After gaining wide experience in regional theater, this tall, bald character player broke into TV and films playing officious, obsequious or generally uptight and fussy types. After completing graduate studies in theater and teaching acting, Jeffrey Tambor spent a busy 15 years with companies including the Seattle, Milwaukee and South Coast Repertory Theatres, the Old Globe in San Diego, the Actors Theatre in Louisville and Harvard's Loeb Drama Center. He was in his mid-thirties when he made his film debut in the Al Pacino courtroom vehicle, "...And Justice for All" (1979), as an attorney having a complete mental collapse. Some of Tambor's more notable subsequent films include "Mr. Mom" (1983), as Michael Keaton's boss, "City Slickers" (1991), as Billy Crystal's boss, and "Life Stinks" (also 1991), as Mel Brooks' villainous rival. Unafraid to play comic caricatures, he has been very comfortable with outlandish material, be it the horror spoof of "Saturday the 14th" (1981), the black comedy of "At Home with the Webbers" (1993) or the obvious comedy-drama "Heavyweights" (1995). Most people know Tambor better from his TV work. Beginning as the snobbish neighbor on "The Ropers" (ABC, 1979-80), the sitcom spin-off from "Three's Company", the actor embarked on a series of generally short-lived TV series utilizing his piercing gaze and incisive, effete manner. He was an entirely reasonable choice to succeed Dabney Coleman as the sexist boss on the TV sitcom version of the hit comedy, "9 to 5" (ABC, 1982-83), and he created a number of enjoyably snide voice characterizations for children's cartoons. Two series which didn't last but were quite interesting were the sardonically titled "Mr. Sunshine" (ABC, 1986), with Tambor as a blind English professor who gets by with his brains and acid wit, and "Max Headroom" (ABC, 1987), the highly in