Pruitt Taylor Vince

Pruitt Taylor Vince

1960-07-05 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA 68 Credits

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

Superman

2025

as Jonathan 'Pa' Kent

5.6
Acting

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.

F.U.A.I.

2024

Producer

Producing

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

Crime Story

2021

as Tommy

3.7
Acting

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

Bird Box

2018

as Rick

6.8
Acting

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

ASIA A

2018

as Noah

9.0
Acting

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

Gotti

Gotti

2018

as Angelo Ruggiero

5.3
Acting

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

59 Seconds

2018

as Robert

5.5
Acting

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

The Devil's Candy

2016

as Ray

6.3
Acting

A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.

13 Sins

13 Sins

2014

as Vogler

6.3
Acting

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

Homefront

2013

as Werks

6.9
Acting

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

The Grief Tourist

2013

as Carl Marznap

4.8
Acting

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

Beautiful Creatures

2013

as Mr. Lee

6.0
Acting

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

Butter

2012

as Ned Eaten

5.9
Acting

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

Brake

2012

as Driver / Boss Terrorist (voice)

5.7
Acting

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

Bending The Rules

2012

as Happy

5.4
Acting

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

On the Inside

2011

as Ben Marshal

5.3
Acting

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

Creature

2011

as Grover

5.2
Acting

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

The Smell of Success

2011

as Cleveland Clod

5.6
Acting

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

Flypaper

2011

as Jelly

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.

Drive Angry

Drive Angry

2011

as Roy

5.5
Acting

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

Mysterious Island

2010

as Gideon Spilett

4.6
Acting

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

Leaves of Grass

2009

as Big Joe Sharpe

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.

Don McKay

Don McKay

2009

as Mel

4.9
Acting

Everything appears off-kilter when a man returns to his hometown after 25 years to visit his former lover.

In the Electric Mist

In the Electric Mist

2009

as Lou Girard

6.1
Acting

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

The Echo

2008

as Joseph

6.1
Acting

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

Captivity

2007

as Ben Dexter

4.9
Acting

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

When A Man Falls In The Forest

2007

as Travis Gilmore

4.2
Acting

The intertwining lives of three men reveal that each deal with his problems in different, self-destructive ways.

Nobody Wants Your Film

Nobody Wants Your Film

2005

as Self

1.5
Acting

Director Peter Judson's semifictitious tale opens a revealing window into the indie filmmaking process, capturing the trivialities, aggravations and e...

Drop Dead Sexy

Drop Dead Sexy

2005

as Spider

4.9
Acting

When their money scam runs aground, a group of would-be thieves turn to kidnapping in an attempt to blackmail their target.

Constantine

Constantine

2005

as Father Hennessy

7.1
Acting

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

Monster

2003

as Gene / Stuttering "John"

7.2
Acting

An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.

L.A. Confidential

L.A. Confidential

2003

as Sid Hudgens

5.7
Acting

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

Identity

2003

as Malcolm Rivers

7.2
Acting

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

Trapped

2002

as Marvin

6.2
Acting

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

13 Moons

13 Moons

2002

as Owen

5.3
Acting

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

S1m0ne

2002

as Max Sayer

6.0
Acting

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

Nurse Betty

2000

as Ballard

6.1
Acting

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

The Cell

2000

as Dr. Reid

6.3
Acting

A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.

Mumford

Mumford

1999

as Henry Follett

6.5
Acting

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

The Legend of 1900

1998

as Max Tooney

8.3
Acting

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

Acting

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

Doctor Dolittle

1998

as Patient at Hammersmith (uncredited)

5.7
Acting

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

Cold Around the Heart

1997

as Johnny 'Cokebottles' Costello

5.2
Acting

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

The End of Violence

1997

as Frank Cray

5.3
Acting

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

A Further Gesture

1997

as Scott

4.7
Acting

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

Beautiful Girls

1996

as Stanley "Stinky" Womack

6.7
Acting

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

The Cottonwood

1996

as Mark Salli

Acting

Four friends get three million dollars and decide to construct a screenplay of 52 stolen scenes from the greatest movies ever made.

Heavy

Heavy

1995

as Victor Modino

6.7
Acting

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

Under the Hula Moon

1995

as Bob

2.5
Acting

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

Nobody's Fool

1994

as Rub Squeers

6.9
Acting

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

Natural Born Killers

1994

as Deputy Warden Kavanaugh

7.1
Acting

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

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

1994

as Bud

5.3
Acting

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

China Moon

1994

as Daryl Jeeters

6.1
Acting

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

Till Death Us Do Part

1992

as Michael Brockington

6.7
Acting

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

JFK

1991

as Lee Bowers

7.6
Acting

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

Dead in the Water

Dead in the Water

1991

as Lou Rescetti

5.2
Acting

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

Sweet Poison

1991

as Coyle

5.0
Acting

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

Jacob's Ladder

1990

as Paul

7.4
Acting

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

Wild at Heart

1990

as Buddy

7.0
Acting

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

Come See the Paradise

1990

as Augie Farrell

6.2
Acting

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

Fear

1990

as Jay Anthony Lapedes ("Shadow Man")

5.9
Acting

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

Homer and Eddie

1989

as Cashier

5.5
Acting

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

K-9

1989

as Benny the Mule

6.1
Acting

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

Mississippi Burning

1988

as Lester Cowens

7.7
Acting

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

Red Heat

1988

as Night Clerk

6.2
Acting

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

Barfly

1987

as Joe

6.8
Acting

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

Shy People

1987

as Paul

6.5
Acting

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

Angel Heart

Angel Heart

1987

as Det. Deimos

7.1
Acting

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-...