Robert Alan Beuth

{{Short description|American actor (born 1957)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox person | image =  | image_size = 150px | birth_name = Robert Alan Beuth | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|11|30}} | birth_place = Albany, New York, U.S. | occupation = {{flatlist| * Actor * playwright * artist}} | years_active = 1971–present | spouse = | children = | credits = }}

'''Robert Alan Beuth''' (born {{date|1957-11-30|MDY}}) is an American actor, artist, and dramatist best known for portraying television character roles, with more than 50 to his name over a career now spanning four decades. He has worked prolifically in both comedy and drama, but is most notable for portraying the role of Mueller on two seasons of the syndicated talk-show spoof ''Night Stand with Dick Dietrick'', in 1996 and 1997. Beuth also has an extensive repertoire in commercials, in feature films, and (in particular) on stage, where his work encompasses acting, playwriting, and – most renownedly – the design and sculpting of theatrical masks and puppets.

==Life and career== ===Early life=== Beuth was born on {{date|1957-11-30|MDY}}, in Albany, New York,<ref>{{cite news |author= |date={{date|1957-12-12|MDY}} |title=Births |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/staten-island-advance-robert-allen-beuth/181129841/ |work=Staten Island Advance |location=Staten Island, New York |page=20}}</ref> third of four children to Philip R. Beuth, a program director at television station WTEN,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Christoffersen |first1= Alan |date={{date|1959-11-02|MDY}} |title=Ex-Islander Promotion Chief of Albany Radio Stations |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/staten-island-advance-phil-beuth-wten/181129994/ |work=Staten Island Advance |location=Staten Island, New York |page=27}}</ref> and Elizabeth C. ''née'' Yost,<ref>{{cite news |author= |date={{date|1998-01-25|MDY}} |title=Death Listings |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-buffalo-news-elizabeth-yost-beuth/181134124/ |work=The Buffalo News |location=Buffalo, New York |page=A-14}}</ref> a homemaker.<ref name="Jimpressions" /> At that time, Philip was just starting out on what would prove to be a long and prestigious career with the Capital Cities Television Corporation, the broadcasting conglomerate newly founded by various members of WTEN's management team; consequently, the family moved around repeatedly during Robert's youth, as Philip advanced through a succession of managerial positions at Capital Cities-owned stations such as WSAZ in Huntington, West Virginia and, ultimately, KFSN in Fresno, California.<ref>{{cite web |author= |date= |title=Philip R. Beuth |url=https://halloffame.nysbroadcasters.org/post/philp-r-beuth |website=New York State Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame |location= |publisher= |access-date={{date|2025-09-14|MDY}}}}</ref> There, Beuth attended Tenaya Junior High School<ref name="Moonbeam" /> and Bullard High School,<ref name="Larson" /> graduating from the latter in 1975.<ref name="Jimpressions" />

===Career beginnings=== Beuth's interest in the dramatic arts began in childhood, but was initially stymied by lack of opportunities in his then-hometown of Huntington. However, the family's aforementioned move to Fresno in 1971 brought them into contact with "dozens of lifestyle amenities absent in Appalachia", including local theater;<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bentley |first1=Rick |date={{date|2016-01-07|MDY}} |title=1970s-era ABC30 boss writes a memoir |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fresno-bee-phil-beuth-memoir-2016/181130321/ |work=Fresno Bee |location=Fresno, California |page=8B}}</ref> accordingly, Beuth quickly became a fixture in the Fresno Community Theater's children's program.<ref name="Moonbeam" /> By 1974, he had graduated to the main troupe, earned a reputation for ably portraying "rascal[ly characters] who make up in brass for what they lack in size",<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hale |first1=David |date={{date|1974-08-16|MDY}} |title=Revival: 'Leave It to Jane' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fresno-bee-1974-leave-it-to-jane-r/181130455/ |work=Fresno Bee |location=Fresno, California |page=B4}}</ref> and was singled out for particularly rave reviews for his performance as the Cowardly Lion in their staging of ''The Wizard of Oz'' that December.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Young |first1=Sandra |date={{date|1974-12-06|MDY}} |title='Oz' Performance Lacks Wizardry |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fresno-bee-beuth-as-the-cowardly-lio/181130620/ |work=Fresno Bee |location=Fresno, California |page=A19}}</ref>

