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Bart McCarthy played Admiral Cobum in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine sixth season episode "Favor the Bold". He also voiced Zashar in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
His first movie appearance was Memorial Day (1998, co-starring Jeffrey King, Rob LaBelle and Stephanie Niznik). He also played an uncredited role as a mental patient in Rat Race (2001, starring Whoopi Goldberg), and played Captain Bart the Pirate in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004, with Clancy Brown, Dylan Haggerty, Kristopher Logan and Paul Zies).
McCarthy also guest-starred in an episode of Angel (starring Scott Klace, L.L. Ginter, and Joel Polis), Babylon 5, Sons of Anarchy, and Silicon Valley. In 2017 he appeared in an episode of Baskets featuring Mary Wiseman.