Tim Blake Nelson

Born: 1964-05-11

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.


See
Placeholder

Ghosted

as Borislov
Released: 2023-04-18

Salt-of-the-earth Cole falls head over heels for enigmatic Sadie—but then makes the shocking...

Movie page

Captain America: Brave New World

as Dr. Samuel Sterns / The Leader
Released: 2025-02-12

After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle...

Movie page
as Samuel Sterns
Released: 2008-06-12

Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within...

Movie page
Don't See
as VP Kirby
Released: 2019-08-21

After a treacherous attack, Secret Service agent Mike Banning is charged with attempting to...

Movie page
See!

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

as Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs")
Released: 2018-11-09

Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the...

Movie page

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

as Black Rabbits (voice)
Released: 2022-11-09

During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life...

Movie page

Detachment

as Mr. Wiatt
Released: 2011-04-24

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and...

Movie page
as Gideon [Department of Containment]
Released: 2002-06-20

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict...

Movie page
See!

Fantastic Four

as Harvey Elder
Released: 2015-08-05

Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in...

Movie page

The Bricklayer

as O'Malley
Released: 2023-12-14

Someone is blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it look like the...

Movie page
as Officer LeFlore
Released: 2004-12-22

Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to...

Movie page
Don't See
as Pvt. Brian Tills
Released: 1998-12-23

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and...

Movie page
See!

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

as Delmar O'Donnell
Released: 2000-08-30

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a...

Movie page
as Carny Boss
Released: 2021-12-02

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words...

Movie page
See!

Donnie Brasco

as FBI Technician
Released: 1997-02-27

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the...

Movie page

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

as Jacobo
Released: 2004-03-24

After solving their last mystery at Spooky Island, the Mystery Inc. gang is back in Coolsville,...

Movie page

Greedy People

as Wallace
Released: 2024-08-23

The eclectic residents of a small, picturesque island town must navigate a sensational murder...

Movie page

Colossal

as Garth
Released: 2017-04-06

A woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown...

Movie page

Holes

as Dr. Pendanski
Released: 2003-04-18

A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he must dig holes in...

Movie page

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

as Wayne Foster
Released: 2016-11-10

19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through...

Movie page
as Richard Schell
Released: 2012-11-09

The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation...

Movie page
See!

Heavyweights

as Camp Hope Salesman
Released: 1995-02-17

Camp Hope is a summer retreat for overweight boys run by a kindly couple who make the campers...

Movie page

The Good Girl

as Bubba
Released: 2002-01-12

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the...

Movie page

The Big Year

as Fuchs
Released: 2011-10-13

Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of...

Movie page

Syriana

as Danny Dalton
Released: 2005-11-23

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together...

Movie page

Just Mercy

as Ralph Myers
Released: 2019-12-25

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to...

Movie page

Joe's Apartment

as Cockroach (voice)
Released: 1996-07-26

A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment...

Movie page

Flypaper

as Peanut Butter
Released: 2011-08-19

A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect...

Movie page

Old Henry

as Henry
Released: 2021-10-01

A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash....

Movie page

Kill the Messenger

as Alan Fenster
Released: 2014-10-09

A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of...

Movie page

Hoot

as Curly
Released: 2006-11-03

A young man moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a...

Movie page

Naked Singularity

as Angus
Released: 2021-08-06

When a successful New York public defender loses his first case, he is pulled into a drug heist...

Movie page

The Homesman

as The Freighter
Released: 2014-05-18

When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer...

Movie page

Fido

as Mr. Theopolis
Released: 2006-09-07

Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named...

Movie page

Hamlet

as Flight Captain
Released: 2000-05-12

Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his...

Movie page

Anesthesia

as Adam Zarrow
Released: 2016-01-08

Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University...

Movie page

The Astronaut Farmer

as Kevin Munchak
Released: 2007-02-23

Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad...

Movie page

The Big White

as Gary
Released: 2005-10-27

To remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just...

