Arne Starr filmography and biography
Arne Starr biography
An artist for over 35 years, Arne Starr has produced illustrations for
many major companies and products and is best known for creating more
art for Star Trek Comics than any other artist. As an ink artist at DC
Comics, he has worked on just about every major character at the
company. His uncredited co-inking efforts on Crisis on Infinite Earths
(featuring the death of Supergirl and the Flash) and on Booster Gold
and Batman were followed with credited stints on Power Girl, Green
Lantern in Action Comics, Legion of Super-Heroes (co-inker, not "Ink
Assist"), Unknown Soldier, Firestorm, and the original first ever
mini-series of Star Trek: The Next Generation which followed into his
long run on classic Star Trek, plus many, many more. His work also
extends to Nexus at First Comics, Deep Space Nine at Malibu, and
Spider-Man at Marvel and The Black Tiger for Beyond Time Comics, a
graphic novel, War Of The Worlds, and more. Also over the years Arne
has created numerous promotional art for a multitude of conventions
featuring the main guests of each of those cons. And now in LA, he has
been working on concept drawings and storyboards for a few companies as
well. Working on Trek Comics led to Arne's becoming a regular guest at
Star Trek and media conventions as well as a few Sci-Fi based radio
programs. His Hollywood connections with major studios provide him with
"teasers," trailers, and behind-the-scenes pieces to present at
conventions to delight the fans, as well as bringing all those
wonderful giveaway goodies the studios provide.
Arne became an actor due to his association with Star Trek - performing
in staged radio plays with Bill Campbell and John de Lancie at various
conventions, which grew into full-blown radio plays on the bi-annual
SeaTrek cruises. The late Mark Lenard ("Sarek," Spock's father) noticed
Arne and brought him into his Masters Acting Class in New York. Arne
won parts in six different plays during the first year he began
auditioning - the lead in Sunshine Boys, stand-in lead Anatoly in the
musical Chess, the bellhop in Lend Me a Tenor, other roles in Arsenic
in Old Lace and Singing in the Rain and various parts in Showcases from
Mark's studio. Moving from Connecticut to Florida he played leads in
the Neil Simon play, I Ought to be in Pictures, then the male lead in
the play "Social Security," "Speed" in The "Odd Couple" and has also
been in about a half dozen films out of the Full Sail film school in
Winter Park, FL. Now an LA area resident, he has done a couple of
independent films and works many a show. He plays an Attending
Physician on Grey's Anatomy (who was recently and conveniently named
"Arne" on the air), A Crab Shack regular on My Name Is Earl, a
detective on Medium and CSI NY, a townie on Jericho, and artist in an
ad agency circa 1960 (typecasting) on Mad Men, a hit man on Bones and
has been on various shows like Desperate Housewives, Brothers And
Sisters, The Unit, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Gilmore Girls, Six Feet Under,
Big Shots and many more running around the background. Also he's worked
many a film like being a survivor in Spielberg's War Of The Worlds, a
Montreal Judge in Blades of Glory, NY Nets on-air announcer in
Semi-Pro, A rich business guy partying and a bus rider in Iron Man
(though Dubai was cut in the final version), running around Mission
City streets in Transformers, and as Robin Hood in I Now Pronounce You
Chuck And Larry. Other films include The Changling, Spider-man 3,
License To Wed, Get Smart, Crossing Over, The Holiday, Valley Of Light,
World Trade Center, You Don't Mess With The Zohan, Yes Man, Hancock,
G-Force, Man In The Chair, There Will Be Blood, Hotel For Dogs, Bedtime
Stories and others.