Wallace Langham mini-bio: Wallace Langham has had a recurring role as David Hodges on "CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation" for three seasons prior to becoming a series regular in 2005.
Langham's additional television credits include roles on "The Larry Sanders Show,"
"Veronica's Closet" and "What About Joan?" as well as guest appearances on "Sex and
the City," "The West Wing," "Medium," "Las Vegas" and "ER." He also voiced the lead
character in the animated series "Mission Hill" and starred in the television
movies "Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story," "Behind the Camera: The
Unauthorized Story of 'Three's Company,'" "Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized
Story of 'Charlie's Angels'" and "Sister Mary Explains It All."
Langham's feature film credits include "Weird Science," "The Chocolate War" and
"Soul Man" (all under the name Wally Ward), as well as "Michael," "Daddy Day Care"
and "Little Miss Sunshine," among others, under his real name, Wallace Langham.
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Langham moved to Los Angeles at the age of 9 with his
mother, a costume designer on "Donny & Marie." Langham is the father of two and
resides in Los Angeles with his wife, flamenco artist Karey Richard. His birth date
is March 11.
(courtesy of CBS)
HBO enthusiasts will invariably remember tall and slightly gaunt character actor
Wallace Langham for his winning multi-season portrayal of Phil, the conceited head
writer of Larry Sanders' late-night talk show, on the Garry Shandling-headlined
sitcom The Larry Sanders Show. Langham (who first received billing in projects as
Wally Ward) grew up in Los Angeles; his parents divorced at an early age and his
mother, Sunni, designed costumes for the musical variety series Donny and Marie.
Langham was, by all accounts, drawn magnetically to showbusiness; he enrolled in
acting classes, signed with an agent, and landed a string of television commercials
beginning at age 16 (in 1981). After high school, Langham enrolled briefly in Cal
State Northridge, but dropped out after snagging a bit part in John Hughes' teenage
sci-fi comedy Weird Science (1985).
Scattered appearances on such series as Murder, She Wrote and Star Trek: Voyager
followed -- as well as the recurring role of Josh, smart-alecky assistant to
lingerie proprietor Veronica on the Kirstie Alley sitcom Veronica's Closet. It was
the Shandling turn, however, that put Langham on top of his game. He made occasional
feature appearances in such pictures as the Nora Ephron comedy-fantasy Michael
(1996) opposite John Travolta, the Eddie Murphy vehicle Daddy Day Care (2003), and
the ensemble comedy drama Little Miss Sunshine (2006), but -- outside of Larry
Sanders -- he is probably best known for his fine work on the series drama CSI:
Crime Scene Investigation. On that program, Langham sustained a multi-season
portrayal as lab technician David Hodges.
Offscreen, Langham has battled several well-publicized personal crises, including
the congenital birth defect of one son and the diagnosis of his first wife, Laura
(whom he met on the Weird Science set), with non-Hodgkin's lymphoblastic lymphoma.
She overcame that illness, but the couple later divorced.
