Dave Florek

Dave Florek is an actor, best known for his roles as Mr. Chopsaw on Nickelodeon’s Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide, Vic on ABC’s Grace Under Fire, and Coach Smiley on NBC’s The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Film credits include Fuzz Track City, Love’s Unending Legacy, Hidalgo, Fallen Arches, Spring Awakening, And the Band Played On, Gunsmoke: The Last Apache, Ghostbusters II, and Internal Affairs.

Theatre credits include Off-Broadway, as Sean/McCarthy in Emily (N.Y.C. Center Stage), Bream/Cootie’s Father in Moonchildren (McGinn-Cazale Theatre), Oliver Wright in Copperhead (WPA Theatre), Light Man in Lion Theatre (Marvelous Gray), Pete in The Death of a Miner (American Place Theatre); and regionally, as Joxer Daly in Juno and the Paycock (Interact Theatre), Hilly in D. Boone and Harold Ickes in The Carving of Mount Rushmore (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Anchorman/Actor in The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers (Old Globe Theatre), and A.J. Reese in Responsible Parties (Vineyard Theatre).