Tim Matheson

Not to be confused with Tim Mathieson.

Tim Matheson
Matheson (left) with Bruce Campbell at the ComicCon, July 22, 2010
Born	Timothy Lewis Matthieson (1947-12-31) December 31, 1947 Glendale, California, US
Occupation	Actor, Voice actor, Director, Producer
Years active	1961–present
Spouse(s)	Jennifer Leak (1968–71) Megan Murphy Matheson (1985–2010)

Tim Matheson (born Timothy Lewis Matthieson; December 31, 1947) is an American actor, director and producer. He is perhaps best known for his portrayals of the smooth-talking Eric "Otter" Stratton in the 1978 comedy National Lampoon's Animal House and of Vice President John Hoynes in the NBC drama, The West Wing. He has had a variety of other well-known roles, including providing the voice of the lead character in the cartoon TV program Jonny Quest.

Career

At the age of 13, Matheson appeared as Roddy Miller in Robert Young's CBS nostalgia comedy series Window on Main Street during the 1961–1962 television season. In 1964, he provided the voice of the lead character in the cartoon program Jonny Quest. He was also the voice of Jace in the original animated series of Space Ghost. In addition, he played the role of the oldest son, Mike Beardsley, in the film Yours, Mine and Ours, which also starred Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda.

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Matheson as Jim Horn

In 1969, Matheson joined the cast of NBC's The Virginian western series in the eighth season as Jim Horn. He had a guest role in the 14th episode of the second season of Night Gallery, in the story "Logoda's Heads". In the final season of the television western Bonanza in 1972–1973, Matheson played Griff King, a parolee who tries to reform his life as a worker at the Ponderosa Ranch under Ben Cartwright's tutelage. He portrayed a young motorcycle cop, Phil Sweet, in the 1973 film Magnum Force. Matheson also appeared earlier in the CBS television comedy series My Three Sons and Leave It to Beaver. In 1975, he guest starred in CBS's short-lived family drama, Three for the Road.

In 1976, Matheson appeared with Kurt Russell in the 15-episode NBC series The Quest, the story of two young men in the American West seeking the whereabouts of their sister, a captive of the Cheyenne. In 1978, he co-starred in National Lampoon's Animal House opposite John Belushi; the following year, he appeared opposite Belushi again in Steven Spielberg's 1941. Matheson starred in the 1984 comedy movie Up the Creek and the comedy Fletch.

Matheson appeared in the 1983 film To Be or Not to Be starring Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft.

Matheson and Catherine Hicks played Rick and Amanda Tucker, who operate a detective agency in Laurel Canyon in CBS' Tucker's Witch, which aired during the 1982–1983 season. In 1989, he starred in the short-lived sitcom Nikki and Alexander produced by Reinhold Weege.

Matheson, along with business partner Dan Grodnik, bought National Lampoon in 1989 when the magazine was facing financial decline. They were unable to reverse the magazine fortunes, however, and sold it in 1991.

Matheson had a recurring role as Vice President John Hoynes on The West Wing. His work on The West Wing earned him two Primetime Emmy award nominations for Best Guest Star in a Drama Series. In The West Wing, Hoynes was an alcoholic who claimed to "like beer, a lot" in college, perhaps a nod to his previous role in Animal House. In addition to playing Sheriff Matthew Donner in the short-lived Wolf Lake, he has directed episodes of Third Watch, Ed, The Twilight Zone, Cold Case, Without a Trace, The West Wing, Psych, The Good Guys, Shark, White Collar, Criminal Minds, Suits, and Burn Notice (on which he also performed in a recurring role).

In 1996, Matheson took on the role of a con man who claims to be Carol Brady's thought-to-be-dead husband in A Very Brady Sequel. Matheson appeared in the movie Van Wilder in 2002, playing the father of the title character, who was inspired by his own character in Animal House; Matheson's character even makes a veiled reference to the fun times he had had at Dartmouth, where the fraternity upon which Animal House is based is rumored to have "had a strong tradition of existence." He appeared in the auto-racing film Redline. He also appeared in a Volkswagen commercial in 2008.

In 2009, Matheson directed the pilot episode of Covert Affairs, premiered on USA Network in 2010. Matheson also directed the pilot episodes of The Good Guys (2010) for the Fox Network, Criminal Behavior (2011) for Lifetime, and "Wild Card" (2011) for USA Network. He played Dr. Brick Breeland on Hart of Dixie from 2011 to 2015.

