Pruitt Taylor Vince

{{Infobox person

| name = Pruitt Taylor Vince

| image =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|07|05|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.

| education = Louisiana State University

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1986–present

| spouse = {{plainlist|

{{marriage|Anne Schneider|1985||end=divorced}}
{{marriage|Julianne Mattelig|2003||end=divorced}}

}}

Pruitt Taylor Vince (born July 5, 1960) is an American character actor. He has had roles in the films Mississippi Burning (1988), Jacob's Ladder (1990), JFK (1991), Identity (2003), and Constantine (2005). He played J.J. Laroche in The Mentalist (2008–2015). He is set to portray Jonathan Kent in Superman (2025).

Vince has also appeared on many television series. In 1997, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his guest role as Clifford Banks in the second season of the television series Murder One.

Early life

Vince was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on July 5, 1960. He attended Louisiana State University.{{cite web| url= https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019169/bio |title= Pruitt Taylor-Vince Biography | website= Yahoo! Movies| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070626162824/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019169/bio |archive-date= June 26, 2007 }}

For most of his life, Vince has had a condition called nystagmus, the involuntary movement of the eye.{{Cite web |title=Famous People with Nystagmus |url=http://www.nystagmusnet.org/cms/index.php/nystagmus/famous-people-with-nystagmus |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151028235637/http://www.nystagmusnet.org/cms/index.php/nystagmus/famous-people-with-nystagmus |archive-date=2015-10-28 |publisher=Nystagmus Network UK}}

Career

Vince made his film debut in Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law, but his scenes were edited out. He had prominent supporting roles in several major films, including a turn as a dimwitted Ku Klux Klan member in Mississippi Burning (1988), Lee Bowers in JFK (1991), and the main character's best friend in Nobody's Fool (1994). His first lead role was in James Mangold's independent film Heavy (1995), playing a sweet, silent overweight cook harboring a crush on a waitress played by Liv Tyler. He starred in Giuseppe Tornatore's film The Legend of 1900 (1998).

Vince often alternates between heroic and villainous characters. Vince played a Southern policeman in the neo-noir psychological horror film Angel Heart (1987), a kidnapper's assistant in the crime thriller film Trapped (2002), and a deputy prison warden in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (1994). He played a lovable, small town pub owner in Beautiful Girls (1996); a mentally ill serial killer in the 2003 mystery thriller film Identity (a second collaboration with director Mangold); a pompous sheriff in Nurse Betty (2000); a gossip columnist in Simone (2002); and a dissolute Roman Catholic priest with psychic abilities in the 2005 supernatural horror film Constantine.{{cite book |author-last=Hansen |author-first=Regina |year=2011 |chapter=Mad Drunken Exorcists: The Decline of the Hero Priest |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AtALOnale4QC&pg=PA270 |editor-last=Hansen |editor-first=Regina |title=Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film: Essays on Belief, Spectacle, Ritual and Imagery |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland & Company |page=270 |isbn=978-0-7864-8724-0 |lccn=2011007859}} He can also be seen in the dramatic film Love from Ground Zero (1998) playing as Walter. Other film titles include the psychological horror film Jacob's Ladder (1990), the neo-noir film China Moon (1994), the action thriller film Homefront (2013), and the supernatural horror film The Devil's Candy (2015).

Guest appearances on TV shows include Deadwood, Alias, The X-Files, Miami Vice, Quantum Leap, Chicago Hope, In the Heat of the Night, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Highlander: The Series, and the American remake of Touching Evil. In 2011, he appeared as Otis in the AMC television series The Walking Dead.{{cite web|last1=Mitovich|first1=Matt Webb|title=Walking Dead Exclusive: Mentalist's Pruitt Taylor Vince Cops First Season 2 Role|url=http://tvline.com/2011/06/21/walking-dead-casting-pruitt-taylor-vince-otis/|website=TVLine|access-date=9 October 2016|date=22 June 2011}} He also had a guest role playing a 600-lb. patient in Fox's medical drama House. From 2010 to 2014, he had a multi-episode appearance in The Mentalist.{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/News/Kecks-Exclusives-New-1024722.aspx |title= Keck's Exclusives: New Mentalist Character To Butt Heads with Jane |first= William |last= Keck|date=26 October 2010| work= TVGuide.com}} In 2012, he appeared in a full episode of Justified.{{cite web| title= 'Justified' Season 3, Episode 3: 'Harlan Roulette' Recap|url=http://screenrant.com/justified-season-3-episode-3-harlan-roulette-recap-yman-149204/| website= ScreenRant.com |access-date=9 October 2016|date=1 February 2012}} He took a comic role as "Jelly" in Flypaper. In 2018, he appeared on an episode of The Blacklist as Lawrence Devlin.{{Cite news|url=https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2413822/will-the-blacklist-kill-off-another-major-character-in-season-5|title=Will The Blacklist Kill Off Another Major Character In Season 5?|date=2018-05-03|work=CINEMABLEND|access-date=2018-05-05}}

