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Stephen Tobolowsky: Career & Music

Stephen Harold Tobolowsky (born May 30, 1951) is an American character actor and writer. He is known for film roles such as insurance agent Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day and amnesiac Sammy Jankis in Memento, as well as such television characters as Commissioner Hugo Jarry in Deadwood, Bob Bishop in Heroes, Sandy Ryerson in Glee, Stu Beggs in…

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Stephen Tobolowsky topic overview

The analysis highlights Career and Music as prominent areas in the source structure around Stephen Tobolowsky.

Related topics
32
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
36
Extracted relationships
46
Concept neighborhoods
19
Bridge connections
36

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 14 topics
Career · 9 topics
Early life and education · 6 topics
Discography · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Education
Southern Methodist University (BFA) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (MFA)
Born
Stephen Harold Tobolowsky (1951-05-30) May 30, 1951 (age 75) Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Children
2
Occupations
Actor · writer
Years active
1975−present

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Early life and education

Career

Discography

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Stephen Tobolowsky connects Entity context

The extracted context around Stephen Tobolowsky shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Stephen Tobolowsky → Best Performance, Beth Henley, Byrne, David Byrne, Featured Actor, Film, He, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Morning's, New York City, On October, Play, Public Radio International, Radio Head, San Francisco, Seven, Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party, The, The Tobolowsky Files Another extracted example is Stephen Tobolowsky → Discogs, IMDb Stephen Tobolowsky, Internet Broadway DatabaseStephen Tobolowsky, Internet Off-Broadway Database, Official, Tobolowsky. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Stephen Tobolowsky

Top relations

related to Career · 25
Stephen Tobolowsky → Best Performance, Beth Henley, Byrne, David Byrne, Featured Actor, Film, He, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Morning's, New York City, On October, Play, Public Radio International, Radio Head, San Francisco, Seven, Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party, The, The Tobolowsky Files
related to External links · 6
Stephen Tobolowsky → Discogs, IMDb Stephen Tobolowsky, Internet Broadway DatabaseStephen Tobolowsky, Internet Off-Broadway Database, Official, Tobolowsky
Occupations · 2
Stephen Tobolowsky → Actor, writer
Born · 1
Stephen Tobolowsky → Stephen Harold Tobolowsky (1951-05-30) May 30, 1951 (age 75) Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Children · 1
Stephen Tobolowsky → 2
Education · 1
Stephen Tobolowsky → Southern Methodist University (BFA) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (MFA)
Spouse · 1
Stephen Tobolowsky → .mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marria…
Website · 1
Stephen Tobolowsky → stephentobolowsky.com
Years active · 1
Stephen Tobolowsky → 1975−present

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

tobolowsky film also stephen stories television dallas born actor new one day dr life university writer glee podcast education two

Stephen Tobolowsky relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 46 structured relationships around Stephen Tobolowsky. Examples in this analysis include Stephen Tobolowsky → Born → Stephen Harold Tobolowsky (1951-05-30) May 30, 1951 (age 75) Dallas, Texas, U.S. and Stephen Tobolowsky → Children → 2. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Stephen TobolowskyBornStephen Harold Tobolowsky (1951-05-30) May 30, 1951 (age 75) Dallas, Texas, U.S.1.00infobox
Stephen TobolowskyChildren21.00infobox
Stephen TobolowskyEducationSouthern Methodist University (BFA) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (MFA)1.00infobox
Stephen TobolowskyOccupationsActor1.00infobox
Stephen TobolowskyOccupationswriter1.00infobox
Stephen TobolowskySpouse.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marria…1.00infobox
Stephen TobolowskyWebsitestephentobolowsky.com1.00infobox
Stephen TobolowskyYears active1975−present1.00infobox
insurance agent Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Dayinstance ofHe is known for film roles0.80text
amnesiac Sammy Jankis in Mementoinstance ofHe is known for film roles0.80text
as well as such television characters as Commissioner Hugo Jarry in Deadwoodinstance ofHe is known for film roles0.80text
Bob Bishop in Heroesinstance ofHe is known for film roles0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Stephen Tobolowsky bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include New, Two and Tobolowsky. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Stephen Tobolowsky
    • New
    • Two
    • Tobolowsky
    • Also
    • Appearances
    • Discography
    • Files
    • Glee
    • May
    • Podcast
    • Stage
    • White
  • stephen tobolowsky
    • New
    • Two
    • Dallas
    • Tobolowsky
    • Also
    • Appearances
    • Discography
    • Files
    • Glee
    • May
    • Podcast
    • Stage
  • george tobolowsky
    • Dallas
    • New
    • Ann
    • Appearances
    • Discography
    • Files
    • Games
    • Hearn
    • Life
    • Podcast
    • Stage
    • Writer
  • tony award for best performance by a featured actor in a play
    • Writer
    • Born
    • Education
    • Ann
    • Appearances
    • Career
    • Directing
    • Discography
    • Games
    • Glee
    • Hearn
    • Known
  • /film
    • Stories
    • Writing
    • Television
    • Education
    • Ann
    • Appearances
    • Career
    • Day
    • Directing
    • Discography
    • Dr
    • Files
  • character actor
    • Writer
    • Born
    • Education
    • Ann
    • Appearances
    • Career
    • Directing
    • Discography
    • Games
    • Hearn
    • Life
    • May
  • discography
    • Appearances
    • Stage
    • Education
    • Ann
    • Directing
    • Games
    • Glee
    • Hearn
    • Life
    • Writer
    • Writing
    • Featured
  • stephen tobolowsky's birthday party
    • New
    • Two
    • Tobolowsky
    • Also
    • Appearances
    • Discography
    • Files
    • Glee
    • May
    • Podcast
    • Stage
    • White

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Stephen Tobolowsky, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Stephen Tobolowsky with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Stephen TobolowskyOverview · splits 22 ⟂ 15
Stephen TobolowskyCareer · splits 27 ⟂ 10
Stephen TobolowskyEarly life and education · splits 30 ⟂ 7
Stephen TobolowskyDiscography · splits 33 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Stephen Tobolowsky

Nodes37
Edges36
Triples46
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.054054
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Stephen Tobolowsky to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Career & Music, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Stephen Tobolowsky · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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