Biography
This actor is known to the general public in his roles in the films "Choice Sophie", "Mississippi on fire", "Rubin", "on the fire line". He worked with directed by Alan Pacebuch, John Mackenzie, Sidney Pollak, Martin Scorsese, Wolfgang Petersen, Alan Parker, Harold Becker and Sam Rayim. But the most important role is John Kramer in the film "Saw". We are talking about Tobin Belle.
Joseph Tobin Bell was born on August 7, 1942 in Queens, the city of New York, USA. His mother, Englishwoman Eilis Bell Tobin, was an actress, and father, Joseph Tobin, owned radio station. In addition to Tobin, there were two children in the family - brother and sister. Soon after the birth of Joseph Tobin, the family moved to Weymouth, Massachusetts. As a child, the boy did not think about the career of the famous actor, but he wanted to become a TV presenter or a writer, so in college paid a lot of attention to journalism and other humanitarian sciences.
Higher education Bell received in New Jersey. At the State University of Monkler, the future actor studied natural science, and later he was sent to the New York Botanical Garden for practicing practice. The desire to associate their life with cinema and the theater arose in young Tobin after visiting the seminar of the screenwriter and the actor of the Canadian origin of Hume Cronin and his spouse, the English actress Jessica Tandy.
Education in the field of acting Tobin received under the leadership of Sanford Maizner and Lee Strasberg. Having mastered the acting skills, he performed at the theater at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Boston Festival of Arts and others.
Films
Tobin received his decisive role in the Tutsi film director of the director Sydney Pollak, where the waiter played. It was then that in 1982, his acting career began to develop. Prior to that, there were 29 more minor roles in Manhattan film stations (where the actor is not even indicated in the credits, since he played in the crowd), "The History of Ordinary Madness" (again an episodic role), "Selection of Sophie", "Verdict" and others.
Parallel Bell played in the theater on Broadway, where he met director who recommended him to look for happiness in Hollywood. By the way, it was then that the director reviewed his corporate "villainsky potential" in a man. Tobin followed the council heard, and already in 1988 he received the role of the FBI agent at the Mississippi Ribbon on the fire of the director Alan Parker.
Further, one after the other, but did not meet any significant roles in the life of the actor. In the period from 1993 to 2001, Bell starred in the popular Hollywood television series "Steep Walker".
Bella's star hour has come in 2004, when the actor went to the casting of the film "Saw" and eventually received a major role. Despite the fact that the film's budget was small, his success surpassed all expectations. And the image of Tobin Bella forever fixed in the memory of the viewers as a maniac John Kramer. Tobin himself suggests that the film is not just a horror shot, and his hero teaches people to appreciate life. Further, one after another another six parts of the film was released, brought Tobin's final glory of the Manyak killer from the horror movie.
Tobin Bell himself tells that people around invariably react to him as a crazy killer. But a good-natured actor does not get tired of dividing frightened fans of horror films that in reality he has nothing to do with his terrible hero from the screen. On the last part of the sequel "Saw 3D", Tobin did not stop, followed by the offer to voice John Kramer in a computer game created by the film. The reason is simple: Tobin really has a surprisingly suitable voice, soft and frightening at the same time.
For its villainaries, the actor received several Awards "MTV Movie Awords" and others, including the "best villain" and "best butcher". After such success, the viewers of Bell receives exclusively the role of villains, the example of this was the film "Trail 61", "Goosebia", "Alice" and others.
In addition to horror films, known to the general public Bella and the role in the television series Flash (2014), where he played the role of Dr. Alchemy - one of the enemies of the main character. In total, on the account of the actor 98 roles in the film, four producers and seven more films, where Tobin Bell played himself ("in pieces. Dawn and sunset Slashers", the series "Made in Hollywood" and others).
Personal life
Tobin Bella's biography does not replete facts about his family. It is only known that the actor is married and raises two sons. But there are no details about the spouse and children of the actor. Family photos in "Instagram" the actor prefers not to lay out.
In the free from the shooting, Tobin's time is a coach of a baseball team, with pleasure plays football. In his youth, the actor's hobby was included in the guitar, photograph and mountain tourism in the vicinity of New York.
Tobin Bell now
On the eve of the premiere and access to the eighth part of the popular horror movie "Saw" with Tobin Bella in the lead role, television viewers and fans of Tobin's creativity are looking forward to details. After the outcome of the penultimate part, the audience was roasted from the sequel, but this time the directors promise something special. The eighth of the "saw" will be more likely a thriller than a classic horror film.
Despite the fact that John Kramer died in the third part of the sequel, but at the same time he was constantly present in subsequent film guards, "saw - 8" will not cost without the participation of Tobin Bella, because he is a kind of symbol of the success of the painting. The directions boldly declare: "We are proud of this work!". So, the audience will be on what to see.
But Tobin Bella's acting career is not only the role of villains in the cult films of horror. In 2016, Tobin starred in the Comedy Drama "Rainbow Time" and the Thriller "12 feet of depth". In 2017, together with the "saw - 8", another film will be released on the screens with Bella - "My Cute Pony", a short tape, shot in the drama genre.
For 2018, the premiere of the biographic film "History of Marcus Garvey" of the young director Stephen Anderson is scheduled. What exactly the role will play in the film Bell - it is not yet known, but it is clear that Kinokartina is dedicated to the life of a fighter for the rights of black in the world.
The premiere of another military drama with the participation of Tobin Bella is expected in 2018 - "Bandit". Here it will be about the employee of the CIA, who was instructed to determine the location of al-Qaeda terrorists in distant Afghanistan.
Filmography
- 2018 - "Bandit"
- 2018 - "The History of Marcus Garvey"
- 2017 - "My Cute Pony"
- 2017 - "Saw - 8"
- 2016 - "12 feet of depth"
- 2016 - "Rainbow Time"
- 2015 - "Family Vacations with Mansons"
- 2014 - "I found it - I take myself"
- 2014 - Flash
- 2013 - "House of Ghosts"
- 2011-2014 - "Wilfred"
- 2010 - "Saw 3D"
- 2009 - "Pila - 6"
- 2008 - "Saw - 5"
- 2007 - "Saw - 4"
- 2007 - "Izhivo buried"
- 2007 - "Bugimen - 2"
- 2007 - "Evil. Do not think about it"
- 2007 - "Murder Point"
- 2007 - "Bait - 2. Second seduction"
- 2006 - "Saw - 3"
- 2005 - "Saw - 2"
- 2005 - "Think as a criminal"
- 2005 - "Revelations"
- 2004 - "Saw. Survival game"
- 2003 - "Saw"