Awards

Vince received an Emmy Award, in 1997, for Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role as serial killer Clifford Banks during the second season of the television series Murder One.{{cite web| title= Pruitt Taylor Vince| url= http://www.emmys.com/bios/pruitt-taylor-vince |website= emmys.com| publisher= Academy of Television Arts & Sciences | access-date= 1 April 2018}}

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable"

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! Year

! Film

! Role

! Notes

1986

| Down by Law

| (scenes deleted), First role

rowspan="3"| 1987

| Angel Heart

| Det. Deimos

Shy People

| Paul

Barfly

| Joe

rowspan="2"| 1988

| Red Heat

| Night Clerk

Mississippi Burning

| Lester Cowens

rowspan="2"| 1989

| K-9

| Benny the Mule

Homer and Eddie

| Cashier

rowspan="4"| 1990

| Wild at Heart

| Buddy

Fear

| Shadow Man

Come See the Paradise

| Augie Farrell

Jacob's Ladder

| Paul

1991

| JFK

| Lee Bowers

rowspan="4"| 1994

| China Moon

| Daryl Jeeters

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

| Bud

Natural Born Killers

| Deputy Warden Kavanaugh

Nobody's Fool

| Rub Squeers

rowspan="2"| 1995

| Heavy

| Victor Modino

Under the Hula Moon

| Bob

rowspan="2"| 1996

| The Cottonwood

| Mark Salli

Beautiful Girls

| Stanley 'Stinky' Womack

rowspan="3"| 1997

| The End of Violence

| Frank Cray

A Further Gesture

| Scott

Cold Around the Heart

| Johnny 'Cokebottles' Costello

rowspan="3"| 1998

| Dr. Dolittle

| Patient at Hammersmith

| Uncredited

The Legend of 1900

| Max Tooney

Love from Ground Zero

| Walter

1999

| Mumford

| Henry Follett

rowspan="2"| 2000

| Nurse Betty

| Ballard

The Cell

| Dr. Reid

2001

| Mental Hygiene

| Mr. Adams

| Short

rowspan="5"| 2002

| 13 Moons

| Owen

Rebellion

| Vito

S1m0ne

| Max Sayer

Trapped

| Marvin

Trapped from Within

| Himself

| Video documentary short

rowspan="2"| 2003

| Identity

| Malcolm Rivers

Monster

| Gene / Stuttering "John"

rowspan="3"| 2005

| Constantine

| Father Hennessey

Drop Dead Sexy

| Spider

Nobody Wants Your Film

| Himself

| Documentary

rowspan="2"| 2007

| When a Man Falls in the Forest

| Travis

Captivity

| Ben Dexter

2008

| The Echo

| Joseph

rowspan="4"| 2009

| The Smell of Success

| Cleveland Clod

In the Electric Mist

| Lou Girard

Don McKay

| Mel

Leaves of Grass

| Big Joe Sharpe

rowspan="7"| 2011

| Stanley DeBrock

| Earl Wayne

Flypaper

| Wyatt 'Jelly' Jenkins

Cameraman

| Jeremy

Drive Angry

| Roy

On the Inside

| Ben Marshal

Butter

| Ned Eaten

Creature

| Grover

rowspan="3"| 2012

| Bending the Rules

| Happy

Jules Verne's Mysterious Island

| Gideon Spilett

Brake

| Driver / Boss Terrorist (voice)

rowspan="6"| 2013

| Broken Blood

| Earl Wayne

The Making of Broken Blood

| Himself

| Video documentary short

Homefront

| Werks

Dark Tourist

| Carl Marznap

Beautiful Creatures

| Mr. Lee{{cite web|title=Beautiful Creatures Interview - Pruitt Taylor Vince (2013)|url=http://www.traileraddict.com/beautiful-creatures-2013/interview-pruitt-taylor-vince|website=Trailer Addict|access-date=9 October 2016|date=2 February 2013}}

