Benjamin Koldyke

Benjamin Koldyke born March 27 1968 is an American actor He is best known for playing Don Frank on How I Met Your Mother 20092010 Lee Standish in Work It 2012 and Greg Gibbon on Gortimer Gibbons Life On Normal Street 20142016 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 postgraduate year at Choate Rosemary Hall He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College where he earned a bachelors 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 Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia creatorstar Rob McElhenney Regulars at the same Venice cafe he covered Robs tab with a note that said he thought his show was fantastic and this exchange led to Koldykes 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 shortlived ABC comedy series Work It and later guest starred in HBOs 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 Showtimes 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 Disneys The Finest Hours alongside Chris Pine Casey Affleck Eric Bana and Ben Foster