The following year, Busfield was cast as Elliot on thirtysomething. The Busfields also established the award-winning B Street Theater there in 1992, which was devoted to more adult productions. He held the role until the series' conclusion in 1986.įollowing the demise of Trapper John, he joined forces with his brother Buck to create the Fantasy Theatre, a professional touring company for children's audiences - and later Honorary State Children's Theater for California - based in his new hometown of Sacramento, CA. (CBS, 1979-1986), starring as the son of Pernell Roberts' Trapper John McIntyre.

The year 1984 proved to be a busy one for Busfield not only did he land his first substantial film role as Arnold Poindexter, the goofiest of the geek fraternity brothers in the hit comedy Revenge of the Nerds (1984) and its 1987 sequel, but he joined the cast of the long-running drama Trapper John, M.D. The following year, Busfield relocated to Los Angeles to join the cast of Reggie (ABC, 1983), a short-lived comedy based on the British television series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (BBC, 1976-79). More stage work followed, including a stint as understudy to Matthew Broderick in Brighton Beach Memoirs in 1982. That same year, he landed his first film role with a bit part as a mortar-bearing soldier in the comedy classic, Stripes (1981). In 1981, he moved to New York City, NY, where he joined the Circle Repertory Company for their production of Lanford Wilson's Talley and Son. Busfield studied drama at East Tennessee State University and traveled frequently with the Actors Theater of Louisville, which took him to Europe and Israel.

He landed his first professional acting job at 18 in a children's theater adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. He graduated from East Lansing High School in 1975. He is also the founder of the 501(c)(3) non-profit children's theatre Fantasy Theatre for Children and B Street Theatre.īusfield was born June 12, 1957, in Lansing, Michigan, the son of drama professor Roger and secretary Jean Busfield.

In 1991 he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for thirtysomething. He has played Elliot Weston on the television series thirtysomething Mark, Kevin Costner's brother-in-law, in Field of Dreams and Danny Concannon on the television series The West Wing.

Timothy Busfield (born June 12, 1957) is an American actor and director.

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