Tim Thomerson

Tim Thomerson
Born	Joseph Timothy Thomerson (1946-04-08) April 8, 1946 (age 78) Coronado, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Actor, comedian
Years active	1975–present
Spouse	Teri Blythe

Joseph Timothy Thomerson (born April 8, 1946) is an American actor and comedian.^[1] He is best known for his role as Jack Deth in the Trancers^[2] film series, his work in numerous low-budget features, and his comedic television roles. He appeared in the films Uncommon Valor, Air America, Volunteers, Who's Harry Crumb?, Iron Eagle, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.^[3]

Early life

Tim Thomerson was born in Coronado, California. He was brought up in both Hawaii and in San Diego. Following a stint in the Army National Guard, where he served as a cook in a tank company with actor Brion James, Thomerson chose to become an actor while taking a job as a set builder and prop man at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, famous for its Shakespearean productions.

Following college, Thomerson began a career as a stand-up comedian, honing his skills. He appeared in comedy clubs, including The Bitter End in Greenwich Village, The Improv in Los Angeles, and Catch a Rising Star in New York City.

Career

Initial success

Thomerson entered the world of stand-up comedy in the 1970s. In Los Angeles, he became a regular at the Comedy Store and the Improv and made numerous appearances on television variety shows and in Las Vegas.

One of Thomerson's early acting breaks came from director Robert Altman who, after seeing Thomerson's stand-up act, cast him in the film A Wedding. Thomerson first came to prominence in the short-lived comedy science-fiction TV series, Quark in 1977–78, as Gene/Jean, a character of dual gender who randomly switched between the two.

Feature film actor

Thomerson began a long career in television and film starting in the mid-1970s, starting with roles such as the criminal psychologist Jerry Moriarity in the slasher film, Fade to Black (1980) before moving on to starring roles such as the time-traveling future cop Jack Deth in the 1985 low-budget science-fiction film, Trancers, his most famous role.

In 1986, Thomerson reunited with a few of his Trancers co-stars for the World War II science-fiction film, Zone Troopers; he also appeared in the vampire film, Near Dark, and played a villain opposite Melanie Griffith's heroine in the science-fiction film, Cherry 2000. He also appeared in NBC's television film, The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988) as the Hulk's opponent, Jack LeBeau.

When Charles Band started Full Moon Features in the late 1980s, one of his first projects was the sequel Trancers II (1991), in which he reunited Thomerson with much of the cast from the first film. Thomerson would later appear in each of the sequels, except for Trancers 6.

Another notable film role was that of Brick Bardo in Dollman (1991), a Dirty Harry-like alien cop who is only 13 inches (33 cm) tall; the character also appeared briefly in Bad Channels and more substantially in Dollman vs. Demonic Toys

