Tim Blake Nelson
{{short description|American actor and writer (born 1964)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox person
| name =
| image = Tim Blake Nelson 2016.jpg
| caption = Nelson at the 2016 Fantastic Fest
| birth_name = Timothy Blake Nelson
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|5|11|mf=yes}}
| birth_place = Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
| education = Brown University (BA)
Juilliard School (GrDip)
| years_active = 1989–present
| spouse = {{marriage|Lisa Benavides|1994}}
| children = 3
}}
Timothy Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964) is an American actor, writer, and director. Described as a "modern character actor",{{Cite web|date=October 5, 2021|first1=Devan |last1=Coggan |title=Tim Blake Nelson reflects on his most memorable roles, from 'Buster Scruggs' to 'Watchmen'|url=https://ew.com/movies/tim-blake-nelson-role-call/|access-date=January 28, 2024|website=EW.com|language=en}} his roles include Delmar O'Donnell in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Gideon in Minority Report (2002), Doctor Steve Pendanski in Holes (2003), Doctor Jonathan Jacobo in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), Danny Dalton Jr. in Syriana (2005), Samuel Sterns / The Leader in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Richard Schell in Lincoln (2012), the eponymous character of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) and Henry McCarty in Old Henry (2021). He portrayed Wade Tillman / Looking Glass in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019), for which he received a Critics' Choice Television Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2020.
Nelson's directorial credits include Eye of God (1997), which was nominated for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and an Independent Spirit Award; O (2001), a modern-day adaptation of Othello; and the Holocaust drama The Grey Zone (2001). Eye of God and The Grey Zone were both adapted from Nelson's own plays. Nelson has also co-directed music videos for Billy Woods and Kenny Segal including "Babylon by Bus" and "Soft Landing". He also co-directed the music video for Armand Hammer feat. Pink Siifu's "Trauma Mic".
Nelson recently published his debut novel, City of Blows (2023), an epic group portrait of four men grappling for control of a script in a radically changing Hollywood.
Early life
Nelson was born to a Jewish family{{cite web|url=http://aboutfilm.com/features/greyzone/feature.htm|title=Feature Article and Interviews - THE GREY ZONE (2001)|publisher=Aboutfilm.com|access-date=July 15, 2014}}{{cite news|last=Bloom|first=Nate|title=Jewish stars: Whales, ghosts and 'Smash'|newspaper=Cleveland Jewish News|date=February 2, 2012|url=https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/archives/jewish-stars-whales-ghosts-and-smash/article_77b968c0-4dde-11e1-a4ef-0019bb2963f4.html|access-date=April 16, 2018}} in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Ruth Nelson (née Kaiser),Michael Smith, [http://www.tulsaworld.com/spot/article.aspx?subjectid=243&articleid=20090506_282_D10_Thenew625933 "Bloomer Sooner: Tulsa native Tim Blake Nelson's roots are showing"], Tulsa World, May 6, 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishmuseum.net/other/images/muse.pdf|title=Star's Talents Return to Tulsa|access-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001110522/http://www.jewishmuseum.net/other/images/muse.pdf|archive-date=October 1, 2011}} a noted Tulsa social activist and philanthropist, and Don Nelson, a geologist and wildcatter.Tulsa Historical Society, [http://www.tulsahistory.org/hof/nelson.html 1999 Hall of Fame Inductee: Ruth K. Nelson] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126213615/http://www.tulsahistory.org/hof/nelson.html|date=January 26, 2009}}, tulsahistory.org; accessed June 14, 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.tulsaworld.com/archives/native-tulsan-featured-in-miniseries-tim-nelson-makes-leap-from/article_26a35455-cdb7-5ad9-853d-b7abf7c4a7cf.html|title=Native Tulsan Featured in Miniseries: Tim Nelson Makes Leap From Shakespeare to 'Dead Man's Walk'|first=Rita|last=Sherrow}} His maternal uncle is businessman George Kaiser.{{cite web|url=http://www.jweekly.com/2015/08/06/celebrity-jews0807|title=Celebrity jews|author=Bloom, Nate|date=August 6, 2015|publisher=jweekly.com|access-date=April 16, 2018}}
