Tim Mathesonthe actor who played Rebecca’s dad Dave Malone in This is ushas a long career and profitable career behind between TV series and cinemablossomed now 60 years ago in 1961 with his first role in “Window on Main Street”. But let’s find out where you might have already seen it!
The tv series Bonanza brought him to the first popularity (1972-1973)
Bonanza is a western genre television series that aired for 14 seasons. Tim Matheson arrives in the show’s final season to play Griff King. The role gave Tim Matheson the general public. A curiosity the favorite TV series of Uncle Nicky (Griffin Dunne) in This is us it is right Bonanza, he says at a meeting between Kevin and his agents. Will it be just a coincidence or is it a praise for the colleague of the set?
The film “A 44 Magnum for Inspector Callaghan” (1973)
After participating in BonanzaMatheson landed a big role in the cinema of the crime film “A 44 Magnum for Inspector Callaghan” from 1973. Tim Matheson plays Officer Phil Sweet, a rookie cop who meets the protagonist Callahan while practicing at a shooting range of indoor shooting.
In the TV series West Wing – All the President’s Men plays John Hoynes (1999-2006)
Tim Matheson in West Wing interprets John Hoynes, the Vice President of the United States of America, later a candidate in the Democratic Party primaries for all 7 seasons of the show. The show is set in the West Wing of the White House where the President of the United States of America and his staff work, and where the famous Oval Office is located. It recounts the daily problems, the difficult public and private decisions of Democratic President Josiah “Jed” Bartlet (Martin Sheen) and his staff, from the campaign for his first election to the swearing in of his successor, eight years later.
Join the show Hart of Dixie with Rachel Bilson and directs 8 episodes (2011-2015)
The character played by Tim Matheson in Hart of Dixie as Dr. Bertram “Brick” Breeland, physician partner for half of Harley Wilkes’ clinic. She finds herself having to share the clinic with the protagonist Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson). Brick is a typical southern man who tries to put a spanner in the works of Zoe’s business in order to buy her half of her clinic. He is often highly critical of Zoe’s medical diagnoses and due to his ignorance of Southern traditions, his wife abandoned him 12 years earlier, and has since raised daughters Lemon (Jaime King) and Magnolia (Claudia Lee) alone.
Tim is President Ronald Reagan in the TV movie Killing Reagan (2016)
In Killing Reagan Matheson plays the future president of the United States, who suffers an assassination attempt. The film tells the story of him and his wife future first lady Nancy played by Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City and And Just like That…).
Since 2019 he has played Dave Malone in the NBC TV series This is us
In This is us Tim Matheson lends his face to Dave Malone, Rebecca’s father, in some episodes from 2019. Malone is a middle-class man who immediately clashes with his future son-in-law Jack, of humbler extraction, because he doesn’t believe him enough for the young girl daughter.
Since 2019 he plays Doc Mullins in Virgin River
Tim Matheson’s most recent role is that of Vernon “Doc” Mullins, the general practitioner of the town of Virgin River, from which the show takes its name, a romantic drama TV series starring Alexandra Breckeridge (Sophie in This is us) as Melinda Monroe. The fourth season arrived on Netflix on July 20th.
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