Tim Robbins

Tim Robbins

1958-10-16 West Covina, California, USA 106 Credits

Biography

Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, and musician. He is best known for his portrayal of Andy Dufresne in the prison drama film The Shawshank Redemption (1994).

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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

2025

as Self

7.9
Acting

Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos of the past 50 years.

Val

Val

2021

as Self (archive footage)

7.2
Acting

For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film a...

My Darling Vivian

My Darling Vivian

2020

as Self (archive footage)

7.5
Acting

The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash's first wife and the mother of his four daughters. Includes never-before-seen footage and photographs of John...

VHYes

VHYes

2020

as Sir Roger Handley III

5.9
Acting

This bizarre retro comedy, shot entirely on VHS and Beta, takes us back to when 12-year-old Ralph, over one formative week, mistakenly records home vi...

VHYes

VHYes

2020

Executive Producer

5.9
Producing

This bizarre retro comedy, shot entirely on VHS and Beta, takes us back to when 12-year-old Ralph, over one formative week, mistakenly records home vi...

Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero

2019

as Self

7.6
Acting

This piece examines real-life Rob Bilott’s sacrifices to take down a powerful corporation and how a single individual can impact an entire community. ...

Dark Waters

Dark Waters

2019

as Tom Terp

7.5
Acting

A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the pr...

45 Seconds of Laughter

2019

Director

4.0
Directing

A group of incarcerated men from Calipatria State Prison participate in a theatrical workshop with Tim Robbins’ theatre company, The Actors’ Gang. Def...

The Creative Brain

The Creative Brain

2019

as Self

7.2
Acting

Neuroscientist David Eagleman taps into the creative process of various inventors, while exploring brain-bending, risk-taking ways to spark creativity

Straws

Straws

2017

as Narrator

Acting

STRAWS is a short documentary about plastic straw litter and how we can make a sea of change...one straw at a time.

Marjorie Prime

Marjorie Prime

2017

as Jon

6.1
Acting

A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased hu...

Marjorie Prime

Marjorie Prime

2017

Executive Producer

6.1
Producing

A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased hu...

Hot Winter: A Film by Dick Pierre

2017

Executive Producer

7.0
Producing

Dr. Manly, the world's leading Climate Scientist and Bodybuilding Champion, gets to the bottom of global warming. VHS, 1982.

Olmo and the Seagull

Olmo and the Seagull

2015

Executive Producer

7.2
Producing

'Olmo and the Seagull' is a poetic and existential dive into an actress's mind during the nine months of her pregnancy as she must confront her most f...

A Perfect Day

A Perfect Day

2015

as B

6.7
Acting

Somewhere in the Balkans, 1995. A team of aid workers must solve an apparently simple problem in an almost completely pacified territory that has been...

Words, Maps, Secrets and Other Things

Words, Maps, Secrets and Other Things

2015

as Self - Actor

5.1
Acting

A portrait of the internationally acclaimed Spanish film director Isabel Coixet and an analysis of her particular world and her sensibility as a creat...

Welcome to Me

Welcome to Me

2014

as Dr. Daryl Moffet

5.8
Acting

A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery, quits her meds and buys her own ta...

Nelson Mandela Redrawn

Nelson Mandela Redrawn

2014

as Self

Acting

This fascinating documentary unfolds in reverse telling the story of Mandela from the old man to the rural child. With contributions from storytellers...

James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend

James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend

2013

as Self

7.3
Acting

In the half-hour tribute, friends and colleagues remember the three-time Emmy winner, who died June 19 at age 51. The special features clips of Gandol...

Thanks for Sharing

Thanks for Sharing

2013

as Mike

5.9
Acting

A romantic comedy that brings together three disparate characters who are learning to face a challenging and often confusing world as they struggle to...

Life of Crime

Life of Crime

2013

as Frank Dawson

5.8
Acting

Two common criminals get more than they bargained for after kidnapping the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer who shows no interest in paying the...

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

2013

as Self

6.0
Acting

With a focus on Clint Eastwood's career as a director, this documentary features movie clips, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with people with w...

Elena

Elena

2013

Co-Executive Producer

7.3
Producing

Petra heads to New York in search of her older sister after a long time of being separated. They are both movie actresses and heirs of the wounds of t...

