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Pruitt Taylor Vince

Born 05/07/1960 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Pruitt Taylor Vince (born July 5, 1960) is an American character actor. He had roles in the films Mississippi Burning (1988), Jacob's Ladder (1990), JFK (1991), Identity (2003), and Constantine (2005). He played J.J. Laroche in The Mentalist (2008–2015).

Vince has also appeared on many television series. In 1997, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his guest role as Clifford Banks in the second season of the television series Murder One.

Vince was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on July 5, 1960. He attended Louisiana State University.

For most of his life, Vince has had a condition called nystagmus, the involuntary movement of the eye.

Vince made his film debut in Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law, but his scenes were edited out. He had prominent supporting roles in several major films, including a turn as a dimwitted Ku Klux Klan member in Mississippi Burning (1988), Lee Bowers in JFK (1991), and the main character's best friend in Nobody's Fool (1994). His first lead role was in James Mangold's independent film Heavy (1995), playing a sweet, silent, overweight cook harbouring a crush on a waitress played by Liv Tyler. He starred in Giuseppe Tornatore's film The Legend of 1900 (1998).

Vince often alternates between heroic and villainous characters. Vince played a Southern policeman in the neo-noir psychological horror film Angel Heart (1987), a kidnapper's assistant in the crime thriller film Trapped (2002), and a deputy prison warden in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (1994). He played a lovable, small-town pub owner in Beautiful Girls (1996); a mentally ill serial killer in the 2003 mystery thriller film Identity (a second collaboration with director Mangold); a pompous sheriff in Nurse Betty (2000); a gossip columnist in Simone (2002); and a dissolute Roman Catholic priest with psychic abilities in the 2005 supernatural horror film Constantine. He can also be seen in the dramatic film Love from Ground Zero (1998), playing as Walter. Other film titles include the psychological horror film Jacob's Ladder (1990), the neo-noir film China Moon (1994), the action thriller film Homefront (2013), and the supernatural horror film The Devil's Candy (2015).

Guest appearances on TV shows include Deadwood, Alias, The X-Files, Miami Vice, Quantum Leap, Chicago Hope, In the Heat of the Night, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Highlander: The Series, and the American remake of Touching Evil. In 2011, he appeared as Otis in the AMC television series The Walking Dead. He also had a guest role playing a 600-lb. patient in Fox's medical drama House. From 2010 to 2014, he had a multi-episode appearance in The Mentalist. In 2012, he appeared in a full episode of Justified. He took a comic role as "Jelly" in Flypaper. In 2018, he appeared on an episode of The Blacklist as Lawrence Devlin.

Vince received an Emmy Award in 1997 for Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role as serial killer Clifford Banks during the second season of the television series Murder One.

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Filmography (Movies)

Adventures in the Making of Superman

Character:Self

Release Date:11/08/2025

Superman

Character:Pa Kent

Release Date:09/07/2025

Crime Story

Character:Tommy

Release Date:13/08/2021

Bird Box

Character:Rick

Release Date:13/12/2018

ASIA A

Character:Noah

Release Date:31/07/2018

Gotti

Character:Angelo Ruggiero

Release Date:14/06/2018

59 Seconds

Character:Robert

Release Date:27/02/2018

The Devil's Candy

Character:Ray

Release Date:15/12/2016

13 Sins

Character:Vogler

Release Date:11/04/2014

Homefront

Character:Werks

Release Date:12/11/2013

The Grief Tourist

Character:Carl Marznap

Release Date:23/08/2013

Beautiful Creatures

Character:Mr. Lee

Release Date:13/02/2013

Butter

Character:Ned Eaten

Release Date:05/10/2012

Brake

Character:Driver / Boss Terrorist (voice)

