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. Bell’s portrayal of Jigsaw has earned him five award nominations and two wins.
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Tobin Bell Biography / Wiki
Name | Tobin Bell |
Also Know | Joseph H. Tobin, Jr., Тобин Белл, í† ë¹ˆ 벨 |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Queens, New York City, New York, USA |
Date of Birth | August 07, 1942 |
Age(as in 2023) | 80 |
Deathday |
Tobin Bell Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Saw III | John Kramer / Jigsaw | 2006-10-27 | Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and … |
Saw II | John Kramer / Jigsaw | 2005-10-28 | When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw’s hand, Detective Eric Matthews begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw … |
Saw IV | John Kramer / Jigsaw | 2007-10-25 | Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry’s murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, a… |
Saw VI | John Kramer / Jigsaw | 2009-10-16 | Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw’s legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer t… |
Saw V | John Kramer / Jigsaw | 2008-10-23 | Detective Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy. But when his secret is threatened, he must go on the hunt to elimi… |
Saw 3D | John Kramer / Jigsaw | 2010-10-21 | (AKA- Saw: The Final Chapter) As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw’s brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-h… |
Serial Killer | William Lucian Morrano | 1995-10-05 | As a member of FBI Psychological Profile Unit, Selby Younger tracks Morrano, vicious and intelligent serial killer. Before getting caught, Morrano att… |
Dark House | Seth | 2014-03-14 | A young man sets out on a trip that takes him to an abandoned mansion that holds the origins of his dark family legacy…. |
Starz Inside – Unforgettably Evil | Self | 2009-07-26 | Documentary about evil heroes… |
Unbelief | Frank | 2015-04-11 | Two men meet in a park. It’s Christmas Eve. Kane is an assassin, on his way to do a job that means more to him than the usual killings he is paid to d… |
My Pretty Pony | George Banning | 2017-12-31 | The story follows an elderly man on his deathbed who gives his young grandson a pocket watch and warns the boy against the dangers of letting time sli… |
A Father’s Legacy | Billy Ford | 2021-06-17 | On the run and bleeding a young man ends up at a pond house where he meets an old man (Tobin Bell) and holds him hostage in his own home. As the days … |
The Way We Weren’t | Jerry | 2019-02-12 | Since meeting online, Charlotte and Brandon have fudged, re-imagined, and outright lied about their pasts in an attempt to be each other’s perfect mat… |
Awaken | Cooper Mason | Oliver unwittingly makes a deal with the devil. Disrupting time rewards him with fame and fortune. The unintended loss of his daughter wasn’t suppos… | |
Saw X | John Kramer / Jigsaw | 2023-10-25 | The tenth installment in the “Saw” franchise. Plot TBA…. |
Black Mask 2: City of Masks | Moloch | 2002-12-24 | The Black Mask must stop a group intent on setting off a DNA bomb that could cause mutations to the human race…. |
Belzebuth | Padre Vasilio Canetti | 2019-01-11 | While leading a police investigation of a massacre in a public school at the border of Mexico and U.S.A, special Agent Emanuel Ritter links this stran… |
One Hot Summer Night | Vincent “Coupe” De Ville | 1998-03-12 | When a wealthy businessman is murdered by a hired assassin, suspicion falls on the victim’s abused wife and her lover…. |
Jigsaw | John Kramer / Jigsaw | 2017-10-26 | Dead bodies begin to turn up all over the city, each meeting their demise in a variety of grisly ways. All investigations begin to point the finger at… |
The Sandman | Valentine | 2017-10-14 | A monster from a little girl’s nightmares comes to life and attacks anyone who would harm her…. |
Gates of Darkness | Monsignor Canell | 2019-10-01 | A teen endures a terrifying exorcism in the hopes of unlocking shocking secrets about the church and his family…. |
The Call | Edward Cranston | 2020-10-23 | In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident occurs. Needing onl… |
Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman | Lewis Fell | 2021-09-20 | Based on Aileen Wuornos’s early life, this Is the true story of America’s most notorious female serial killer, who went on a killing spree in Flo… |
The Cello | An aspiring cellist learns the cost of his brand-new cello is a lot more insidious than he first thought…. | ||
