David Lipper
The role most people know David Lipper from is Viper on Full House in the mid-nineties, and it is not among the credits listed here. What is here is the other career: two decades of American film work in the bracket where the parts come with job titles instead of arcs.
He is the Hot Springs Man in the disaster picture Dante's Peak, a hotel clerk, a stage manager, a radio voice. The later credits get bigger without getting more famous: Bob Deacon in Dying of the Light, Norman in the slasher throwback Lost After Dark, leads in small independent thrillers like The Unwilling and Place of Bones. He is Canadian, and he has worked as a producer and writer as well as an actor.
The interesting turn is behind the camera. He carries a directing credit on Neglected, which is where an actor with this shape of record tends to end up if he would rather choose the material than audition for it.
Movies (17)
- Neglected (2026)
- Dante's Peak (1997)
- Sleeping With My Student (2019)
- Off the Grid (2025)
- Wingman (2025)
- High Strung (2016)
- Joe Baby (2024)
- Non-Stop (2013)
- Dying of the Light (2014)
- The Unwilling (2017)
- Beautiful Boy (2011)
- 2 Jacks (2012)
- Lost After Dark (2014)
- I Do (But I Don't) (2004)
- Reboot Camp (2020)
- Bug Buster (1998)
- Place of Bones (2024)
Where to start with David Lipper
Dante's Peak is the one you have probably already seen, though you will need to be watching for him. For actual screen time, go to Lost After Dark, a deliberate 1980s slasher pastiche that gives him something to play, and The Unwilling, the closest thing here to a lead.
Dying of the Light is the curiosity: a late Paul Schrader thriller worth a look for reasons that have nothing to do with the supporting cast. Non-Stop and Place of Bones round out the genre work, and Reboot Camp hands him two roles in one comedy. The rest is for people working through the filmography in order.