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Also known as Joseph Henry Tobin, Jr., Joseph Henry Tobin

American actor (born 1942)

OverviewAI-generated

Tobin Bell is a male American artist born on August 7, 1942. He has been active in his field since 1979. His musical work is associated with the genres of r&b, rock and indie, and soul. Bell has two children.

According to available records, he has five works listed in Crossref data, while Open Library lists zero works under his name. On Last.fm, he has 512 listeners and a total playcount of 4,227. He maintains an official website and has 48,339 social media followers.

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1942-08-07
Works
0

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1939-07-16
r&brock and indiesoul

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
512
Total plays
4,227

Actor Tobin Bell, widely recognized for playing serial killer John Kramer (Jigsaw) in horror franchise Saw, has multiple musical releases. These songs are covers. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tobin+Bell">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Tobin Bell

Quotes

  • You learn a lot watching that, because so much of what you do in film and television is technical. You could go to acting class until you're blue in the face, but when it really comes down to it, you'd better have that acting training where so much of what you do is actually technical.
  • What's interesting is that you can have a set that's very calm, very smooth, very cooperative...and end up with a terrible movie. And you can have a set that's really horrible as far as relationships and volatility, and come up with a great movie. Sometimes that energy gets infused into what ends up on film -- it's interesting in that way.

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Key facts

Born
Joseph Henry Tobin Jr. , ( 1942-08-07 ) August 7, 1942 (age 83) , New York City , U.S.
Other name
Joseph Tobin
Education
Boston University , Montclair State University
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1979–present
Known for
Saw franchise

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Tobin Bell (born Joseph Henry Tobin Jr.; August 7, 1942) is an American actor. Appearing in over 100 titles during a five-decade career, he is most recognized for his role as John Kramer / Jigsaw in the Saw franchise.

Bell started his acting career in the late 1970s and early 1980s doing stand-ins and background work on feature films. He had his first feature film role in Mississippi Burning (1988). Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bell appeared in supporting roles in a number of films and television shows, including The Firm (1993), Unabomber: The True Story (1996), Walker, Texas Ranger (1998), The Sopranos (2001), and 24 (2003).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tobin Bell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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