Following his high school graduation, Beuth briefly joined the Good Company Players, a dinner theater troupe operating out of the Fresno Hilton,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hale |first1=David |date={{date|1975-07-04|MDY}} |title='Bye, Bye Birdie' Wings Away with Youth |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fresno-bee-robert-beuth-is-a-good-co/181130755/ |work=Fresno Bee |location=Fresno, California |page=C3}}</ref> before enrolling in the theater program at Fresno State University. A highlight of his two-year<ref name="Larson" /> tenure at Fresno State was his performance at the 1976 American College Theatre Festival in Washington, D.C. as part of the cast of ''The Liberty Dance of Henry Sparrow'', an original play authored by one of his own professors, Edward F. EmanuEl.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hale |first1=David |date={{date|1976-05-23|MDY}} |title=Revolutionary War Play Will Run Behind Iron Curtain |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fresno-bee-the-liberty-dance-of-hen/181130844/ |work=Fresno Bee |location=Fresno, California |page=G4}}</ref> Beuth also continued his work with the Fresno Community Theater during this time, garnering a Best Character Actor award for his turn as Herod in their production of ''Jesus Christ Superstar''.<ref>{{cite news |author= |date={{date|1977-06-12|MDY}} |title=FCT Awards 'Hambones' to 8 'Stars' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fresno-bee-robert-beuth-is-best-char/181130924/ |work=Fresno Bee |location=Fresno, California |page=C1}}</ref>

After leaving Fresno State in 1977, Beuth relocated to New York City<ref name="Larson" /> and enrolled in acting classes at the William Esper Studio on the advice of family friend Wayne Rogers<ref name="Jimpressions" /> to secure professional work. Although he kept busy on a part-time basis in regional and summer-stock theater (notably with a 1981 stint with Montclair State University's Summerfun Theater, in which his performance as Ensign Pulver in ''Mister Roberts'' earned him comparisons to "a young Jack Lemmon",<ref>{{cite news |last1=Finn |first1=Joan |date={{date|1981-06-25|MDY}} |title='Mr. Roberts' Launches Summerfun Season |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montclair-times-robert-beuth-in-mis/181131007/ |work=The Montclair Times |location=Montclair, New Jersey |page=13}}</ref> and a headline-making star turn in the Lake George Dinner Theatre's staging of ''Greater Tuna''),<ref>{{cite news |author= |date={{date|1985-10-03|MDY}} |title=Beuth adds flavor to many roles in 'Tuna' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-post-star-robert-beuth-in-glens-fall/181131090/ |work=The Post-Star |location=Glens Falls, New York |page=35}}</ref> Beuth later described this period of his life as a "jump into obscurity",<ref name="Larson" /> in which success proved stubbornly elusive and he was forced to supplement his income with stints working as a waiter and a house painter.<ref name="Jimpressions" />

===Television=== Although at first wholly devoted to theater, by 1982 Beuth had made some sporadic guest appearances on daytime soap operas,<ref>{{cite news |author= |date={{date|1982-12-30|MDY}} |title=Fulton & Company Announces 2 Class Sessions in Spring |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/intelligencer-journal-robert-beuth-ful/181131318/ |work=Intelligencer Journal |location=Lancaster, Pennsylvania |page=11}}</ref> and worked for three years<ref name="Jimpressions" /> as a studio page for NBC's ''Saturday Night Live''. In 1986, disillusioned with his lack of career advancement and with the encouragement of his father<ref name="Larson" /> (who had recently been promoted as vice-president of early morning programming at ABC Entertainment),<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pergament |first1=Alan |date={{date|1986-04-22|MDY}} |title=Phil Beuth to Head ABC Morning Show |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-buffalo-news-phil-beuth-takes-over-g/181131395/ |work=The Buffalo News |location=Buffalo, New York |page=C-6}}</ref> Beuth left New York for Los Angeles to try his hand in earnest at television acting. He initially regarded the move solely as a means of earning enough exposure and name recognition to one day return to the New York stage;<ref name="Larson" /> however, his signing with the talent agency of Cunningham, Escott & Dipene<ref name="Jimpressions" /> led almost immediately to a steady flow of work. Within a year, he accumulated credits for guest appearances on ''L.A. Law'', ''Remington Steele'', and ''Newhart'', and a television commercial in which he featured opposite Australian actor Paul Hogan<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pergament |first1=Alan |date={{date|1987-04-02|MDY}} |title=Dr. Ruth Loses Another of Her Positions |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-buffalo-news-robert-alan-beuth-on-n/181131545/ |work=The Buffalo News |location=Buffalo, New York |page=B-10}}</ref> just after Hogan's breakout role in ''Crocodile Dundee''. Notwithstanding this new dimension to his career, Beuth still managed to retain a presence on the live stage, principally as a player in the Sunday Company<ref>{{cite news |last1=Arkatov |first1=Janice |date={{date|1992-12-13|MDY}} |title='Stories of the Season' Plays Into Hands of Audience |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-13-ca-3947-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles}}</ref> of the improv and sketch comedy troupe The Groundlings.<ref name="Larson" />

