Matt Craven

Matt Craven
Matt Craven
Born	Matthew John Crnkovich; November 10, 1956 (age 67); 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.

Early life[edit]

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.

Career[edit]

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.

Filmography[edit]

Movies[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	Bravery in the Field	Lennie	Short
1979	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
1990	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
1994	Double Cross	Bernard March	Video
1995	Crimson Tide	Lieutenant Roy Zimmer, USS Alabama Communications Officer
1995	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
2004	Bandido	Fletcher
2005	Assault on Precinct 13	Officer Kevin Capra
2005	A Simple Curve	Matthew
2006	Déjà Vu	ATF Special Agent Larry Minuti
2007	Disturbia	Daniel Brecht
2007	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 Kellerman
2015	Stonewall	Deputy Seymour Pine
2016	Unless	Tom
2017	Awakening the Zodiac	Harvey
2022	Lou	Sheriff Rankin

Television[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
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
1987	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
2005	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

Personal life[edit]

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.

References[edit]

^ Lowry, Brian (2007-03-09). "Raines". Variety. ISSN 0042-2738. OCLC 810134503. Archived from the original on 2019-06-05. Retrieved 2019-06-05. A crime procedural tweaked with the slimmest of gimmicks, 'Raines' largely boils down to one's appreciation of star Jeff Goldblum, who occupies center stage in practically every scene. Relative to riskier dramas, it seems a reasonably safe bet, though it's hardly the sort of series people will rush home to see.

External links[edit]

[2007-03-09_Variety-1] Lowry, Brian (2007-03-09). "Raines". Variety. ISSN 0042-2738. OCLC 810134503. Archived from the original on 2019-06-05. Retrieved 2019-06-05. A crime procedural tweaked with the slimmest of gimmicks, 'Raines' largely boils down to one's appreciation of star Jeff Goldblum, who occupies center stage in practically every scene. Relative to riskier dramas, it seems a reasonably safe bet, though it's hardly the sort of series people will rush home to see.

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