Timothy Busfield was born on June 12,1957 and is an American actor and director.
20 Facts About Timothy Busfield
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Timothy Busfield has played Elliot Weston on the television series thirtysomething; Mark, the brother-in-law of Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams; and Danny Concannon on the television series The West Wing.
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Timothy Busfield is the founder of the 501 non-profit arts organization Theatre for Children, Inc.
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Timothy Busfield graduated from East Lansing High School in 1975.
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Timothy Busfield received his first professional acting job at 18 in a children's theater adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Timothy Busfield studied drama at East Tennessee State University and traveled frequently with the Actors Theater of Louisville, which took him to Europe and Israel.
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The part was his first mature role to date, and the producers requested that Timothy Busfield, who was then clean shaven, grow a beard to help sell his image as a married man and father.
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Timothy Busfield had remained exceptionally busy during his thirtysomething stint, appearing as the nominal villain in the popular Kevin Costner fantasy Field of Dreams in 1989, and in 1990, replacing Tom Hulce as the lead in A Few Good Men, a smash Broadway production written by Aaron Sorkin, with whom he would later enjoy fruitful collaborations.
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Timothy Busfield made his directorial debut with a 1990 episode of thirtysomething, and would helm three episodes of the series before it ran its course.
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Roles in television features and theatrical films followed, including supporting turns in Sneakers, Quiz Show and the likable kids' fantasy Little Big League, which allowed Timothy Busfield to show off his baseball skills as the first baseman for the Minnesota Twins.
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Timothy Busfield returned to network television several times during the late 1990s for high-profile shows that never quite caught on with viewers.
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Timothy Busfield was the patriarch of the Byrd clan, which moved from Connecticut to Hawaii in the Steven Bochco-produced The Byrds of Paradise, and starred as one of a group of former high school jocks still clinging to their glory days in Champs for Ron Howard.
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Timothy Busfield would appear sporadically on the show throughout its entire network run.
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Timothy Busfield kept a foot on both sides of the camera from 2000 on; directing and executive producing the successful CBS drama Without a Trace and appearing occasionally as the wheelchair-using divorce attorney for Anthony LaPaglia's Jack Malone.
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Timothy Busfield directed episodes of Las Vegas, Damages, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
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In 2019, Guest Artist, directed by Timothy Busfield, premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
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In 2020, Timothy Busfield appeared as a guest on the Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip marathon fundraiser episode of The George Lucas Talk Show.
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Timothy Busfield remains a stage actor and director whose Broadway credits include A Few Good Men and Brighton Beach Memoirs, where he was star Matthew Broderick's understudy.
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The Timothy Busfield brothers established Fantasy Theater, a touring troupe that plays to children.
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Timothy Busfield was married to actress and director Radha Delamarter before divorcing in 1986.