Back to 1942

Back to 1942

2012

as Bishop Megan

6.5
Acting

In 1942, Henan Province was devastated by one of the most tragic famines in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of at least three million ...

Revenge of the Electric Car

Revenge of the Electric Car

2011

as Narrator (voice)

7.1
Acting

A sequel to 2006's Who Killed the Electric Car?, director Chris Paine once again looks at electric vehicles. Where in the last film electric cars wer...

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone

2011

as Himself

7.3
Acting

From the shifting fault lines of Hollywood fantasies and the economic and racial tensions of Reagan's America, Fishbone rose and became one of the mos...

Green Lantern

Green Lantern

2011

as Senator Hammond

5.2
Acting

For centuries, a small but powerful force of warriors called the Green Lantern Corps has sworn to keep intergalactic order. Each Green Lantern wears a...

The Big Fix

The Big Fix

2011

Executive Producer

6.6
Producing

On April 22, 2010 the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig run by BP sunk into the Gulf of Mexico, creating the worst oil spill in history. Two doc...

Cinema Verite

Cinema Verite

2011

as Bill Loud

5.7
Acting

In 1973, the Loud family became a television sensation of a new kind. It was long before a metal rock star showed his eccentric family on the small sc...

City of Ember

City of Ember

2008

as Loris Harrow

6.3
Acting

For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is fail...

The Lucky Ones

The Lucky Ones

2008

as Fred Cheaver

6.4
Acting

The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has mov...

Noise

Noise

2007

as David Owen

5.8
Acting

A man who is being driven crazy by the noise in New York City decides to take vigilante action against it.

Then She Found Me

Then She Found Me

2007

as Tim Robbins

5.6
Acting

A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an e...

The Team. The Time. The 2006 Mets

The Team. The Time. The 2006 Mets

2007

as Narrator

Acting

Shea Stadium was the place to be in 2006. Fueled by just the right mix of budding young superstars and established veterans, the New York Mets cut a s...

The Making of 'The Pick of Destiny'

The Making of 'The Pick of Destiny'

2007

as Self

5.0
Acting

A behind the scenes look at the making of "Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny".

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

2006

as The Stranger

6.8
Acting

In Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner JB bonds with local slacker KG and they form the rock band Tenacious D. Setting out to become the world's greatest...

Catch a Fire

Catch a Fire

2006

as Nic Vos

6.3
Acting

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest...

Golden Venture

Golden Venture

2006

as Narrator

Acting

The film chronicles the ongoing struggles of passengers who were aboard the Golden Venture, an immigrant smuggling ship that ran aground near New York...

The Secret Life of Words

The Secret Life of Words

2005

as Josef

7.0
Acting

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.

Zathura: A Space Adventure

Zathura: A Space Adventure

2005

as Dad (Mr. Budwing)

6.4
Acting

After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay ...

Embedded Live

Embedded Live

2005

as Sarge / Cove

6.5
Acting

Embedded is a ripped-from-the-headlines satire about the madness surrounding brave men and women on the front lines of a Middle East conflict. It skew...

Embedded Live

Embedded Live

2005

Director, Producer, Writer

6.5
Directing Producing Writing

Embedded is a ripped-from-the-headlines satire about the madness surrounding brave men and women on the front lines of a Middle East conflict. It skew...

War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds

2005

as Harlan Ogilvy

6.5
Acting

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daugh...

WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception

WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception

2004

as Self

6.9
Acting

There were two wars in Iraq--a military assault and a media war. The former was well-covered; the latter was not. Until now... Independent filmmaker, ...

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

2004

as Public TV News Anchor (uncredited)

6.7
Acting

It's the 1970s and San Diego anchorman Ron Burgundy is the top dog in local TV, but that's all about to change when ambitious reporter Veronica Cornin...

Orwell Rolls in His Grave

Orwell Rolls in His Grave

2003

as Self (archive footage)

7.4
Acting

Has America entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for truth? The country's leading intellectuals discuss and examine ...

