Tim Choate

Acting

Tim Choate

Born 1954-10-11 · Dallas, Dallas County, Texas

Tim Choate was an American actor who starred in various television roles on series such as Dragnet and Babylon 5. He was also a film actor but considered himself best suited for the stage.

Acting credits

Pearl Harbor poster
6.9

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Pearl Harbor

2001

Blow Out poster
7.4

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

Blow Out

1981

Times Square poster
6.4

When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own adventure.

Times Square

1980

Ghost Story poster
6.0

Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.

Ghost Story

1981

Soapdish poster
6.3

Celeste Talbert is the star of the long-running soap opera "The Sun Also Sets." With the show's ratings down, Celeste's ruthlessly ambitious co-star, Montana Moorehead, and the show's arrogant producer, David Seton Barnes, plot to aggravate her into leaving the show by bringing back her old flame, Jeffrey Anderson, and hiring her beautiful young niece, Lori Craven.

Soapdish

1991

Live Nude Girls poster
4.7

A group of old friends at a Hens Night discuss their issues, uncertainties, fears and fantasies.

Live Nude Girls

1995

Jefferson in Paris poster
5.1

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.

Jefferson in Paris

1995

CreepTales poster
5.2

On Halloween night, two shabby, dimwitted hunchbacks dig up the anthology horror video CreepTales that was buried with their Uncle Munger, and show it to their dimwitted monster friends.Filming began in 1986 and was finished in 1989, but the video was never released until 2004.

CreepTales

1989

The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw poster
4.8

Hawkes, Jones and Cassidy are on their way to the biggest poker game in history. But a few folks want to see them fold before they even get there.

The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw

1991

Child in the Night poster
5.6

Traumatized after seeing his father brutally murdered by a hook wielding assailant, young Luke is tasked to help unmask the killer.

Child in the Night

1990

White Mile poster
5.9

An ad-agency boss (Alan Alda) leads a white-water-rafting trip into danger.

White Mile

1994

Spy poster
6.9

Richard is a spy. Ever since his wife Angela left him, cause she never liked what he did or became, his heart has not exactly been in it anymore. After failing to complete his mission, he decides to leave. His friend and boss, Tony Cooper, brings him to a plastic surgeon, so that he could change his appearance and disappear. A year later, he learns that the doctor who operated on him and Tony are dead. He suspects that someone's either trying to get back at him through them or is trying to flush him out. He then fears that Angela could be next. So he goes to her but she's gotten on with her life and doesn't want him back.

Spy

1989

Girl in the Cadillac poster
4.8

A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find love on the run.

Girl in the Cadillac

1995

The Europeans poster
5.6

An adaptation of Henry James' novel about the Countess Eugenia Münster and her brother Robert, expatriate Americans who have grown up in Europe. Returning to prosperous relatives in New England, Eugenia hopes to make an advantageous marriage with a wealthy cousin. While Eugenia encounters obstacles, Robert finds his suit bearing fruit.

The Europeans

1979

Gunsmoke: The Long Ride poster
5.4

For thirty years, Marshall Matt Dillon fought to preserve the law in Dodge City… now, he's wanted for murder and fighting to clear his name. Three deputies ride up with a warrant for Dillon's arrest, a wealthy mine operator has been gunned down in cold blood and an eyewitness says Dillon was the murderer.

Gunsmoke: The Long Ride

1993

DEFCON-4 poster
4.5

Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. The woman stays by the remains of the the satellite but is soon caught by evil punks who have taken power.

DEFCON-4

1985

Blind Witness poster
7.0

Woman is trapped in her home with her husband's killers.

Blind Witness

1989

Hungry Hearts poster
6.5

The story focuses on a young, up-and-coming chef who caters a party for four mysterious women only to discover they have a shocking surprise in store for him.

Hungry Hearts

2002

Jane Austen in Manhattan poster
5.9

Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.

Jane Austen in Manhattan

1980

The First Time poster
5.0

A young film student pursues a woman while studying under a bizarre, eccentric film professor.

The First Time

1983

My Father, My Son poster
6.4

When an Admiral orders the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam, he has no idea the deadly consequences of his actions for his son.

My Father, My Son

1988

Immaculate Conception poster
5.4

Alistair, a British representative for a wildlife conservation agency based in Karachi and his Jewish-American wife Hannah have been unsuccessful at conceiving a child. Over time, the desire to have a child begins to consume Hannah and she persuades a reluctant Alistair to go with her for three days to a fertility shrine. After a ceremony during which Hannah converts to Islam and coaxes Alistair to do the same, she becomes pregnant. But Hannah’s joy at the discovery of her pregnancy is overshadowed by worsening relations with Alistair who has started an affair with their friend Samira and tensions begin to mount when eunuchs from the shrine start to harass the couple.

Immaculate Conception

1992

Not of This World poster
5.1

An alien life form lands on earth and begins to feed off electricity, making it grow to enormous size. The authorities must stop it as it slithers cross-country towards a nuclear power plant.

Not of This World

1991

Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall poster
6.7

An older widower accidentally stumbles into a lively, eccentric male dance class in a desolate mall, finding a new lease on life.

Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall

1987