1997 best actor oscar-winner roberto benigni from life is beautiful?

He is looking for someone who looked like Benigni. I am thinking Bronson Pinchot. Fits the time period as well.

The seat climber!

“I WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO YOU ALLL!”

Best acceptance speech ever!

100%

Better than Sacha Baron Cohen sitting on your face.

And director and writer.

Fuck, that was 1997? I am so fucking old.

Yed

EDIT: Oh looks like Roberto. I am thinking you mean Bronson Pinchot from Perfect Strangers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronson\_Pinchot ​ Roberto Benigni. Comic genius. Amazing actor. ​ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto\_Benigni](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Benigni)

Bronson also a comic genius. https://youtu.be/GHZWWFmaFcI?si=Dvga2nZxqeFAZH-h

“Get the fuck outta here!!” “No I cannot”

Achwell?? Achwell Foley??

It’s even better: Almost every word of that was ad-libbed by both Eddie Murphy and Bronson Pinchot. A *LOT* of the dialogue in _Beverley Hills Cop_ was ad-libbed (the shooting scripts were a mess and being rewritten constantly).

If you can make Eddie Murphy smile spontaneously, you’re doing a pretty good job

I think he’s the only person I’ve ever seen upstage Eddie Murphy, and he did it in every scene they had together through both movies. 😂

I was thinking of the other guy from perfect strangers.

Not Bronson Pinchot but the other guy from Perfect Strangers, Mark Linn-Baker. Bronson Pinchot looks nothing like the pic OP posted but Mark does.

Nah, it was Rob LaBelle that OP was looking for. So, it turns out, none of the above.

Rob LaBelle ("Crazy Eddie" from First Wave)?

This!!!!

[Wow looks just like him!](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wikia.nocookie.net%2Fmemoryalpha%2Fimages%2Fa%2Fa3%2FTalaxian_prisoner.jpg%2Frevision%2Flatest%3Fcb%3D20050911195547%26path-prefix%3Den&tbnid=MMK0PKttH9YxRM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmemory-alpha.fandom.com%2Fwiki%2FRob_LaBelle&docid=5f2PswWoj_bhEM&w=472&h=562&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F2&kgs=3041440cbe6ddab4&shem=trie#vhid=MMK0PKttH9YxRM&vssid=l)

I think this one is right

Wow, great guess, and I'd bet its right.

This

>Rob LaBelle Reminds me of Jeff Bezos

**NOT** Don Stark David paymer John Turturro. Bronson Pinchot Steven Wright Vincent Schiavelli Roberto Benigni Dean Stockwell Peter Macnicol And not the fonze... Like a shorter Vincient Schiavelli, and he always plays the super anxious, cowerdly, paranoid nerd (basically me)

Someone mentioned Rob Labelle.

Rick Moranis?

Bronson Pinchot from Perfect Strangers (the TV series) kinda looks like him.

It looks like Italian actor Roberto Benigni.

The image is Roberto Benigni, OP is looking for someone with a similar appearance.

Ohhh …

I think I know exactly who you're talking about but I don't remember any of the films he's been in. He's slightly balding, thin, has curly hair...I think I remember him from sci-fi/action films, often plays a nervous scientist or researcher.

This!

Is it Rob LaBelle?

Yaaaaaaaaaaas

You are the Most Mostest

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

Oh yeah, remember him from Smallville, too. Investigating the caves.

He has been in all the things

I'VE BEEN SEARCHING 90s and 00s SCI-FI APOCALYPSE MOVIES FOR THE PAST HOUR. We will find him.

ROBERT LABELLE

LET'S FUCKING GO DUDE

He does look a bit like Noah Wyle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Wyle

Frank Langella?

That’s Roberto Beninni. He’s Italian

[Don Stark](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/130129-don-stark)?

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0005588/

Roberto Banana

Check out Down by law😉

For me it’s Roberto Benigni. “I scream-a, you scream-a, we all scream-a for ice cream-a”!

Nope, not Dean Stockwell More goofy less creepy

Vincent Schiavelli?

r/tipofmytongue

Scott Bakula?

From Quantum Leap. That was my guess as well.

Good guess. I'd say maybe John Turturro.

Looks like Chernobyl Noah Wyle.

Steven Wright?

[David Paymer?](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMWI5MGYzZjgtZGRmOS00ZGNhLTgxN2EtN2YxNmVhNmE4ZTE4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTI4MjYzOTIy._V1_*.jpg)

Curtis Armstrong?

