Michael Patrick Boatman is an Image Award-nominated American actor and writer. He is best known for his roles as New York City mayoral aide Carter Heywood in the ABC sitcom Spin City, as U.S. Army Specialist Samuel Beckett in the ABC drama series China Beach, and as sports a...
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series
Movies
Hamburger Hill, The Glass Shield, And Then Came Love, Woman Thou Art Loosed, The Peacemaker, Bad Parents, Once Upon a Mattress, The Pool Boys, Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives, In the Line of Duty: Street War, Queen of Media, House of Secrets, Kalamazoo?, The Doctor
TV Shows
Instant Mom, Anger Management, Sherri, Arliss, Spin City, The Jackie Thomas Show, China Beach, Muscle
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Quote
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Sometimes I marvel at my good fortune. You can never take it for granted and I am always challenging myself and trying to develop.
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Fact
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Along with Richard Kind, he is one of only two actors to appear in all 145 episodes of Spin City (1996).
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He is also the voice of Easy Rawlins in critically acclaimed Walter Mosley detective audio novels "Cinammon Kiss" and "Little Scarlett." He provided the characters for several other audio book productions. [2006]
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Completed filming "Supercops," a modern comedic take on dysfunctional New York CIty detectives. He is also a widely published horror/science-fiction author and has written several screenplays, and the novels "The Red Wake" and "Revenant Road." His short fiction appears in several genre publications and anthologies. His short story collection "God Laughs When You Die (Mean Little Stories from the Wrong Side of the Tracks)" will be published by Dybbuk Press in early 2007. Currently, he is working on a third novel and completing a horror comedy titled "Evil Woman." [November 2006]
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Culver-Stockton College mentoring students and acting in the British comedy "Noises Off" [October 2005]
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Received Western Illinois University's Alumni Achievement Award in 1997