Tobin Bell
Birthday: 1942-08-07
Place of Birth: Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Joseph Henry Tobin Jr. (born August 7, 1942), known professionally as Tobin Bell, is an American actor and producer. He has appeared in a number of television shows and films, but is most recognized for his role as John Kramer / Jigsaw in the Saw films franchise, which has earned him five award nominations and two wins. An American film and television character actor. After years of work doing stand-ins and background work on films, he got his first major acting job in Mississippi Burning (1988) and went on to star in made-for-television films and guest star in television shows throughout the 1990s. Bell is best known as the villain John "Jigsaw" Kramer of the Saw film series. He provided his voice in two video games based on the films, Saw and its sequel, Saw II: Flesh & Blood, in which he also provided his likeness.
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Saw
Two men wake up to find themselves shackled in a grimy, abandoned bathroom. As they struggle to comp...
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Saw II
The chilling and relentless Jigsaw killer returns to terrorize the city once again. When a gruesome ...
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Saw III
Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, in...
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Saw IV
Despite Jigsaw's death, and in order to save the lives of two of his colleagues, Lieutenant Rigg is ...
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Mississippi Burning
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the co...
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Malice
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's...
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07 Spaceys
Canada's only sci-fi and fantasy television awards show. SPACE's annual celebration of genre enterta...
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ReBroken
After a father is given recordings from a mysterious stranger, he starts to receive communications f...
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Saw VI
Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jig...
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Boiling Point
Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and n...
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Saw V
Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Detective Mark Hoffman is commended as a hero, but Agent Strahm is...
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Loose Cannons
Mac, the two-fisted, savvy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burnout, to...
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The Quick and the Dead
A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by ...
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In the Line of Fire
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kenned...
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The Cello
An aspiring cellist learns the cost of his brand-new cello is a lot more insidious than he first tho...
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The Verdict
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a form...
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Saw 3D
As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek th...
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Best of the Best 4: Without Warning
A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are n...
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Wolf Mountain
Aj and his brother revisit the spot where their parents were killed. But legend has it there is some...
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Boogeyman 2
A young woman attempts to cure her phobia of the boogeyman by checking herself into a mental health ...
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The Firm
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approa...
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The Curse of the Clown Motel
When Alma returns home to help her family get their Native American heritage recognized, all she fin...
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Decoys 2: Alien Seduction
Sam, a college student in a small Northwestern town, reluctantly joins his roommates in a contest to...
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Buried Alive
A college prank at an abandoned house accidentally awakens a frightening spirit....
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Black Mask 2: City of Masks
The Black Mask must stop a group intent on setting off a DNA bomb that could cause mutations to the ...
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The 4th Floor
A woman inherits a rent-controlled apartment and is terrorized by a neighbor....
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Serial Killer
As a member of FBI Psychological Profile Unit, Selby Younger tracks Morrano, vicious and intelligent...
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The Babysitter's Seduction
The mother of the family for which Michelle baby-sits dies unexpectedly. Michelle is asked to take o...
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Ruby
Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they...
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Deep Red
After a young girl is accidently infected with an alien substance known as "Deep Red", the astonishi...
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Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story
Story of attractive cop Laurencia Bembenek, who, in 1982, was sentenced to prison for killing her hu...
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Manhattan
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further ...
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Sophie's Choice
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes fr...
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Full Disclosure Report
A faux documentary set in the world of 'Saw' that sees reporters investigate the mysterious case aro...
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Mortal Fear
Based on the provocative best-selling novel, a brilliant scientist finds the hidden link that can sa...
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Dead Man's Revenge
Bitter and vengeful fugitive Luck Hatcher, dignified former slave turned bounty hunter Jessup Bush, ...
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Cheyenne
After she's caught sleeping with the ranch hand, Cheyenne (Bobbie Phillips) shoots her good-for-noth...
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Hacking Away at Saw
Cary Elwes (Dr Gordon), writer/actor Leigh Whannell, director James Wan, Tobin Bell (Jigsaw) and the...
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Dark House
A young man sets out on a trip that takes him to an abandoned mansion that holds the origins of his ...
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Game of Power
Newspaper journalist Louis Ranaldi finds himself questioning the circumstances involving the sale of...
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Ghostkiller
Accused murderer Kyle Ghostkiller, heir to a mystical medicine bundle, escapes the FBI and time jump...
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Mouth to Mouth
A scrawny nerd from the Midwest accidentally lands the head lifeguard job at the hottest country clu...
