Acting
Tim Choate
EN cinema · 24 credits
Born
11 October 1954
Died
24 September 2004 (aged 49)
Birthplace
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
Tim Choate (October 11, 1954 – September 24, 2004) was an American actor born in Dallas, Texas. He studied at the University of Texas at Austin and Cornell University and worked extensively in theater, appearing on Broadway in Da and Crimes of the Heart and with the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival. On screen he appeared in the Merchant Ivory films The Europeans, Jane Austen in Manhattan and Jefferson in Paris, as well as Times Square, Blow Out, Ghost Story, Def-Con 4, Soapdish and Pearl Harbor. On television he was best known as Zathras on Babylon 5, and he had a recurring role on Newhart. He died in a motorcycle accident in Los Angeles.
Known for
Filmography
Hungry Hearts
as Butterfly Collector
Pearl Harbor
as Navy Doctor
Live Nude Girls
as Jerome
Jefferson in Paris
as Reporter
Girl in the Cadillac
as Motel owner
White Mile
as Young Man
Gunsmoke: The Long Ride
as Sheriff Bart Meriweather
Soapdish
as AD
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
as 'Bad Boy' Jon Wilson
Blind Witness
as Remy
CreepTales
as Uncle Munger (segment "Wraparound")
Spy
as David Tiomchin
My Father, My Son
as Harvey
Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall
as Phil Leeds
DEFCON-4
as Howe
The First Time
as Charlie Lichtenstein
Ghost Story
as Young Ricky Hawthorne
Blow Out
as Sailor
Times Square
as Eastman
The Europeans
as Clifford