Bill Fagerbakke
Bill Fagerbakke
William Mark "Bill" Fagerbakkeis an American actor, voice actor, producer, director and writer. He is best known for his long-running roles as Patrick Star in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants and Michael "Dauber" Dybinski on the sitcom Coach. He also appeared in 12 episodes of the sitcom How I Met Your Mother as Marshall Eriksen's father Marvin...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth4 October 1957
CityFontana, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you're offered. If you're big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood and James Arness carved out niches for themselves in Westerns. I just hope I won't be faced with doing 'Li'l Abner' in dinner theater for the rest of my career.
Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.
It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.
When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.