American actor
Timothy Clark Choate [ 1] (October 11, 1954 – September 24, 2004) was an American actor who starred in a number of film and television roles on series such as Dragnet and Babylon 5 .
Choate was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, the son of Betty Nell (née Strong), a commercial artist, and Ben Tom Choate, who worked in building and construction.[ 2] He appeared in theater productions while attending the University of Texas in Austin and also attended Cornell University .
He was active on stage in both New York and Hollywood. On Broadway, he appeared in Crimes of the Heart and Da . He also performed at the Los Angeles Shakespeare Fest in Twelfth Night and The Merry Wives of Windsor as well as in the Los Angeles production of Beyond Therapy . Choate appeared in regional productions at the Long Wharf Theater, the Kennedy Center and the Berkshire Theatre Festival .
His film appearances included several Merchant Ivory productions including The Europeans (1979), Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980), and Jefferson in Paris (1995); Times Square (1980), Ghost Story (1981), Blow Out (1981), Def-Con 4 (1985), the Oscar-winning short Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall (1987), Soapdish (1991), Immaculate Conception (1992), Live Nude Girls (1995), and Pearl Harbor (2001).
On television, he played Zathras on Babylon 5 and had a recurring role on Newhart , as well as appearing in several TV movies, notably Blind Witness (1989), Highway to Heaven (1989) and Child in the Night (1990), and guesting on shows including The Practice , Diagnosis: Murder , and The Bold and the Beautiful . He played Michael Killup in the Tales from the Darkside episode "Halloween Candy" (1985).
He was killed in a motorcycle accident in Los Angeles, California in 2004, aged 49.[ 3] He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California .[ 4]
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