Lee Arenberg is an American actor, best known for his role as Pintel, one of Captain Barbossa"s crew, in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
Education
He attended University of California, Los Angeles as a theatre major. Arenberg attended Santa Monica High School with future "brat packer" actors Sean Penn, Robert Downey Junior. and Emilio Estevez, and co-wrote a play with Estevez which was directed by Pennsylvania
Career
He currently has a recurring role as the dwarf Grumpy in the television series Once Upon a Time. Lee"s first professional job was in 1986 at the Mark Taper Forum in "Ghetto", a play directed by Gordon Davidson. Within weeks he was cast in three films, including the role of Norton in the feature Tapeheads (1988) opposite the film"s co-stars Tim Robbins and John Cusack.
Arenberg can also be seen in the role of the notoriously huge studio head, Bobby G., on the controversial syndicated comedy film Action (1999) opposite series star Jay Mohr.
Arenberg has also guest starred on all the Star Trek spin-offs Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise. Coincidentally, in two of his appearances, ("The Nagus" and "United"), he played a character named Gral, one a Ferengi and the other a Tellarite.
In 1992 Lee appeared on the television series Night Court. Arenberg also played the recurring role of bookie Mike Moffitt in two episodes of Seinfeld.
In "The Parking Space", he and George Costanza had a parking dispute, while in "The Susie" his thumbs were accidentally broken while trying to repair Jerry Seinfeld"s car trunk.
He guest starred on an episode of Brotherly Love entitled "Motherly Love". He had a bit part as a bumbling Hold-up Manitoba in RoboCop 3. Lee also played Doctor Moyer in the Scrubs episode "My Own American Girl".
He also starred as the dwarf Elwood Gutworthy in Dungeons and Dragons (2000), and the pirate Pintel in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy.
He guest starred as "Hair Plugs" in Grounded Foreign Life (2001). A graduate of Santa Monica High in 1980, he is currently starring as the regular character "Grumpy/Leroy" on the hit American Broadcasting Company television series "Once Upon a Time (television series)".
As he confirmed when speaking at the Farpoint Star Trek Convention in Timonium, Maryland, Arenberg"s character Pintel did not return in the fourth "Pirates" film.