Superman
2025 · Movie
as Pa Kent
Pruitt Taylor Vince
1960-07-05
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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. He attended Louisiana State University. For most of his life, Vince has had a condition called nystagmus, the involuntary movement of the eye. Vince made his film debut in Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law, but his scenes were edited out. He had prominent supporting roles in several major films, including a turn as a dimwitted Ku Klux Klan member in Mississippi Burning (1988), Lee Bowers in JFK (1991), and the main character's best friend in Nobody's Fool (1994). His first lead role was in James Mangold's independent film Heavy (1995), playing a sweet, silent, overweight cook harbouring a crush on a waitress played by Liv Tyler. He starred in Giuseppe Tornatore's film The Legend of 1900 (1998). Vince often alternates between heroic and villainous characters. Vince played a Southern policeman in the neo-noir psychological horror film Angel Heart (1987), a kidnapper's assistant in the crime thriller film Trapped (2002), and a deputy prison warden in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (1994). He played a lovable, small-town pub owner in Beautiful Girls (1996); a mentally ill serial killer in the 2003 mystery thriller film Identity (a second collaboration with director Mangold); a pompous sheriff in Nurse Betty (2000); a gossip columnist in Simone (2002); and a dissolute Roman Catholic priest with psychic abilities in the 2005 supernatural horror film Constantine. He can also be seen in the dramatic film Love from Ground Zero (1998), playing as Walter. Other film titles include the psychological horror film Jacob's Ladder (1990), the neo-noir film China Moon (1994), the action thriller film Homefront (2013), and the supernatural horror film The Devil's Candy (2015). Guest appearances on TV shows include Deadwood, Alias, The X-Files, Miami Vice, Quantum Leap, Chicago Hope, In the Heat of the Night, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Highlander: The Series, and the American remake of Touching Evil. In 2011, he appeared as Otis in the AMC television series The Walking Dead. He also had a guest role playing a 600-lb. patient in Fox's medical drama House. From 2010 to 2014, he had a multi-episode appearance in The Mentalist. In 2012, he appeared in a full episode of Justified. He took a comic role as "Jelly" in Flypaper. In 2018, he appeared on an episode of The Blacklist as Lawrence Devlin. Vince received an Emmy Award in 1997 for Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role as serial killer Clifford Banks during the second season of the television series Murder One.
Filmography
Lady in the Lake
2024 · TV Show
as Bob Bauer
Crime Story
2021 · Movie
as Tommy
ASIA A
2018 · Movie
as Noah
Gotti
2018 · Movie
as Angelo Ruggiero
59 Seconds
2018 · Movie
as Robert
Bird Box
2018 · Movie
as Rick
The Devil's Candy
2016 · Movie
as Ray
Stranger Things
2016 · TV Show
as Ray
Heroes Reborn
2015 · TV Show
as Casper Abraham
13 Sins
2014 · Movie
as Vogler
The Grief Tourist
2013 · Movie
as Carl Marznap
Beautiful Creatures
2013 · Movie
as Mr. Lee
Homefront
2013 · Movie
as Werks
Broken Blood
2013 · Movie
as Earl Wayne
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013 · TV Show
as Grill
The Blacklist
2013 · TV Show
as Lawrence Devlin