The Simpsons: Christmas

The Simpsons: Christmas

2003

7.0
Acting

A collection of five different Simpson holiday specials; Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire, Mr. Plow, Miracle on Evergreen Terrace, Grift of the Magi,...

Mystic River

Mystic River

2003

as Dave Boyle

7.7
Acting

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

Code 46

Code 46

2003

as William Geld

6.2
Acting

In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passport...

The Education of Gore Vidal

The Education of Gore Vidal

2003

as Himself

6.0
Acting

A contrarian and wickedly funny man, this PBS American Masters special explores Gore Vidal's extraordinary life and work, joining him at his cliff-sid...

The Day My God Died

The Day My God Died

2003

as Narrator (voice)

8.0
Acting

Filmed in Nepal and India this documentary presents the stories of young girls whose lives have been shattered by the child sex slave trade. The film ...

The Truth About Charlie

The Truth About Charlie

2002

as Hamilton Bartholomew

4.8
Acting

Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return ...

New York at the Movies

2002

as Self

10.0
Acting

Meryl Streep conducts us to a trip to New York City as presented in many films during the 20th Century, and how its cultural importance and impact are...

Bull Durham: Between the Lines

Bull Durham: Between the Lines

2002

as Self

10.0
Acting

Documentary about the making of the 1988 film with interviews with the cast and crew.

The Spectre of Hope

2002

Executive Producer

6.0
Producing

The Spectre of Hope is based on the latest work of photographer Sebastiao Salgado. Salgado spent 6 years traveling to over 40 countries, taking pictur...

Between The Lines - The Making of Bull Durham

2001

as self

Acting

In-depth look at the making of Bull Durham with interviews with the cast and crew.

Last Party 2000

Last Party 2000

2001

as Self

6.1
Acting

Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting the campaign at the Republican and Democ...

Human Nature

Human Nature

2001

as Nathan Bronfman

6.0
Acting

Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised in the wild. As Nathan trains the wild man in the ...

Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature

Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature

2001

as Self

8.3
Acting

Film critic and presenter Mark Kermode explores the fascination and praise audiences, fans and critics have behind the classic The Shawshank Redemptio...

Bruce Springsteen: The Complete Video Anthology 1978-2000

Bruce Springsteen: The Complete Video Anthology 1978-2000

2001

Director

5.0
Directing

The video kicks off from a 1978 performance of 'Rosalita' with a 29 year old Bruce wailing away with chicks jumpin' on the stage grabbing him! Lucky g...

Antitrust

Antitrust

2001

as Gary Winston

6.1
Acting

A computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatc...

Millennium Mets - The Story Of The 2000 National League Champions

Millennium Mets - The Story Of The 2000 National League Champions

2000

as Narrator

Acting

It began in Tokyo, Japan with the first regular season game ever played outside North America and ended in the heart of New York City with the first S...

High Fidelity

High Fidelity

2000

as Ian Raymond

7.1
Acting

After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top...

Mission to Mars

Mission to Mars

2000

as Woody Blake

6.0
Acting

When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is...

Altman on His Own Terms

Altman on His Own Terms

2000

as Self

Acting

A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. The genius director who shook the cinema industry w...

Cradle Will Rock

Cradle Will Rock

1999

as Voice on Film Reel (voice) (uncredited)

6.5
Acting

A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

Cradle Will Rock

Cradle Will Rock

1999

Writer, Director, Producer

6.5
Writing Directing Producing

A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

Hidden Vulnerability: A Look Into the Making of 'Arlington Road'

1999

6.0
Acting

Interviews with cast and crew, regarding the making of Arlington Road.

Stephen King: Shining in the Dark

Stephen King: Shining in the Dark

1999

as Self

6.3
Acting

A documentary looking at the life and work of Stephen King.

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

1999

as The President

6.3
Acting

When diabolical genius Dr. Evil travels back in time to steal superspy Austin Powers's ‘mojo,’ Austin must return to the swingin' '60s himself - with ...

Arlington Road

Arlington Road

1999

as Oliver Lang

7.0
Acting

Threats from sinister foreign nationals aren't the only thing to fear. Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed (and increasingly p...

Making of Arlington Road

1999

as Himself

6.0
Acting

The making of the film 'Arlington Road' with interviews with the leading actors Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins illustrated with clips from the film.