Personal life

Matheson was born in Glendale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. In 2010, he was divorced from Megan Murphy Matheson after a 25-year marriage and three children. He was previously married to actress Jennifer Leak, whom he met on the set of Yours, Mine, and Ours. Matheson served a tour of duty in the United States Marine Corps Reserve.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1967	Divorce American Style	Mark Harmon
1967	The Mystery of the Chinese Junk	Joe Hardy
1968	Yours, Mine and Ours	Mike Beardsley
1969	How to Commit Marriage	David Poe
1973	Magnum Force	Phil Sweet
1978	National Lampoon's Animal House	Eric 'Otter' Stratton
1978	Almost Summer	Kevin Hawkins
1979	Dreamer	Dreamer
1979	The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again	Private Jeff Reed aka Captain Phillips
1979	1941	Captain Loomis Birkhead
1982	A Little Sex	Michael Donovan
1983	To Be or Not to Be	Lieutenant Andre Sobinski
1984	The House of God	Roy Basch
1984	Up the Creek	Bob McGraw
1984	Impulse	Stuart
1985	Fletch	Alan Stanwyck
1989	Speed Zone!	Jack O'Neill
1989	Body Wars	Captain Braddock
1990	Solar Crisis	Steve Kelso
1990	Buried Alive	Clint Goodman
1991	Drop Dead Fred	Charles
1991	Sometimes They Come Back	Jim Norman
1996	Black Sheep	Al Donnelly
1996	Midnight Heat	Tyler Grey
1996	A Very Brady Sequel	Roy Martin / Trevor Thomas
1998	A Very Unlucky Leprechaun	Howard Wilson
1998	Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Families	Adolf Althoff
1999	She's All That	Harlan Siler
1999	The Story of Us	Marty
2000	Chump Change	Simon 'Sez' Simone
2002	Van Wilder	Vance Wilder Sr.
2003	Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update	Dr. Eric 'Otter' Stratton, OB / GYN
2005	Don't Come Knocking	Producer 1
2005	Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D	Houston Capcom	voice
2007	Redline	Jerry Brecken
2009	Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia	Carl Dobbs	also director
2009	American Pie Presents: The Book of Love	Alumnus Guy No. 4