Movie page

The Jesus Rolls

as Doctor
Released: 2019-10-17

Hours after his release from prison, Jesus Quintana pairs up with fellow misfits Petey and Marie...

Movie page

The Confirmation

as Vaughn
Released: 2016-03-18

A divorced father reconnects with his son when they track down a stolen toolbox over the course...

Movie page

Wonderland

as Billy Deverell
Released: 2003-10-23

On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland...

Movie page

The Institute

as Dr. Lemelle
Released: 2017-03-03

In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter, a girl stricken with grief from her parents' untimely...

Movie page

Monster

as Leroy Sawicki
Released: 2021-07-15

The story of Steve Harmon, a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around...

Movie page

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

as Johan
Released: 2018-03-02

Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the...

Movie page

The Report

as Raymond Nathan
Released: 2019-09-12

The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's...

Movie page

Big Miracle

as Pat Lafaytette
Released: 2012-02-02

A small-town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer enlist the help of rival superpowers to...

Movie page

The Amateurs

as Barney
Released: 2006-04-28

Sex sells in America and these guys know it. The Amateurs follows a small town band of loveable...

Movie page

The Last Shot

as Marshal Paris
Released: 2004-09-24

A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that...

Movie page

The Darwin Awards

as Perp
Released: 2006-07-05

After botching the capture of a notorious serial killer, idiosyncratic detective Michael Burrows...

Movie page

Ninety-Five Senses

as Coy (voice)
Released: 2022-08-12

A heartfelt depiction of a man facing his own mortality while reflecting on the grave mistakes...

Movie page

Leaves of Grass

as Bolger
Released: 2009-09-13

An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to...

Movie page

This Is My Life

as Dennis
Released: 1992-02-21

Single mom Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics in a department store, but she dreams of being a...

Movie page

Blue Caprice

as Ray
Released: 2013-09-12

A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks.

Movie page

Saint John of Las Vegas

as Ned
Released: 2010-01-29

An ex-gambler is lured back into the game by a veteran insurance-fraud investigator.

Movie page

Deidra & Laney Rob a Train

as Truman
Released: 2017-01-23

After their mother ends up in jail, two sisters turn to train robbery in order to support their...

Movie page

National Champions

as Rodger Cummings
Released: 2021-12-10

A star quarterback ignites a players’ strike hours before the biggest game of the year in order...

Movie page

As I Lay Dying

as Anse
Released: 2013-10-09

Strife and disaster befall a poor Mississippi family during a two-day trip by horse and wagon to...

Movie page

Amateur

as Young Detective
Released: 1994-08-05

A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee...

Movie page

Child of God

as Sheriff Fate
Released: 2014-04-28

A dispossessed, violent man's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order....

Movie page

Ghosts of the Ozarks

as Torb
Released: 2022-02-04

In 1866, a young doctor is summoned by his uncle to a remote town in the Ozarks only to discover...

Movie page

Warm Springs

as Tom Loyless
Released: 2005-04-30

Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in...

Movie page

Cherish

as Daly
Released: 2002-01-17

After a martini-induced rampage, a fantasy-prone young woman is placed under house arrest.

Movie page

Come Early Morning

as Uncle Tim
Released: 2006-01-10

A thirty-something southern woman searches for love, despite the burdens she carries with her.

Movie page

Bang Bang

as Bernard 'Bang Bang' Rozyski
Released: 2024-06-11

Retired pugilist Bernard “Bang Bang” Rozyski is inspired to try his hand at training once he...

Movie page

American Violet

as David Cohen
Released: 2008-08-28

A young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and...

Movie page

Snake & Mongoose

as Mike McAllister
Released: 2013-09-06

The untold story of how two Southern California drag racers, Don "The Snake" Prudhomme and Tom...

Movie page

Wormwood

as Sidney Gottlieb
Released: 2017-10-22

In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist...

Movie page

The Sound and the Fury

as Father
Released: 2015-10-23

A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during...

Movie page

The Invisibles

as Charlie
Released: 2024-03-10

A couple facing the end of marriage, when the husband starts to disappear. As he fades from...

