Stage

Sbarge made his stage debut in 1973 in Edward Bond's stage production Lear. In 1981, he played in Joseph Papp's Shakespeare in the Park production of Henry IV, Part 1. The following year he made his Broadway debut opposite Faye Dunaway in the short-lived play The Curse of an Aching Heart. Other New York stage credits include Hamlet (1982), Ah, Wilderness! (1988), Ghosts (1988), The Twilight of the Golds (1993), The Shadow Box, and Voices in the Dark (1999).^[5]

Film

Sbarge's film credits include Risky Business (1983), Vision Quest (1985), My Man Adam (1985), My Science Project (1985),^[6] Carnosaur (1993), The Hidden II (1993), Babes in Toyland (1997), Independence Day (1996), BASEketball (1998), Message in a Bottle (1999), Pearl Harbor (2001), Home Room (2002) and The Duel (2015).^[7]

Television

Sbarge has appeared in numerous television series and television movies, including A Streetcar Named Desire with Ann-Margret in 1984; the pilot of the Fox series Werewolf in 1987; Billionaire Boys Club, Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in 1990; Murder 101 with Pierce Brosnan and Final Verdict with Treat Williams in 1991; Breast Men with Chris Cooper; Quicksilver Highway with Christopher Lloyd in 1997; and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge with Halle Berry in 1999.^[7]

He had recurring roles in five episodes of Star Trek: Voyager in 1996, and in the first four episodes of the sixth season of 24. From 2001 to 2004, Sbarge was a regular cast member of The Guardian, starring Simon Baker. He voiced the character Professor Zei in the second season Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "The Library". He was in an episode of Six Feet Under. In 2007, he appeared in a two-part episode of Journeyman. In 2009, he appeared in an episode of The Mentalist. In 2010, he was in "Practically Perfect", a season five episode of Dexter, as Jim McCourt, an Internal Affairs Agent.^[7]

He had a recurring role as Howard Aucker on The Young and the Restless^{[citation needed]}. He played Brian McGuire on Better Days, which lasted for five weeks before being canceled. In 2011, he first appeared in Once Upon a Time, playing the dual roles of Archie Hopper, a therapist, and his fairy tale counterpart, Jiminy Cricket^[8] from Pinocchio. In 2013, he played Larry Hermann on Chicago Fire. He played Inspector David Molk, a philosophizing SFPD homicide inspector, on TNT's 2014 series, Murder in the First.^[7] In 2016, he made a cameo appearance as the deceased father of Jimmy McGill on the television series Better Call Saul.^[9]

Video games

He also has voice acted for video games such as Grim Fandango, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords as Carth Onasi; as RC-1262 "Scorch" in Star Wars: Republic Commando; and as Kaidan Alenko in the Mass Effect series.

Directing

In 2013, Sbarge began directing Web series, serving as executive producer and director of On Begley Street and Jenna's Studio.^[10] His 2017 short film The Bird Who Could Fly premiered at the Asians on Film Festival.^[11] The Bird Who Could Fly, won Best Director, Best Ensemble, and Audience Awards at several Asian festivals around the US. He filmed Broadway actor Marty Moran in his Obie Award winning play called The Tricky Part, which deals with the complicated issue of male sexual abuse. It played many festivals around the US, winning Best Director at the Awareness Festival.

Sbarge's 2019 documentary LA Foodways was nominated for an Emmy Award in the Education/Information category.^[12] LA Foodways is a one-hour feature documentary and a six-part series that he directed and produced. It debuted on KCET-PBS, which his production company, Wishing Well Entertainment, co-produced with the network. He has directed and produced several other films for KCET that have aired. His current feature, called Only in Theaters, had its theatrical premier at 7 theatres in Los Angeles in Nov. 2022.^[13] The film follows a fourth generation family business, a beloved art house cinema chain with ties to the origins of Hollywood called The Laemmle Theaters. Receiving rave reviews in the LA Times, Daily News, Film Treat, and Film Week, it was called “Essential viewing for every filmgoer,”^[14] "Beautiful and complicated,”^[15] "Beautiful and timely,” “An American story,” ^[16] and “This film could not be any more important.” ^[17] Only in Theaters is opened in New York at the IFC, and New Plaza Cinema’s on Jan 18th and 20th. It opened in the San Francisco area on February 24 at the Roxie Theater. After playing in over 70 movie theaters, Only in Theaters moved to On Demand.

Film

Television

Video games