MICHAEL HITCHCOCK is Hamilton Swan, an uptight lawyer and obsessed catalogue shopper married to Meg and co-parent to the troubled Weimaraner, Beatrice. After obtaining a degree in Speech from Northwestern University, the Ohio-born Hitchcock went on to obtain his Masters degree in Film and Television Production at UCLA. He subsequently became a performer with the famed Los Angeles theater group, The Groundlings. His considerable stage work with the award-winning improvisational group eventually led to a recurring role in the WB network's upcoming show Grosse Pointe. Hitchcock's feature film credits include Waiting For Guffman and the comedy And God Spoke, starring Stephen Rappaport and Michael Riley. Most recently, Hitchcock appeared in the critically acclaimed Miramax film Happy, Texas with Steve Zahn and Jeremy Northam. Upcoming, Hitchcock will be seen in the comedy, Breakers, opposite Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt. As a writer, Hitchcock's credits include such feature films as New Line Cinema's acclaimed Where The Day Takes You and MGM's House Arrest, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Pollack. He is also a contributing writer for Mad TV and has written a number of telefeatures.