Tim Matheson

Tim Matheson
Date of Birth: 31 Dec 1947
Country: USA
Biography: Tim Matheson (born Timothy Lewis Matthieson; December 31, 1947) is an American actor, director and producer. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the smooth-talking Eric 'Otter' Stratton in the 1978 comedy Animal House and has had a variety of other well-known roles, including providing the voice of the lead character in the cartoon TV program Jonny Quest...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 63 (Actor), 13 (Director)
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Van Wilder
A hilarious coming-of-age story about the burden of facing real life...and the freedom that comes from not taking it too seriously. (Artisan Entertainment)
Don\
Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there. The very idea seems like a ray of hope that his life wasn't all in vain. So he sets out to find that young man or woman. He discovers an entire life that he has missed ... (imdb)
Fletch
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, Los Angeles journalist, really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. Now, Fletch is at it again: In disguise as a bum, he lives at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is addressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favour... (IMDB)
Black Sheep
A gubernatorial candidate hires a wormy special assistant whose only job is to make sure the candidate's well-meaning but incompetent brother doesn't ruin the election. (imdb)
Animal House
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the Delta House Fraternity, but those roughhousers have other plans for him. (imdb)
1941
Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor. (imdb)
Drop Dead Fred
A young woman finds her already unstable life rocked by the presence of a rambunctious imaginary friend from childhood. (imdb)
Impulse
After a small earthquake in a small and quiet town, local citizens start to have a bizarre, violent and self-destructive behaviour... (imdb)
She\
A high school jock makes a bet that he can turn an unattractive girl into the school's prom queen. (imdb)
Buried Alive
Buried Alive (1990) - TV Movie
Clint is an every day working man whose wife Joanna is having an affair with a doctor. They plot to kill him and get the insurance money... (imdb)
To Be or Not to Be
A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when what should intrude but World War II in the form of an invasion... (imdb)
Buried Alive II
A woman inherits a fortune, causing her husband and his lover to plot her demise by poisoning her. The only trouble is it only places her in a deep coma that resembles death. (imdb)
Bay Cove
Bay Cove (1987) - TV Movie
A young newlywed couple move into a remote village in middle America only to find a secret coven of... (imdb)
Magnum Force
Dirty Harry is on the trail of vigilante cops who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city's undesirables. (imdb)
Speed Zone!
Our racers are back for a third time in Speed Zone, a continuation of cannonball run 1 and 2. It's the illegal race that takes place over the United States. Nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distress. Jackie Chan's car is not in this one, but many new cars make up for that. Who will win? Who will crash? Who will not even finish? Sit down and buckle up for the ride of your life. (imdb)
Redline
"Redline" is an auto/action thriller that features the personal exotic car collection of the producer, real estate investor Daniel Sadek. Sadek who is financing the $26 million movie used his own cars including a Phantom Rolls Royce, Lamborghini Murcielago, Enzo Ferrari, Ferrari F430, Ferrari Scaglietti and two Mercedes SLR McLarens. Sadek's $450,000 Porsche Carrera GT is actually crashed during one sequence. Eddie Griffin accidentally crashed and destroyed the Enzo Ferrari, one of only 400 ever produced. (imdb)
A Very Brady Sequel
A man claiming to be Carol Brady's long-lost first husband, Roy Martin, shows up at the suburban Brady residence one evening. An impostor, the man is actually determined to steal the Bradys' familiar horse statue, a $20-million ancient Asian artifact. (imdb)
Sometimes They Come Back
Based on a short story by Stephen King. A school teacher returning to the town he grew up in 30 years earlier is haunted by the ghosts of highschool thugs that were killed in a freak accident along with his brother. (imdb)
Sharing the Secret
A teenage girl who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends secretly binges and purges. (imdb)
Almost Summer
A high-school election gets nasty. (imdb)
Divorce American Style
