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Benjamin Koldyke

Benjamin Koldyke

Actor · b. 1968 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Benjamin Koldyke (born March 27, 1968) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Don Frank on How I Met Your Mother (2009–2010), Lee Standish in Work It (2012), and Greg Gibbon on Gortimer Gibbon's Life On Normal Street (2014–2016). Koldyke was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in nearby Kenilworth. His father, Martin J. "Mike" Koldyke, is a former investment banker who founded Frontenac Company in Chicago and is a life trustee of Northwestern University; through his mother, Patricia Blunt Koldyke, he is a member of the family that controls Laird Norton Company, an investment company with roots in the timber industry of the Pacific Northwest. After graduating from high school, he did a post-graduate year at Choate Rosemary Hall. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English and was a quarterback for the football team. Koldyke worked as a high school English teacher and football coach in Chicago. His acting career received a jump start after a chance encounter with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator-star, Rob McElhenney. Regulars at the same Venice cafe, he covered Rob's tab with a note that said he "thought his show was fantastic," and this exchange led to Koldyke's first TV pilot, Boldly Going Nowhere for Fox, a few years later. After Boldly was not picked up, Koldyke went on to recur as Dale Tomasson in the HBO series Big Love and as Don Frank in How I Met Your Mother for CBS. n 2012, Koldyke starred as the lead character in the short-lived ABC comedy series Work It and later guest starred in HBO's The Newsroom 2013 saw him star in another ABC sitcom, Back in the Game, opposite James Caan and Maggie Lawson. He had a significant arc on Showtime's Masters of Sex as teacher and football coach Paul Edley, and played male chauvinist Brent throughout the final season of The Good Place. In 2021 he had a recurring role on season 1 of Peacock sitcom Rutherford Falls Koldyke was seen on the big screen in 2016 in a supporting role for Disney's The Finest Hours alongside Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Eric Bana, and Ben Foster.

Series19

  • TV7.8

    24

    2001 · 1.9K votes

  • TV8.1

    How I Met Your Mother

    2005 · 6K votes

  • TV8.3
  • TV8.0

    Curb Your Enthusiasm

    2000 · 976 votes

  • TV7.6

    Paradise

    2025 · 545 votes

  • TV6.9

    Big Love

    2006 · 155 votes

  • TV8.1

    Silicon Valley

    2014 · 2K votes

  • TV7.1

    Masters of Sex

    2013 · 437 votes

  • TV8.0

    The Good Place

    2016 · 2.1K votes

  • TV8.1

    The Newsroom

    2012 · 768 votes

  • TV7.6

    Jack & Jill

    1999 · 21 votes

  • TV6.0

    The Michael J. Fox Show

    2013 · 72 votes

  • TV6.1

    Carol's Second Act

    2019 · 26 votes

  • TV6.5

    Rutherford Falls

    2021 · 31 votes

  • TV8.4
  • TV6.0

    Back in the Game

    2013 · 24 votes

  • TV3.7

    Work It

    2012 · 6 votes

  • TV4.1

    Mr. Robinson

    2015 · 12 votes

  • TV9.0

    Boldly Going Nowhere

    2008 · 3 votes

Movies6

  • Movie6.6

    The Finest Hours

    2016 · 1.8K votes

  • Movie7.0

    Thirteen Days

    2000 · 864 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Stuck on You

    2003 · 745 votes

  • Movie5.2

    The Next Best Thing

    2000 · 206 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Say I Do

    2003 · 1 votes

  • Movie