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Matt Craven | |
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Born | Matthew John Crnkovich November 10, 1956 Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1979–present |
Spouse | Sally Sutton |
Children | 2 |
Matthew John Crnkovich (born November 10, 1956), known as Matt Craven, is a Canadian character actor. He has appeared in over 40 films including Happy Birthday to Me , Jacob's Ladder , K2 , A Few Good Men , The Juror , Assault on Precinct 13 , Disturbia , Tempting Fate and X-Men: First Class .
Craven has also made several television appearances, most notably as Clayton Jarvis on the CBS series, NCIS , Officer Lenny Gayer on High Incident , Dr. Tim Lonner on L.A. Doctors , and Sheriff Fred Langston on the series Resurrection .
Craven, a Canadian, spent his early life in Ontario. His father died six weeks after his birth and Craven ultimately dropped out of high school to work a variety of odd jobs to help support his mother and sister. He was about 20 when he discovered his love for acting - auditioning for, and starring in, a local production of Dracula as Jonathan Harker.
Matt Craven is best known as a character actor working in TV and film. His films include the Academy Award nominated Crimson Tide , A Few Good Men , the SAG nominated X-Men: First Class , Public Enemies , Disturbia , Déjà Vu , The Life of David Gale , Tin Men and K2 . Craven's first film Meatballs opposite Bill Murray was a huge hit and launched Craven's career in film and comedy.[ citation needed ] Craven's second feature, the live action short Bravery in the Field was nominated for an Academy Award.
The next few years saw Craven starring in several comedy pilots. His first major dramatic film was the drama/horror/mystery cult favorite Jacob's Ladder which follows a haunted Vietnam vet as he attempts to discover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. Craven starred as Michael, a chemist in the Army's chemical warfare division where he worked on a drug that was secretly given to the veteran's unit.[ citation needed ]
On television, Craven has worked with Steven Spielberg as a series regular on High Incident , on TNT's Nuremberg and Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long , opposite Jeff Goldblum on Raines , several seasons on the international hit NCIS, and extensively with producer/writer Graham Yost on Justified , From the Earth to the Moon , The Pacific and Boomtown . Most recently, Craven starred on the ABC series Resurrection .
Craven had two features for 2015 - Roland Emmerich's Stonewall and Unless in which he stars opposite Catherine Keener.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1979 | Bravery in the Field | Lennie | Short |
Meatballs | "Hardware" Renzetti | ||
1980 | Hog Wild | "Chrome" | |
1981 | Happy Birthday to Me | Steve Maxwell | |
1984 | That's My Baby! | Andy | |
1986 | Agent on Ice | Joey Matera | |
1987 | Tin Men | Looney | |
1988 | Smokescreen | Gerald Price | |
1989 | Chattahoochee | Lonny | |
1990 | Blue Steel | Howard | |
Jacob's Ladder | Michael Newman | ||
1991 | K2 | Harold "H" Jameson | |
1992 | A Few Good Men | Lieutenant Dave Spradling | |
1993 | Indian Summer | Jamie Ross | |
1994 | Bulletproof Heart (aka Killer) | Archie | |
Double Cross | Bernard March | Video | |
1995 | Crimson Tide | Lieutenant Roy Zimmer, USS Alabama Communications Officer | |
Breach of Trust | Rodney Powell | ||
1996 | The Juror | Boone | |
The Final Cut | Emerson Lloyd | ||
White Tiger | John Grogan | ||
Never Too Late | Carl | ||
1997 | Masterminds | Jake Paxton | |
1998 | Paulie | Warren Alweather | |
2000 | Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her | Walter | (segments "Fantasies About Rebecca" and "Love Waits For Kathy") |
2002 | Dragonfly | Eric | |
2003 | The Life of David Gale | Dusty Wright | |
Timeline | Steven Kramer | ||
The Statement | David Manenbaum | ||
2004 | The Clearing | FBI Agent Ray Fuller | |