After 17 years, things have got too predictable and stale. They argue, they visit a marriage counselor, Richard (drunk) visits a prostitute. They split up. After meeting other people, they are re-united at a night club where they realize that their marriage was better than their divorce. (imdb)
Solar Crisis
A multi-national journey to the sun in 2050 is in order when a sunspot threatens the earth's weather patterns, and thus the survival of the planet. (TCM.com)
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
Amos and Theodore the two bumbling outlaw wannabees from The Apple Dumpling Gang are back. They are trying to make it on their own. When they arrive at the town they are going to, all sorts of things go awry. They accidentally subdue the town's legendary lawman, Wooly Bill Hitchcock thus enraging him into tracking them down. They also are accused of bank robbery. And they "enlist" in the army, and burn down the fort. Amid all this the army is beseiged by someone stealing their supplies. (imdb)
The Longest Drive
Two brothers search the west for their sister, who was kidnapped as a child and is now living with a tribe of Indians. (imdb)
Up the Creek
Bob McGraw is in his 12th year of college, goofing his way through life. Bob, Irwing, Gonzer and Max are the four losers forced and bribed to represent their university in an intercollegiate raft race. Forced and bribed into this role, they make some friends, the lovely Heather Merriweather, but mostly enemies, among others a whole team of marines, and preppy IVY-leaguers determined to win. (imdb)
A Holiday for Love
A man goes incognito to his hometown in Georgia to decide what people to lay off at a local factory. Needless to say, complications ensue.
Lock, Stock and Barrel
A young frontier couple elope, are chased by the girl's father and brothers, join up with an escaped convict and get mixed up with a charlatan preacher. (imdb)
The Last Day
The Last Day (1975) - TV Movie
A retired gunman is forced to take up his weapons again when an outlaw gang robs the town banks. (imdb)
The Runaway Barge
Three bargemen on the Mississippi River find themselves mixed up in a kidnapping and hijacking plot. (imdb)
Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart
Made-for-TV biopic that follows the home and garden guru's tumultuous career, from the building of an enormously successful company and television show to the insider trading scandal that threatened to bring it all crumbling down. (Amazon.com)
A Little Sex
A Little Sex....a lot of laughs! (imdb)
The Quest
The Quest (1976) - TV Movie
Two brothers search the west for their sister, who was kidnapped as a child and is now living with a tribe of Indians. (imdb)
Dreamer
Tim Matheson is Dreamer in this Rocky-like inspirational drama. Instead of boxing, the sport in question is bowling. "Dreamer" is a ten-pin whiz in his small town, but can he make it in the Big Time? In his favor, he has the help of irascible manager Jack Warden and faithful girlfriend Susan Blakeley. As if to boldly underline the resemblances between Dreamer and its cinematic role model, the musical score is by Rocky's Bill Conti. (allrovi.com)
Forever Love
Forever Love (1998) - TV Movie
Forever Love is a television movie about a woman who awakens from a 20-year-long coma and begins her life all over again. In the drama, Lizzie and Alex Brooks are a fairy tale young couple, and the parents of a little girl, Emma. Then, without warning, 24-year-old Lizzie suffers a stoke. Doctors tell Alex that his wife has slipped into a deep coma and there is nothing to do but wait to see if she comes out of it. Alex decides to bring her home and take care of her. (imdb)
An Unfinished Affair
Art professor Alex had an affair with student Sheila because he thought he lost his wife to cancer. But then his wife goes into complete remission, and he dumps Sheila. However, Sheila won't take no for an answer, and she plots revenge against this man. (imdb)
The Woman Who Sinned
A bored woman enviously watches her neighbour carry on a series of affairs, and finally embarks on a clandestine relationship herself, but unfortunately it leads to murder.
Going Underground
Behind the facade of a perfect suburban life lies a secret and insufferable nightmare: a woman and her children are subjected to their father's unpredictable temper and violent outbursts. Fearing for their safety and perhaps their lives, the frightened mother and her children make their daring escape, assuming new identities and going underground to hide from their tormentor. However, the family's refuge from danger is only temporary...in order to be truly free from fear, they must bravely come
Sleeping with the Devil
Moving Drama about a women recovering from a domestic violence relationship, only her former partner still wants her - even if it means killing her.
