Biography
Pruitt Taylor Vince (born July 5, 1960) is an American character actor. He had roles in the films Mississippi Burning (1988), Jacob's Ladder (1990), JFK (1991), Identity (2003), and Constantine (2005). He played J.J. Laroche in The Mentalist (2008–2015). Vince has also appeared on many television series. In 1997, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his guest role as Clifford Banks in the second season of the television series Murder One. Vince was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on July 5, 1960....
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Superman
2025
as Jonathan 'Pa' Kent
Superman, a journalist in Metropolis, embarks on a journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as Clark Kent.

F.U.A.I.
2024
Producer
When an influencer finds her content manipulated without her consent by A.I., she has to face the dire consequences, all because she did not read the ...

Crime Story
2021
as Tommy
When ex-mob boss Ben Myers is targeted in a home robbery, he goes on a deadly rampage of vengeance. But with his family caught in the crosshairs, Myer...

Bird Box
2018
as Rick
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

ASIA A
2018
as Noah
A recent spinal cord injury patient struggles to reconcile his sense of self-worth with his new reality as a paraplegic.

Gotti
2018
as Angelo Ruggiero
John Gotti rises to the top of the New York underworld to become the boss of the Gambino crime family. His life takes a tumultuous turn as he faces tr...

59 Seconds
2018
as Robert
Zayvian, a teenager, guilty over the death of his twin brother, commits negative acts in order to gain the attention of his parents. He seeks absoluti...

The Devil's Candy
2016
as Ray
A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.

13 Sins
2014
as Vogler
Drowning in debt as he's about to get married, a bright but meek salesman receives a mysterious phone call informing him that he's on a hidden-camera ...

Homefront
2013
as Werks
Phil Broker is a former DEA agent who has gone through a crisis after his action against a biker gang went horribly wrong and it cost the life of his ...

The Grief Tourist
2013
as Carl Marznap
JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable A...

Beautiful Creatures
2013
as Mr. Lee
Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she m...

Butter
2012
as Ned Eaten
An adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their Iowa town's annual contest.

Brake
2012
as Driver / Boss Terrorist (voice)
A Secret Service Agent is held captive in the trunk of a car and endures high-speed mental and physical torture as terrorists attempt to extract neede...

Bending The Rules
2012
as Happy
Detective Nick Blades is a New Orleans cop on trial for corruption. Assistant District Attorney Theo Gold is the man in charge of putting him behind b...

On the Inside
2011
as Ben Marshal
A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling...

Creature
2011
as Grover
An ex-Navy seal, his girlfriend and their friends head out on a road trip to New Orleans. The group decides to stop at a roadside convenience store ow...

The Smell of Success
2011
as Cleveland Clod
When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr. Rose, the genius behind Rose's Manure Company, the livelihood of its loyal fleet of salesmen threatens to ...

Flypaper
2011
as Jelly
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.

Drive Angry
2011
as Roy
Milton is a hardened felon who has broken out of Hell, intent on finding the vicious cult who brutally murdered his daughter and kidnapped her baby. H...

Mysterious Island
2010
as Gideon Spilett
During the American Civil War, five northern POWs make the decision to escape the war by hijacking a hot air balloon. Drifting through the night, they...

Leaves of Grass
2009
as Big Joe Sharpe
An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.

Don McKay
2009
as Mel
Everything appears off-kilter when a man returns to his hometown after 25 years to visit his former lover.

In the Electric Mist
2009
as Lou Girard
Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Bal...

The Echo
2008
as Joseph
An ex-prisoner moves to an old apartment, where one gets to see in the middle of a domestic problem between a police officer, his wife and his daughte...

Captivity
2007
as Ben Dexter
The sought-after images of top model Jennifer adorn magazine covers and billboards worldwide. When alone at a club, she is abducted and incarcerated i...

When A Man Falls In The Forest
2007
as Travis Gilmore
The intertwining lives of three men reveal that each deal with his problems in different, self-destructive ways.

Nobody Wants Your Film
2005
as Self
Director Peter Judson's semifictitious tale opens a revealing window into the indie filmmaking process, capturing the trivialities, aggravations and e...

