
Acting · 75 years old
Laramie, Wyoming, USA
James Norman Beaver Jr. (born August 12, 1950) is an American actor, writer, and film historian. He portrayed Bobby Singer in Supernatural. He also played Whitney Ellsworth on the HBO Western drama series Deadwood, which brought him acclaim and a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for Ensemble Acting, Sheriff Shelby Parlow on the FX series Justified, and Robert "Dakota Bob" Singer on the Amazon Prime Video series The Boys. His memoir Life's That Way was published in April 2009.

The Lyon's Den
Hank Ferris

Breaking Bad
Lawson

Better Call Saul
Lawson

The Boys
Secretary of Defense Robert A. Singer

The X-Files
Coroner

Supernatural
Bobby Singer

The Mentalist
Cobb Holwell

Criminal Minds
Sheriff Williams

The West Wing
Carl

Dexter
Hannah’s father

Bones
George Gibbons

Six Feet Under
Prison Officer

Deadwood
Whitney Ellsworth

Young Sheldon
Kenneth

Justified
Shelby Parlow

Justified
Drew Thompson

Justified
Shelby Parlow / Drew Thompson

That '70s Show
Tony

Psych
Pete Dillingham

Monk
Sheriff Ronald Mathis