Bruce Kimmel (born December 8, 1947), also known as Guy Haines, is an actor, writer, director, composer, and Grammy-nominated CD producer (for the revival of Hello, Dolly).
Kimmel appeared in many TV shows, such as The Partridge Family (multiple episodes), Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Alice, M*A*S*H, Donny & Marie (four guest shots), and various pilots.
His other TV appearances include The Young Lawyers; Honeymoon Suite; the TV-movie Beggarman, Thief; The Bob Crane Show; Forget-Me-Not-Lane on PBS; Carl Reiner's Good Heavens; Rob Reiner's The Super; Lucas Tanner; Doctors' Hospital; Marcus Welby, MD; the TV-remake of the film If I Had a Million; Dinah and Her New Best Friends, which was a CBS summer replacement for The Carol Burnett Show and aired for eight weeks in the summer of 1976.
He acted in the films The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975), The First Nudie Musical (1976), Racquet, with Bert Convy, Tanya Roberts, Lynda Day George, Björn Borg, and Phil Silvers, First Family (1980) and The Creature Wasn't Nice (1983).
His second film,The Creature Wasn't Nice (1983) was completely recut by its producers, with no involvement from Kimmel, retitled Spaceship, played a short theatrical run, then went to cable TV.
In 2019, a special edition DVD was released, finally allowing audiences to see Kimmel's original cut of the film in its proper ratio of 1:85:1.
In 2021, he directed two filmed productions that were designed for streaming, an original musical Tonight's the Night, starring Eric Petersen and Hartley Powers, and a thriller titled Revenge.
The second show was a thriller titled Revenge, which was also designed to appear as if it were happening live on Zoom, but was filmed and edited.
A short form comedy series with music, it stars Sami Staitman, Cindy Williams, Kerry O'Malley, and Karim Hazime.
Guest stars over the ten episodes include Charles Busch, Karen Ziemba, Brad Oscar, Liz Larsen, Sal Viviano, Allie Trimm, and others.
In 2018, he directed the world premiere of the musical, A Carol Christmas, a modernized, feminized version of the Dickens classic.
In 2019/2020, he directed back-to-back productions of The Man Who Came to Dinner, starring Jim Beaver and Barry Pearl, and Doug Haverty's play, In My Mind's Eye.
Beginning in September 2018, the show moved back to Vitello's and is currently performing at Catalina Jazz Club.
In 2021, Kritzerland returned to live shows at Feinstein at Vitello's and continued there through December of 2022, when the room shut down and became a lounge.
In 1993, Kimmel became a full time record producer with his own division at Varèse Sarabande, producing many cast albums (Broadway and off-Broadway), Broadway singers, and musical theater concept albums, initially for the Varèse Sarabande, and then for Fynsworth Alley, a company he founded.