Biography
Tim Matheson (born Timothy Lewis Matthieson; December 31, 1947) is an American actor, director and producer. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the smooth-talking Eric 'Otter' Stratton in the 1978 comedy Animal House. His other well-known roles are as Vernon 'Doc' Mullins on Netflix's Virgin River, Henry Kaslan in the remake of Child's Play (2019), Dr. Brick Breeland on CW's Hart of Dixie, Vance Wilder Sr. in National Lampoon's Van Wilder, John Hoynes on West Wing, Al Donnelly in Blac...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Virgin River: Father Christmas
2023
as Doc Mullins
Shocking news and unexpected gifts are in store on Christmas Eve as couples and families come together despite their differences.

Virgin River: The More The Merrier
2023
as Doc Mullins
As the holidays get underway, visiting relatives bring drama to town. Mel and Jack try to track down the author of the mysterious letters to her mothe...

Child's Play
2019
as Henry Kaslan
Karen, a single mother, gifts her son Andy a Buddi doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature. A contemporary re-imagining of the 1988...

The Etruscan Smile
2018
as Weiss
Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman, reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island and travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. ...

6 Balloons
2018
as Gary
Over the course of one night, a woman drives across LA with her heroin addict brother in search of a detox center, with his two-year-old daughter in t...

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
2017
as Old Man Vreeke (uncredited)
Four teenagers in detention discover an old video game console with a game they’ve never heard of. When they decide to play, they are immediately suck...

Magical Christmas Ornaments
2017
as JP Presley
When Marie begins receiving ornaments from her mother, a new coincidental blessing comes with each one, causing Marie to feel more excited for the hol...

Killing Reagan
2016
as Ronald Reagan
Killing Reagan explores the events surrounding the assassination attempt on president Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. Based on the best-selling boo...

Last Chance for Christmas
2015
as Reginald Buckley
When Prancer injures his hoof Santa’s stable hand, John, must find a fill in to ensure Christmas deliveries go off without a hitch. His mission gets c...

Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest
2015
as The President (voice)
Two groups of classic cartoon characters come together in this fun-filled crossover with the popular action-adventure series Jonny Quest. Fans of all ...

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
2015
as Self - Actor / Director / Producer
A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring ...

Wild Card
2013
Director
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas... but only if you have a good lawyer. In this witty procedural about people behaving badly, two very different l...
Talker
2011
as Ronald Reagan
JJ Justice is a man in transition. A once successful right-wing radio broadcaster, who's lost his edge, his wife and any hope of airing in a real mark...

No Strings Attached
2011
as Eli's Dad #2
Emma is a busy doctor who sets up a seemingly perfect arrangement when she offers her best friend Adam a relationship with one rule: No strings attach...

American Pie Presents: The Book of Love
2009
as Alumnus Guy #4
Ten years after the first American Pie movie, three new hapless virgins discover the Bible hidden in the school library at East Great Falls High. Unfo...

Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia
2009
as Dodd
Navy SEALS mount an attack on Colombian special forces to clear their names and rescue a hostage.

Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia
2009
Director
Navy SEALS mount an attack on Colombian special forces to clear their names and rescue a hostage.

To Love and Die
2008
as James White
Hildy Young, a fun-loving 30-something with abandonment issues, becomes convinced that her dating problems will be resolved if she can only track down...

Animal House: The Inside Story
2008
as Self
Documentary about the making of Animal House

True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet
2008
Director
When Hollywood starlet Morgan Carter passes out from alcohol poisoning on the red carpet of her movie premiere, she is whisked away to rehab, then sen...

Redline
2007
as Jerry Brecken
A gorgeous young automobile fanatic--and front to the hottest unsigned band on the West coast--finds herself caught up in illegal drag-racing competit...

Augusta, Gone
2006
as Ben Dudman
Martha is a businesswoman and divorced mother of two children - Augusta and Jack. However, when docile Augusta becomes a teenager, feelings of anger a...

Augusta, Gone
2006
Director, Executive Producer
Martha is a businesswoman and divorced mother of two children - Augusta and Jack. However, when docile Augusta becomes a teenager, feelings of anger a...

Don't Come Knocking
2005
as Producer 1
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and y...

Judas
2004
as Pontius Pilate
Was Judas Iscariot, the apostle whose kiss sentenced Jesus Christ to the crucifix, a patriot who argued with Jesus or a pawn of the Roman occupiers? T...

The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay
2003
as Al Dodge
A college girl decides to get to know her estranged father before she begins her education, but his life turns out to be nothing that she expected.

Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart
2003
as Andy Stewart
Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart is a 2003 NBC TV movie starring Cybill Shepherd as Martha Stewart in which the life of Martha Stewart is out...

National Lampoon's Van Wilder
2002
as Vance Wilder Sr.
Van Wilder has been attending college for far too many years and is scared to graduate, but Van’s father eventually realizes what is going on. When he...

Mom's on Strike
2002
as Alan Harris
She was an overworked mom trying to get her family's attention. She didn't know she would become a national sensation.

Second Honeymoon
2001
as George Weston
A couple, secretly on the verge of announcing plans to divorce, reluctantly depart for a second honeymoon after their family surprises them with a tro...

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000
as John F. Kennedy
Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy and life after Camelot.

Sharing the Secret
2000
as John Moss
A teenage girl, who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends, secretly binges and purges.

Hell Swarm
2000
as Kirk Bluhdorn
An ex-convict teams with government agents to battle an advanced race bent on conquering Earth.

Hell Swarm
2000
Director
An ex-convict teams with government agents to battle an advanced race bent on conquering Earth.

Navigating the Heart
2000
as John Daly
When sophisticated New York journalist Edith Iglauer is assigned to go to British Columbia to write a frivolous piece on the fishing industry, she but...

Chump Change
2000
as Simon Sez Simone
A failed Hollywood actor returns to his home town in Wisconsin and reminisces about his life in L.A. to a potential new girlfriend about his faults, a...

At the Mercy of a Stranger
1999
as John Davis
When Thomas, a prominent doctor, hires a hitman to murder his wife, Elizabeth, the hitman decides to help Elizabeth after realizing she is not the per...

In the Company of Spies
1999
Director
An operative for the CIA is captured and interrogated by Korean officials; his bosses, in order to protect national security, decide to bring an old o...

Sam Kinison: Why Did We Laugh?
1999
as Self
For fans of comedy, Sam Kinison needs no introduction. His scathing comedy tackled tough topics no other comedian dared to touch. Fed up and disenfran...

She's All That
1999
as Harlan Siler
High school hotshot Zach Siler is the envy of his peers. But his popularity declines sharply when his cheerleader girlfriend, Taylor, leaves him for s...

Catch Me If You Can
1998
as Norm
When a 12 year old boy with an attitude witnesses a mob killing, the job of protecting him falls to a down-on-his luck cop.

The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
1998
as Self - Otter
This documentary, created for the Animal House (1978) collector's edition DVD, is composed of a collection of new interviews with the cast and crew be...

Forever Love
1998
as Alex Brooks
Lizzie and Alex Brooks are a young couple in love and parents of a little girl, Emma. A stroke puts Lizzie into a coma. Alex takes her home, providing...

A Very Unlucky Leprechaun
1998
as Howard Wilson
Nine year old Molly and her father move to Ireland into a house they've inherited, nicknamed "Misfortune Manor". It brings bad luck to anyone who live...

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Families
1998
as Adolf Althoff
Two compassionate stories about two remarkable families who risk everything to help Jewish refugees during the Holocaust.

Buried Alive II
1997
as Clint Goodman
A woman inherits a fortune, causing her husband and his lover to plot her demise by poisoning her. The only trouble is it only places her in a deep co...

Buried Alive II
1997
Director
A woman inherits a fortune, causing her husband and his lover to plot her demise by poisoning her. The only trouble is it only places her in a deep co...

Sleeping with the Devil
1997
as Dick Strang
Professional nurse Rebecca Dubrovich is swept off her feet by charming millionaire Dick Strang, and the two begin a passionate romance. Only when it i...

A Holiday for Love
1996
as Jake Peterson
A man is sent to a small town to assess which of the workers in the local factory that supplies the town with jobs should get the boot when the downsi...

Buried Secrets
1996
as Clay Roff
A young woman moves with her mother to her mother's hometown and is haunted by the ghost of a dead teenager.

A Very Brady Sequel
1996
as Roy Martin / Trevor Thomas
A man claiming to be Carol Brady's long-lost first husband, Roy Martin, shows up at the suburban Brady residence one evening. An impostor, the man is ...

Midnight Heat
1996
as Tyler Grey
A football player is framed for the murder of his team's owner, whose wife he happens to be sleeping with.

An Unfinished Affair
1996
as Alex Connor
When a man ends a regretful love affair that occurred during his wife's illness, his mistress plots revenge by targeting his family's most treasured p...

Black Sheep
1996
as Al Donnelly
When dignified Albert Donnelly runs for Governor, his team moves to keep his slow-witted and klutzy younger brother, Mike, out of the eye of the media...

