Tim Blake Nelson

Tim Blake Nelson

1964-05-11 Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA 99 Credits

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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 Scru...

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Captain America: Brave New World

Captain America: Brave New World

2025

as Samuel Sterns

6.1
Acting

After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reas...

Atropia

Atropia

2025

as Mr. Speaker (voice)

2.0
Acting

When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to...

Greedy People

Greedy People

2024

as Wallace

6.3
Acting

The eclectic residents of a small, picturesque island town must navigate a sensational murder and the discovery of a million dollars, leading to a ser...

Bang Bang

Bang Bang

2024

as Bernard 'Bang Bang' Rozyski

Acting

Retired pugilist Bernard “Bang Bang” Rozyski is inspired to try his hand at training once he reconnects with his estranged grandson. While their train...

The Invisibles

The Invisibles

2024

as Charlie

6.5
Acting

A couple facing the end of marriage, when the husband starts to disappear. As he fades from existence he discovers a new world of people who have disa...

Asleep in My Palm

Asleep in My Palm

2024

as Tom

5.0
Acting

It tells the story of a man and the daughter he's raising off the grid on the outskirts of an elite liberal arts college in northeastern Ohio.

Asleep in My Palm

Asleep in My Palm

2024

Producer

5.0
Producing

It tells the story of a man and the daughter he's raising off the grid on the outskirts of an elite liberal arts college in northeastern Ohio.

The Bricklayer

The Bricklayer

2023

as O'Malley

5.8
Acting

Someone is blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it look like the agency is responsible. As the world begins to unite a...

Ghosted

Ghosted

2023

as Borislov

7.0
Acting

Salt-of-the-earth Cole falls head over heels for enigmatic Sadie—but then makes the shocking discovery that she's a secret agent. Before they can deci...

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

2022

as Black Rabbits (voice)

8.1
Acting

During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.

Ninety-Five Senses

Ninety-Five Senses

2022

as Coy (voice)

7.4
Acting

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

Ghosts of the Ozarks

Ghosts of the Ozarks

2022

as Torb

5.2
Acting

In 1866, a young doctor is summoned by his uncle to a remote town in the Ozarks only to discover upon his arrival that the utopian paradise is not all...

National Champions

National Champions

2021

as Rodger Cummings

6.4
Acting

A star quarterback ignites a players’ strike hours before the biggest game of the year in order to fight for fair compensation, equality, and respect ...

Nightmare Alley

Nightmare Alley

2021

as Carny Boss

7.0
Acting

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dang...

Old Henry

Old Henry

2021

as Henry

7.3
Acting

A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the ...

Naked Singularity

Naked Singularity

2021

as Angus

4.6
Acting

When a successful New York public defender loses his first case, he is pulled into a drug heist by a former client in an effort to beat the broken sys...

Monster

Monster

2021

as Leroy Sawicki

6.4
Acting

The story of Steve Harmon, a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder.

Sequestrada

Sequestrada

2019

as Thomas

5.7
Acting

An Amazonian chief’s 12-year-old daughter gets lost and kidnapped. While she is in the hands of a dishonest government official, the chief mistakenly ...

Just Mercy

Just Mercy

2019

as Ralph Myers

7.9
Acting

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — includin...

The Jesus Rolls

The Jesus Rolls

2019

as Doctor

4.5
Acting

Hours after his release from prison, Jesus Quintana pairs up with fellow misfits Petey and Marie for a freewheeling joyride of petty crime and romance...

The True Don Quixote

The True Don Quixote

2019

as Don Quixote

7.1
Acting

Tim Blake Nelson is a man who's safe and comfortable and bored to death with his life. In his state of despair, he looks to classic stories for inspir...

The Report

The Report

2019

as Raymond Nathan

7.0
Acting

The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to...

Angel Has Fallen

Angel Has Fallen

2019

as VP Kirby

6.6
Acting

After a treacherous attack, Secret Service agent Mike Banning is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trumbull. Chased by his own colleagu...

Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People

Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People

2019

as Teddy Roosevelt (voice)

5.3
Acting

A biographical history of Hungarian immigrant Joseph Pulitzer, who revolutionized how news is presented, to whom it is catered to and the power of giv...

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

2018

as Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs")

7.1
Acting

Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songste...

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

2018

as Johan

6.7
Acting

Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.

Wormwood

Wormwood

2017

as Sidney Gottlieb

6.9
Acting

In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra.

Colossal

Colossal

2017

as Garth

6.3
Acting

A woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she's suffering.

