Dan Lauria Daniel Joseph Lauria is an American actor, known for his role as Jack Arnold in The Wonder Years .Early life Lauria, an Italian-American , was born in Brooklyn, New York , the son of Carmela and Joseph J. Lauria. He also lived in Lindenhurst, New York . He graduated from Lindenhurst Senior High School in 1965 as a varsity football player, and he briefly taught physical education at Lindenhurst High School . A Vietnam War veteran , Lauria served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps ; he served at the same point in his life that Jack Arnold, his character in The Wonder Years , did during the Korean War . In Vietnam, he served as a platoon commander at An Loc near the Cambodian border. He got his start in acting while attending Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut , on a football scholarship.Career Lauria is best known for his portrayal of Jack Arnold, the money-conscious father on the TV series The Wonder Years , that ran from 1988 to 1993. He also played NASA Administrator James Webb in the 1998 TV miniseries From the Earth to the Moon and Commanding Officer, USA in 1996's Independence Day . More recently he has appeared as Police Commissioner Eustace Dolan in The Spirit . He appeared as Coach Hamstrung in The Three Stooges N.Y.U.K. on AMC in 2000. Lauria appeared on stage in New York in the summer of 2006 in an Off Broadway production of A Stone Carver by William Mastrosimone with Jim Iorio and Elizabeth Rossa. Lauria also had a small role in a season two episode of Army Wives , as well as a season one episode of The Mentalist . In 2009, Lauria has appeared as General Lee Whitworth, M.D. in Criminal Minds season 4. He has also appeared in an episode of Boy Meets World , starring Ben Savage , the younger brother of Fred Savage . In late 2009, Lauria returned to the Off Broadway stage, appearing as Jimmy Hoffa in Brian Lee Franklin's Good Bobby , a fictionalized account of Robert Kennedy's rise. In 2010, Lauria appeared as Vince Lombardi in the Broadway play Lombardi . The play received positive reviews, with sportswriter Jim Hague commenting, "Lauria truly becomes Vince Lombardi. You almost forget you're watching an actor. He's Lombardi through and through , down to the wire-framed glasses and intimidating scowl." North Bergen football coach Vince Ascolese, who met Lombardi, commented "I really felt like he was Lombardi. It was uncanny." Lauria's portrayal of Lombardi was used during the NFL on FOX introduction to Super Bowl XLV , where one of the two participating teams was the Green Bay Packers ; the team Lombardi coached to victories in the first two Super Bowls in 1967 and 1968. The Packers went on to defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers in that game. In 2012, Lauria played the part of Jean Shepherd in the Broadway production of , a role which he reprised off Broadway at Madison Square Garden in 2013. From 2012 through 2014, he played Jack Sullivan on the Steve Byrne sitcom Sullivan & Son .Filmography Film C.O.D. as Secret Service Man #2Without a Trace as BakerSouth Bronx Heroes as FBI AgentStakeout as Phil ColdshankAnother Stakeout as Captain Coldshank as Mr. Orland FrancoFaithful No One Could Protect Her as Det. Greg ComingIndependence Day as Commanding OfficerTrue Friends as PauleyWide Awake as Father PetersStranger in My House as DennisA Wake in Providence as RudyRicochet River as Coach GarthContagion as General RykerOutside the Law as Detective FromanHigh Times Potluck as CarmineThe Empath Dead Canaries as Vito ScaldafieriThe Signs of the Cross as Mr. CoyneJesus, Mary and Joey as Father GinoBig Momma's House 2 as CrawfordDear Me as Mr. HuntThe Spirit as Commissioner Eustace DolanAlien Trespass as Chief DawsonDonna On Demand as Detective LewisDead Air as FredInSearchOf as Reverend BlackwellThe Waiter as Father ParksHere's the Kicker as Dave BerryLife of Lemon as ArthurMake Your Move as Parole Officer FosterSister as Jeffrey PresserThe Concessionaires Must Die! as Jack FiskAn American Dog Story as Paw PoochiniLocating Silver Lake as SpeakerThe Eagle and the Albatross as Dr. Al WisermanThe Way Back as Gerry NorrisTelevision Muggable Mary, Street Cop as Vince PalucciScarecrow and Mrs. King as Foster / RoganDoing Life Growing Pains as Hockey Coach BrocktonGrowing Pains as Dan / Hockey CoachL.A. Law as Joseph Sears Cagney & Lacey as Detective Harry DupnickDavid as JohnThe Wonder Years as Jack ArnoldThe Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake as Steve Winslow' as Bob Blanchard Amazing Grace as Harry KramerTerror in the Family as Todd MartenParty of Five as Coach Russ PetrocelliBoy Meets World as Judge LambPrison of Secrets as Sergeant Ed CrangWalker, Texas Ranger as Salvatore MatacioDr. Quinn Medicine Woman as Major Samuel MortisonFrom the Earth to the Moon as James WebbBatman Beyond as Bill Wallace Smallville as Coach Walt ArnoldJAG as Allen Blaisdell' as Father Ghost Whisperer as Ellis ConwayPsych as Bill PetersonThe Bronx is Burning as Detective BorelliHow I Met Your Mother as NolanCriminal Minds as General Lee Whitworth' as Boxing Gym Owner Nurse Jackie as Carl' as Ray Masters Harry's Law as Judge Raymond Gillot as James ClearySullivan & Son as Jack SullivanPerson of Interest as Stanley AmisHot in Cleveland as J.J.Blue Bloods as FDNY Commissioner Stan RourkePitch as Al LuongoThe Night Shift as DougNCIS as Morgan CadeMan with a Plan as FrankShameless as Mo WhiteThis Is Us as Toby's FatherThe Resident as Simon Ortiz
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