Biography
Timothy Busfield (born June 12, 1957) is an American actor and director best known for his role as Eliot Weston on the television series Thirtysomething and his recurring role as Danny Concannon on the television series The West Wing. In 1991, he received a Primetime Emmy Award as best supporting actor in a drama series.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Independent
2022
as Tom Mayfield
It's the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history. America is poised to elect either its first female president or its f...

If You Build It: 30 Years of Field of Dreams
2021
as Self
More than just a baseball movie, Academy Award®-nominated "Field of Dreams" is an enduring story of family, resilience and hope. This documentary look...

Guest Artist
2019
Director, Producer
Joseph Harris, a legendary, but troubled playwright comes to small Michigan town at Christmastime to mount his latest play. Greeting the cynical New Y...

23 Blast
2014
as Duncan
When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe handicapped life or bra...

Restless Virgins
2013
as Senator Whitman
A highly fictionalized dramatization of the sex scandal that shook Massachusetts prep school Milton Academy in the 2004-05 school year.

Save the Date
2012
as Benjie
After breaking up with her boyfriend, a bookstore manager resists a seemingly perfect guy's attempts to woo her.

Beyond the Blackboard
2011
as School district's HR representative
Inspired by a true story, “Beyond the Blackboard” is about a 24-year-old first-time teacher who makes a difference in the lives of the homeless childr...

The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
2005
as Timothy Busfield
After making it to the top of the charts, members of the Silver Boulders, a popular tween rock band, find themselves undermined by internal squabbling...

A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
2004
as Self
Filmmaker Christopher Browne documents the mission of a group of middle-aged bowlers as they attempt to revitalize the sport and get the television-wa...

National Security
2003
as Charlie Reed
Earl Montgomery, a bombastic police academy reject, and Hank Rafferty, a disgraced, mild-mannered cop, can't seem to escape each other. They met on op...

Terminal Error
2002
as Elliot
Michael Nouri stars in this high-tech thriller as Brad Weston, a digital tycoon who must fend off attacks from his former partner, who's unleashed a c...

Dead in a Heartbeat
2002
as Franklin
An unlikely duo, Lieutenant Tom Royko of the Seattle Bomb Squad and renowned heart surgeon, Dr. Gillian Hayes, find themselves in a race against time ...

Wanted
1999
as Fr. Donnelly
Caught in the middle of a sting operation orchestrated by the FBI, Jimmy Scrico goes on the run for his life when he is tricked into believing that he...

The Darklings
1999
as Clayton Shepherd
A bed-ridden teen believes he has witnessed the murder of a neighbor by another neighbor. He then recruits friends to attempt to prove the death when ...

Time at the Top
1999
as Frank Shawson
14-year old Susan Shawson travels back in time in her building's elevator. As altered by a retired physicist living in her building, it transports her...

The Souler Opposite
1998
as Robert Levin
Barry (Christopher Meloni) is a bitter, sexist thirtysomething stand-up comic with a penchant for aggravating the wrong people. When his act provokes ...
Erasable You
1998
as Brian
A man hires an assassin to kill his money-grabbing first wife.

Dream House
1998
as Richard Connor Thornton
An inventor moves his family into a prototype smart home in order to work out the kinks and sell the program. But the AI gets the idea that its human ...

Buffalo Soldiers
1997
as Maj. Robert Carr
They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, the...

Trucks
1997
as Ray
A group of seemingly humanistic trucks takeover a truck stop and starts killing everything in sight. The remaining townsfolk must band together and co...

What's Right with America
1997
as Mr. Gordon
A family returns to America after spending seven years in a remote jungle of New Guinea doing public health work, only to find that the bill of rights...
When Secrets Kill
1997
When the biological mother of adoptee Jenny Newhall is murdered, Jenny's adoptive father Greg immediately falls under suspicion. This tragic set of ev...

First Kid
1996
as Woods
Some say that to be the leader of a country is one of the loneliest jobs in the world. But being the child of a world leader can be doubly so. Constan...

The Unspeakable
1996
as Matthew Grissom
When Alice Redmond is required to go deep undercover in an effort to trap number one suspect Darren Metlick, she gets very close to the edge. Her supe...

In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped
1995
as Pete Honeycutt
Arthur Milo, an IRS official with access to detailed personal and financial data, chooses his kidnap victims from his files. Pete Honeycutt is in char...

In the Shadow of Evil
1995
as Det. Walt Keller
Jack Brenner is a hot-shot cop on the trail of a serial killer known as The Roper. Just as he's getting close to catching the killer, he is injured an...

Quiz Show
1994
as Fred
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-...

Little Big League
1994
as Lou Collins
When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted head honcho quickly appoints himsel...
Murder Between Friends
1994
as John Thorn
True story about two friends become involved in murder when the wife of one of them begins cheating on her spouse.

Wall of Silence
1993
as Ephraim Lipshitz
A corpse is fished out of a north London canal with stab wounds through the eyes. The victim was a prominent member of the Hasidic Jewish community, a...

Striking Distance
1993
as Tony Sacco
Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on ...

The Skateboard Kid
1993
as Frank
No one could be more bored than Zack, the new kid in town with no friends in sight. When a gang of hip, skateboarding thrashers start cruising his nei...

Fade to Black
1993
as Professor Del Calvin
A professor accidentally records the murder of a neighbor on videotape and finds himself framed for the crime.

Sneakers
1992
as Dick Gordon
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'b...

Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story
1992
as Fred Schultz
Story of attractive cop Laurencia Bembenek, who, in 1982, was sentenced to prison for killing her husband's ex-wife in Milwaukee, WI.

Strays
1991
as Paul Jarrett
A young married couple and their daughter are terrorized by a pride of ferocious feral felines.

Field of Dreams
1989
as Mark
Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's direct...

Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
1987
as Arnold Poindexter
The members of the Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity travel to Fort Lauderdale for a fraternity conference. They'll have to beat off the attacks of thei...

Revenge of the Nerds
1984
as Arnold Poindexter
At Adams College, the jocks rule the school from their house on high, the Alpha Beta fraternity. So when a group of socially-challenged misfits try to...

Stripes
1981
as Soldier with Mortar
John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the US Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.
One Smart Fellow
N/A
as Clark
While on a weekend vacation at a beautiful beach house on the coast of North Carolina, a not so smart fellow decides to turn his family’s life upside ...