Twilight Man
1995
as Jordan P. Cooper
Jordan Cooper, a professor in Durham, has everything going for him. A beautiful girlfriend named Kathy, a good job and a nice place to live. But when ...

Jonny Quest vs. the Cyber Insects
1995
as 4-DAC
The evil Dr. Zin has genetically modified household pests into disturbingly large insects that he calls assassinoids, fearless and devoted warriors th...

Fast Company
1995
as Det. Jack Matthews
A homicide detective is assigned to solve a murder case. The trouble is that his wife, a reporter, has been assigned by her employer to cover the same...

Tails You Live, Heads You're Dead
1995
as Detective McKinley
An ordinary man's life takes an extraordinary turn for the worst after he finds himself caught in the tangled web of a manipulative mass murderer.

Tails You Live, Heads You're Dead
1995
Director
An ordinary man's life takes an extraordinary turn for the worst after he finds himself caught in the tangled web of a manipulative mass murderer.
While Justice Sleeps
1994
as Winfield 'Win' Cooke
After the death of her husband, Jody and her daughter Samantha return to her home town. Sometimes she leaves Samantha with her old friend Winn. Only a...

Breach of Conduct
1994
Director, Executive Producer
Helen attracts the unwanted attention of the commander of her husband's new army base. Colonel Andrew Case arranges to have Helen's husband travel on ...

Target of Suspicion
1994
as Nick
Nick Matthews and his wife and business partner, Jennifer, are in Paris to close a deal with Charles, a Frenchman, to market their perfumes in France....

A Kiss to Die For
1993
as William Tauber
William, a Harvard psychology professor is having trouble dealing with life after the death of his wife when he meets a beautiful woman named Ali. As ...

Harmful Intent
1993
as Dr. Rhodes
An anaesthesiologist is accused of causing a young women's death during childbirth.

Shameful Secrets
1993
as Daniel
A woman and her children seemingly live the idyllic suburban dream, but unbeknownst to their neighbors and friends, the kids are being brutally abused...

Dying to Love You
1993
as Roger Paulson
Roger Paulson is lonely after his divorce. He thinks he has finally found the woman of his dreams...until he uncovers her web of lies.

Trial & Error
1993
as Peter Hudson
The young and ambitious district attorney Peter Hudson is convinced that the defendant Andrew Barnes in his current case is guilty, and that winning t...
Trial and Error
1993
as Peter Hudson
The young and ambitious district attorney Peter Hudson is convinced that the defendant Andrew Barnes in his current case is guilty, and that winning t...

Mood Indigo
1993
as Dr. Peter Hellman
Suspense tale -- a pilot to a prospective series -- involving a criminal psychologist, struggling to rebuild his life after his wife is brutally murde...

Solar Crisis
1992
as Steve Kelso
A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial...

Quicksand: No Escape
1992
as Scott Reinhardt
A hard-working architect is pulled into intrigue when his wife hires a private investigator to make sure he's just working late. The private eye sees ...

The Woman Who Sinned
1991
as Michael Robeson
A woman contemplates having an affair, which leads her into a web of deceit, suspense, and murder.

Sometimes They Come Back
1991
as Jim Norman
Desperate for a job to help him support his family, Jim Norman takes a position teaching high school in the town where his brother was murdered in fro...

Drop Dead Fred
1991
as Charles
When Elizabeth returns to her mother's home after her marriage breaks up, she recreates her imaginary childhood friend, Fred, to escape from the traum...

Joshua's Heart
1990
as Tom
A woman is torn between her boyfriend's ending their relationship and being separated from his young son with whom she has bonded.

Buried Alive
1990
as Clint Goodman
A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish...

Little White Lies
1989
as Dr. Harry MacRae
While detective Liz Donaldson cashes her entire life savings to go to Rome, she meets Dr. Harry MacCrey on the plane. They both lie about their jobs a...

Blind Fury
1989
Producer
A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.

The Littlest Victims
1989
as Doctor James Oleske
A true account of the life of pioneering AIDS doctor James Oleske.

Speed Zone
1989
as Jack
An illegal race that takes place over the United States and nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distre...
Nikki and Alexander
1989
as Alexanda
Alexander is a run of the mill New Yorker who meets Nikki, a Russian homeless girl. He agrees to let Nikki spend the night but she ends up moving in.....

Bay Coven
1987
as Jerry Lebon
A young newlywed couple move to a remote island only to find a secret coven of witches who want them to join all the fun...or face the consequences.

Warm Hearts, Cold Feet
1987
as Mike Byrd
The Byrds are a young couple both working as reporters but for different newspapers. When Mike invents the story of how they had the idea to make a ba...