The apex of Beuth's career in television came in January 1996, midway through the first season of the syndicated talk show spoof ''Night Stand with Dick Dietrick'', when he was cast in the role of Mueller. Taking over for Peter Siragusa, who had played the essentially identical character "Miller" for the series' first 25 episodes, Beuth was the doggedly loyal but perpetually browbeaten showrunner and sidekick opposite the show's host and namesake, portrayed by fellow Groundlings alum Timothy Stack. (Indeed, the supporting cast of ''Night Stand'' was also replete with former Groundlings, prominently including Lynne Marie Stewart, Shirley Prestia, and Christopher Darga.)<ref>{{cite web |last=Spacek |first=Nick |date={{date|2021-02-03|MDY}}|title='Oh, People – People, No!': TV's Tim Stack on the Cult of 'Night Stand' |url=https://www.grumpire.com/oh-people-people-no-tvs-tim-stack-on-the-cult-of-night-stand/ |website=Grumpire |location= |publisher= |access-date={{date|2025-09-14|MDY}}}}</ref> Beuth's role as Mueller would continue for the remainder of the series' two-season run, totaling 72 episodes in all.

In the years since the cancellation of ''Night Stand'', Beuth has continued to accumulate a lengthy résumé of television work. A notable highlight of his later career is ''Slanted'', a 2010 comedic web series created by Andrea Lwin and adapted from her autobiographical one-woman show of the same name, which chronicled her life as a second-generation Chinese-American aspiring to be a Hollywood actress.<ref>{{cite web |author= |date= |title=Andrea Lwin |url=https://asianfilmfestival.us/director/andrea-lwin/ |website=Asian Film Festival |location= |publisher= |access-date={{date|2025-09-14|MDY}}}}</ref> Beuth took an integral part in conceiving and developing the character of sleazy talent agent Marty Phister,<ref>{{cite web |last=Asakawa |first=Gil |date={{date|2009-12-14|MDY}}|title=Web comedy series 'Slanted' skewers, celebrates 'FOB' generation's values |url=https://nikkeiview.com/blog/2009/12/web-comedy-series-slanted-skewers-celebrates-fob-generations-values/ |website=Nikkei View: The Asian-American Blog |location= |publisher= |access-date={{date|2025-09-22|MDY}}}}</ref> which he played for two of the series' six episodes and for which he received an award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series at the 2011 LAWebFest.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lawebfest.com/ |title=Announcements |date=2011-03-27 |website=LAWebFest.com |access-date=2025-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119130412/http://lawebfest.com/ |archive-date=2012-01-19}}</ref>

===Feature films=== Beuth has also acted in a number of feature films over the course of his career, again generally in small character roles, including Hollywood blockbusters such as ''When Harry Met Sally...'', ''In the Line of Fire'', and ''Outbreak.'' ''New York Times'' critic Janet Maslin credited Beuth's appearance as mill worker Cy Ippeston in the 1990 horror movie ''Graveyard Shift'' for helping lend a certain "quirky appeal" to an otherwise uneven film adaptation of Stephen King's identically-titled short story.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Maslin |first1=Janet |date={{date|1990-10-27|MDY}} |title=Underground Horror |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/27/movies/review-film-underground-horror.html |work=The New York Times |location=New York}}</ref>

===Playwriting=== Beuth's most notable effort as a playwright is ''Stories of the Season'', which he created and wrote in collaboration with Robert George Harrison, an old acquaintance from his community theater days in Fresno.<ref name="Jimpressions" /> First staged as a production of the Pacific Theatre Ensemble of Culver City, California, the play's initial run in December 1992 earned praise from ''Los Angeles Times'' drama critic Sylvie Drake for its unusual structure and thematic influences: performances typically began with light ''hors d'oeuvres'' in the playhouse lobby and then proceeded to a stage sparsely appointed with a small selection of costumes and theatrical masks along with ten elaborately gift-wrapped boxes, five of which would be chosen by audience members to come onstage and open. Each box contained a printed story – described by the critic as "regenerative fables [that] draw heavily on mythology, miracles, and American Indian lore" – which would then be acted out by the production's five-person cast. These segments were interwoven with Christmas carol singalongs, conversations between cast and audience regarding personal holiday traditions, and other participatory elements.<ref name="LoveTheDrake!" />