Movie page

Yelling To The Sky

as Coleman
Released: 2011-03-11

As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a...

Movie page

Down from the Mountain

as Self
Released: 2001-06-05

On May 24, 2000, the historic Ryman Auditorium was booked to offer Nashvillians an evening of...

Movie page

Adventures in the Sin Bin

as Officer Totsch
Released: 2012-06-08

Brian is a private school student who routinely lends his van out so fellow students can have...

Movie page

Sequestrada

as Thomas
Released: 2019-12-31

An Amazonian chief’s 12-year-old daughter gets lost and kidnapped. While she is in the hands of...

Movie page

A Foreign Affair

as Jake Adams
Released: 2003-01-21

Two brothers need household help after their Ma passes away. They decide to join a romance tour...

Movie page

My Suicidal Sweetheart

as Doctor, Chief Nakahoma, Minister, Roger Bob
Released: 2005-03-01

A suicidal comedy about two young lovers who get married and escape from a mental institution in...

Movie page

Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People

as Teddy Roosevelt (voice)
Released: 2019-03-01

A biographical history of Hungarian immigrant Joseph Pulitzer, who revolutionized how news is...

Movie page

Bereft

as Dennis
Released: 2004-09-13

A young Vermont widow is haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to date again.

Movie page

Asleep in My Palm

as Tom
Released: 2024-03-01

It tells the story of a man and the daughter he's raising off the grid on the outskirts of an...

Movie page

The True Don Quixote

as Don Quixote
Released: 2019-10-01

Tim Blake Nelson is a man who's safe and comfortable and bored to death with his life. In his...

Movie page

Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power

as Admiral Rickover
Released: 2014-12-10

Dive into the life of the father of the nuclear Navy: Hyman Rickover. Combative, provocative,...

Movie page

Thelma

as Arthur Ducoing
Released:

Follows John Kennedy Toole's mother, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Confederacy of...

Movie page

Modern Family

as Hank
First aired: 2009-09-23

The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an...

TV Show page

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

as Paulie Krill
First aired: 2000-10-06

A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the...

TV Show page

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Self
First aired: 2015-09-08

Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,...

TV Show page

Poker Face

as Kyle Owens
First aired: 2023-01-26

Follow Charlie Cale, a woman with an extraordinary ability to tell when someone is lying, as she...

TV Show page

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

as Randy
First aired: 2015-03-06

When a woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and lands in New York City, she must navigate a...

TV Show page

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

as Nick Appleton
First aired: 2022-10-25

Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in this visually stunning, spine-tingling...

TV Show page

Watchmen

as Wade Tillman / Looking Glass
First aired: 2019-10-20

Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, “Watchmen” embraces the...

TV Show page

Lost Ollie

as Zozo (voice)
First aired: 2022-08-24

A patchwork rabbit with floppy ears and fuzzy memories embarks on an epic quest to find his best...

TV Show page

Slugfest

as Steve Englehart
First aired: 2021-12-24

A chronicle of the growth of comic books as a new American art form exploring the decades-long...

TV Show page

Klondike

as Joe Meeker
First aired: 2014-01-20

The lives of two childhood best friends, Bill and Epstein, in the late 1890s as they flock to...

TV Show page

The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn

as Self - Guest
First aired: 1999-03-30

Craig Kilborn hosted this zany talk show, which followed David Letterman's show, from 1999 until...

TV Show page

George & Tammy

as Roy Acuff
First aired: 2022-12-04

A chronicle of the country music power couple George Jones and Tammy Wynette, whose...

TV Show page

Dallas & Robo

as The Woodsman
First aired: 2018-05-30

Sassy space-trucker Dallas and self-proclaimed warrior-poet Robo navigate their way around...

TV Show page

CHAOS

as Casey Malick
First aired: 2011-04-01

A comedic drama about a group of rogue CIA spies in the Office of Disruptive Services (ODS), who...

TV Show page

Wormwood

as Sidney Gottlieb
First aired: 2017-12-15

In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist...

TV Show page