Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 12, 1950 (age 76)
Place of Birth
Laramie, Wyoming, USA
Also Known As
- James Norman Beaver Jr.
- James Beaver
- Richard Muldoon
- John Petlock
Jim Beaver
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.
Known For - Movies
Magnolia
as Smiling Peanut Patron #1
Sister Act
as Clarkson
Next
as Wisdom
Crimson Peak
as Carter Cushing
Nightmare Alley
as Sheriff Jedediah Judd
Adaptation.
as Ranger Tony
Geronimo: An American Legend
as Proclamation Officer
Sliver
as Detective Ira
Joy Ride
as Sheriff Ritter
The Life of David Gale
as Duke Grover
Known For - TV Shows
The Boys
as Secretary of Defense Robert A. Singer
Supernatural
as Bobby Singer
NCIS
as Captain Tom O'Rourke
Bones
as George Gibbons
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Stanley Tanner
The Mentalist
as Cobb Holwell
Criminal Minds
as Sheriff Williams
Dexter
as Hannah’s father
The X-Files
as Coroner
Breaking Bad
as Lawson