Best of the Best 4: Without Warning | Lukasz Slava | 1998-10-10 | A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with conterfeit bills. When… |
Decoys 2: Alien Seduction | Professor Erwin Buckton | 2007-03-06 | Sam, a college student in a small Northwestern town, reluctantly joins his roommates in a contest to see who can hook up with the most gorgeous co-eds… |
Ruby | David Ferrie | 1992-03-27 | Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K…. |
Finders Keepers | Dr. Freeman | 2014-10-18 | A haunted doll teaches one little girl why children shouldn’t play with undead things…. |
Power Play | Clemens | 2002-02-01 | An investigative reporter links the deaths of three people to a high profile corporation, while scientists working on their privately funded research … |
Manson Family Vacation | Blackbird | 2015-10-06 | The story of two brothers: one who’s devoted to his family, the other who’s obsessed with the Manson Family…. |
Good Neighbor | Geoffrey Martin | 2001-01-01 | A young woman suspects the new neighbor is a serial killer…. |
Unabomber: The True Story | Theodore Kaczynski | 1996-09-11 | The real story behind the hunt for Theodore J. Kaczynski, later known as the Unabomber, a terrorist who sent several bombs through the mail, alarming … |
False Identity | Marshall Errickson | 1990-06-08 | When Rachel, a radio personality, discovers a Purple Heart at a garage sale she decides to find out its history. She finds that the medal belonged to … |
Ice Cream in the Cupboard | Pop | 2019-08-14 | After being physically attacked by his loving wife Carmen, a series of unsettling incidents lead her husband Pat to question just what is happening to… |
New Eden | Ares | 1994-11-28 | Prisoners are dumped on a sand planet dubbed Earth 21-523 where most are immediately killed by the sand people and the remainder struggle for existenc… |
The Bunker | When mysterious alien ships appear in the sky, a scientist is sealed in an underground bunker and must create a bio-weapon to stop the unknown visitor… | ||
I Speak for the Dead: The Legacy of Saw | 2018-01-23 | Feature-length documentary about the making of Jigsaw (2017). Found on the Jigsaw (2017) blu-ray special features…. | |
Buried Alive | Lester | 2007-02-07 | A college prank at an abandoned house accidentally awakens a frightening spirit…. |
The 4th Floor | The Locksmith | 1999-07-31 | A woman inherits a rent-controlled apartment and is terrorized by a neighbor…. |
The Babysitter’s Seduction | Det. Frank O’Keefe | 1996-01-22 | The mother of the family for which Michelle baby-sits dies unexpectedly. Michelle is asked to take over looking after the children and is gradually “s… |
Mortal Fear | Dr. Alvin Hayes | 1994-11-20 | Based on the provocative best-selling novel, a brilliant scientist finds the hidden link that can save countless lives, but when a crazed killer uses … |
Rainbow Time | Peter | 2016-03-14 | Todd grew up under the strange shadow of his older mentally challenged brother Shonzi. As kids, Shonzi forced Todd to make action movies. As adults he… |
12 Feet Deep | McGradey | 2017-06-20 | Two sisters are trapped under the fiberglass cover of an Olympic sized public pool and must brave the cold and each other to survive the harrowing nig… |
07 Spaceys | 2007-01-01 | Canada’s only sci-fi and fantasy television awards show. SPACE’s annual celebration of genre entertainment. In a sea of boring television award shows,… | |
ReBroken | Von | 2023-03-07 | A devastated father receives recordings from a mysterious stranger that allow him to communicate with his recently deceased daughter…. |
The Quick and the Dead | Dog Kelly | 1995-02-09 | A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman…. |
Deep Red | Warren Rickman | 1994-03-12 | After a young girl is accidently infected with an alien substance known as “Deep Red”, the astonishing results attract the attention of the illustriou… |
Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story | 1992-05-18 | Story of attractive cop Laurencia Bembenek, who, in 1982, was sentenced to prison for killing her husband’s ex-wife in Milwaukee, WI…. | |
Phantom Halo | Smashmouth | 2014-10-24 | Two brothers barely scrape by as their father continues to gamble and drink away the money they do bring home. They hatch a plan for a robbery but at … |
Devil Music | 2019-07-30 | “61: Highway to Hell” tells the story of Richter Scale, a talentless LA based rock band desperate for fame and fortune. They are on the verge of break… | |