Drop Dead Sexy
2005
as Spider
When their money scam runs aground, a group of would-be thieves turn to kidnapping in an attempt to blackmail their target.

Constantine
2005
as Father Hennessy
John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their in...

Monster
2003
as Gene / Stuttering "John"
An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.

L.A. Confidential
2003
as Sid Hudgens
As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand...

Identity
2003
as Malcolm Rivers
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers th...

Trapped
2002
as Marvin
When their daughter is abducted by experienced kidnappers, the Jennings turn the tables on their seemingly fool-proof plan.

13 Moons
2002
as Owen
Things aren't looking so good for television clown Banana's career, and the fact that his estranged wife, Suzi, has just been arrested for assaulting ...

S1m0ne
2002
as Max Sayer
The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the prod...

Nurse Betty
2000
as Ballard
What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kans...

The Cell
2000
as Dr. Reid
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.

Mumford
1999
as Henry Follett
When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his talent for listening and a disarm...

The Legend of 1900
1998
as Max Tooney
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 learned about the outside worl...
Love from Ground Zero
1998
as Walter
Love From Ground Zero follows three strangers across the back roads of America with the ashes of a mutual friend. Using a series of old postcards as a...

Doctor Dolittle
1998
as Patient at Hammersmith (uncredited)
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a chi...

Cold Around the Heart
1997
as Johnny 'Cokebottles' Costello
A jewel thief moves towards a reunion of revenge with his lover, who pushed him out of their speeding getaway car.

The End of Violence
1997
as Frank Cray
In Hollywood, the lives of a successful film producer, his wife, a police detective and a surveillance agent intersect after a botched abduction.

A Further Gesture
1997
as Scott
Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in a risky escape. Dowd begins a new life in New York...

Beautiful Girls
1996
as Stanley "Stinky" Womack
During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connec...

The Cottonwood
1996
as Mark Salli
Four friends get three million dollars and decide to construct a screenplay of 52 stolen scenes from the greatest movies ever made.

Heavy
1995
as Victor Modino
Victor is a cook who works in a greasy roadside restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heav...

Under the Hula Moon
1995
as Bob
In the desert outside Cactus Gulch, Arizona, Buzzard and Betty Jean Wall live in a trailer decorated in Hawaiian themes. Betty's trying to get pregnan...

Nobody's Fool
1994
as Rub Squeers
A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wif...

Natural Born Killers
1994
as Deputy Warden Kavanaugh
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
1994
as Bud
Mitch Robbins' 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Neverthel...

China Moon
1994
as Daryl Jeeters
Detective Kyle Bodine falls for Rachel Munro who is trapped in a violent marriage. After shooting her husband, Kyle relucantly agrees to help hide the...

Till Death Us Do Part
1992
as Michael Brockington
This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put Ch...

JFK
1991
as Lee Bowers
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

Dead in the Water
1991
as Lou Rescetti
Charlie Deegan has almost everything he has ever wanted. He has an important law practice, a beautiful secretary as his lover, and the chance to be ap...

Sweet Poison
1991
as Coyle
A convict on the run from the law kidnaps a couple who are on their way to a funeral. He finds that he got more than he bargained for when he realizes...

Jacob's Ladder
1990
as Paul
After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rap...

Wild at Heart
1990
as Buddy
Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a te...

Come See the Paradise
1990
as Augie Farrell
In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a ...

Fear
1990
as Jay Anthony Lapedes ("Shadow Man")
A psychic helps police solve murders by mentally linking with the murderer. Then she discovers a murderer with the same talent, who wants to share the...

Homer and Eddie
1989
as Cashier
A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.

K-9
1989
as Benny the Mule
The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer who has tried to kill him. A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry Lee (Offic...

Mississippi Burning
1988
as Lester Cowens
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where...

Red Heat
1988
as Night Clerk
A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord w...

Barfly
1987
as Joe
Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's...

Shy People
1987
as Paul
A Cosmo Magazine journalist and her daughter leave New York City to visit their distant relatives deep in the bayous of Louisiana.

Angel Heart
1987
as Det. Deimos
A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-...