Jim Beaver
Acting • Born 1950-08-12
Biography
James Norman Beaver Jr. (born August 12, 1950) is an American actor, writer, and film historian. He portrayed Bobby Singer in Supernatural. He also played Whitney Ellsworth on the HBO Western drama series Deadwood, which brought him acclaim and a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for Ensemble Acting, Sheriff Shelby Parlow on the FX series Justified, and Robert "Dakota Bob" Singer on the Amazon Prime Video series The Boys. His memoir Life's That Way was published in April 2009.
Filmography
102 credits
Adaptation.
Movie • 2002
Ranger Tony
Joy Ride
Movie • 2001
Sheriff Ritter
Defense Play
Movie • 1988
FBI Man
Bad Girls
Movie • 1994
Pinkerton Detective Graves
Reflections
Movie • 2008
Franck
Dark and Stormy Night
Movie • 2009
Jack Tugdon
No More Time
Movie • 2022
Radio Host
Gunsmoke: To the Last Man
Movie • 1992
Deputy Willie Rudd
Mama Bear
Movie • 2019
Doctor
Geronimo: An American Legend
Movie • 1993
Proclamation Officer
Magnolia
Movie • 1999
Smiling Peanut Patron #1
Turner & Hooch
Movie • 1989
Plant Manager
Warden of Red Rock
Movie • 2001
Jefferson Bent
Wheelmen
Movie • 2005
Agent Hammond
Blue Chips
Movie • 1994
Ricky's Father
Follow Your Heart
Movie • 1990
Craig Hraboy
The Frontier
Movie • 2016
Lee
Wounded
Movie • 1997
Agent Eric Ashton
Gunsmoke: The Long Ride
Movie • 1993
Traveling Blacksmith
Crimson Peak
Movie • 2015
Carter Cushing
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
Movie • 1990
Maj. Trimble
Next
Movie • 2007
Wisdom
The Life of David Gale
Movie • 2003
Duke Grover
Billy Boy
Movie • 2018
Crabtree
The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster
Movie • 2015
The Captain
Twogether
Movie • 1992
Oscar
Mr. Murder
Movie • 1998
Agent Jason Reiling
El Diablo
Movie • 1990
Spivey Irick
Divided by Hate
Movie • 1997
Danny Leland
The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy
Movie • 2011
J. Wright Mooar
In Country
Movie • 1989
Earl Smith
Hospitality
Movie • 2018
The Boss
Sliver
Movie • 1993
Detective Ira
Sister Act
Movie • 1992
Clarkson
The Seniors
Movie • 1978
Client (uncredited)
Injection
Movie
Pops
Deadwood: The Movie
Movie • 2019
Whitney Ellsworth (archive footage)
Semi-Tough
Movie • 1977
B.E.A.T. Member (uncredited)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake
Movie • 1988
Motel Manager
Nightmare Alley
Movie • 2021
Sheriff Jedediah Judd
Remember the Sultana
Movie • 2018
Joseph Taylor Elliott / First Engineering Officer Nathaniel Wintringer (voice)
Blindfire
Movie • 2020
Sergeant Ward
Mothers, Daughters and Lovers
Movie • 1989
Sheriff Jack Edzard
Girls of the White Orchid
Movie • 1983
Pedestrian
Sweet Revenge
Movie • 1987
Smuggler (uncredited)
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
Movie • 1979
Cowboy Player (uncredited)
That '70s Show
TV • 1998
Tony
Six Feet Under
TV • 2001
Prison Officer
Deadwood
TV • 2004
Whitney Ellsworth
Star Trek: Enterprise
TV • 2001
Daniel Leonard
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV • 2000
Stanley Tanner
Psych
TV • 2006
Pete Dillingham
The West Wing
TV • 1999
Carl
John from Cincinnati
TV • 2007
Vietnam Joe
Home Improvement
TV • 1991
Duke Miller
The Division
TV • 2001
Fred Zito
Monk
TV • 2002
Sheriff Ronald Mathis
Matlock
TV • 1986
Barney Sutler
The Unit
TV • 2006
Lloyd Cole
Murder One
TV • 1995
Donald Cleary
The Trouble with Normal
TV • 2000
Gary
The X-Files
TV • 1993
Coroner
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
TV • 1993
Henry Barnes
Melrose Place
TV • 1992
Ranger Virgil
Jake and the Fatman
TV • 1987
Defense Attorney
Tremors
TV • 2003
Sheriff Sam Boggs
Big Love
TV • 2006
Carter Reese
Supernatural
TV • 2005
Bobby Singer
The Lyon's Den
TV • 2003
Hank Ferris
Harper's Island
TV • 2009
Charlie Mills
Thunder Alley
TV • 1994
Leland DuParte
The Middle
TV • 2009
Eddie Stokes
Breaking Bad
TV • 2008
Lawson
Revolution
TV • 2012
John Franklin Fry
Major Crimes
TV • 2012
Donald Beckwith
Law & Order: LA
TV • 2010
Frank Loomis
Nasty Boys
TV • 1989
Wetstone
Total Security
TV • 1997
Detective McKissick
Reasonable Doubts
TV • 1991
Detective Earl Gaddis
The Mentalist
TV • 2008
Cobb Holwell
Bones
TV • 2005
George Gibbons
Timeless
TV • 2016
NSA Agent Jake Neville
Better Call Saul
TV • 2015
Lawson
B Positive
TV • 2020
Spencer
Bone Chillers
TV • 1996
Edgar Allan Poe
The Ranch
TV • 2016
Chuck
Justified
TV • 2010
Shelby Parlow
Justified
TV • 2010
Shelby Parlow / Drew Thompson
Justified
TV • 2010
Drew Thompson
Day Break
TV • 2006
'Uncle' Nick Vukovic
Criminal Minds
TV • 2005
Sheriff Williams
3rd Rock from the Sun
TV • 1996
Happy Doug
Watchmen
TV • 2019
Andy
Outer Range
TV • 2022
Harrison Farber
Young Sheldon
TV • 2017
Kenneth
Dexter
TV • 2006
Hannah’s father
The Boys
TV • 2019
Robert Singer
Longmire
TV • 2012
Lee Rosky
The Winchesters
TV • 2022
Bobby Singer
Crossing Jordan
TV • 2001
Ranger Diggory
NCIS
TV • 2003
Captain Tom O'Rourke
Nikki & Nora: The N&N Files
TV • 2014
Arliss Fontenot