Aaron Lustig
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Aaron Lustig (born September 17, 1956, in Rochester, New York) is an American film and television actor. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting and directing from Ithaca College and subsequently joined the faculty of The Lee Strasberg Institute. Over the course of a career spanning more than four decades, he has accumulated well over a hundred screen credits, working primarily in television.
In Ghostbusters II (1989), Lustig appeared as Norman the Producer, a television executive who oversees the in-studio footage of the Ghostbusters. The character has been visually referenced in IDW Publishing's Ghostbusters comic series.
Lustig's film work includes roles in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990), Sam Raimi's Darkman (1990), and The Day After Tomorrow (2004). On television, he held a long-running recurring role as Dr. Tim Reid on the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, for which he received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in 1997. He also appeared on The Bold and the Beautiful, NYPD Blue, and Criminal Minds, among many other series.