He was best known for his role as Andrew Helmut "Squiggy" Squiggman on the situation comedy
Laverne & Shirley from 1976 to 1982 along with sitcom sidekick Lenny, played by
Michael McKean. and the voice of
Jerry Lewis in the
Filmation series
Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down in 1970. He voiced "Doc Boy" Arbuckle, the farm-boy brother of
Jon Arbuckle, in most animated adaptations of the
Garfield franchise. Later voice roles included
The Big Bang, ''
A Bug's Life, Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills, Titan A.E., Tom and Jerry: The Movie and the animated TV series Galaxy High as the six-armed Milo de Venus. In 2002, he reprised his role as Squiggy in the animated sitcom The Simpsons''. Lander was the voice of Smart Ass, the chief weasel of
Judge Doom's
Toon Patrol in the 1988 Disney film
Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Lander reprised his role as Smart Ass on
the related ride, but the character was renamed Wiseguy. He was credited as Stephen Lander in
Boo, Zino & the Snurks. One of his later roles was that of
Ch'p in the
DC Comics animated film
Green Lantern: First Flight. His final credit was an episode of
Goldie & Bear in 2017. He was a member of the
Society for American Baseball Research, the baseball
sabermetrics organization, for many years. ==Personal life==