''Stories of the Season'' was revived the following year in an updated version that incorporated several new stories, some with a Hanukkah theme,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Koehler |first1=Robert |date={{date|1993-12-08|MDY}} |title=Ensemble's 'Stories' Transcends Season |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-stories-of-the-se/181131769/ |work=Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles |page=F4}}</ref> and in the years since has itself become something of a holiday tradition among Southern California's theatrical community. Subsequent revivals have been staged locally by the Gascon Theater Center<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shirley |first1=Don |date={{date|1996-12-11|MDY}} |title=A Package Full of Winter 'Stories' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-stories-of-the-se/181131837/ |work=Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles |page=F5}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Ross |first1=Sandra |date={{date|1998-12-24|MDY}} |title=New Reviews |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/la-weekly-stories-of-the-season-is-bac/181131986/ |work=LA Weekly |location=Los Angeles |page=103}}</ref> and the Echo Theater Company,<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Purcell |first=Carey |date={{date|2014-01-02|MDY}} |title=Echo Theater Company Moves to Atwater Village Theatre |url=https://playbill.com/article/echo-theater-company-moves-to-atwater-village-theatre-com-213400 |magazine=Playbill |location=New York City |publisher= |access-date={{date|2025-09-15|MDY}}}}</ref> and the show has also occasionally been taken on the road to out-of-town destinations such as Santa Fe, New Mexico<ref>{{cite news |last1=Melcher |first1=Kristina |date={{date|2000-12-15|MDY}} |title='Stories of the Season' a nostalgic holiday gift |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-santa-fe-new-mexican-stories-of-the/181132091/ |work=Santa Fe New Mexican |location=Santa Fe, New Mexico |page=B-3}}</ref> and Stony Brook, New York.<ref>{{cite news |author= |date={{date|1995-12-10|MDY}} |title=Brookhaven: The Guide |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-stories-of-the/185745125/ |work=Newsday |location=Melville, New York |page=A86}}</ref>

In 2003, Beuth followed up the success of ''Stories of the Season'' with a second dramatic effort, ''In the Valley of the Mist'', again with Harrison as co-writer. Using 55 custom-designed puppets and masks<ref name="Jimpressions" /> as well as a cast largely drawn from the youth acting troupe of Santa Monica, California's not-for-profit Virginia Avenue Project, ''In the Valley of the Mist'' tells the story of Raj, a young boy who runs away from his village into the wilderness and encounters a parade of fantastical characters on his journey to the play's titular destination.<ref name="TalentUnmasked" />

Beuth's most recent foray as a dramatist is a one-man adaptation of the ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' that staged an initial four-week run at the Moving Arts Theatre in Los Angeles beginning in February 2024. Directed by Peter Van Norden and with sets designed by Tom Buderwitz, the production once again made prominent use of Beuth's repertoire of masks and puppets,<ref name="HuckFinn" /> and was lauded for its "gentle and genial... humanity", especially in light of the ongoing critical reappraisal of Mark Twain's original work.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fantasia |first1=Louis |date=March 2024 |title=Two high-octane plays are comedies? Twain still scrutinized |url=https://issuu.com/larchmontchronicle/docs/lc_03_2024/30 |work=Larchmont Chronicle |location=Los Angeles |page=10 |access-date={{date|2026-03-01|MDY}}}}</ref>

===Sculpture=== Aside from performance, Beuth's career as an artist mainly takes the form of the design and fabrication of theatrical masks and puppets, an interest that began while he was at the Fresno Community Theater. There, in addition to acting in the troupe, he was also employed as a custodian for the Fresno Memorial Auditorium, and thus had access to storage rooms where set elements and props were kept: an experience he likened to "a kid [being given] the keys to Disneyland at night". However, Beuth did not begin pursuing the craft in earnest until 1981, when he answered an ad that had been placed in a trade publication by Julie Taymor, a then-unknown but now-renowned theatrical artist who was soliciting students for an eight-week maskmaking course. Beuth soon began spending large amounts of his spare time sculpting masks in a workspace in his Manhattan studio apartment, first using Silastic and later neoprene.<ref name="Jimpressions" /> His handiwork is featured in all of his aforementioned self-written theatrical works,<ref name="LoveTheDrake!" /><ref name="TalentUnmasked" /><ref name="HuckFinn" /> but also comprises custom fabrications for a variety of Southern California theater companies. He has also taught courses in theatrical maskmaking at the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web |author= |date= |title=Robert Beuth |url=https://www.laphil.com/musicdb/artists/633/robert-beuth |website=Los Angeles Philharmonic |location= |publisher= |access-date={{date|2025-09-14|MDY}}}}</ref>