Blind Justice
1986
as Jim Anderson
Fact-based story about an innocent man who endured a 14 month nightmare. Arrested for armed robbery, kidnapping and rape, he is forced to endure the r...

Fletch
1985
as Alan Stanwyk
When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy bu...

Obsessed with a Married Woman
1985
as Tony Hammond
A man falls in love with a married co-worker and wants her to divorce her husband, but she refuses because she has a ten-year-old son.

Impulse
1984
as Stuart
After a small earthquake in a small and quiet town, local citizens start to have a bizarre, violent and self-destructive behavior...

Up the Creek
1984
as Bob McGraw
Bob McGraw is in his 12th year of college, goofing his way through life. Bob, Irwing, Gonzer and Max are the four losers forced and bribed to represen...

The Best Legs in Eighth Grade
1984
as Mark Fisher
Man reconsiders his life after a chance meeting with a childhood acquaintance.

The House of God
1984
as Roy Basch
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.

To Be or Not to Be
1983
as Lt. Andre Sobinski
A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young...

Listen to Your Heart
1983
as Josh Stern
This romantic melodrama features a book editor falling in love with his art director.

Bus Stop
1982
as Bo Decker
The story is set in a diner in rural Kansas, about 25 miles west of Kansas City, Missouri during a snowstorm from which bus passengers must take shelt...

A Little Sex
1982
as Michael Donovan
Michael and Katherine have enjoyed a long relationship together even before they tie the knot. But Michael does not hide the fact he's a womanizer and...

1941
1979
as Capt. Loomis Birkhead
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
1979
as Jeff Reed
Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy du...

Dreamer
1979
as Harold 'Dreamer' Nuttingham
The dream began 20 years ago, when a young pinsetter watched a star bowler win a championship. Now, Harold (Dreamer) Nuttingham has a chance to attain...

Animal House
1978
as Eric 'Otter' Stratton
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.

Almost Summer
1978
as Kevin Hawkins
A high-school election gets nasty.

Confessions of the D.A. Man
1978
as Howard Goodman
A dangerous campus radical may go free if the District Attorney's office can't locate any witnesses for the prosecution.

Mary White
1977
as William L. White
The true story of the relationship between famed author William Allen White and his teenaged daughter Mary, who died in a horseback-riding accident at...

The War Widow
1976
as Amy's Husband (voice)
Originally broadcast by KCET (PBS) on their dramatic showcase series, "Visions," this sweet, quiet film is set during World War I. It is the story of ...

The Captive: The Longest Drive 2
1976
as Quentin Beaudine
During a Cavalry massacre at an Indian village, two brothers, searching for their captured sister, rescue a white woman long ago kidnapped by the Chey...

The Quest
1976
as Quentin Beaudine
Eight years ago, Cheyenne Indians attacked the Baudine Family wagon and captured Morgan, whom they renamed Two Persons. Now Two Persons, raised in the...

The Hemingway Play
1976
as Wemedge
A novel portrait of author Ernest Hemingway, in which four versions of the man from different points of his life exist simultaneously.

The Quest: The Longest Drive
1976
as Quentin Beaudine
To save an old friend's ranch, the Beaudine brothers round up a gang of misfits to drive a huge herd to market.

The Runaway Barge
1975
as Danny Worth
Two bargemen on the Mississippi River find themselves mixed up in a kidnapping and hijacking plot.

The Last Day
1975
as Emmet Dalton
The Dalton gang is riding again, forcing a retired gunman to use his weapons once more.

Remember When
1974
as Warren Thompson
An uncle's (Jack Warden) memories give strength to a New England family with four sons fighting in World War II.

Magnum Force
1973
as Officer Phil Sweet
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When sha...

Lock, Stock and Barrel
1971
as Clarence Bridgeman
A young frontier couple elope, are chased by the girl's father and brothers, join up with an escaped convict and get mixed up with a charlatan preache...

Hitched
1971
as Clare Bridgeman
The adventures of a newly married teenage couple in the Old West.

How to Commit Marriage
1969
as David Poe
A young couple decide to live together and they wind up having a baby. They decide they should give the baby up for adoption. The baby's Mother's pare...

Trial Run
1969
as Delivery Person
A slice-of-life drama involving a young lawyer, his adoring secretary who tries to help to advance his career, and his employer, a famed lawyer burden...

Yours, Mine and Ours
1968
as Mike Beardsley
When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk
1967
as Joe Hardy
The Hardy Boys become owners of the Chinese junk Hai Hau. They head to New York City and go spelunking to break up a gang of criminals.

Divorce American Style
1967
as Mark Harmon
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.