His maternal grandparents Herman Geo. Kaiser and Kate Kaiser, daughter of businessman Max Samuel, were from Germany, and escaped the Nazis shortly before World War II. They moved to Britain in 1938,Ulf Heinsohn, Max Samuel: a real mentsh, inventor, self-made-man / Menschenfreund, Erfinder, Selfmademan, Scott Galliart (trlr.), Stiftung Begegnungsstätte für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur in Rostock / Max-Samuel-Haus (ed.), (= Schriften aus dem Max-Samuel-Haus; vol. 15), Rostock: Hinstorff, 2022, page as indicated behind the footnote sign. ISBN 978-3-356-02380-0.{{rp|96seq.}} where Nelson's mother was born,{{rp|87seq.}}Stated on WTF with Marc Maron, December 3, 2018 and immigrated to the United States in 1941.{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1152404|title=The Grey Zone|publisher=NPR|date=October 26, 2002|access-date=July 15, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bluntreview.com/reviews/blake.htm|title=Blunt Review: Film Reviews, Celebrity Interviews, Music Reviews with Web Celeb Emily Blunt|access-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002031656/http://www.bluntreview.com/reviews/blake.htm|archive-date=October 2, 2011}}{{cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/o-brother-who-art-thou-a-_b_3001892|title=Jonathan Valania: O Brother Who Art Thou? A Q&A With Actor/Writer/Director Tim Blake Nelson|website=HuffPost|date=April 3, 2013|access-date=July 1, 2013}} His father's family were Russian-Jewish emigrants.{{cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F6F9FF3E0B2D6ED&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=People adapt to 'Grey Zone' Jewish workers in Nazi camp|work=The Washington Times|access-date=July 15, 2014}}
Nelson attended the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain Resort Arts and Conference Center in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma.Oklahoma Arts Institute, [http://oaiquartz.com/alumni/listing.cfm Alumni Listing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825111930/http://www.oaiquartz.com/alumni/listing.cfm|date=August 25, 2007|accessdate=January 21, 2009}}
Nelson is a 1982 graduate of Holland Hall School in Tulsa, and a graduate of Brown University, where he was a classics major as well as senior orator for his class of 1986. At Brown, he studied under philosopher Martha Nussbaum.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/15/tim-blake-nelson-classics-nerd-brings-socrates-to-the-stage|title=Tim Blake Nelson, Classics Nerd, Brings "Socrates" to the Stage|last=Singer|first=Mark|magazine=The New Yorker|date=April 8, 2019|access-date=April 10, 2019|issn=0028-792X}} He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa society. He won the Workman/Driskoll award for excellence in classical studies.Kari Molvar, [https://web.archive.org/web/20011226063441/http://brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=61 "Q&A: Tim Blake Nelson"], Brown Alumni Magazine (March/April 2001). He graduated from Juilliard in 1990, a member of Group 19.[http://www.juilliard.edu/alumni/reflections_0603.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219080312/http://www.juilliard.edu/alumni/reflections_0603.html|date=December 19, 2010}}
Career
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Nelson's debut play, Eye of God, was produced at Seattle Repertory Theatre in 1992. The Grey Zone premiered at MCC Theater in New York in 1996, where his 1998 work Anadarko was produced. He was a co-star of the sketch comedy show The Unnaturals, which ran on HA! (later CTV, and would turn into Comedy Central) between 1989 and 1991, alongside Paul Zaloom, John Mariano and Siobhan Fallon Hogan.{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywood.com/tv/the-unnaturals-59530743|title=The Unnaturals - TV Series - 1989|date=February 5, 2015|publisher=hollywood.com}}
Nelson has appeared as an actor in film, TV and theatre. He had a featured role as Delmar in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? According to directors Joel and Ethan Coen, he was the only one in the cast or crew who had read Homer's Odyssey, a story upon which the film is loosely based.Romney, Jonathan. [http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1083527,00.html "The Coen brothers: Double vision"], The Guardian, May 19, 2000. He sang "In the Jailhouse Now" on the film's soundtrack (which received a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2002). He has had a number of supporting performances in feature films such as Holes, Minority Report, Syriana and Lincoln. He also appeared in Marvel Comics adaptations The Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four, and Captain America:Brave New World.{{Cite web |last=Laman |first=Lisa |date=2025-02-15 |title=Captain America: Brave New World Star Tim Blake Nelson Once Played Another Marvel Villain You Forgot About |url=https://comicbook.com/movies/news/captain-america-leader-tim-blake-nelson-marvel-movie-roles-hulk-fantastic-four/ |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=ComicBook.com |language=en-US}}