13 Sins

|Vogler{{cite web|title=Ron Perlman, Pruitt Taylor Vince And More Sign On For Angry Little God - CINEMABLEND|url=http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Ron-Perlman-Pruitt-Taylor-Vince-More-Sign-Angry-Little-God-33427.html|website=CINEMABLEND|access-date=9 October 2016|date=8 October 2012}}

2015

| The Devil's Candy

| Ray Smilie

2016

| 59 Seconds

| Robert

rowspan="3"| 2018

| Gotti

| Angelo Ruggiero

ASIA A

| Noah

| Short

Bird Box

| Rick

2025

| Superman

| Jonathan Kent

| Post-production

| Reckoning{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}

| Tommy

| Post-production

=Television=

class="wikitable"

align="center"

! Year

! Film

! Role

! Notes

1988

| Miami Vice

| Cruz

| Episode: "Bad Timing"

1989

| I Know My First Name is Steven

| Irving Murphy

| TV movie

1990

| In the Heat of the Night

| Leonard Grissom

| Episode: "Perversions of Justice"

rowspan=2| 1991

| Sweet Poison

| Coyle

| TV movie

Dead in the Water

| Lou Rescetti

| TV movie

rowspan=2| 1992

| Till Death Us Do Part

| Michael Brockington

| TV movie

Quantum Leap

| Hank Pilcher

| Episode: "Moments to Live - May 4, 1985"

1993

| Sisters

| Joe Abruzzia

| Episode: "Things Are Tough All Over"

rowspan=3| 1995

| Chicago Hope

| Walter Platt

| Episode: "Small Sacrifices"

The Marshal

| Two-Cats

| Episode: "Buy Hard"

Highlander

| Mikey

| Episode: "The Innocent"

1996

| The X-Files

| Gerry Schnauz

| Episode: "Unruhe"

rowspan=3| 1997

| Night Sins

| Olie Swain

| TV movie

Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer

| Clifford Banks

| TV mini-series

Murder One

| Clifford Banks

| 6 episodes

rowspan=2| 2001

| Gideon's Crossing

| James Tooley

| Episode: "The Lottery"

Thieves

| Roy Lichter

| Episode: "Dey Got De Degas"

rowspan=3| 2003

| L.A. Confidential

| Sid Hudgens

| TV movie

The Handler

| Ray / Sergei

| Episode: "Street Boss"

Alias

| Campbell / Schapker

| Episode: "Breaking Point"

rowspan=2| 2004

| Touching Evil

| Cyril Kemp

| 5 episodes

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

| Marty Gleason

| Episode: "Swap Meet"

2005–2006

| Deadwood

| Mose Manuel

| 10 episodes

2006

| House

| George

| Episode: "Que Sera Sera"

2008

| Canterbury's Law

| Louis Minot

| Episode: "Baggage"

rowspan=3| 2010

| Medium

| Peter Winant

| Episode: "Deja Vu All Over Again"

Infamous

| The Patriarch

| 3 episodes, also director

Memphis Beat

| Martin Matthews

| Episode: "I Want to Be Free"

2010–2013

| The Mentalist

| J.J. LaRoche

| 12 episodes

rowspan=2| 2011

| The Cape

| Goggles

| Episode: "Goggles and Hicks"

The Walking Dead

| Otis

| 3 episodes

rowspan=3| 2012

| Justified

| Glen Fogle

| Episode: "Harlan Roulette"

Bones

| Haze Jackson

| Episode: "The Prisoner in the Pipe"

Hawaii Five-0

| Richard Branche

| Episode: "Ha'alele"

2014

| True Blood

| Finn

| 5 episodes

2015

| Heroes Reborn

| Casper Abraham{{cite web|title=Heroes Reborn adds Walking Dead actor|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/heroes/news/a645020/the-walking-dead-actor-pruitt-taylor-vince-joins-heroes-reborn-cast/|website=Digital Spy|access-date=9 October 2016|date=30 April 2015}}

| 7 episodes

2017

| Stranger Things

| Ray Carroll

| 2 episodes

2017–2018

| Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

| Grill{{cite web|title=Agents of SHIELD announces new character in season 5|url=https://www.theglobaldispatch.com/agents-of-shield-season-5-details-adds-jeff-ward-eve-harlow-coy-stewart-and-pruitt-taylor-vince-95386/ |work= TheGlobalDispatch.com |access-date=6 November 2017| date= 4 November 2017}}

| Recurring; 4 episodes

2018

| The Blacklist

| Lawrence Devlin

| 2 episodes

2024

| Lady in the Lake

| Bob Bauer

| Miniseries