John Pankow is an American actor, best known as Ira Buchman on NBC’s Mad About You and Merc Lapidus on Showtime’s Episodes.

Film credits include Putzel, Morning Glory, Bride Wars, Talk Radio, *batteries not included, and To Live and Die in L.A.

Broadway credits include his debut as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Citizen of Vienna in Amadeus (Broadhurst Theatre); Pisanio in Cymbeline (Vivian Beaumont Theatre); Juror #7 in Twelve Angry Men (American Airlines Theatre); Zackerman in Serious Money (Royale Theatre); and Rocky Pioggi in The Iceman Cometh (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre). Off-Broadway includes Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Lucio in Measure for Measure, Stephano in The Tempest, and Speed in Two Gentleman of Verona (Delacorte Theatre); Shag in Equivocation and Hugh Maximillian Bonfigliano in Italian American Reconciliation (N.Y.C. Center Stage); and Reverend Mike in Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them and Colin/Others in Ice Cream with Hot Fudge (Newman Theatre).