxcatcher.md)

### Directed (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Office* (2005), Fi1m 77, as Kevin Malone — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Ghostbusters* (2016), Fi1m 64, as Frank (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters-2016.md)

## Complete filmography (42)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Suits LA* (2025), series, as Brian Baumgartner
- *Confessions of a Christmas Letter* (2024), as Sam
- *Krapopolis* (2023), series, as (voice)
- *Rumble* (2021), as Klonk (voice)
- *A Trash Truck Christmas* (2020), as Walter (voice)
- *Trash Truck* (2020), series, Actor
- *Electric Jesus* (2020), as Skip Wick
- *Home Movie: The Princess Bride* (2020), series, as Fezzik
- *My Boyfriend's Meds* (2020), as Chase
- *One Last Night* (2019), as Escott
- *Summer Camp Island* (2018), series, as Storm Cloud (voice)
- *Ordinary World* (2016), as Rupert
- *Diagnosis Delicious* (2016), as Ed Paulson
- *Ghostbusters* (2016), as Frank (uncredited) — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters-2016.md)
- *The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show* (2015), series, as King Hotu Matu'a ​(voice)
- *Scream Queens* (2015), series, as Richard
- *Life in Pieces* (2015), series, as Dean
- *Foxcatcher* (2014), as USA Wrestling Rep #3 — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/foxcatcher.md)
- *Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn* (2014), series, as JD McCoy
- *Bad Teacher* (2014), series, as Officer Edmund
- *The Goldbergs* (2013), series, as Larry, Mr. Schernecke
- *The Bridge* (2013), series, as Gary
- *Chicago Fire* (2012), series, as Scott Powers
- *Astronaut: The Last Push* (2012), as Bob Jansen
- *Dirty Girl* (2010), as Concierge (uncredited)
- *Hot in Cleveland* (2010), series, as Claude
- *Adventure Time* (2010), series, as Georgy / Private (voice)
- *Into Temptation* (2009), as Fr. Ralph O'Brien
- *Four Christmases* (2008), as Eric
- *No. 6* (2007), as Boris
- *License to Wed* (2007), as Jim
- *Smith and Mike on a Tuesday* (2007), as Bob
- *Moosecock* (2006), as Paul Wood
- *Criminal Minds* (2005), series, as Bill Harding — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/tv/criminal-minds.md)
- *The Office* (2005), series, as Kevin Malone · Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md)
- *LAX* (2004), series, as Wes
- *Arrested Development* (2003), series, as Gun Vendor — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/tv/arrested-development.md)
- *The Lyon's Den* (2003), series, Actor
- *Everwood* (2002), series, as Contractor
- *Herman U.S.A.* (2001), as Roger
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Gordon Montlieff
- *Full House* (1987), series, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Brian Baumgartner at Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story premiere (2007)](https://film.one/media/person/100994/gallery-3f43d974a1df.jpg) Brian Baumgartner at Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story premiere (2007) — lukeford.net, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Brian_Baumgartner_LF.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Brian Baumgartner at Southern Methodist University (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/100994/gallery-8101c167078b.jpg) Brian Baumgartner at Southern Methodist University (2020) — Leedownen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Brian_Baumgartner_at_Southern_Methodist_University.jpg/1280px-Brian_Baumgartner_at_Southern_Methodist_University.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Brian Baumgartner at Southern Methodist University Homecoming 2015 (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/100994/gallery-56603a65cc21.jpg) Brian Baumgartner at Southern Methodist University Homecoming 2015 (2020) — Leedownen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Brian_Baumgartner_at_Southern_Methodist_University_Homecoming_2015.jpg/1280px-Brian_Baumgartner_at_Southern_Methodist_University_Homecoming_2015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Herminio Mendoza, an administrative specialist with Alpha Company, Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendl (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/100994/gallery-b3e0f1415975.jpg) U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Herminio Mendoza, an administrative specialist with Alpha Company, Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendl (2023) — Cpl. Alison Dostie, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Brian_Baumgartner_visits_Camp_Pendleton_%282%29.jpg/1280px-Brian_Baumgartner_visits_Camp_Pendleton_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Brian Baumgartner](https://film.one/media/person/100994/gallery-de3a13b1b8db.jpg) Brian Baumgartner — Image via TMDB
- ![Brian Baumgartner](https://film.one/media/person/100994/gallery-588805ae9b9f.jpg) Brian Baumgartner — Cpl. Alison Dostie, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Brian_Baumgartner_visits_Camp_Pendleton_%282%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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