Nelson narrated the 2001 audiobook At the Altar of Speed: The Fast Life and Tragic Death of Dale Earnhardt, Sr. He appeared on stage extensively off-Broadway in New York at theatres including Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Class Company, Soho Repertory Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, and Central Park's Open Air Theater in the Shakespeare plays Richard III, Troilus and Cressida, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
He has directed film versions of his plays The Grey Zone and Eye of God (for which he received an Independent Spirit Awards nomination for the Someone to Watch Award), and directed two of his original screenplays: Kansas (1998) and Leaves of Grass (2009). He directed the film O, based on Othello and set in a modern-day high school. For Eye of God, he received the Tokyo Bronze Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival (1997) and the American Independent Award at the Seattle International Film Festival (1997); for O, the Best Director Award at the Seattle International Film Festival (2001); and for The Grey Zone, the National Board of Review's Freedom of Expression Award (2002). Nelson is on the boards of directors of The Actors Center in New York City and the Soho Rep Theatre.{{Cite web|title=Roger Ebert's Film Festival - Filmmaker Guests|url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/thirteen/bios.html|website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu|access-date=May 26, 2020}}
Nelson guest-starred on the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation season 10 episode "Working Stiffs". In the episode "My Brother's Bomber" (aired September 29, 2015) of the PBS investigative series Frontline, he talked about the loss of his friend David Dornstein in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/my-brothers-bomber|title=My Brother's Bomber|publisher=pbs.org|access-date=April 16, 2018}}
In 2018, Nelson played the title character in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a western anthology film by Joel and Ethan Coen,{{cite news |last=Giroux |first=Jack |url= http://www.slashfilm.com/the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs-cast-includes-james-franco-tim-blake-nelson-zoe-kazan-and-more/ |title='The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' Cast Includes James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Zoe Kazan, and More |work=/Film |date=July 9, 2017 |access-date=November 22, 2018}} after receiving the original script 16 years prior, in 2002. The film was released on Netflix on November 16, after a limited theatrical run,{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/coen-brothers-the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs-theatrical-release-venice-film-festival-1202923156/|title=Coen Brothers Confirm Theatrical Release for 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs'|last=Chu|first=Henry|date=August 31, 2018|work=Variety|access-date=November 22, 2018}} and received positive reviews,{{cite web | url = https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_ballad_of_buster_scruggs/ | title = The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | work = Rotten Tomatoes | date = November 8, 2018 | publisher = Fandango Media | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181118010027/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_ballad_of_buster_scruggs/ | archive-date = November 18, 2018 | access-date = November 22, 2018 }}{{cite web | url = https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs | title = The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Reviews | work = Metacritic | publisher = CBS Interactive | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181107001228/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs | archive-date = November 7, 2018 | access-date = November 22, 2018 }} with many highlighting Nelson's performance and his overall segment. He portrayed Ralph Myers in the drama/legal drama Just Mercy (2019). In January 2023, he joined the cast of Dune: Part Two,{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dune-part-2-casts-time-blake-nelson-1235292182/ |title=Tim Blake Nelson Joins Denis Villeneuve's 'Dune: Part 2' (Exclusive) |website=The Hollywood Reporter |last=Kit |first=Borys |date=January 6, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2023}} though his role was ultimately cut out of the film.{{Cite web |last=Sharf |first=Zack |date=March 4, 2024 |title=Denis Villeneuve Cut Two Actors From 'Dune 2' and One of Them Is 'Heartbroken'; No Deleted Scenes Will Be Released: 'When It's Not in the Movie, It's Dead' |url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/dune-2-cut-actors-deleted-scenes-released-stephen-mckinley-henderson-1235929610/ |access-date=March 26, 2024 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}