In the 1990s, he was a series regular on the TV police drama, Sirens, followed by a regular, co-starring role on the series, Land's End.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1975	Mannix	'Rusty'	Episode: "A Word Called Courage"
	A Shadow in the Streets	Chick	Television movie
	Hustling	'Two to a Cell' Cop (uncredited)	Television movie
1976	Laverne & Shirley	'Silky' Mulcheck	Episode: "The Bachelor Party"
	Harry O	Reporter	Episode: "Hostage"
	City of Angels	Seyers	Episode: "The Parting Shot"
	Car Wash	Kenny	As Timmothy Tomerson
1977	Benny And Barney: Las Vegas Undercover	Barney Tuscom	Television movie
	All That Glitters	'Sonny' Packer	TV series
	Terraces	Steve	Television movie
	Which Way Is Up?	Tour Guide	As Timothy Thomerson
1977-1978	Quark	Gene/Jean	TV series regular (8 episodes)
1978	Remember My Name	Jeff	As Timothy Thomerson
	Record City	Marty
	A Wedding	Russell Bean
1978	Hawaii Five-O	Mike Chandler	Episode: "Death Mask"
1979	Mork & Mindy (ep. 13)	Sergie	Guest in TV series
	The Associates	Johnny Danko	TV series regular
	Angie	Gianni	TV series regular
1980	Getting There	Lester	Television movie
	Carny	'Doubles'
	Fade to Black	Jerry Moriarty
1981	Take This Job and Shove It	Ray Binkowski
	In Trouble	Mr. Damrush	Television movie
	Golden Gate	Frank Nightingale	Television movie
	St. Helens	Sheriff Dwayne Temple
1981-1982	The Two of Us	Reggie Cavanaugh	TV series regular
1982	Some Kind of Hero	Cal
	Bare Essence	Billy	Television movie
	Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again	Dr. Knute Lanyon
	Honkytonk Man	Highway Patrolman
1983	Likely Stories, Vol. 2		TV series
	Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn	Rhodes
	The Osterman Weekend	Motorcycle cop
	Uncommon Valor	'Charts'
	Gun Shy	Theodore Ogilvie	TV series
1984	Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour	Himself	Panelist (March 1984)
	Rhinestone	Barnett Kale
	His Mistress	Tom Goodman	Television movie
1984-1988	Hunter	Mule Mulelowski / Police Sergeant Harry Traynor / Police Detective Gil Glasgow	Episodes "Honorable Profession" (1988) ... Mule Mulelowski "Change Partners and Dance"(1986) ... Police Sgt. Harry Traynor "Pen Pals" (1984) ... Police Det. Gil Glasgow
1985	Trancers	Jack Deth
	Volunteers	John Reynolds
	Murder, She Wrote	Lieutenant Clyde Pitts
1986	Iron Eagle	Colonel Ted Masters
	Ratboy	Alan Reynolds	Uncredited
	Zone Troopers	Sergeant
	The Twilight Zone	Billy Diamond	TV Series (Take My Life... Please!)[4]
	The B.R.A.T. Patrol	Major Dan Hackett	Television movie
1987	Glory Years	Jack Sanders	Television movie
	Near Dark	Loy Colton
	Tour of Duty	Sergeant Aubrey Decker	1 episode. The Good, the Bad, and the Dead
	Cherry 2000	Lester
	Down and Out in Beverly Hills	Jerry Baskin	TV series
1988	A Tiger's Tale	Lonny
	The Wrong Guys	Tim
	The Incredible Hulk Returns	Jack LeBeau	Television movie
1989	Who's Harry Crumb?	Vince Barnes
1990	Vietnam, Texas	Max Heron
	Air America	Babo
	The Flash	Jay Allen	Television movie
	Murder, She Wrote	Bert Rogers	TV series
	Midnight Caller	Perry Fine	TV series
1991	Trancers II	Jack Deth
	Dollman	Brick Bardo
	Baywatch	Jim 'Buzz' Buchannon	TV series
	Golden Girls	Stevie	TV series
1992	Eddie Presley	Shock Comic
	Stringer	Jack Mitchett
	Intimate Stranger	Malcolm Henthoff	Television movie
	Bad Channels	Brick Bardo
	Trancers III	Jack Deth
1993	Die Watching	Detective Lewis
	Nemesis	Farnsworth
	Dollman vs. Demonic Toys	Brick Bardo
	The Harvest	Steve Mobley
	Knights	Farmer	Uncredited
	Brainsmasher... A Love Story	Detective Black
1994	Fleshtone	Buddy Fields
	Natural Causes	The Westerner
	Trancers 4: Jack of Swords	Jack Deth
	The Cisco Kid	Lundquist	Television movie
	Hong Kong 97	Jack McGraw
	Trancers 5: Sudden Deth	Jack Deth
1995	Malevolence	Mr. Williams
	Dominion	Fitz
	Spitfire	Rex Beechum
	Sirens	Sergeant James 'Buddy' Zunder	TV series
	Heatseeker	Oldest Elder
	Walker Texas Ranger	Mitch Bolton	TV series
1996	Back to Back	Thomas
	Nemesis 3: Prey Harder	Farnsworth 2
	Pacific Blue	The Angel	TV series
	Land's End	Dave 'Thunder' Thornton	TV series
	Kid Cop	Arnold Downey
1997	Blast	Police Commissioner
	Xena: Warrior Princess	Meleager The Mighty	TV series
	When Time Expires	Rifkin Koss	Television movie
	The Angry Beavers	Leonard Beaver (voice)	TV series
	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Woody Sams	TV series
1998	Crossfire	Crane
	Together & Alone	Daddy
	Escape from Atlantis	Liam Gallagher	Television movie
	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Hoodlum	Cameo
	Border to Border	'Poet'
1999	Red Team	William Heywood
	Dirt Merchant	Jack
	Suckers	Detective Laughlin
	Unseen Evil	Ranger Chuck Macneil
	The Magnificent Seven	Guy Royal	TV series
	Last Chance	Sam
	Detour	Mel Kiner
	Sabrina, the Teenage Witch	Mr. Alcerro	TV series
2000	Gangland	Dr. Adams
	Submerged	Owen Cantrell
	Highway 395	Unknown
	The Princess & the Barrio Boy	Monsignor O'Dell	Television movie
2001	Devil's Prey	Sheriff Harry
	They Crawl	The Exterminator
	Unseen Evil	Ranger Chuck MacNeil
2002	Gale Force	Phillip Edwards
	Shoot or Be Shot	Uncle Bill
	The Killing Point	Mr. Banyon
	Ocean Point	Mike
	Project Viper	Sheriff Morgan	Television movie
	Con Express	Bill Barnes
	The District	Colonel Carl	TV series
	Days of Our Lives	Oliver Wentworth	TV series
2003	Cliché	Chief Jackson
	Air Marshal	Senator Chambers
2004	Paparazzi	Uniformed Officer
	A Lousy Ten Grand	Judge
2005	The Nowhere Man	Unknown
	Dual	Deston / Jared
	Swarmed	Phineas Washburn	Television movie
	Hell to Pay	Reverend
	Junior Pilot	Captain Noonan	also known as Final Approach
2006	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Arnie Swift
	To Kill a Mockumentary	Will
	Sasquatch Mountain	Eli
	Forget About It	Al 'Arizona Al'
	A.I. Assault	Admiral Harrison	Television movie
	Bottoms Up	A.J. Mancini
	Left in Darkness	Joe
	Evil Bong	Jack Deth
	Christmas Do-Over	Arthur	Television movie
2007	God's Ears	Uncle Steve
	Urban Decay	Detective Thompson
	Blue Lake Massacre	Marshall Lex
	Good God Bad Dog	Bill Monahan
	Live Evil	The Priest
2008	Wicked Lake	Jake
2009	War Wolves	Frank Bergman
2011	Shameless	A.B. Fisher	TV series
2012	Season of Darkness	Detective Kesler
	MoniKa	Thomas
2013	The Silicon Assassin Project	Freddy Jones	TV series
2016	Catfish Blues	Eddie
2017	Asylum of Darkness	Detective Kesler

Video games

Year	Video game	Role
2011	Homefront	Voice of Freedom
	Saints Row: The Third	Cyrus Temple
2013	Saints Row IV	Simulation Cyrus Temple

References

1. "Movies". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2007. Archived from the original on November 21, 2007. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
2. Thomas, Kevin (September 24, 1985). "Movie Review: 'Trancers' Plague L.A. in a Futuristic Shake-Up". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
3. Brenner, Paul (2008). "Movie Reviews". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 21, 2008. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
4. "Take My Life... Please!/Devil's Alphabet/The Library". IMDb.

External links

• Tim Thomerson at IMDb