Age: 75
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James Norman Beaver Jr. (born August 12, 1950) is a Euro-Indigenous 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.
Jim Beaver
Dr. Sydney Lanning
for Dr. Sydney Lanning in Spider-Man: Grain by Grain
Suggested by matthewfenner
Three months after defeating Mysterio, Peter Parker tries to rebuild what’s left of his life. Nearing the end of his second year at Empire State University, he’s begun to find a fragile rhythm between school, heroism, and the quiet grief that still shadows him. But peace doesn’t last long in New York. When a string of violent robberies linked to high-tech weapons hits the city, Spider-Man discovers the culprit: Flint Marko, a small-time crook turned monstrous after a particle physics experiment gone wrong. His body now fused with living sand, Marko can shift, grow, and crush anything in his path — and he’ll do whatever it takes to provide for his sick daughter, no matter who stands in the way. As Spider-Man pursues the Sandman across a city choking on dust and destruction, Peter finds himself torn between empathy and rage. Flint isn’t a villain born of evil — he’s a desperate man consumed by circumstance. But his crimes are leaving bodies in their wake, and the longer the fight goes on, the more innocent blood spills. In this gritty, R-rated tale of redemption and ruin, Peter must decide what kind of hero he truly is: one who punishes, or one who saves. As the final battle erupts in a storm of sand and sorrow, Spider-Man realizes that even monsters can have hearts — and that mercy, not vengeance, may be the hardest choice of all.