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Nelson's play Socrates opened at The Public Theater in 2019, starring Michael Stuhlbarg.{{cite magazine |last1=Schilling |first1=Mary Kay |title=Tim Blake Nelson's New Play Reveals How Socrates Predicted Donald Trump—And the Tyranny of Democracy. |url=https://www.newsweek.com/2019/05/03/tim-blake-nelson-1398692.html |access-date=May 13, 2019 |magazine=Newsweek |date=April 17, 1989}} It was favorably received by numerous publications, including the New York Times.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/theater/socrates-public-theater-review.html|title=Review: In 'Socrates,' a Brainy Tribute to a Prickly Provocateur|last=Collins-Hughes|first=Laura|date=June 2, 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=June 16, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
Personal life
Nelson resides in New York City with his wife, Lisa Benavides, and their three sons. One of his sons is Henry Nelson, a film director who directed Asleep in My Palm.{{Cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2021/12/asleep-in-my-palm-tim-blake-nelson-to-produce-star-in-son-henrys-feature-1234882488/ |title=Tim Blake Nelson To Produce & Star In 'Asleep In My Palm', His Son Henry's Feature Directorial Debut |website=Deadline Hollywood |first=Matt |last=Grobar |date=December 1, 2021 |access-date=October 23, 2024}} On May 8, 2009, he was inducted as an honorary member of the University of Tulsa's Beta of Oklahoma chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa national collegiate honor society.{{Cite web|url=http://orgs.utulsa.edu/spcol/?p=4805|title=McFarlin Fellows Dinner: An Evening with Tim Blake Nelson|last=Murphy|first=Jennifer|date=April 11, 2017|website=From McFarlin Tower|language=en-US|access-date=November 20, 2019|archive-date=June 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610111957/http://orgs.utulsa.edu/spcol/?p=4805|url-status=dead}} Nelson currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, the school from which his mother Ruth Nelson graduated in 1958.{{Cite web |title=Ruth Nelson Obituary (1935 - 2023) - Tulsa, OK - Tulsa World |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/tulsaworld/name/ruth-nelson-obituary?id=38789187 |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=Legacy.com}}{{Cite web |title=Board of Trustees |url=https://www.brynmawr.edu/about-college/college-leadership/board-trustees |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=www.brynmawr.edu |language=en}}
Filmography
| class="wikitable"
|+Key | style="background:#FFFFCC;"| {{dagger|alt=Denotes productions that have not yet been released}} | Denotes productions that have not yet been released |
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year ! Title ! Role ! class=unsortable | Notes |
| 1992
| Dennis | |
| 1993
| Motel Blue 19 | Adult Luther (voice) | Uncredited |
| 1994
| Amateur | Young Detective | |
| 1995
| Roger Johnson | |
| 1996
| Cockroach (voice) | |
| rowspan="3"|1997
| {{n/a}} | Director and writer |
| Donnie Brasco
| FBI Technician | |
| Prix Fixe
| Busboy | Short film |
| rowspan="2"|1998
| Pvt. Lysander Tills | |
| Kansas
| {{n/a}} | Short film; director and writer |
| rowspan="2"|2000
| Hamlet | Flight captain | |
| O Brother, Where Art Thou?
| Delmar O'Donnell | |
| rowspan="2"|2001
| O | {{n/a}} | Director |
| The Grey Zone
| {{n/a}} | Director, writer, producer and editor |
| rowspan="3"|2002
| Bubba | |
| Cherish
| Daly | |
| Minority Report
| Gideon | |
| rowspan="3"|2003
| Jake Adams | Also executive producer |
| Holes
| Dr. Kiowa "Mom" Pendanski | |
| Wonderland
| Billy Deverell | |
| rowspan="4"|2004
| Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed | Dr. Jonathan Jacobo | |
| The Last Shot
| Marshal Paris | |
| Bereft
| Dennis | |
| Meet the Fockers
| Officer Vern LeFlore | |
| rowspan="4"|2005
| Barney Macklehatton | |
| My Suicidal Sweetheart
| Various | |
| The Big White
| Gary | |
| Syriana
| Danny Dalton | |
| rowspan="4"|2006
| Uncle Tim | |
| The Darwin Awards
| Perp | |
| Hoot
| Curly | |
| Fido
| Mr. Theopolis | |
| 2007
| Kevin Munchak | |
| rowspan="2"|2008
| |
| American Violet
| David Cohen | |
| rowspan="2"|2009
| Militant Ned | |
| Leaves of Grass
| Bolger | Also director, writer and producer |
| rowspan="4"|2011
| Flypaper | Peanut Butter | |
| Yelling to the Sky
| Coleman | |
| Detachment
| Mr. Wiatt | |
| The Big Year
| Fuchs | |
| rowspan="2"|2012
| Pat Lafayette | |
| Lincoln
| |
| rowspan="4"|2013
| Ray | |
| As I Lay Dying
| Anse | |
| Child of God
| Sheriff Fate | |
| Snake and Mongoose
| Mike McAllister | |
| rowspan="4"|2014
| Freighter | |
| The Sound and the Fury
| Father | |
| Kill the Messenger
| Alan Fenster | |
| Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0625789/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t18|title = Tim Blake Nelson| website=IMDb }}
| Documentary |
| rowspan="2"|2015
| Adam Zarrow | Also director, writer and producer |
| Fantastic Four
