Beerfest!
There are a ton of times that I’m watching a commercial and I say “Hey it’s that guy from that movie!” and then everybody responds.
What? From where? What are you talking about? Why are you so excited?
I know actors have to work to make money, so I’m not looking down on them. It’s just that I identify them with one role in my head and then they come out selling car wax and I think it’s funny. Most of the time the role I know them from isn’t even their biggest role, some times the commercial becomes more famous than the movie role.
That is the case here. I know this guy as Mr. Schniedelwichsen, the German guy who leads the two brothers to Beerfest… and then subsequently gets killed. So then last year he showed up in a commercial that is probably more widely seen than Beerfest, as the “Think with your dipstick” Guy for Castrol Motor oil. But I first spotted him in a IBM ad for their medical imaging tech. I remember seeing him in that white lab coat and thinking… “Are they trying to pass off the guy from Beerfest as an actual doctor?”
More pictures and videos after the break…
Dipstick!
Scientist
Actor
Through a little research I found that his name is Bjorn Johnson and he teaches acting in LA. He really looks like a Bjorn Johnson!
It looks like he’s been in a LOT of commercials. More that I had seen. Some of them look familiar, but It could be that this guy has a really identifiable ginger beard. He can be in all the commercials he wants and to me he’ll still be “That guy from Beerfest!”
Rock on Bjorn!