Jim Ras

Jim Rash is an American actor, comedian, producer, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter best known for playing Dean Pelton on the NBC sitcom Community. He co-wrote the screenplay for The Descendants (2011), earning an Academy Award, Independent Spirit Award, and Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and later co-directed The Way, Way Back (2013) and Downhill (2020) with Nat Faxon.