The Institute

The Institute

2017

as Dr. Lemelle

4.2
Acting

In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter, a girl stricken with grief from her parents' untimely death, voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood In...

Deidra & Laney Rob a Train

Deidra & Laney Rob a Train

2017

as Truman

5.6
Acting

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

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

2016

as Wayne Foster

6.0
Acting

19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his...

The Confirmation

The Confirmation

2016

as Vaughn

6.4
Acting

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

Anesthesia

Anesthesia

2016

as Adam Zarrow

5.7
Acting

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

Anesthesia

Anesthesia

2016

Director, Writer, Producer

5.7
Directing Writing Producing

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

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

2015

as Father

5.0
Acting

A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.

Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four

2015

as Dr. Allen

4.4
Acting

Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team mu...

Black Dog, Red Dog

Black Dog, Red Dog

2015

as Bob

7.5
Acting

Follows the life of Stephen Dobyns as he deals with life, women, and his move from journalism to poetry.

Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power

Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power

2014

as Admiral Rickover

Acting

Dive into the life of the father of the nuclear Navy: Hyman Rickover. Combative, provocative, and blunt, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a flamboyant m...

Kill the Messenger

Kill the Messenger

2014

as Alan Fenster

6.6
Acting

A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra reb...

The Homesman

The Homesman

2014

as The Freighter

6.5
Acting

When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, indepen...

Child of God

Child of God

2014

as Sheriff Fate

4.9
Acting

A dispossessed, violent man's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few ...

Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery

2013

as Self

Acting

A documentary about the influential independent film production company The Shooting Gallery.

As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying

2013

as Anse

5.2
Acting

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

Blue Caprice

Blue Caprice

2013

as Ray

5.8
Acting

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

Snake & Mongoose

Snake & Mongoose

2013

as Mike McAllister

5.1
Acting

The untold story of how two Southern California drag racers, Don "The Snake" Prudhomme and Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen, combined with corporate giants t...

Bukowski

2013

as Henry Bukowski

7.8
Acting

The story of writer Charles Bukowski's formative years from childhood to high school and his struggles with an abusive father, disfiguring acne, alcoh...

Lincoln

Lincoln

2012

as Richard Schell

6.9
Acting

The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln p...

Adventures in the Sin Bin

Adventures in the Sin Bin

2012

as Officer Totsch

4.3
Acting

Brian is a private school student who routinely lends his van out so fellow students can have sex in it. When he is invited to become friends with Ton...

Big Miracle

Big Miracle

2012

as Pat Lafaytette

6.7
Acting

A small-town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of...

The Big Year

The Big Year

2011

as Fuchs

6.0
Acting

Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare b...

Flypaper

Flypaper

2011

as Peanut Butter

6.4
Acting

A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.

Detachment

Detachment

2011

as Mr. Wiatt

7.6
Acting

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Bar...

Yelling To The Sky

Yelling To The Sky

2011

as Coleman

5.5
Acting

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

Saint John of Las Vegas

Saint John of Las Vegas

2010

as Ned

5.6
Acting

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

Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass

2009

as Bolger

6.0
Acting

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

Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass

2009

Director, Writer, Producer

6.0
Directing Writing Producing

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

American Violet

American Violet

2008

as David Cohen

6.7
Acting

A young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and accused of a crime she didn't commit, Dee goes against the...

The Incredible Hulk

The Incredible Hulk

2008

as Samuel Sterns

6.2
Acting

Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dr...

The Astronaut Farmer

The Astronaut Farmer

2007

as Kevin Munchak

6.2
Acting

Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unli...

Hoot

Hoot

2006

as Curly

5.6
Acting

A young man moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.

Fido

Fido

2006

as Mr. Theopolis

6.4
Acting

Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and ...

The Darwin Awards

The Darwin Awards

2006

as Perp

5.6
Acting

After botching the capture of a notorious serial killer, idiosyncratic detective Michael Burrows loses his job with the San Francisco Police. He becom...

The Amateurs

The Amateurs

2006

as Barney

5.6
Acting

Sex sells in America and these guys know it. The Amateurs follows a small town band of loveable losers who hit upon an idea that can make their dreams...

Come Early Morning

Come Early Morning

2006

as Uncle Tim

5.6
Acting

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

Haskett's Chance

2006

Director

Directing

A murdered politician is given a second chance at life after he's reincarnated in a lower form.

Syriana

Syriana

2005

as Danny Dalton

6.4
Acting

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer...

