Tim Choate
Tim Choate (October 11, 1954 – September 24, 2004) was an American actor born in Dallas, Texas. He studied at the University of Texas at Austin and Cornell University and worked extensively in theater, appearing on Broadway in Da and Crimes of the Heart and with the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival. On screen he appeared in the Merchant Ivory films The Europeans, Jane Austen in Manhattan and Jefferson in Paris, as well as Times Square, Blow Out, Ghost Story, Def-Con 4, Soapdish and Pearl Harbor. On television he was best known as Zathras on Babylon 5, and he had a recurring role on Newhart. He died in a motorcycle accident in Los Angeles.
Soapdish
(AD)
Live Nude Girls
(Jerome)
DEFCON-4
(Howe)
My Father, My Son
(Harvey)
Blind Witness
(Remy)
Child in the Night
(Curt)
Jane Austen in Manhattan
(Jamie)
The First Time
(Charlie Lichtenstein)
The Europeans
(Clifford)
Gunsmoke: The Long Ride
(Sheriff Bart Meriweather)
Times Square
(Eastman)
Pearl Harbor
(Navy Doctor)
CreepTales
(Uncle Munger (segment "Wraparound"))
Not of This World
Ghost Story
(Young Ricky Hawthorne)
Blow Out
(Sailor)
Immaculate Conception
(David)
Jefferson in Paris
(Reporter)
Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall
(Phil Leeds)
White Mile
(Young Man)
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
('Bad Boy' Jon Wilson)
Spy
(David Tiomchin)
Girl in the Cadillac
(Motel owner)
Hungry Hearts
(Butterfly Collector)
Murder, She Wrote
(Daryl Croft)
Tales from the Darkside
(Michael Killup)
The Wayans Bros.
(Patient)
Crusade
(Polix)
Cold Case
(Charlie Winters)
Highway to Heaven
Coach
(Earl Gleem)
Frasier
(Dirk)
Knots Landing
(Salesperson)
Newhart
The Practice
(Atty. Miles)
Babylon 5
(Zathras)
Jake and the Fatman
The Charmings
Diagnosis: Murder
(Evan Houston)
P.S. I Luv U
Reasonable Doubts
Murder, She Wrote
(Luke Phillips)
Crazy like a Fox
(Joe Cusack)
L.A. Dragnet
Delta
(Andrew)
American Dreams
American Playhouse
(Clifford)
American Playhouse
(Phil Leeds (segment 'Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall'))
Newhart
(Dave)