After completing work on ''In the Valley of the Mist'', Beuth began to expand his purview as a sculptor, studying for twelve years under Santa Monica-based artist Jonathan Bickhart and developing an additional specialty in the medium of cast bronze.<ref name="Jimpressions" />

==Filmography== ===Films=== {| class="wikitable" !Year !Film !Role !Director !Notes |- |rowspan="2"|1989 |''Ghostbusters II'' |Store Manager |Ivan Reitman | |- |''When Harry Met Sally...'' |Man on Aisle |Rob Reiner | |- |1990 |''Graveyard Shift'' |Cy Ippeston |Ralph S. Singleton | |- |rowspan="2"|1993 |''Reckless Kelly'' |Beverly Hills Bank Teller |Yahoo Serious | |- |''In the Line of Fire'' |Man at Bank |Wolfgang Petersen | |- |rowspan="2"|1994 |''The Fantastic Four'' |Dr. Hauptman |Oley Sassone |Unreleased. Credited as Robert Beuth  |- |''No Dessert, Dad, till You Mow the Lawn'' |Neighbor |Howard McCain | |- |rowspan="2"|1995 |''Outbreak'' |George Armistead |Wolfgang Petersen | |- |''Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys'' |Agent Bob |Charles Gale |Direct-to-video release  |- |rowspan="2"|1999 |''The Story of Us'' |Obstetrician |Rob Reiner | |- |''Kiss Toledo Goodbye'' |Harry |Lyndon Chubbuck |Direct-to-video release  |- |rowspan="2"|2001 |''The Shrink Is In'' |Man in Elevator |Richard Benjamin | |- |''Heartbreakers'' |Maître d' |David Mirkin | |- |2003 |''Grand Theft Parsons'' |Reporter |David Caffrey | |- |2005 |''Fun with Dick and Jane'' |Male Globodyne Employee |Dean Parisot | |- |2006 |''It's a Wonderful iLife'' |PC |J. P. Pierce |Short film |- |2007 |''Buddy System'' |Mr. Royce |J. P. Pierce |Short film |- |2009 |''Thanks for Dying'' |Don Quigley |R. J. McFarlane | |- |2010 |''It's a Horrible Life'' |Mr. Potter |Gregg Binkley |Short film |- |2016 |''Sensitivity Training'' |George |Melissa Finell | |- |2021 |''The United States vs. Billie Holiday'' |Congressman J. Rankin |Lee Daniels | |}

