Jim Beaver

Jim Beaver

1950-08-12 Laramie, Wyoming, USA 47 Credits

Biography

James Norman "Jim" Beaver, Jr. (born August 12, 1950) is an American stage, film, and television actor, playwright, screenwriter, and film historian. He is perhaps most familiar to worldwide audiences as the gruff but tenderhearted prospector Whitney Ellsworth on the HBO Western drama series Deadwood, a starring role which brought him acclaim and a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for Ensemble Acting after three decades of supporting work in films and TV. He currently portrays Bobby Singer ...

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No More Time

No More Time

2022

as Radio Host

Acting

A couple seeks refuge in a remote mountain town to escape a mysterious viral disease that makes people disappear or turn into murderers. As messengers...

Nightmare Alley

Nightmare Alley

2021

as Sheriff Jedediah Judd

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...

Blindfire

Blindfire

2020

as Sergeant Ward

6.7
Acting

A police officer who while responding to a violent hostage call, kills the African American suspect only to later learn of his innocence. Sensing this...

Mama Bear

Mama Bear

2019

as Doctor

Acting

When an accident leaves her dying son with 24 hours to get a new liver, a seemingly average soccer mom must reveal her hidden past and hunt down the o...

Deadwood: The Movie

Deadwood: The Movie

2019

as Whitney Ellsworth (archive footage)

6.7
Acting

Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wo...

Hospitality

Hospitality

2018

as The Boss

5.9
Acting

A woman with a checkered past must protect her son when a man brings trouble to her isolated bed and breakfast.

Billy Boy

Billy Boy

2018

as Crabtree

4.9
Acting

When an angry teenager discovers a close friend has been killed, grief jeopardizes his future and he finds himself engulfed in danger.

The Frontier

The Frontier

2016

as Lee

5.8
Acting

A desperate young woman, on the run from the law, takes a job at a remote desert motel. She quickly discovers the motel's patrons are rendezvousing af...

Crimson Peak

Crimson Peak

2015

as Carter Cushing

6.7
Acting

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Tr...

The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster

The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster

2015

as The Captain

Acting

Feature compilation of four Biffle and Shooster comedy shorts--"The Biffle Murder Case," "Imitation of Wife," "Schmo Boat" and "Bride of Finklestein"-...

Remember the Sultana

Remember the Sultana

2015

as Joseph Taylor Elliott / First Engineering Officer Nathaniel Wintringer (voice)

6.5
Acting

Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to carry 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, a poorly m...

Night Riders

2013

Writer, Director, Screenplay

Writing Directing Producing

Rick and Ron Muldoon, two brothers, drive across the open prairie late one night. As they travel, they try to make sense of a recent event and attempt...

The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy

The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy

2011

as J. Wright Mooar

4.2
Acting

In 1870s Texas, a ruthless bounty hunter and an Irish desperado flee the law with a young criminal claiming to possess a treasure more valuable than g...

Dark and Stormy Night

Dark and Stormy Night

2009

as Jack Tugdon

5.9
Acting

In the 1930s the family of old Sinas Cavinder, gathered for the reading of his will, find themselves being murdered by a mysterious phantom while two ...

Reflections

Reflections

2008

as Franck

5.6
Acting

When Carol looks into a mirror -- any mirror -- she sees images that horrify and repulse her. She's not a Medium, she's not a Ghost Whisperer, she's a...

Next

Next

2007

as Wisdom

6.1
Acting

Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underw...

Care Bears: Big Wish Movie

Care Bears: Big Wish Movie

2005

Music Coordinator

6.7

Feeling sad that her fellow Care Bears don't seem to appreciate her wishes, Wish Bear uses her wish star, Twinkers, to find some bears who love wishin...

Wheelmen

Wheelmen

2005

as Agent Hammond

Acting

Two limo drivers hope to make money by escorting an executive around Los Angeles. Things go awry when they get caught up in a sabotage plot to assassi...

The Life of David Gale

The Life of David Gale

2003

as Duke Grover

7.4
Acting

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

Adaptation.

Adaptation.

2002

as Ranger Tony

7.4
Acting

Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting amb...

Joy Ride

Joy Ride

2001

as Sheriff Ritter

6.5
Acting

Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychoti...

Warden of Red Rock

Warden of Red Rock

2001

as Jefferson Bent

5.2
Acting

In 1910, John Flinders is warden of Red Rock Territorial Prison, in Arizona. When a condemned man's last request brings Flinders into contact with the...

