Actor
Benjamin Koldyke
March 27, 1968 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Benjamin Koldyke (born March 27, 1968) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Don Frank on How I Met Your Mother (2009–2010), Lee Standish in Work It (2012), and Greg Gibbon on Gortimer Gibbon's Life On Normal Street (2014–2016).
Koldyke was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in nearby Kenilworth. His father, Martin J. "Mike" Koldyke, is a former investment banker who founded Frontenac Company in Chicago and is a life trustee of Northwestern University; through his mother, Patricia Blunt Koldyke, he is a member of the family that controls Laird Norton Company, an investment company with roots in the timber industry of the Pacific Northwest.
Notable work
8.1How I Met Your Mother (2005)
as Don Frank
8The Good Place (2016)
as Brent Norwalk
8.1Silicon Valley (2014)
as Ben Burkhardt
7.824 (2001)
as LAPD Officer
6.6The Finest Hours (2016)
as Donald Bangs
8.3It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)
as Sean
8Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)
as Dave
7Thirteen Days (2000)
as RF-8 Pilot
8.1The Newsroom (2012)
as Cyrus West
5.4Stuck on You (2003)
as Officer Johnson
7.5Paradise (2025)
as Jack Barnes
7.1Masters of Sex (2013)
as Paul Edley
Often works with
Neil Patrick Harris
2 titles together
How I Met Your Mother, The Next Best Thing
Ted Danson
2 titles together
The Good Place, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Eugene Cordero
2 titles together
The Good Place, Carol's Second Act
Matt Ross
2 titles together
Silicon Valley, Big Love
Jill E. Alexander
2 titles together
Silicon Valley, Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street
Caitlin Wachs
2 titles together
Thirteen Days, The Next Best Thing
Full filmography · 24
Paradise
as Jack Barnes
20257.5
Rutherford Falls
as Lawrence 'Duz' Rutherford
20216.6
Carol's Second Act
as Coach Dean
20196.1
The Good Place
as Brent Norwalk
20168
Mr. Robinson
as Jimmy Hooper
2015
Silicon Valley
as Ben Burkhardt
20148.1
Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street
as Greg Gibbon
20148.4
Masters of Sex
as Paul Edley
20137.1
The Michael J. Fox Show
as Brandon
20135.9
Back in the Game
as Dick Slingbaugh
20136
The Newsroom
as Cyrus West
20128.1
Work It
as Lee Standish
2012