Pruitt Taylor Vince
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 5, 1960 (age 66)
- Birthplace
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Biography
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.
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Filmography
Superman
Movie · as Pa Kent
Lady in the Lake
TV · as Bob Bauer · 7 eps
Crime Story
Movie · as Tommy
Scripts Gone Wild Zombie Nightmare
Movie
ASIA A
Movie · as Noah
Gotti
Movie · as Angelo Ruggiero
59 Seconds
Movie · as Robert
Bird Box
Movie · as Rick
The Devil's Candy
Movie · as Ray
Stranger Things
TV · as Ray · 2 eps
Heroes Reborn
TV · as Casper Abraham · 7 eps
13 Sins
Movie · as Vogler
The Grief Tourist
Movie · as Carl Marznap
Beautiful Creatures
Movie · as Mr. Lee
Homefront
Movie · as Werks
Broken Blood
Movie · as Earl Wayne
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
TV · as Grill · 4 eps
The Blacklist
TV · as Lawrence Devlin · 2 eps
Bending The Rules
Movie · as Happy
Butter
Movie · as Ned Eaten
Brake
Movie · as Driver / Boss Terrorist (voice)
Mysterious Island
Movie · as Gideon Spilett
The Smell of Success
Movie · as Cleveland Clod
Flypaper
Movie · as Jelly
On the Inside
Movie · as Ben Marshal
Creature
Movie · as Grover
Drive Angry
Movie · as Roy
The Cape
TV · as Goggles · 1 ep
Hawaii Five-0
TV · as Richard Branch · 1 ep
The Walking Dead
TV · as Otis · 2 eps
Justified
TV · as Glen Fogle · 1 ep
Leaves of Grass
Movie · as Big Joe Sharpe
Don McKay
Movie · as Mel
In the Electric Mist
Movie · as Lou Girard
The Echo
Movie · as Joseph
Canterbury's Law
TV
The Mentalist
TV · as J.J. LaRoche · 13 eps
True Blood
TV · as Finn · 5 eps
When A Man Falls In The Forest
Movie · as Travis Gilmore
Captivity
Movie · as Ben Dexter
Constantine
Movie · as Father Hennessy
Drop Dead Sexy
Movie · as Spider
Nobody Wants Your Film
Movie · as Self
Medium
TV · as Peter Winant · 1 ep
Bones
TV · as Haze Jackson · 1 ep
Deadwood
TV · as Mose Manuel · 7 eps
House
TV · as George · 1 ep
Identity
Movie · as Malcolm Rivers
L.A. Confidential
Movie · as Sid Hudgens
Monster
Movie · as Gene / Stuttering "John"
The Handler
TV · 1 ep
Trapped
Movie · as Marvin
13 Moons
Movie · as Owen
S1m0ne
Movie · as Max Sayer
Alias
TV · as Campbell / Schapker · 1 ep
The Cell
Movie · as Dr. Reid
Nurse Betty
Movie · as Ballard
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV · as Marty Gleason · 1 ep
Mumford
Movie · as Henry Follett
The Legend of 1900
Movie · as Max Tooney
Love from Ground Zero
Movie · as Walter
Doctor Dolittle
Movie · as Patient at Hammersmith (uncredited)
The End of Violence
Movie · as Frank Cray
A Further Gesture
Movie · as Scott
Cold Around the Heart
Movie · as Johnny 'Cokebottles' Costello
Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer
Movie · as Clifford Banks
Night Sins
Movie · as Olie Swain
Night Sins
TV · as Olie Swain · 2 eps
Beautiful Girls
Movie · as Stanley "Stinky" Womack
The Cottonwood
Movie · as Mark Salli
Heavy
Movie · as Victor Modino
Under the Hula Moon
Movie · as Bob
Murder One
TV · 6 eps
Nobody's Fool
Movie · as Rub Squeers
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
Movie · as Bud
Natural Born Killers
Movie · as Deputy Warden Kavanaugh
China Moon
Movie · as Daryl Jeeters
Chicago Hope
TV · as Walter Platt · 1 ep
The X-Files
TV · as Gerry Schnauz · 1 ep
Till Death Us Do Part
Movie · as Michael Brockington
Highlander: The Series
TV · as Mikey · 1 ep
JFK
Movie · as Lee Bowers
Dead in the Water
Movie · as Lou Rescetti
Sweet Poison
Movie · as Coyle
Jacob's Ladder
Movie · as Paul
Fear
Movie · as Jay Anthony Lapedes ("Shadow Man")
Wild at Heart
Movie · as Buddy
Come See the Paradise
Movie · as Augie Farrell
K-9
Movie · as Benny the Mule
Homer and Eddie
Movie · as Cashier
Quantum Leap
TV · as Hank Pilcher · 1 ep
I Know My First Name Is Steven
TV · as Irving Murphy · 2 eps
Mississippi Burning
Movie · as Lester Cowens
Red Heat
Movie · as Night Clerk
Barfly
Movie · as Joe
Shy People
Movie · as Paul
Angel Heart
Movie · as Det. Deimos
Miami Vice
TV · as Cruz · 1 ep