Bending The Rules
2012 · Movie
as Happy
Butter
2012 · Movie
as Ned Eaten
Brake
2012 · Movie
as Driver / Boss Terrorist (voice)
Mysterious Island
2012 · Movie
as Gideon Spilett
The Smell of Success
2011 · Movie
as Cleveland Clod
Flypaper
2011 · Movie
as Jelly
On the Inside
2011 · Movie
as Ben Marshal
Creature
2011 · Movie
as Grover
Drive Angry
2011 · Movie
as Roy
The Cape
2011 · TV Show
as Goggles
Hawaii Five-0
2010 · TV Show
as Richard Branch
The Walking Dead
2010 · TV Show
as Otis
Justified
2010 · TV Show
as Glen Fogle
Leaves of Grass
2009 · Movie
as Big Joe Sharpe
Don McKay
2009 · Movie
as Mel
In the Electric Mist
2009 · Movie
as Lou Girard
The Echo
2008 · Movie
as Joseph
Canterbury's Law
2008 · TV Show
The Mentalist
2008 · TV Show
as J.J. LaRoche
True Blood
2008 · TV Show
as Finn
When A Man Falls In The Forest
2007 · Movie
as Travis Gilmore
Captivity
2007 · Movie
as Ben Dexter
Constantine
2005 · Movie
as Father Hennessy
Drop Dead Sexy
2005 · Movie
as Spider
Nobody Wants Your Film
2005 · Movie
as Self
Medium
2005 · TV Show
as Peter Winant
Bones
2005 · TV Show
as Haze Jackson
Deadwood
2004 · TV Show
as Mose Manuel
House
2004 · TV Show
as George
Identity
2003 · Movie
as Malcolm Rivers
L.A. Confidential
2003 · Movie
as Sid Hudgens
Monster
2003 · Movie
as Gene / Stuttering "John"
The Handler
2003 · TV Show
Trapped
2002 · Movie
as Marvin
13 Moons
2002 · Movie
as Owen
S1m0ne
2002 · Movie
as Max Sayer
Alias
2001 · TV Show
as Campbell / Schapker
The Cell
2000 · Movie
as Dr. Reid
Nurse Betty
2000 · Movie
as Ballard
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000 · TV Show
as Marty Gleason
Mumford
1999 · Movie
as Henry Follett
The Legend of 1900
1998 · Movie
as Max Tooney
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Love from Ground Zero
1998 · Movie
as Walter
Doctor Dolittle
1998 · Movie
as Patient at Hammersmith (uncredited)
The End of Violence
1997 · Movie
as Frank Cray
A Further Gesture
1997 · Movie
as Scott
Cold Around the Heart
1997 · Movie
as Johnny 'Cokebottles' Costello
Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer
1997 · Movie
as Clifford Banks
Beautiful Girls
1996 · Movie
as Stanley "Stinky" Womack
The Cottonwood
1996 · Movie
as Mark Salli
Heavy
1995 · Movie
as Victor Modino
Under the Hula Moon
1995 · Movie
as Bob
Murder One
1995 · TV Show
Nobody's Fool
1994 · Movie
as Rub Squeers
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
1994 · Movie
as Bud
Natural Born Killers
1994 · Movie
as Deputy Warden Kavanaugh
China Moon
1994 · Movie
as Daryl Jeeters
Chicago Hope
1994 · TV Show
as Walter Platt
The X-Files
1993 · TV Show
as Gerry Schnauz
Till Death Us Do Part
1992 · Movie
as Michael Brockington
Highlander: The Series
1992 · TV Show
as Mikey
JFK
1991 · Movie
as Lee Bowers
Dead in the Water
1991 · Movie
as Lou Rescetti
Sweet Poison
1991 · Movie
as Coyle
Jacob's Ladder
1990 · Movie
as Paul
Fear
1990 · Movie
as Jay Anthony Lapedes ("Shadow Man")
Wild at Heart
1990 · Movie
as Buddy
Come See the Paradise
1990 · Movie
as Augie Farrell
K-9
1989 · Movie
as Benny the Mule
Homer and Eddie
1989 · Movie
as Cashier
Quantum Leap
1989 · TV Show
as Hank Pilcher
I Know My First Name Is Steven
1989 · TV Show
as Irving Murphy
Mississippi Burning
1988 · Movie
as Lester Cowens
Red Heat
1988 · Movie
as Night Clerk
Barfly
1987 · Movie
as Joe
Shy People
1987 · Movie
as Paul
Angel Heart
1987 · Movie
as Det. Deimos
Miami Vice
1984 · TV Show
as Cruz