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GoodFellas
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...
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Brown's Requiem
Fritz Brown is an ex-LAPD, recovering alcoholic who now splits his time repossessing cars for a used...
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Finders Keepers
A haunted doll teaches one little girl why children shouldn't play with undead things....
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Phantom Halo
Two brothers barely scrape by as their father continues to gamble and drink away the money they do b...
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Power Play
An investigative reporter links the deaths of three people to a high profile corporation, while scie...
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Manson Family Vacation
The story of two brothers: one who’s devoted to his family, the other who’s obsessed with the Manson...
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Sleep No More
Two brothers barely scrape by as their father continues to gamble and drink away the money they do b...
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Saw X
Between the events of 'Saw' and 'Saw II', a sick and desperate John Kramer travels to Mexico for a r...
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Tootsie
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Micha...
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Belzebuth
While leading a police investigation of a massacre in a public school at the border of Mexico and U....
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Unbelief
Two men meet in a park. It's Christmas Eve. Kane is an assassin, on his way to do a job that means m...
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Rainbow Time
Todd grew up under the strange shadow of his older mentally challenged brother Shonzi. As kids, Shon...
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Making of Saw III
Actors and directors of the film "Saw III" talk about the process of making the film....
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The Road to El Dorado
Stowing away after a failed con, a pair of swindlers end up on El Dorado, the fabled "city of gold",...
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One Hot Summer Night
When a wealthy businessman is murdered by a hired assassin, suspicion falls on the victim's abused w...
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Jigsaw
Law enforcement finds itself chasing the ghost of a man dead for over a decade, embroiled in a diabo...
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My Pretty Pony
The story follows an elderly man on his deathbed who gives his young grandson a pocket watch and war...
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Unabomber: The True Story
The real story behind the hunt for Theodore J. Kaczynski, later known as the Unabomber, a terrorist ...
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12 Feet Deep
Two sisters are trapped under the fiberglass cover of an Olympic sized public pool and must brave th...
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Perfect Witness
An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob kill...
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The Sandman
A monster from a little girl's nightmares comes to life and attacks anyone who would harm her....
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Tales of Ordinary Madness
Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A....
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Gates of Darkness
A teen endures a terrifying exorcism in the hopes of unlocking shocking secrets about the church and...
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False Identity
When Rachel, a radio personality, discovers a Purple Heart at a garage sale she decides to find out ...
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A Father's Legacy
On the run and bleeding a young man ends up at a pond house where he meets an old man (Tobin Bell) a...
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The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It
Cassie, a 13 year old Gothic girl, is trying to fit in at her new school. To entertain herself, she ...
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The Way We Weren't
Charlotte and Brandon meet online just after their previous relationships have imploded; in an effor...
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Devil Music
"61: Highway to Hell" tells the story of Richter Scale, a talentless LA based rock band desperate fo...
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Let Us In
A 12 year old girl is determined to uncover who or what is behind the rash of disappearances occurri...
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Boogeyman 3
When a college student witnesses the alleged suicide of her roommate, it sets into motion a series o...
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Svengali
An old singer coaches a young woman whom he believes will be the next singing sensation. As she star...
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Altered Reality
Oliver's life transforms with an alien-marked miracle drug, riches, family woes, and a vanished daug...
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Ice Cream in the Cupboard
After being physically attacked by his loving wife Carmen, a series of unsettling incidents lead her...
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Game Changer: The Legacy of Saw
Generations of movie fans have thrilled to Saw's blood-curdling story of a serial killer who traps h...
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Overnight Delivery
A man suspects his girlfriend of being unfaithful, so he sends her a letter, but then finds out that...
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An Innocent Man
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wr...
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New Eden
Prisoners are dumped on a sand planet dubbed Earth 21-523 where most are immediately killed by the s...
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The Call
In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister ...
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Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman
Based on Aileen Wuornos’s early life, this is the true story of America’s most notorious female ser...
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The Bunker
When mysterious alien ships appear in the sky, a scientist is sealed in an underground bunker and mu...
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I Speak for the Dead: The Legacy of Jigsaw
This feature-length documentary on the eighth installment of the Saw franchise delves into some of t...
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The Alex Leyba Movie II
Alex Leyba, a passionate but struggling young filmmaker, finds himself homeless and trying to reconc...
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Reawakening : The Making of Saw X
A making-of documentary chronicling the production of the 10th installment of the long-running horro...
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