Biography

David Neale (born David Arthur Knut Sivertsen, March 11, 1961, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian actor, 5′ 10″ (178 cm) tall, who has been active since 1986, accumulating over 40 film and television credits. He frequently portrays police officers, guards, soldiers, and other authority figures, and has lived with spastic (laryngeal) dysphonia for over a decade. His most notable film credits include a Policeman in Scary Movie (2000), a Spook in Shooter (2007, with Mark Wahlberg and Angelina Jolie), Navy Dad in Snakes on a Plane (2006, with Samuel L. Jackson), Man #1 in Freddy Got Fingered (2001), Officer Plessy in Carrie (2002, with Amber Tamblyn), a Desk Manager in Duets (2000, with Hugh Grant), and a Stage Cop in Camouflage (2001). On television he appeared as a Police Captain in Fringe (2010), a Host in Bates Motel (2013), a Page in Battlestar Galactica (2006), a Genii Soldier in Stargate Atlantis (2004), a Navy Base Guard in The X-Files (1996), a SWAT Guy in Intelligence (2005), and a Heart Doctor in The Dead Zone (2002), with additional credits in Millennium (1997), Supernatural (2008), Almost Human (2014), The Killing (2011), Masters of Science Fiction (2007), Tru Calling (2003), Da Vinci's Inquest (1998), and The Ray Bradbury Theater (1992).