Magnolia

Magnolia

1999

as Smiling Peanut Patron #1

7.7
Acting

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy geniu...

Mr. Murder

Mr. Murder

1998

as Agent Jason Reiling

4.9
Acting

A group of scientists are trying to produce the perfect soldier by cloning. The day the clone is born, Marty Stillwater, a mystery novel writer, feels...

Wounded

Wounded

1997

as Agent Eric Ashton

4.3
Acting

After a grizzly-bear poacher named Hanaghan kills her fiance and fellow Fish & Wildlife Deptartment officer, Julie Clayton sets out to track the k...

Divided by Hate

Divided by Hate

1997

as Danny Leland

6.7
Acting

When Carol Gibbs becomes involved with religious- and political-cult leader Steve Riordan's anti-government movement, she takes her children and leave...

Bad Girls

Bad Girls

1994

as Pinkerton Detective Graves

5.4
Acting

Four former harlots try to leave the wild west (Colorado, to be exact) and head north to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately someone from...

Blue Chips

Blue Chips

1994

as Ricky's Father

6.1
Acting

Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future ar...

Geronimo: An American Legend

Geronimo: An American Legend

1993

as Proclamation Officer

6.3
Acting

The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of cor...

Sliver

Sliver

1993

as Detective Ira

5.5
Acting

A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.

Gunsmoke: The Long Ride

Gunsmoke: The Long Ride

1993

as Traveling Blacksmith

5.5
Acting

For thirty years, Marshall Matt Dillon fought to preserve the law in Dodge City… now, he's wanted for murder and fighting to clear his name. Three dep...

Twogether

Twogether

1992

as Oscar

2.0
Acting

An artist and an environmentalist go through an up and down relationship over the years. They get married in an early fling, she gets pregnant as they...

Sister Act

Sister Act

1992

as Clarkson

6.8
Acting

A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob's hitmen. The mother superior does not trust her,...

Gunsmoke: To the Last Man

Gunsmoke: To the Last Man

1992

as Deputy Willie Rudd

6.5
Acting

Retired marshal Matt Dillon tracks Arizona rustlers and lands in the middle of the 1880s Pleasant Valley War.

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

1990

as Maj. Trimble

7.0
Acting

A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.

El Diablo

El Diablo

1990

as Spivey Irick

5.6
Acting

When mild-mannered teacher Billy Ray Smith (Anthony Edwards) vows to bring a student's kidnapper to justice, he needs a bit of help. Lacking any cowbo...

Follow Your Heart

Follow Your Heart

1990

as Craig Hraboy

Acting

An ex-marine, in search of some defining life direction, unexpectedly faces a hurdle when his jeep breaks down in a sparsely populated Wyoming town. W...

In Country

In Country

1989

as Earl Smith

5.5
Acting

Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also...

Mothers, Daughters and Lovers

Mothers, Daughters and Lovers

1989

as Sheriff Jack Edzard

Acting

A single mother struggles to raise two teenage daughters in a small town in America.

Turner & Hooch

Turner & Hooch

1989

as Plant Manager

6.3
Acting

Detective Scott Turner has three days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some 'real' cases—not just misdemean...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake

1988

as Motel Manager

6.8
Acting

A woman suddenly disappears after an early morning walk, and her husband is accused of murder.

Defense Play

Defense Play

1988

as FBI Man

3.0
Acting

Professor Vandemeer works on a secret project for the US-Air-Force called DART: a very small helicopter for scouting and defense. When he gets killed,...

Sweet Revenge

Sweet Revenge

1987

Additional Dialogue

3.6

Nancy Allen plays an investigative news reporter Jillian Gray, who, along with her daughter is kidnapped by white slave king Cicero, after getting too...

Girls of the White Orchid

Girls of the White Orchid

1983

as Pedestrian

5.2
Acting

In Los Angeles, naive and lonely waitress and aspirant singer Carol finds an advertisement for a job opportunity in Tokyo. Traveling to Japan to work ...

The Seniors

The Seniors

1978

as Client (uncredited)

4.5
Acting

Four college seniors open a bogus sex clinic, which unexpectedly mushrooms into a multi-million dollar business.

Semi-Tough

Semi-Tough

1977

as B.E.A.T. Member (uncredited)

5.6
Acting

A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become ro...

Injection

Injection

N/A

as Pops

Acting

When a mysterious serum is delivered to her door, Claudia Fischer enlists the help of her scientist brother to determine its contents. The results bea...