The Big White

The Big White

2005

as Gary

6.2
Acting

To remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen.

Warm Springs

Warm Springs

2005

as Tom Loyless

6.8
Acting

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

My Suicidal Sweetheart

My Suicidal Sweetheart

2005

as Doctor, Chief Nakahoma, Minister, Roger Bob

5.8
Acting

A suicidal comedy about two young lovers who get married and escape from a mental institution in search of new ways to die...and the white light.

Meet the Fockers

Meet the Fockers

2004

as Officer LeFlore

6.3
Acting

Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet the parents of their son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focke...

The Last Shot

The Last Shot

2004

as Marshal Paris

5.7
Acting

A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent worki...

Bereft

Bereft

2004

as Dennis

3.7
Acting

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

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

2004

as Jacobo

6.1
Acting

After solving their last mystery at Spooky Island, the Mystery Inc. gang is back in Coolsville, where they are being honored with their very own exhib...

Wonderland

Wonderland

2003

as Billy Deverell

6.1
Acting

On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The...

Holes

Holes

2003

as Dr. Pendanski

6.9
Acting

A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he must dig holes in order to build character. What he doesn't know is that...

A Foreign Affair

A Foreign Affair

2003

as Jake Adams

5.4
Acting

Two brothers need household help after their Ma passes away. They decide to join a romance tour to Russia to find and bring home a traditionally minde...

Minority Report

Minority Report

2002

as Gideon

7.3
Acting

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the ...

Cherish

Cherish

2002

as Daly

6.1
Acting

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

The Good Girl

The Good Girl

2002

as Bubba

6.2
Acting

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

The Grey Zone

The Grey Zone

2001

Director, Writer, Producer

6.6
Directing Writing Producing

The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excr...

O

O

2001

Director

5.9
Directing

Even though he's the only black student at the elite Palmetto Grove Academy, star basketball player and future NBA hopeful Odin James has the adoratio...

Down from the Mountain

Down from the Mountain

2001

as Self

7.6
Acting

On May 24, 2000, the historic Ryman Auditorium was booked to offer Nashvillians an evening of sublime beauty. Label executives and soundtrack producer...

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

2000

as Delmar O'Donnell

7.3
Acting

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

Hamlet

Hamlet

2000

as Flight Captain

5.8
Acting

Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.

The Thin Red Line

The Thin Red Line

1998

as Pvt. Brian Tills

7.4
Acting

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselve...

Eye of God

Eye of God

1997

Director, Screenplay

5.8
Directing Writing

A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the loca...

Prix Fixe

1997

as Busboy

Acting
Donnie Brasco

Donnie Brasco

1997

as FBI Technician

7.5
Acting

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

Joe's Apartment

Joe's Apartment

1996

as Cockroach (voice)

5.8
Acting

A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.

Heavyweights

Heavyweights

1995

as Camp Hope Salesman

6.1
Acting

Camp Hope is a summer retreat for overweight boys run by a kindly couple who make the campers feel comfortable with their extra pounds. But when tyran...

Amateur

Amateur

1994

as Young Detective

6.2
Acting

A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is f...

This Is My Life

This Is My Life

1992

as Dennis

5.9
Acting

Single mom Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics in a department store, but she dreams of being a comedian. When she inherits some money, she takes the chance...

The Leader

N/A

as Marshall Applewhite

Acting

In 1997, thirty-nine members of the American cult known as "Heaven's Gate" committed the largest mass suicide to ever take place on American soil. Thi...

Thelma

Thelma

N/A

as Arthur Ducoing

Acting

Follows John Kennedy Toole's mother, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces. Toole died by suicide before finding a home for his...

The Long Home

N/A

Acting

A young contractor is hired to build a honky-tonk in Tennessee by the man who killed his father.

Ann Lee

Ann Lee

N/A

Acting

An epic fable about religious leader Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, who was proclaimed by her followers as the female Christ and...

The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd

N/A

Acting

Tim Blake Nelson's latest directorial effort follows a teacher in an abusive marriage who takes a job at a maximum security prison, where she falls fo...

Michael Zero

N/A

Director

Directing

It centers on a man who has to hunt down clones of himself who have gone AWOL from a war they were made to fight in and instead have set their sights ...

The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd

N/A

Director, Writer, Producer

Directing Writing Producing

Tim Blake Nelson's latest directorial effort follows a teacher in an abusive marriage who takes a job at a maximum security prison, where she falls fo...