The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay
Alison Dodge, a 17-year old raised by her mother, decides on her own to spend her last summer before college getting to know her father Al, who wasn't at all waiting for another eternally yapping, meddling, domestic girl in his quiet, supporting life in Arizona backwater Moonlight Bay, by a lake. After a rocky start, she stays and both are faced with each-other and themselves.
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
From her childhood in a privileged but broken home, to her courtship and often lonely marriage to Jack Kennedy, Jackie is revealed as a strong, intelligent and sometimes heartbroken woman, even as she captures the hearts and imaginations of an entire nation. The film follows her through the White House years, and her life after JFK's assassination. (amazon.com)
Bonanza
Bonanza (1959) - TV Series
The adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community. (imdb)
Space Ghost
Space Ghost (1966) - TV Series
The adventures of a space superhero who can become invisible and his sidekicks. (imdb)
Judas
Judas (2004) - TV Movie
Judas meets Jesus and at first doesn't know what to make of him or whether or not to trust him. Ultimately, Judas is convinced that Jesus needs to use his popularity and wonder-working powers to free the Jews from the Romans, and Jesus sees a larger, spritual perspective.
Wolf Lake
Wolf Lake (2001) - TV Series
Set in the Pacific Northwest, this suspense thriller explores what happens when werewolves overtake a small Seattle suburb.
Hart of Dixie
Hart of Dixie (2011) - TV Series
Insight
6 Balloons
A woman learns that her brother has relapsed on heroin. (imdb)
The Etruscan Smile
Relative newcomers Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis are directing from a script by Michael McGowan, Sarah Bellwood and Michal Lali Kagan. The story follows tough old Scotsman Rory MacNeil as he travels from his home in the remote island of Vallasay, Scotland to San Francisco. Seeking treatment for a terminal illness the colorful character stays with his son and his family. (imdb)
Navigating the Heart
An unlikely romance between a cosmopolitan career woman and a small town fisherman. (imdb)
The House of God
Follows a group of interns in a large teaching hospital. When Jo, Chief Resident, has a breakdown the interns are reluctantly placed under the tutelage of the senior resident known as The Fatman.
The Best Legs in the Eighth Grade
Man reconsiders his life after a chance meeting with a childhood acquaintance. (imdb)
Child\
A mother gives her son a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature. (imdb)
Last chance for Christmas
Santa's stockman has to find a replacement for an injured reindeer. When he locates one, complications and love ensue.
Bus Stop
Bus Stop (1982) - TV Movie
The story is set in a diner in rural Kansas, about 25 miles west of Kansas City, Missouri during a snowstorm from which bus passengers must take shelter. (imdb)
Buried Secrets
When Annalisse and her mother move into a new house she starts seeing a girl her age. She later finds that the girl is dead and she sets out to find out what happened to her. (imdb)
Virgin River
Virgin River (2019) - TV Series
After seeing an ad for a midwife, a recently widowed big-city nurse moves to the redwood forests of northern California, where she meets an intriguing man.
Evil
Killing Reagan
A look at John Hinkley's 1981 assassination attempt against U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
joshua\
10-year-old Joshua's father has a new girlfriend every 5-8 months. Joshua finds out how a mother's love feels when he meets Claudia, his father's 9th girlfriend. This relationship also ends after a few months, but Joshua's affection for her doesn't. Could she adopt him?
Quantum Leap
Kung Fu
Kung Fu (1972) - TV Series
A Kiss to Die For
William, a Harvard psychology professor is having trouble dealing with life after the death of his wife when he meets a beautiful woman named Ali. As their relationship grows, he begins to question her secretive past, which he discovers is linked to a series of murders that the police are investigating. (imdb)