Jeffrey Michael Tambor born July 8 1944 is an American actor and comedian He is known for his television roles such as Jeffrey Brooks the uptight neighbor of Stanley and Helen Roper in the TV sitcom The Ropers 19791980 as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show 19921998 George Bluth Sr and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development 20032006 2013 20182019 and Maura Pfefferman on Transparent 20142017 For his role in the latter Tambor earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series out of three nominations In 2015 he was also awarded a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Pfefferman His film roles include Jay Porter in And Justice for All 1979 Jinx Latham in Mr Mom 1983 Sully in Theres Something About Mary 1998 Mayor Augustus Maywho in How the Grinch Stole Christmas 2000 Tom Manning in Hellboy 2004 and its sequel Hellboy II The Golden Army 2008 Sid Garner in The Hangover trilogy 20092013 Francis Silverberg in The Accountant 2016 and Georgy Malenkov in The Death of Stalin 2017 Tambor has done voice acting for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 2004 Monsters vs Aliens 2009 Tangled 2010 and Trolls 2016 For his voice role in The Lionhearts 1998 he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award From 2002 to 2003 he was an announcer for Hollywood Squares Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeffrey Tambor licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia