
Jim Beaver
ActingAlso Known As
James Norman Beaver Jr. , James Beaver, Richard Muldoon, John Petlock
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.
Movies
(46 total)
Crimson Peak
as Carter Cushing

Magnolia
as Smiling Peanut Patron #1

Sister Act
as Clarkson

Nightmare Alley
as Sheriff Jedediah Judd

Next
as Wisdom

Adaptation.
as Ranger Tony

The Life of David Gale
as Duke Grover

Turner & Hooch
as Plant Manager

Joy Ride
as Sheriff Ritter

Sliver
as Detective Ira

Deadwood: The Movie
as Whitney Ellsworth (archive footage)

Geronimo: An American Legend
as Proclamation Officer

Bad Girls
as Pinkerton Detective Graves

Blue Chips
as Ricky's Father

Blindfire
as Sergeant Ward

In Country
as Earl Smith

Semi-Tough
as B.E.A.T. Member (uncredited)

El Diablo
as Spivey Irick

The Frontier
as Lee

Billy Boy
as Crabtree
TV Shows
(56 total)
Breaking Bad
as Lawson

The Boys
as Robert Singer

Supernatural
as Bobby Singer

Better Call Saul
as Lawson

Dexter
as Hannah’s father

The Mentalist
as Cobb Holwell

Criminal Minds
as Sheriff Williams

The X-Files
as Coroner

Bones
as George Gibbons

Young Sheldon
as Kenneth

NCIS
as Captain Tom O'Rourke

Watchmen
as Andy

That '70s Show
as Tony

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Stanley Tanner

Monk
as Sheriff Ronald Mathis

Six Feet Under
as Prison Officer

Psych
as Pete Dillingham

Star Trek: Enterprise
as Daniel Leonard

Deadwood
as Whitney Ellsworth

Justified
as Shelby Parlow