Jim Beaver

Jim Beaver

Actor-playwright-film historian. Best known as an actor for starring roles on DEADWOOD, JUSTIFIED, SUPERNATURAL, HARPER'S ISLAND and in films such as CRIMSON PEAK, SISTER ACT, ADAPTATION., MAGNOLIA, and THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE. Award-winning playwright, twice finalist in Actors Theatre of Louisville's Great American Play Contest, the L. Arnold Weissberger competition, and multiple awards from Los...
Actor-playwright-film historian. Best known as an actor for starring roles on DEADWOOD, JUSTIFIED, SUPERNATURAL, HARPER'S ISLAND and in films such as CRIMSON PEAK, SISTER ACT, ADAPTATION., MAGNOLIA, and THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE. Award-winning playwright, twice finalist in Actors Theatre of Louisville's Great American Play Contest, the L. Arnold Weissberger competition, and multiple awards from Los Angeles Dramalogue Critics Association. Author of numerous plays, teleplays, and film scripts, as well as the books JOHN GARFIELD: HIS LIFE AND FILMS, MOVIE BLOCKBUSTERS, and LIFE'S THAT WAY: A MEMOIR. Currently at work on a biography of TV Superman George Reeves.

Plays

  • Verdigris by Jim Beaver
    Cast: 
    11
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: disabled persons, co-dependence
    Genre: comedy, drama, period, tragedy
    Keyword: disabled persons, co-dependence
    A college student takes a job assisting a paraplegic woman who is fighting to stay in her home. He discovers that this "helpless" woman spins the lives of everyone around her like an Oklahoma tornado.
  • The Ox-Bow Incident by Jim Beaver
    Cast: 
    29–32
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    Genre: adaptation, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: lynching, vigilante + 3 more
    Genre: adaptation, drama, period, tragedy
    Keyword: lynching, vigilante, capital punishment, the West, law
    When a popular rancher is reported murdered, the men who knew him ride out to avenge his death. The men they catch may not be the men who committed the crime...if there was a crime. From the novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.
  • Sidekick by Jim Beaver
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: Western, cowboys + 1 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: Western, cowboys, old western movies
    An old veteran of B-Western movies tells stories about his adventures to an audience at a Western film-fan convention.
  • Lettering by Jim Beaver
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: football, Texas + 1 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: football, Texas, friendship
    A man tells a reporter the story of how he came to be where he is, and how an episode of high-school hi-jinks led to tragedy.
  • Spades by Jim Beaver
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: vietnam, war + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: vietnam, war, anti-war
    Two bored Marines pass the time in a Vietnam morgue playing cards and crossword puzzles when suddenly one of the newly-arrived corpses turns out not to be dead.
  • Semper Fi by Jim Beaver
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: U.S. Marines, war + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: U.S. Marines, war, vietnam
    A Marine drill instructor takes a platoon of recruits through 12 weeks of basic training in 30 minutes.
  • Whigs, Pigs, and Greyhounds by Jim Beaver
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Two Japanese tourists are lost in an American city, unable to speak English, with no one to help them but a deranged homeless man.
  • The American Way by Jim Beaver
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, political
    Genre: comedy, political
    Two cleaning women are mopping up a gay bathhouse in New York on the morning of the big Bicentennial celebration when a young man rushes in, desperate to find something he lost the night before, but unable to communicate in English.
  • Night Riders by Jim Beaver
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: grief, dying + 1 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: grief, dying, family
    Two brothers drive across open Texas prairie, trying to figure out the right way to grieve.
  • Mockingbird by Jim Beaver
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    A character actor on location in a small town brings a local waitress back to his hotel room. What he discovers there is nothing at all like what he'd expected.
  • Pressing Engagements by Jim Beaver
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    A young New York City street mime, desperate to convince her ex-boyfriend that she's engaged to someone, tries to get a tourist to help out by pretending to be her fiance. The only problem is, he doesn't speak English.
  • Truth, Justice, and the Texican Way by Jim Beaver
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: police violence, racial discrimination + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, political, satire
    Keyword: police violence, racial discrimination, justice system
    A young Latino male is hauled before a kangaroo court of rodeo clowns on a charge of unauthorized driving through a white neighborhood while Mexican.
  • As You Like It, or Anything You Want To, Also Known as Rotterdam and Parmesan Are Dead by Jim Beaver
    Cast: 
    4–6
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    Genre: comedy, farce
    Genre: comedy, farce
    Shakespearean spoof
  • Once Upon a Single Bound by Jim Beaver
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    A newspaper reporter interviews a derelict who claims to be Clark Kent.
  • The Cop and the Anthem by Jim Beaver
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 2 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, holiday, period
    Two layabouts try to figure a way to get thrown into jail in order to have a warm place to spend the winter. Adapted from the short story by O. Henry.