| |
| rowspan="3"|2016
| Vaughn | |
| Colossal
| Garth | |
| Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
| Wayne Pfister | |
| rowspan="4"|2017
| Truman | |
| The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
| Johan Tidemand | |
| The Institute
| Dr. Lemelle | |
| The Long Home
| Hovington | Unreleased |
| rowspan="2"|2018
| Monster | Leroy Sawicki | |
| The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
| Buster Scruggs | Segment: "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" |
| rowspan="8"|2019
| Raymond Nathan | |
| Arara
| Thomas | |
| The Hustle
| Portnoy | Uncredited |
| Angel Has Fallen
| Vice President Martin Kirby | |
| Just Mercy
| Ralph Myers | |
| Zeroville
| Professor Kohn | |
| The True Don Quixote
| |
| The Jesus Rolls
| Doctor | |
| rowspan="5"|2021
| Angus | |
| Old Henry
| Henry | Also executive producer |
| Ghosts of the Ozarks
| Torb | |
| National Champions
| Rodger Cummings | |
| Nightmare Alley
| Carny Boss | |
| 2022
| Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | The Black Rabbits (voice) | |
| rowspan="3"| 2023
| Ghosted | Borislov | |
| Ninety-Five Senses
| Coy (voice) | Short film |
| Asleep in My Palm
| Tom | Also producer |
| rowspan="4" | 2024
| O'Malley | |
| Bang Bang
| Bernard 'Bang Bang' Rozyski | {{Cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/tim-blake-nelson-boxing-movie-bang-bang-marvel-1235966738/ |title=Tim Blake Nelson on Becoming a Veteran Boxer in 'Bang Bang' and Returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe |date=2024-08-07 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |last=Galuppo |first=Mia}} |
| Greedy People
| Wallace Chetlo | {{Cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2024/08/greedy-people-review-joseph-gordon-levitts-loopy-cop-tops-black-crime-comedy-1236046516/ |title='Greedy People' Review: Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Loopy Cop Tops Black Comedy That Somehow Escaped The Coens' Grasp |date=2024-08-21 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Deadline Hollywood |last=Hammond |first=Pete}} |
| The Invisibles
| Charlie | |
| rowspan="3" | 2025
| Captain America: Brave New World | Samuel Sterns | |
| {{Pending film|On The End}}
| Tom Ferreira | Post-production{{Cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2024/07/tim-blake-nelson-mireille-enos-anna-chlumsky-more-to-star-on-the-end-1236023562/ |title=Tim Blake Nelson, Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale, Lois Smith, Anna Chlumsky & More To Star In Drama 'On The End' From Filmmaker Ari Selinger |date=2024-07-29 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Deadline Hollywood |last=Grobar |first=Matt}} |
| {{pending film|Ann Lee}}
| TBA | Post-production |
| rowspan="2" | {{TableTBA}}
| {{Pending film|The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd}} | {{N/A}} | Director, writer and producer; Filming |
| {{Pending film|The Long Home}}
| Hovington | Complete but no official release date{{Cite web |last=Serben |first=Brandy Lynn |date=2021-12-22 |title=James Franco Speaks on Sexual Misconduct Allegations 4 Years Later |url=https://movieweb.com/james-franco-sexual-misconduct-allegations-speak-out/ |access-date=2022-01-21 |website=MovieWeb|language=en-US}} |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year ! Title ! Role ! class=unsortable | Notes |
| 1989–1991
| The Unnaturals | Recurring characters | |
| 1995
| Kidnapper | Episode: "The Paco Vasquez Story" |
| 1996
| Johnny Carthage | 3 episodes |
| rowspan="2"|2005
| Stella | Mountain Man | Episode: "Camping" |
| Warm Springs
| Tom Loyless | Television film |
| 2006
| Haskett's Chance | {{n/a}} | Pilot; director |
| 2009
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Paulie Krill | Episode: "Working Stiffs" |
| rowspan="2"|2011
| CHAOS | Casey Malick | 13 episodes |
| Modern Family
| Hank | Episode: "Dude Ranch" |
| 2012–2015
| Chief Humphrey Magillahorn / Donald Sterling / | 4 episodes |
| 2014
| Klondike | Meeker | 6 episodes |
| 2015, 2019
| Randy | 4 episodes |
| rowspan="2"|2015
| Z: The Beginning of Everything | {{n/a}} | Episode: "Pilot"; director |
| For Justice
| Ochs Rainey | Pilot |
| 2017
| Wormwood | 4 episodes |
| 2018
| The Woodsman (voice) | 8 episodes |
| 2019
| Watchmen | Wade Tillman / Looking Glass | 6 episodes |
| 2020-2025
| Grampa Ernest Green (voice) | 2 Episodes |
| rowspan="3"|2022
| Zozo (voice) | 4 episodes |
| Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
| Nick Appleton | Episode: "Lot 36" |
| George & Tammy
| Episode: "The Race Is On" |
| 2023
| Keith Owens | Episode: "The Future of the Sport" |
| 2025
| Upcoming series |
= Video games =
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| Year
! Game ! Role |
|---|
| 2008
| Samuel Sterns (voice) |
= Music videos =
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