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1961–62	Window on Main Street	Roddy Miller	First acting role
1962–63	Leave It to Beaver	Michael 'Mike' Harmon	Season 6, Ep 7
1962–63	My Three Sons	Alan Edgerton
1963	Ripcord	David	Season 2, Ep 7: "The Final Jump"
1964–65	Jonny Quest	Jonny Quest	voice
1965	Sinbad Jr.	Sinbad Jr.	voice
1965	O.K.Crackerby!	Huntington Hawthorne
1966	Space Ghost	Jace	voice
1966	Thompson's Ghost	Eddie Thompson
1967	Samson & Goliath	Samson	voice
1967	NBC Children's Theatre- WEEKEND (pilot)	Randy
1969	Adam-12	Leroy
1969–70	The Virginian	Jim Horn
1970	San Francisco International Airport	SFX
1970	Bracken's World	Teek Howell
1971	Matt Lincoln
1971	Room 222	Jerry Cates
1971	Hitched	Clarence Bridgeman
1971	Owen Marshall, Counsellor at Law	Jim McGuire
1971	Lock, Stock and Barrel	Clarence Bridgeman
1971	The D.A.	Howard Goodman
1971	The Bold Ones: The Lawyers	Miles Parker
1971	Night Gallery	Henley
1972	Here's Lucy	Peter Sullivan
1972	Ironside	Darryl Podell
1972	The Smith Family	Mark
1972–73	Bonanza	Griff King
1972–78	Insight	Chris
1973	Wide World Mystery	Tommy
1973	Medical Center	Sam Miller
1973	Kung Fu	Lieutenant Bill Wyland	Season 2, Episode 8 "The Soldier"
1974	The Magician	Jerry Purcell
1974	Police Story	Allen Rich
1974	Remember When	Warren Thompson
1975	The Last Day	Emmet Dalton
1975	The Runaway Barge	Danny Worth
1975	Three for the Road	Tom Aberling
1976	Rhoda	Michael Stearns
1976	Jigsaw John	Nick Pappas
1976	Petrocelli	Mike Fisher
1976	The Quest	Quentin Beaudine
1976	The War Widow	Amy's Husband	voice
1976	Visions	Leonard	voice
1977	The Hemingway Play	Wemidge – Young Hemingway
1977	Hawaii Five-O	Brent Saunders
1977	Mary White	William L. White
1977	What Really Happened to the Class of '65?	Jay Miller
1978	Baa Baa Black Sheep	Bud Warren
1978	How the West Was Won	Curt Grayson
1982	Bus Stop	Beauregard 'Beau' Decker
1982–83	Tucker's Witch	Rick Tucker
1983	Listen to Your Heart	Josh Stern
1984	The Best Legs in the Eighth Grade	Mark Fisher
1985	Obsessed with a Married Woman	Tony Hammond
1985	George Burns Comedy Week	"The Girl With Something Extra"
1986	Blind Justice	Jim Anderson
1987	Warm Hearts, Cold Feet	Mike Byrd
1987	Bay Coven	Jerry Lebon
1987	Trying Times	Mitch
1988	Just in Time	Harry Stadlin
1989	Nikki and Alexander	Alexander
1989	The Littlest Victims	Doctor James Oleske
1989	Little White Lies	Dr. Harry McRae
1990	Buried Alive	Clint Goodman
1990	Joshua's Heart	Tom
1991	Stephen King's Sometimes They Come Back	Jim Norman
1991	The Woman Who Sinned	Michael Robeson
1991	Charlie Hoover	Charlie Hoover
1992	Quicksand: No Escape	Scott Reinhardt
1993	Relentless: Mind of a Killer	Dr. Peter Hellman
1993	Dying to Love You	Roger Paulson
1993	Batman: the Animated Series	D.A. Gil Mason	Shadow of the Bat, parts 1 & 2
1993	Fallen Angels	Howard Hughes
1993	Shameful Secrets	Daniel
1993	A Kiss to Die For	William Tauber
1993	Trial & Error	Peter Hudson
1993	Harmful Intent	Dr. Rhodes
1994	Breach of Conduct		Director
1994	Target of Suspicion	Nick
1994	While Justice Sleeps	Winfield 'Win' Cooke
1995	Cybill	Teddy
1995	Fast Company	Detective Jack Matthews
1995	Tails You Live, Heads You're Dead	Detective McKinley	also director
1995	Jonny Quest Versus the Cyber Insects	4-Dac	voice
1996	An Unfinished Affair	Alex Connor
1996	Twilight Man	Jordan P. Cooper
1996	Buried Secrets	Clay Roff
1996	Christmas in My Hometown	Jacob (Jake) Peterson	Also known as Holiday For Love
1997	The Legend of Calamity Jane	Captain John O'Rourke
1997	Sleeping with the Devil	Dick Strang
1997	Buried Alive II	Clint Goodman	also director
1998	Dead Man's Gun	Reverent Jeremiah Early
1998	Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Families	Adolf Althoff
1998	Forever Love	Alex Brooks
1998	The New Batman Adventures	Michael Vreeland
1998	Catch Me If You Can	Norm
1999	At the Mercy of a Stranger	John Davis
1999	In the Company of Spies		Director
1999–2006	The West Wing	Vice President John Hoynes	Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (2002–03)
2000	Navigating the Heart	John Daly
2000	Hell Swarm	Kirk Bluhdorn
2000	Sharing the Secret	John Moss
2000	Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis	John F. Kennedy
2001	Second Honeymoon	George
2001–02	Wolf Lake	Sheriff Matthew Donner
2002	Mom's on Strike	Alan Harris
2002	The King of Queens	Dr. Farber	Saeson 4, Episode 24: "Two Thirty"
2002	Breaking News	Bill Dunne
2003	Without a Trace	Dr. Aaron Morrison
2003	Ed	Peter Evashavik
2003	Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart	Andy Stewart
2003	The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay	Al Dodge
2004	Judas	Pontius Pilate
2004	Justice League Unlimited	Maxwell Lord	Voice
2006	The Prince	Soloman
2006	Augusta, Gone	Ben Dudman	also director
2007	The World According to Barnes
2007	Shark	Judge Andrew Bennett
2008	Entourage	Steve Parles
2008	To Love and Die	James White
2008	True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet		Director
2008–2013	Burn Notice	Larry Sizemore	Recurring role
2009	Batman: The Brave and the Bold	Jarvis Kord
2009	Body Politic	Senator Webster
2010	White Collar	Edward Walker	Season 2, Episode 1: "Withdrawal"
2011	Criminal Behavior		Director
2011–2015	Hart of Dixie	Dr. Bertram "Brick" Breeland	Recurring role episodes 1–14; regular role episodes 15-76
2012–2013	Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated	Brad Chiles	13 Episodes
2013	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Oliver Tate	2 Episodes

External links

• Tim Matheson at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Tim Matheson @ A.V. Club