Nothing to Lose

Nothing to Lose

1997

as Nick Beam

6.6
Acting

Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attem...

The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera

The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera

1996

as Self

6.4
Acting

In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into th...

The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera

The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera

1996

Executive Producer

6.4
Producing

In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into th...

Dead Man Walking

Dead Man Walking

1995

Producer, Director, Writer

7.3
Producing Directing Writing

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.

I.Q.

I.Q.

1994

as Ed Walters

6.0
Acting

Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.

Prêt-à-Porter

Prêt-à-Porter

1994

as Joe Flynn

5.2
Acting

During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.

The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

1994

as Andy Dufresne

8.7
Acting

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, wh...

The Hudsucker Proxy

The Hudsucker Proxy

1994

as Norville Barnes

7.1
Acting

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

Short Cuts

Short Cuts

1993

as Gene Shepard

7.2
Acting

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a bo...

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

1993

as Self

6.0
Acting

A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts.

Post No Bills

Post No Bills

1992

Acting

Political heavy-weights populate this urgent and humorous documentary on the detonative mix of art and politics as embodied in the work of infamous "g...

Bob Roberts

Bob Roberts

1992

as Bob Roberts

6.5
Acting

Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by sing...

Bob Roberts

Bob Roberts

1992

Director, Writer

6.5
Directing Writing

Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by sing...

The Player

The Player

1992

as Griffin Mill

7.2
Acting

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Robert Altman's Players

Robert Altman's Players

1992

as Self

5.5
Acting

Behind-the-scenes documentary about a fundraiser which was staged for Robert Altman's film "The Player" (1992).

Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

1991

as Jerry

6.4
Acting

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference wo...

Building 'Jacob's Ladder'

Building 'Jacob's Ladder'

1990

as Self

2.7
Acting

An overview of the making of the film Jacob's Ladder (1990).

Jacob's Ladder

Jacob's Ladder

1990

as Jacob

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...

Cadillac Man

Cadillac Man

1990

as Larry

5.8
Acting

Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe h...

Erik the Viking

Erik the Viking

1989

as Erik

5.9
Acting

Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and allo...

Twister

Twister

1989

as Jeff

5.5
Acting

An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is...

Miss Firecracker

Miss Firecracker

1989

as Delmount Williams

5.6
Acting

Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin had won years before....

Tapeheads

Tapeheads

1988

as Josh Tager

5.2
Acting

The story of Ivan and Josh, two dimwitted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video produc...

Bull Durham

Bull Durham

1988

as Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh

6.6
Acting

Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relations...

Five Corners

Five Corners

1987

as Harry Fitzgerald

5.8
Acting

A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who pr...

Howard the Duck

Howard the Duck

1986

as Phil Blumburtt

5.4
Acting

A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, fr...

Top Gun

Top Gun

1986

as Merlin

7.1
Acting

For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pi...

Fraternity Vacation

Fraternity Vacation

1985

as Larry "Mother" Tucker

5.2
Acting

A nerd gains the friendship of two of his frat brothers when his dad offers them his condo for the week in Palm Springs, and also offers the fraternit...

The Sure Thing

The Sure Thing

1985

as Gary Cooper

6.5
Acting

Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck together on a cross-country trip during Christmas break. At f...

Malice in Wonderland

Malice in Wonderland

1985

as Joseph Cotten

7.1
Acting

Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Pa...

No Small Affair

No Small Affair

1984

as Nelson

5.4
Acting

A 16-year-old aspiring photographer pursues a beautiful "older woman" of 22, a down-on-her-luck rock singer.

Toy Soldiers

Toy Soldiers

1984

as Boe

4.2
Acting

While on a vacation in Central America, some American teenagers are kidnapped by terrorists. A rescue mission is sent after them, but they manage to e...

Quarterback Princess

Quarterback Princess

1983

as Marvin

6.9
Acting

The Maida family has moved to Oregon, and daughter Tami wants to play quarterback for the high school football team. There's just one problem. She's a...

Planned Improvisation

N/A

as Himself

Acting

In the following documentary, produced in 2016, actor Tim Robbins, author and screenwriter Michael Tolkin, production designer Stephen Altman, and ass...