Biography
Donald Gibb was an American actor. He was born Donald Richard Gibb on 4 August 1954 in New York City and raised in California. He attended the University of New Mexico on a basketball scholarship and transferred to the University of San Diego to play football. He had a brief stint with the San Diego Chargers before beginning his acting career in the early 1980s.
Gibb is best known for playing the fraternity brother Fred 'Ogre' Palowakski in Revenge of the Nerds (1984) and its sequels Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987) and Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love (1994). He also portrayed Ray Jackson in Bloodsport (1988) and the sequel Bloodsport II: The Next Kumite (1996). From 1984 to 1991 he played Leslie 'Dr. Death' Krunchner in the HBO series 1st & Ten.
His other credits include guest roles in series such as The A-Team, MacGyver, The X-Files and Seinfeld, and film appearances in Conan the Barbarian (1982), U.S. Marshals (1998) and Hancock (2008). Gibb died on 12 May 2026 in Texas, aged 71.
