Kurt Fuller

Kurt Fuller (born September 16, 1953, San Francisco, California, raised in Stockton) is an American actor with a distinctive tall, angular presence that has made him a reliable choice for officiously comic authority figures across three decades of film and television. He earned a degree in English literature at UC Berkeley, then spent the better part of a decade selling real estate in the Pacific Palisades while performing in Los Angeles theater at night. The two careers converged in 1986 when he created the lead role in Steven Berkoff's "Kvetch," a production that earned rave reviews on both coasts.

It was that stage work that led to Ghostbusters II. Harold Ramis's then-wife saw one of Fuller's performances eight times and arranged for him to meet director Ivan Reitman. Because the original Walter Peck actor William Atherton was unavailable, Reitman remembered Fuller and offered him the part of Jack Hardemeyer, the ambitious mayoral aide who commits the Ghostbusters to the psychiatric ward in Ghostbusters II (1989), without negotiation. Fuller was cast largely on the strength of his stage reputation rather than an extensive film history.

In the years following, Fuller appeared in No Holds Barred (1989), Wayne's World (1992), Scary Movie (2000), Ray (2004), and The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), among other films. On television, he became particularly well known for playing Coroner Woody Strode in the USA Network mystery-comedy Psych (2009-2014) and for portraying the angel Zachariah across multiple seasons of Supernatural (2009-2019). He is married to writer Jessica Hendra.