Release Date:22/03/2012

Bending The Rules

Character:Happy

Release Date:09/03/2012

On the Inside

Character:Ben Marshal

Release Date:31/12/2011

Creature

Character:Grover

Release Date:09/09/2011

The Smell of Success

Character:Cleveland Clod

Release Date:19/08/2011

Flypaper

Character:Jelly

Release Date:19/08/2011

Drive Angry

Character:Roy

Release Date:24/02/2011

Mysterious Island

Character:Gideon Spilett

Release Date:03/11/2010

Leaves of Grass

Character:Big Joe Sharpe

Release Date:13/09/2009

Don McKay

Character:Mel

Release Date:24/04/2009

In the Electric Mist

Character:Lou Girard

Release Date:15/04/2009

The Echo

Character:Joseph

Release Date:25/05/2008

Captivity

Character:Ben Dexter

Release Date:01/03/2007

When A Man Falls In The Forest

Character:Travis Gilmore

Release Date:12/02/2007

Nobody Wants Your Film

Character:Self

Release Date:06/05/2005

Drop Dead Sexy

Character:Spider

Release Date:12/03/2005

Constantine

Character:Father Hennessy

Release Date:08/02/2005

Monster

Character:Gene / Stuttering "John"

Release Date:24/12/2003

L.A. Confidential

Character:Sid Hudgens

Release Date:01/09/2003

Identity

Character:Malcolm Rivers

Release Date:25/04/2003

Trapped

Character:Marvin

Release Date:20/09/2002

13 Moons

Character:Owen

Release Date:30/08/2002

S1m0ne

Character:Max Sayer

Release Date:23/08/2002

Nurse Betty

Character:Ballard

Release Date:30/08/2000

The Cell

Character:Dr. Reid

Release Date:18/08/2000

Mumford

Character:Henry Follett

Release Date:24/09/1999

The Legend of 1900

Character:Max Tooney

Release Date:28/10/1998

Love from Ground Zero

Character:Walter

Release Date:30/09/1998

Doctor Dolittle

Character:Patient at Hammersmith (uncredited)

Release Date:26/06/1998

Cold Around the Heart

Character:Johnny 'Cokebottles' Costello

Release Date:07/11/1997

The End of Violence

Character:Frank Cray

Release Date:12/09/1997

Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer

Character:Clifford Banks

Release Date:25/05/1997

A Further Gesture

Character:Scott

Release Date:01/01/1997

Beautiful Girls

Character:Stanley "Stinky" Womack

Release Date:09/02/1996

The Cottonwood

Character:Mark Salli

Release Date:01/01/1996

Heavy

Character:Victor Modino

Release Date:29/12/1995

Under the Hula Moon

Character:Bob

Release Date:01/12/1995

Nobody's Fool

Character:Rub Squeers

Release Date:23/12/1994

Natural Born Killers

Character:Deputy Warden Kavanaugh

Release Date:26/08/1994

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

Character:Bud

Release Date:10/06/1994

China Moon

Character:Daryl Jeeters

Release Date:04/03/1994

Till Death Us Do Part

Character:Michael Brockington

Release Date:18/02/1992

JFK

Character:Lee Bowers

Release Date:20/12/1991

Dead in the Water

Character:Lou Rescetti

Release Date:04/12/1991

Sweet Poison

Character:Coyle

Release Date:13/06/1991

Jacob's Ladder

Character:Paul

Release Date:02/11/1990

Wild at Heart

Character:Buddy

Release Date:17/08/1990

Come See the Paradise

Character:Augie Farrell

Release Date:17/08/1990

Fear

Character:Jay Anthony Lapedes ("Shadow Man")

Release Date:15/07/1990

Homer and Eddie

Character:Cashier

Release Date:17/08/1989

K-9

Character:Benny the Mule

Release Date:28/04/1989

Mississippi Burning

Character:Lester Cowens

Release Date:08/12/1988

Red Heat

Character:Night Clerk

Release Date:17/06/1988

Shy People

Character:Paul

Release Date:04/12/1987

Barfly

Character:Joe

Release Date:02/09/1987

Angel Heart

Character:Det. Deimos

Release Date:06/03/1987

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