===Television=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! width="75"|Year(s) ! width="225"|Title ! width="200"|Role(s) ! Notes |- |rowspan="5"|1987 |''L.A. Law'' |Attorney Jones |S1E15 "December Bribe". Credited as Robert Beuth  |- |''Remington Steele'' | |S5E3 "Steele Hanging in There: Part 1"<ref name="Larson" />  |- |''Newhart'' |Barry Drobes |S5E23 "Good-Bye & Good Riddance, Mr. Chips"  |- |''Our House'' | |S2E1 "Sounds from a Silent Clock: Part 1"; S2E2 "Sounds from a Silent Clock: Part 2"  |- |''The New Gidget'' |Councilman |S2E2 "Bred to Shred"  |- |rowspan="4"|1988 |''ALF'' |Howard |S2E22 "Movin' Out". Credited as Robert Beuth  |- |''Just in Time'' | |S1E2 "All the Editor's Men"  |- |''On the Fritz'' |Network Executive ||TV movie. Credited as Robert Beuth  |- |''Dynasty'' |Morgue Assistant |S9E4 "Body Trouble"  |- |1989 |''Anything but Love'' |Star Squad Commander Adams |S2E11 "Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" |- |1990 |''Open House'' |The Client |S1E22 "The Real Estate Thing" |- |1990–1991 |''General Hospital'' |Concierge; Desk Clerk |3 episodes |- |rowspan="2"|1991 |''A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story'' |PR Man ||TV movie  |- |''Santa Barbara'' |Auditor |Episode #1778  |- |1992 |''Camp Wilder'' | |S1E9 "Something Wilder" |- |1993 |''Reasonable Doubts'' |Agent Dawkins |S2E15 "Thank God, It's Friday" |- |1994 |''The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies'' |Manny ||TV movie |- |1995 |''Coach'' |Desk Clerk |S7E15 "Close Encounters of the Worst Kind" |- |1995–1997 |''Night Stand with Dick Dietrick'' |Mueller |Main role in final 72 episodes of series, beginning with S1E25 "Athletes as Role Models" (1996). Also played the role of Donny in S1E21 "Mistrial of the Century" (1995). Credited as Robert Beuth or Robert Alan Booth ''(sic)'' for some episodes. |- |rowspan="4"|1996 |''Murphy Brown'' |Robert |S8E23 "Stepping Out"  |- |''Norma Jean & Marilyn'' |Commissary Photographer |TV movie  |- |''Alien Avengers'' |Nervous Customer ||TV movie  |- |''Life with Louie'' | |S2E1 "Caddy on a Hot Tin Roof" (voice)  |- |1997 |''Chicago Hope'' |Harry Derkin |S3E12 "Split Decisions" |- |rowspan="2"|1998 |''Team Knight Rider'' |Cal Tech Engineer #1 |S1E20 "Apocalypse Maybe". Credited as Bob Beuth  |- |''Party of Five'' |Willard |S5E2 "Separation Anxiety"  |- |rowspan="2"|1999 |''Caroline in the City'' |Realtor |S4E16 "Caroline and the Ancestral Home"  |- |''Payne'' |Minister |S1E8 "Wedding Fever"  |- |rowspan="2"|2000 |''Rude Awakening'' |Arthur |S2E20 "Star 80 Proof"  |- |''Suddenly Susan'' |Howie |S4E16 "Girls Night Out"  |- |rowspan="2"|2002 |''Son of the Beach'' |Town Crier |S3E8 "Hamm Stroker's Suck My Blood"  |- |''Malcolm in the Middle'' |Tom |S4E3 "Family Reunion"  |- |rowspan="4"|2003 |''CSI: Miami'' |Principal Roland |S1E20 "Grave Young Men"  |- |''The West Wing'' |Translator |S4E20 "Evidence of Things Not Seen"  |- |''Friends'' |Professor Klarik |S9E23 "The One in Barbados". Uncredited  |- |''Charmed'' |Salesman |S6E4 "The Power of Three Blondes"  |- |2005 |''Fielder's Choice'' |Mitchell |TV movie |- |2006 |''ER'' |ICU Chief |S12E12 "Split Decisions" |- |rowspan="2"|2009 |''Lie to Me'' |Angry Guest |S1E4 "Love Always"  |- |''Monk'' |D.A. Charles Friedken |S8E5 "Mr. Monk Takes the Stand"  |- |2010 |''Rules of Engagement'' |City Official |S4E6 "Third Wheel". Credited as Robert Beuth |- |rowspan="3"|2011 |''Slanted'' |Marty Phister |Web series. S1E2 "Marty Phister"; S1E3 "Doubt This"  |- |''Accidentally in Love'' |Doctor |TV movie  |- |''Law & Order: LA'' |Larry Phillips |S1E20 "El Sereno"  |- |2012 |''Awake'' |Stan Drake |S1E2 "The Little Guy" |- |rowspan="2"|2013 |''Bones'' |Bert Hogue |S9E9 "The Fury in the Jury"  |- |''Betas'' |Investor #3 |S1E8 "Show & Tell"  |- |rowspan="2"|2014 |''Grey's Anatomy'' |Mr. Gorder |S10E18 "You Be Illin'"  |- |''Stalker'' |Ron |S1E2 "Whatever Happened to Baby James?"  |- |2015 |''Kirby Buckets'' |Mr. Sands |S2E2 "The Gil in My Life" |- |2018 |''The Guest Book'' |Stan |S2E2 "Under Cover" |- |2022 |''As We See It'' |Marcus |S1E2 "I Apologize for My Words and Actions" |- |rowspan="3"|2023 |''The Conners'' |Big Belly Man |S5E11 "Two More Years and a Stolen Rose"  |- |''Minx'' |Cliff |S2E2 "I Thought the Bed Was Gonna Fly"  |- |''Lessons in Chemistry'' |Frank Marsten |3 episodes  |- |2025 |''Matlock'' |Judge Sheldon Flecher |S1E10 "Crash Helmets On" |}

===Video games=== {| class="wikitable" |- !Year !Title !Role !Notes |- |2011 |''L.A. Noire'' |Barton Keyes | |}

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0079612|Robert Alan Beuth}} {{Authority control}}

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