Bandido | Fletcher | ||
2005 | Assault on Precinct 13 | Officer Kevin Capra | |
A Simple Curve | Matthew | ||
2006 | Déjà Vu | ATF Special Agent Larry Minuti | |
2007 | Disturbia | Daniel Brecht | |
American Venus | Bob | ||
2008 | The Longshots | Coach Fisher | |
2009 | Public Enemies | FBI Agent Gerry Campbell | |
2010 | Devil | Lustig | |
2011 | X-Men: First Class | CIA Director McCone | |
2012 | The Good Lie | Richard Francis | |
2013 | White House Down | Secret Service Agent Roy Kellerman | |
2015 | Stonewall | Deputy Seymour Pine | |
2016 | Unless | Tom | |
2017 | Awakening the Zodiac | Harvey | |
2022 | Lou | Sheriff Rankin |
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Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1980–1983 | The Littlest Hobo | 3 Episodes: Ghost Rig, The Hero, Winner Take All | |
1981 | The Intruder Within | Phil | TV movie |
1982 | Till Death Do Us Part | Tony Archer | TV movie |
1983 | The Terry Fox Story | Bob Cady | TV movie |
1986 | Classified Love | Howie | TV movie |
Tough Cookies | Richie Messina | 6 Episodes | |
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye | Pete | 1 Episode: Red Wing | |
Comedy Factory | Eddie | 1 Episode: Hearts of Steel | |
1987 | Harry | Bobby Kratz | 7 Episodes |
American Playhouse | Norbert | 1 Episode: Blue Window | |
1995 | Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long | Seymour Weiss | TV movie |
The Outer Limits | Alan Wells | 1 Episode: The Voyage Home | |
Kansas | Matt | TV movie | |
American Gothic | Barrett Stokes | 1 Episode: Strong Arm of the Law | |
1996–1997 | High Incident | Officer Lenny Gayer | 32 Episodes |
1998 | Dead Man's Gun | Stuart "Snake Finger" Aikins | 1 Episode: Snake Finger |
Tempting Fate | Emmett Lach | TV movie | |
From the Earth to the Moon | Tom Kelly | 1 Episode: Spider | |
1998–1999 | L.A. Doctors | Dr. Tim Lonner | 24 Episodes |
2000 | Nuremberg | Captain Gustave Gilbert | 1 Episode: #1.1 |
2000–2001 | ER | Gordon Price | 3 Episodes: The Dance We Do; Rock, Paper, Scissors; Never Say Never |
2001 | Bleacher Bums | Greg | TV movie |
2001 | Varian's War | "Beamish" | TV movie |
2002 | Scared Silent | Scott Miller | TV movie |
2002–2003 | Boomtown | Dr. Michael Hirsch | 2 Episodes: Coyote, Lost Child |
2003 | The Lyon's Den | George Riley | 6 Episodes |
2005 | Karol: A Man Who Became Pope | Hans Frank | TV movie |
Without a Trace | Larry Hopkins | 1 Episode: A Day in the Life | |
2007 | Raines | Captain Daniel Lewis | [1] |
2009 | Anatomy of Hope | Hal Davis | TV movie |
2010 | The Pacific | Dr. Grant | 1 Episode: Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika |
2010–2014 | Justified | Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Grant | 4 Episodes: Fire in the Hole, The Moonshine War, Full Commitment, A Murder of Crowes |
2011–2013 | NCIS | Secretary of the Navy Clayton Jarvis | 10 Episodes |
2012 | Alcatraz | Mr. K | 1 Episode: Tommy Madsen |
2014–2015 | Resurrection | Sheriff Fred Langston | 21 Episodes |
2018 | Sharp Objects | Bill Vickery | 8 Episodes |
2019 | Unspeakable | Horace Krever | 2 Episodes: Krever (1993 - 1996), Intent (1997 - 2005) |
2020 | Stumptown | Michael McConnell | 2 Episodes: At All Costs: The Conrad Costas Chronicles, All Hands on Dex |
2023 | Justified: City Primeval | Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Grant | 1 episode: The Question |
Craven has been married for the past 25 years to Sally Sutton, the makeup artist whom he met on the set of K2 . They have two children, Nicholas and Josephine.[ citation needed ]
Craven is a strong supporter of "One Heart Source" an organisation designed to empower at risk children through education in Africa. He is an avid golfer. In his spare time, he enjoys gardening, cooking and woodworking. He worked as a doorman for the nightclub the Bitter End and is a lifelong fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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