Tim Blake Nelson

Tim Blake Nelson

Timothy Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964) is an American actor and playwright. Described as a "modern character actor, 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 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Richard Schell in Lincoln (2012), the titular 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tim Blake Nelson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, 1964-05-11

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1997	Prix Fixe	Busboy	0
2	1998	The Thin Red Line	Pvt. Brian Tills	75
3	2000	Hamlet	Flight Captain	58
4	2000	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Delmar O'Donnell	73
5	2002	The Good Girl	Bubba	62
6	2002	Cherish	Daly	61
7	2003	A Foreign Affair	Jake Adams	54
8	2003	Holes	Dr. Pendanski	69
9	2003	Wonderland	Billy Deverell	61
10	2004	Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed	Jacobo	61
11	2004	Bereft	Dennis	37
12	2004	The Last Shot	Marshal Paris	57
13	2004	Meet the Fockers	Officer LeFlore	63
14	2005	My Suicidal Sweetheart	Doctor, Chief Nakahoma, Minister, Roger Bob	58
15	2005	Warm Springs	Tom Loyless	68
16	2005	The Big White	Gary	62
17	2005	Syriana	Danny Dalton	64
18	2006	Come Early Morning	Uncle Tim	56
19	2006	The Amateurs	Barney	56
20	2006	The Darwin Awards	Perp	56
21	2006	Fido	Mr. Theopolis	64
22	2006	Hoot	Curly	56
23	2007	The Astronaut Farmer	Kevin Munchak	62
24	2008	The Incredible Hulk	Samuel Sterns	62
25	2008	American Violet	David Cohen	67
26	2009	Leaves of Grass	Bolger	60
27	2011	Yelling To The Sky	Coleman	55
28	2011	The Big Year	Fuchs	60
29	2012	Big Miracle	Pat Lafaytette	67
30	2012	Adventures in the Sin Bin	Officer Totsch	43
31	2013	Snake & Mongoose	Mike McAllister	51
32	2013	Blue Caprice	Ray	58
33	2013	As I Lay Dying	Anse	52
34	2014	Child of God	Sheriff Fate	49
35	2021	Nightmare Alley	Carny Boss	70
36		The Leader	Marshall Applewhite	0
37	2010	Saint John of Las Vegas	Ned	56
38	2011	Detachment	Mr. Wiatt	76
39	2011	Flypaper	Peanut Butter	64
40	2012	Lincoln	Richard Schell	69
41	2013	Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery	Self	0
42	2022	Ghosts of the Ozarks	Torb	52
43	2024	Asleep in My Palm	Tom	50
44	2024	Greedy People	Wallace	63
45		Thelma	Arthur Ducoing	0
46	1992	This Is My Life	Dennis	59
47	1994	Amateur	Young Detective	62
48	1995	Heavyweights	Camp Hope Salesman	61
49	1996	Joe's Apartment	Cockroach (voice)	58
50	1997	Donnie Brasco	FBI Technician	75
51	2001	Down from the Mountain	Self	76
52	2002	Minority Report	Gideon	74
53	2013	Bukowski	Henry Bukowski	78
54	2014	The Homesman	The Freighter	65
55	2014	Kill the Messenger	Alan Fenster	66
56	2014	Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power	Admiral Rickover	0
57	2015	Black Dog, Red Dog	Bob	75
58	2015	Fantastic Four	Dr. Allen	44
59	2015	The Sound and the Fury	Father	50
60	2016	Anesthesia	Adam Zarrow	57
61	2016	The Confirmation	Vaughn	64
62	2016	Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk	Wayne Foster	60
63	2017	Deidra & Laney Rob a Train	Truman	56
64	2017	The Institute	Dr. Lemelle	42
65	2017	Colossal	Garth	63
66	2017	Wormwood	Sidney Gottlieb	69
67	2018	The Vanishing of Sidney Hall	Johan	67
68	2018	The Ballad of Buster Scruggs	Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs")	71
69	2019	Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People	Teddy Roosevelt (voice)	53
70	2019	Angel Has Fallen	VP Kirby	66
71	2019	The Report	Raymond Nathan	70
72	2019	The True Don Quixote	Don Quixote	74
73	2019	The Jesus Rolls	Doctor	45
74	2019	Just Mercy	Ralph Myers	79
75	2019	Sequestrada	Thomas	57
76	2021	Monster	Leroy Sawicki	64
77	2021	Naked Singularity	Angus	46
78	2021	Old Henry	Henry	73
79	2021	National Champions	Rodger Cummings	64
80	2022	Ninety-Five Senses	Coy (voice)	74
81	2022	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	Black Rabbits (voice)	81
82	2023	Ghosted	Borislov	69
83	2023	The Bricklayer	O'Malley	58
84	2024	The Invisibles	Charlie	65
85	2024	Bang Bang	Bernard 'Bang Bang' Rozyski	0
86	2025	Captain America: Brave New World	Samuel Sterns	61
87		The Long Home		0
88		Ann Lee		0
89	2025	Atropia	Mr. Speaker (voice)	20
90		The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1999	The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn	Self - Guest	42
2	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Paulie Krill	76
3	2009	Modern Family	Hank	79
4	2011	CHAOS	Casey Malick	63
5	2014	Klondike	Joe Meeker	71
6	2015	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Randy	71
7	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	64
8	2017	Wormwood	Sidney Gottlieb	64
9	2018	Dallas & Robo	The Woodsman	60
10	2019	Watchmen	Wade Tillman / Looking Glass	77
11	2021	Slugfest	Steve Englehart	64
12	2022	Lost Ollie	Zozo (voice)	78
13	2022	Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities	Nick Appleton	75
14	2022	George & Tammy	Roy Acuff	71
15	2023	Poker Face	Kyle Owens	76
16	2025	The Lowdown		0

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