
Benjamin Koldyke (born March 27, 1968) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Don Frank on How I Met Your Mother (2009–2010), Lee Standish in Work It (2012), and Greg Gibbon on Gortimer Gibbon's Life On Normal Street (2014–2016).
Benjamin Koldyke (born March 27, 1968) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Don Frank on How I Met Your Mother (2009–2010), Lee Standish in Work It (2012), and Greg Gibbon on Gortimer Gibbon's Life On Normal Street (2014–2016).
Koldyke was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in nearby Kenilworth. His father, Martin J. "Mike" Koldyke, is a former investment banker who founded Frontenac Company in Chicago and is a life trustee of Northwestern University; through his mother, Patricia Blunt Koldyke, he is a member of the family that controls Laird Norton Company, an investment company with roots in the timber industry of the Pacific Northwest.
After graduating from high school, he did a post-graduate year at Choate Rosemary Hall. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English and was a quarterback for the football team.
Koldyke worked as a high school English teacher and football coach in Chicago. His acting career received a jump start after a chance encounter with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator-star, Rob McElhenney. Regulars at the same Venice cafe, he covered Rob's tab with a note that said he "thought his show was fantastic," and this exchange led to Koldyke's first TV pilot, Boldly Going Nowhere for Fox, a few years later.
After Boldly was not picked up, Koldyke went on to recur as Dale Tomasson in the HBO series Big Love and as Don Frank in How I Met Your Mother for CBS. n 2012, Koldyke starred as the lead character in the short-lived ABC comedy series Work It and later guest starred in HBO's The Newsroom 2013 saw him star in another ABC sitcom, Back in the Game, opposite James Caan and Maggie Lawson. He had a significant arc on Showtime's Masters of Sex as teacher and football coach Paul Edley, and played male chauvinist Brent throughout the final season of The Good Place. In 2021 he had a recurring role on season 1 of Peacock sitcom Rutherford Falls
Koldyke was seen on the big screen in 2016 in a supporting role for Disney's The Finest Hours alongside Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Eric Bana, and Ben Foster.

The Finest Hours
Character:Donald Bangs
Release Date:27/01/2016

This Little Piggy
Character:Henry
Release Date:01/01/2010

Stuck on You
Character:Officer Johnson
Release Date:10/12/2003

Say I Do
Character:Ben
Release Date:25/07/2003

Thirteen Days
Character:RF-8 Pilot
Release Date:25/12/2000

The Next Best Thing
Character:Kelly's Boyfriend
Release Date:03/03/2000

Paradise
Character:Jack Barnes

Rutherford Falls
Character:Duz Rutherford

Rutherford Falls
Character:Lawrence 'Duz' Rutherford

Rutherford Falls
Character:Duz

Carol's Second Act
Character:Coach Dean

The Good Place
Character:Brent Norwalk

Mr. Robinson
Character:Jimmy Hooper

Silicon Valley
Character:Ben Burkhardt

Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street
Character:Greg Gibbon

Masters of Sex
Character:Paul Edley

The Michael J. Fox Show
Character:Brandon

Back in the Game
Character:Dick Slingbaugh

The Newsroom
Character:Cyrus West

Work It
Character:Lee Standish

Boldly Going Nowhere
Character:Ronald Teague

Big Love
Character:Dale Tomasson

How I Met Your Mother
Character:Don Frank

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Character:Sean

24
Character:LAPD Officer

Curb Your Enthusiasm
Character:Dave

Jack & Jill
Character:Andrew Bower