This installment of Putting a Name with a Face comes to you at the behest of fellow Doombot contributor Tony. Patrick Fischler is another one of those guys who seems to pop up in every show I watch—last summer I saw him on three separate series within the space of a couple weeks. The distinctive-looking Fischler, 39, started his Hollywood career in 1993—his second role was as a guard in an episode of The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.—but here’s a few other places you might have noticed him lately.

• Most recently, Fischler has donned a Dharma Initiative jumpsuit to appear in several episodes of Lost‘s penultimate season as Initiative member Phil, who Sawyer—in typical Sawyer fashion—describes as a dimwit.
• Last year, he also appeared in one episode of the dearly departed Pushing Daisies as the The Waffle Nazi. “I do not speak a vord of German. I speak English mit a German accent.”
• Over the past summer, Fischler appeared on the second season of the acclaimed Mad Men in one of his most prominent roles, that of the somewhat creepy, somewhat pitiable comedian Jimmy Barrett.
• Fischler also played a character named Jimmy in the second season premiere of Burn Notice, where he, like protagonist Michael Westen, found himself on the wrong side of the mysterious conspiracy.
• Around the same time, Fischler appeared in an episode of The Middleman, playing an alien doctor (which, along with Burn Notice, makes two series he shares with last week’s subject, Mark Sheppard).
• In a season three episode of crime-drama Bones, Fischler played a character whose high school friend showed up dead inside a recently unearthed time capsule.
• Fischler also appeared in the third-season episode of cult-classic Veronica Mars that wins my award for the series’s best episode title, “Weevils Wobble But They Don’t Go Down.”
• And a few old-timers might recognize Fischler from his recurring role on the late ’90s Don Johnson vehicle Nash Bridges, where he played Pepe, the secretary at Nash and Joe’s detective agency.

Fischler’s also appeared in several feature films, including The Shadow, Speed, Twister, Mulholland Dr., and Ghost World, as well as episodes of The West Wing, Angel, and Star Trek: Enterprise, and the both the unaired and aired pilot episodes of the short-lived Nathan Fillion series Drive.