Jim Beaver

Known for

Acting

Born

August 12, 1950 (age 76)

Birthplace

Laramie, Wyoming, USA

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.

Best known work

Breaking Bad

2008

The Boys

2019

Supernatural

2005

Better Call Saul

2015

Dexter

2006

Crimson Peak

2015

The Mentalist

2008

Criminal Minds

2005

Magnolia

1999

The X-Files

1993

Filmography

2022
The WinchestersTV
as Bobby Singer (1 episode)
2022
No More Time
as Radio Host
2022
Outer RangeTV
as Harrison Farber (1 episode)
2021
Nightmare Alley
as Sheriff Jedediah Judd
2020
Blindfire
as Sergeant Ward
2020
B PositiveTV
as Spencer (16 episodes)
2019
WatchmenTV
as Andy (1 episode)
2019
Mama Bear
as Doctor
2019
The BoysTV
as Secretary of Defense Robert A. Singer (11 episodes)
2019
Deadwood: The Movie
as Whitney Ellsworth (archive footage)
2019
Scripts Gone Wild Zombie Nightmare
2018
Hospitality
as The Boss
2018
Billy Boy
as Crabtree
2018
Remember the Sultana
as Joseph Taylor Elliott / First Engineering Officer Nathaniel Wintringer (voice)
2017
Young SheldonTV
as Kenneth (1 episode)
2016
The Frontier
as Lee
2016
TimelessTV
as NSA Agent Jake Neville (3 episodes)
2016
Injection
as Pops
2016
The RanchTV
as Chuck (2 episodes)
2015
Crimson Peak
as Carter Cushing
2015
The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster
as The Captain
2015
Better Call SaulTV
as Lawson (2 episodes)
2014
Nikki & Nora: The N&N FilesTV
as Arliss Fontenot (7 episodes)
2013
Night Riders
Writer, Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
2012
RevolutionTV
as John Franklin Fry (2 episodes)