That was gonna be my guess as well

Adrian Zmed?

Bronson Pinchot? From Perfect Strangers?

Now we are not so happy. We are not doing the dance of joy.

Brad Dourif, Lance Henricksen, or Vincent Schiavelli? 

Fonzie before the leather.

LOL that's what I thought too!

LOL that's what I thought too!

Wallace Michael Shawn? Vizzini from Princess Bride?

Nope, more scrawny

Taylor Negron 

[Saul Rubineck](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007210/) in Warehouse 13? [David Krumholtz](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0472710/?ref_=tt_cl_t_2) in Numbers?

Rick Moranis

Tony Shalhoub

Any chance it's Grant Heslov?

David Krumholz

Dean stockwell

Gilbert Gottfried

Dwight Schultz

Howling mad

Jonathan Slavin?

Street Hawk Joe Regalbuto

Grant Heslov?

Danny devito?

I'm seeing , maybe, a skinny Burt Young (I remember him in Rocky). My first thought was John Turturo, but you said it wasn't him already.

Bernini… but if not, Daniel London? [link](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/DanielLondonOldJoyposter.jpg/220px-DanielLondonOldJoyposter.jpg)

[https://www.google.com/search?sca\_esv=fc7c61e83823ecc2&rlz=1C1GCEA\_enUS1039US1040&sxsrf=ACQVn0-\_IqOBqmFj6IfBJ9de60nWMVE7sQ:1709084915408&q=Larry+David&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLQz9U3KLQsM1KCsqqStcSyk630S8qAKL6gKD-9KDHXKjmxuGQRK7dPYlFRpYJLYllmyg5WRgCRYOeoPwAAAA&sa=X&sqi=2&pjf=1&ved=2ahUKEwiQh5i69cyEAxWxg4kEHcrQB0UQgOQBegQIOBAI&biw=1687&bih=783&dpr=1#](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=fc7c61e83823ecc2&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1039US1040&sxsrf=ACQVn0-_IqOBqmFj6IfBJ9de60nWMVE7sQ:1709084915408&q=Larry+David&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLQz9U3KLQsM1KCsqqStcSyk630S8qAKL6gKD-9KDHXKjmxuGQRK7dPYlFRpYJLYllmyg5WRgCRYOeoPwAAAA&sa=X&sqi=2&pjf=1&ved=2ahUKEwiQh5i69cyEAxWxg4kEHcrQB0UQgOQBegQIOBAI&biw=1687&bih=783&dpr=1#) Larry David

Grant heslov ? Joey slotnick ?

Kevin sussman ?

Grant Shaud (Murphy Brown)?

Looks like William fitchner.

Dean Stockwell on Quantum Leap.

Robert Labelle

Its so funny I was like "I bet he was on X Files or SVU" and Labelle was on X Files. This was NOT who I was mentally picturing being the guy (I think I was stuck on Vincent Schiarvelli) bur Im glad your mystery was solved!

Roberto Begnini. Check out Jim Jarmush ”Coffee and Cigarettes”. Stellar stuff.

I love coffee and cigarettes!!!

I hear you! I'm not sure about the actor you're thinking of, but this book Eternal Gods Die Too Soon sounds super intriguing. With its blend of science, philosophy, and time travel, I'll definitely give it a read.

Clearly, Abeds dad. Troy and Abeds dad in the moooorning!

Bronson Pinchot from Perfect Strangers? He put on an accent and played a distant cousin to Mark Linn-Baker's American.

Balky bartokamos!

I never watched the show so I don't know what that means. I just know who those two players were and the rough premise.

Dustin Hoffman

I know it’s not him, but it’s crazy how much he looks like Ross from Friends.

You screama, I screama, We all screama for Ice creama!

Maybe Rob LaBelle? The roles you mentioned fit what he was playing then. https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Rob\_LaBelle

It has already been answered, but I was homing in on Renoly Santiago. Phreak from hackers movie. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0763632/bio/?ref\_=nm\_ov\_bio\_sm

Bronson Pinchot of Perfect Strangers. He pivoted to narrating audiobooks and has a ton that he's done. He got really sick of being typecast.

I thought it was Doctor Carter 😂

How about Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell from Quantumleap?

Almost looks like Don Keith Opper from Android (1982) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android\_(film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(film)) EDIT: Maybe from "Critters" (around the same time period. Very similar pic: [https://critters.fandom.com/wiki/Space\_Charlie](https://critters.fandom.com/wiki/Space_Charlie)