Flash back - 1980

I'm trying to remember the name of an actor. It's killing me.

This all started a while back when we went to listen to a local band one night. The band's drummer looks just like Matthew Gray Gubler, better known as Joe Joe in the movie "RV", or Dr. Reid on "Criminal Minds". The bass player looks like a young Donald Sutherland. I wouldn't really call it a habit, but now we seem to end up "she looks like ____" or "he reminds me of _____." Yes, weird....but it passes the time. Saturday night we went out with some friends and listened to a different local band, one we have never heard before. Lead vocals/flute--Rebecca De Mornay. Bass--offspring of Jack Nicholson and Kelsey Grammer. Keyboard--Garth of "Wayne's World". Drummer--Unknown. Lead guitar--I'm stumped. This is the guy I can't place.

I have been searching the internet since Saturday night. I can tell you who it's not, but I can't figure out who it is. Description--fair skin, blond or light brown hair, high forehead, never cast as lead, maybe a minor supporting actor, sometimes wears glasses, nerd-ish. He's not the principal in "Ferris Buehler's Day Off', not Lenny from "Lavergne and Shirley", but he's someone who could get mistaken for one of those guys. I think he plays clumsy and awkward roles, maybe broken glasses...not Robert Carradine. No facial hair. Not brunette. Comedies.

So I called my sister, Karen. We discussed movies and some of our favorite quotes: 'to blathe', 'this one time at band camp', 'my name is Inego Montoya you killed my father prepare to die', etc. Then we got down to the business of searching the internet...me from Nashville and her from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Two searchers are better than one, especially when they share DNA.

This guy I am looking for is not: Mickey Rourke, William Hirt, Seth Rogan, Ed Helms, Jim Varney, William Atherton, Martin Mull, John Hodgman, Ed Begley, Jr. And after carefully scrutinizing this photo, we decided it wasn't Gary Sandy either. We looked at it long and hard...nope, it was not Andy Travis, but I wish it would have been.