James Urbaniak

Speaks on the shows. Their sketches and lines as a speaker.

Wikidata Q6144533: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Beware of the Gonzo (2010); The Fabelmans (2022); The Venture Brothers.

Draws on

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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981): 2 lines

  1. theme (theme) · through The Fabelmans (2022), which they acted in: The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read). Marion's monkey scenes mirror Spielberg's mother's relationship with the monkey shown in The Fabelmans.
    “the relationship Marion has with the monkey, in that brief amount of screen time, feels so mirrored to his mother's relationship with the monkey”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:28:09 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme) · through The Fabelmans (2022), which they acted in: The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read). Marion is partly Spielberg's mother, which keeps her from being an idealized tough-girl fantasy.
    “it does feel like to some degree she's like his mom.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:28:40 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (3) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

No claims join them to a film or another person.

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about James Urbaniak: As a first grader a kid told him he sounded like Mr. Spock; his voice is his dad's Jersey loudness plus his mother's over-careful articulation.
    “you sound like Mr. Spock.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:32:59 · James Urbaniak (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about James Urbaniak: On Law and Order SVU James played a red-herring creep who put cameras in women's restrooms; his character's name was Wade Donato, an aquatic pun.
    “his name was Wade Donato, and I always felt Wade was a sort of aquatic pun.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 2:18:21 · James Urbaniak (0.90 sure it was them)