Pruitt Taylor Vince
| Taylor Vince | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Pruitt Taylor Vince July 5, 1960 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Spouse(s) | Anne Schnieder, Julianne Mattelig |
Pruitt Taylor Vince (born July 5, 1960) is an American character actor who has made many appearances in film and television.[1]
Early life
Vince was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He attended Louisiana State University[2] and began acting due to a mistake; a computer error in his high school registration scheduled him in an acting class.
Personal life
Vince has a condition called nystagmus which is the involuntary movement of the eye.[3]
Career
Vince made his film debut in Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law, but his scenes wound up on the cutting room floor. He had prominent supporting roles in a number of major films, including a turn as a dimwitted Ku Klux Klan member in Mississippi Burning, Lee Bowers in JFK, and the main character's best friend in Nobody's Fool. He also starred in Giuseppe Tornatore's Legend of 1900 alongside Tim Roth. He had his first lead role in James Mangold's independent film Heavy, playing a sweet, silent overweight cook harboring a crush on a waitress (Liv Tyler).
Vince often alternates roles of both heroic and villainous characters, like a lovable small town pub owner in Beautiful Girls, a serial killer with multiple personalities in Identity (a second collaboration with director Mangold), the disheveled gossip columnist in s1mone, and a pompous sheriff in Nurse Betty. He can also be seen in Love from Ground Zero as Walter. Vince also played a Southern cop in Angel Heart, a kidnapper's assistant in Trapped, and a deputy prison warden in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers.
Other film titles include the neo-noir China Moon and the psychological horror film Jacob's Ladder.
Guest appearances on TV shows include Deadwood, Alias, The X-Files, Miami Vice, Quantum Leap, Chicago Hope, 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.[4] 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.[5] In 2012, he appeared in a full episode of Justified.[6] He took a comic role as "Jelly" in Flypaper.
Awards
Vince received an Emmy Award in 1997 for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role as serial killer Clifford Banks during the second season of the television series Murder One.[7]
Filmography
| List of acting performances in film and television | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1987 | Angel Heart | Det. Deimos | |
| Shy People | Paul | ||
| Barfly | Joe | ||
| 1988 | Red Heat | Night Clerk | |
| Miami Vice | Cruz | Episode "Bad Timing" | |
| Mississippi Burning | Lester Cowens | ||
| 1989 | K-9 | Benny the Mule | |
| I Know My First Name is Steven | Irving Murphy | TV movie | |
| Homer and Eddie | Cashier | ||
| 1990 | Wild at Heart | Buddy | |
| Fear | Shadow Man | ||
| Come See the Paradise | Augie Farrell | ||
| In the Heat of the Night | Leonard Grissom | Episode "Perversions of Justice" | |
| Jacob's Ladder | Paul | ||
| 1991 | Sweet Poison | Coyle | TV movie |
| Dead in the Water | Lou Rescetti | TV movie | |
| JFK | Lee Bowers | ||
| 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" |
| 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 | ||
| 1995 | Heavy | Victor Modino | |
| Chicago Hope | Walter Platt | Episode "Small Sacrifices" | |
| The Marshal | Two-Cats | Episode "Buy Hard" | |
| Highlander | Mikey | Episode "The Innocent" | |
| Under the Hula Moon | Bob | ||
| 1996 | The Cottonwood | ||
| Beautiful Girls | Stanley 'Stinky' Womack | ||
| The X-Files | Gerry Schnauz | Episode "Unruhe" | |
| 1997 | Night Sins | Olie Swain | TV movie |
| Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer | Clifford Banks | TV mini-series | |
| The End of Violence | Frank Cray | ||
| Murder One | Clifford Banks | 6 episodes | |
| A Further Gesture | Scott | ||