Game Changer: The Legacy of Saw | Himself | 2015-10-14 | Generations of movie fans have thrilled to Saw’s blood-curdling story of a serial killer who traps his victims in a sadistic game of survival. Game Ch… |
Overnight Delivery | John Dwayne Beezly | 1998-04-07 | A man suspects his girlfriend of being unfaithful. So he sends her a letter, but than finds out that he was wrong. He has 24 hours to stop the package… |
Dead Man’s Revenge | Bullock | 1994-04-15 | Bitter and vengeful fugitive Luck Hatcher, dignified former slave turned bounty hunter Jessup Bush, and wily deputy U.S. Marshal Bodine all converge i… |
Let Us In | Mr. Munch | 2021-07-02 | A 12 year old girl is determined to uncover who or what is behind the rash of disappearances occurring in her small town…. |
Cheyenne | Marshall Toynbee | 1996-10-15 | After she’s caught sleeping with the ranch hand, Cheyenne (Bobbie Phillips) shoots her good-for-nothing husband and takes off with his money. Her hubb… |
Boogeyman 2 | Dr. Mitchell Allen | 2007-10-20 | A young woman attempts to cure her phobia of the boogeyman by checking herself into a mental health facility, only to realize too late that she is now… |
The Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It | The Stranger | 2007-09-04 | Cassie, a 13 year old Gothic girl, is trying to fit in at her new school. To entertain herself, she plays a series of pranks on the popular kids and h… |
The Road to El Dorado | Zaragoza (voice) | 2000-03-31 | After a failed swindle, two con-men end up with a map to El Dorado, the fabled “city of gold,” and an unintended trip to the New World. Much to their… |
Malice | Earl Leemus | 1993-09-29 | A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy’s a college professor. Things are never the same af… |
Brown’s Requiem | Stan the Man | 1998-11-01 | Fritz Brown is an ex-LAPD, recovering alcoholic who now splits his time repossessing cars for a used car lot and staffing his one-man private detectiv… |
Saw | John Kramer / Jigsaw | 2004-10-01 | Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face im… |
Perfect Witness | Dillon | 1989-10-28 | An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob killing, New York restaurant owner Sam Paxton (Aidan Q… |
Tales of Ordinary Madness | Bar Patron (uncredited) | 1981-09-11 | Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depra… |
In the Line of Fire | Mendoza | 1993-07-08 | Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirt… |
The Firm | The Nordic Man | 1993-06-30 | Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by ‘The Firm’ and made an offer he doesn’t re… |
Svengali | Waiter (uncredited) | 1983-03-09 | An old singer coaches a young woman whom he believes will be the next singing sensation. As she starts off with her career, their bond gets stronger. … |
Boiling Point | Roth | 1993-04-16 | Red is an aging scam-artist who’s just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Th… |
Boogeyman 3 | Dr. Mitchell Allen (voice) | 2008-10-17 | When a college student witnesses the alleged suicide of her roommate, it sets into motion a series of horrific events that cause her to fear the super… |
An Innocent Man | Zeke | 1989-10-06 | Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a maj… |
Loose Cannons | Gerber | 1990-02-09 | Mac, the two-fisted, savvy cop finds that he’s being saddled with a new partner, a known burnout, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The ne… |
Mississippi Burning | Agent Stokes | 1988-12-08 | Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where… |
Tootsie | Waiter (uncredited) | 1982-12-17 | When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Michaels – in order to land a part in a daytime drama, … |
The Verdict | Courtroom Observer (uncredited) | 1982-12-08 | Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a m… |
GoodFellas | Parole Officer | 1990-09-12 | The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks … |
Tobin Bell Production Movies
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
The Way We Weren’t | Producer | 2019-02-12 | Since meeting online, Charlotte and Brandon have fudged, re-imagined, and outright lied about their pasts in an attempt to be each other’s perfect mat… |
Other Info
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
Game Changer: The Legacy of Saw | Thanks | 2015-10-14 | Generations of movie fans have thrilled to Saw’s blood-curdling story of a serial killer who traps his victims in a sadistic game of survival. Game Ch… |
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