| Cold Around the Heart | Johnny 'Cokebottles' Costello | ||
| 1998 | Dr. Dolittle | Patient at Hammersmith | Uncredited |
| The Legend of 1900 | Max Tooney | ||
| Love from Ground Zero | Walter | ||
| 1999 | Mumford | Henry Follett | |
| 2000 | Nurse Betty | Ballard | |
| The Cell | Dr. Reid | ||
| 2001 | Gideon's Crossing | James Tooley | Episode "The Lottery" |
| Mental Hygiene | Mr. Adams | Short | |
| Thieves | Roy Lichter | Episode "Dey Got De Degas" | |
| 2002 | 13 Moons | Owen | |
| Rebellion | Vito | ||
| S1m0ne | Max Sayer | ||
| Trapped | Marvin | ||
| 2003 | Identity | Malcolm Rivers | |
| L.A. Confidential | Sid Hudgens | TV movie | |
| The Handler | Ray / Sergei | Episode "Street Boss" | |
| Monster | Gene / Stuttering "John" | ||
| Alias | Campbell / Schapker | Episode "Breaking Point" | |
| 2004 | Touching Evil | Cyril Kemp | 5 episodes |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Marty Gleason | Episode "Swap Meet" | |
| 2005 | Constantine | Father Hennessey | |
| Drop Dead Sexy | Spider | ||
| 2005–2006 | Deadwood | Mose Manuel | 10 episodes |
| 2006 | House | George | Episode "Que Sera Sera" |
| 2007 | When a Man Falls in the Forest | Travis | |
| Captivity | Ben Dexter | ||
| 2008 | Canterbury's Law | Louis Minot | Episode "Baggage" |
| The Echo | Joseph | ||
| 2009 | The Smell of Success | Cleveland Clod | |
| In the Electric Mist | Lou Girard | ||
| Don McKay | Mel | ||
| Leaves of Grass | Big Joe Sharpe | ||
| Medium | Peter Winant | Episode "Deja Vu All Over Again" | |
| 2010 | Mysterious Island | Gideon Spilett | |
| Infamous | The Patriarch | 3 episodes | |
| Memphis Beat | Martin Matthews | Episode "I Want to Be Free" | |
| 2010–2013 | The Mentalist | J.J. LaRoche | 12 episodes |
| 2011 | Stanley DeBrock | Earl Wayne | |
| Flypaper | Wyatt 'Jelly' Jenkins | ||
| The Cape | Goggles | Episode "Goggles and Hicks" | |
| Cameraman | Jeremy | ||
| Drive Angry | Roy | ||
| On the Inside | Ben Marshal | ||
| Butter | Ned Eaten | ||
| Creature | Grover | ||
| The Walking Dead | Otis | Season 2 (recurring role; 3 episodes) | |
| 2012 | Justified | Glen Fogle | Episode "Harlan Roulette" |
| Bending the Rules | Happy | ||
| Jules Verne's Mysterious Island | |||
| Brake | Driver / Boss Terrorist (voice) | ||
| Bones | Haze Jackson | Episode "The Prisoner in the Pipe" | |
| Hawaii Five-0 | Richard Branche | Episode "Ha'alele" | |
| 2013 | |||
| Homefront | Werks | ||
| Dark Tourist | Carl Marznap | ||
| Beautiful Creatures | Mr. Lee[8] | ||
| 13 Sins | Vogler[9] | ||
| 2014 | True Blood | Finn | 5 episodes |
| 2014 | 59 Seconds | Robert | Post-production |
| 2015 | Heroes Reborn | Casper Abraham [10] | 7 episodes |
| 2015 | The Devil's Candy | Ray Smilie | |
| 2017 | The Life and Death of John Gotti | Filming | |
References
- ↑ "Pruitt Taylor Vince". The New York Times.
- ↑ Pruitt Taylor-Vince Biography - Yahoo! Movies Archived June 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Famous People With Nystagmus - Nystagmus Network UK". nystagmusnet.org. Archived from the original on 2015-10-28.
- ↑ Mitovich, Matt Webb (22 June 2011). "Walking Dead Exclusive: Mentalist's Pruitt Taylor Vince Cops First Season 2 Role". TVLine. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ↑ William Keck (26 October 2010). "Keck's Exclusives: New Mentalist Character To Butt Heads with Jane". TVGuide.com.
- ↑ "'Justified' Season 3, Episode 3: 'Harlan Roulette' Recap". Screen Rant. 1 February 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ↑ Emmy Awards official website, last accessed October 22, 2007.
- ↑ "Beautiful Creatures Interview - Pruitt Taylor Vince (2013)". Trailer Addict. 2 February 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ↑ "Ron Perlman, Pruitt Taylor Vince And More Sign On For Angry Little God - CINEMABLEND". CINEMABLEND. 8 October 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ↑ "Heroes Reborn adds Walking Dead actor". Digital Spy. 30 April 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2016.