Tim Matheson

He was previously married to actress Jennifer Leak. In the new millennium, Mueller-Stahl gained applause for his acting of Thomas Mann in a German historic film production about the Mann family (Thomas Mann, his brother Heinrich Mann, and others) called Die Manns. Matheson is married to Megan Murphy Matheson, with whom he has three children. He won the Silver Bear for Best Actor in the 1992 Berlinale for his performance in Utz, and received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Shine (1996). Matheson appeared in the movie Van Wilder in 2002, playing the father of the title character who was inspired by his own character in Animal House 24 years earlier. He broadened his film career with his US film debut as Jessica Lange's father in Music Box (1989), and subsequently took strong character parts in Kafka and Night on Earth (both 1991) from Jim Jarmusch. They were unable to reverse the decline and sold it in 1991. He appeared in such films as Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lola (1981) and Veronika Voss (1982), and played in Andrzej Wajda's A Love in Germany (1984), Angry Harvest and Colonel Redl (both 1985).

Matheson, along with partner Dan Grodnik, bought National Lampoon in 1989 when the magazine was facing financial decline. His talent found ample work in the West German film industry. He has also directed episodes of Third Watch, Ed, The Twilight Zone, Cold Case, and Without a Trace. He was a successful film and stage actor in East Germany, but being blacklisted by the government he emigrated to West Germany in 1980. More recently, he guest-starred as Vice President John Hoynes on The West Wing. He turned to film acting in East Berlin in 1950. Beginning his acting career as a child, Matheson provided the voice of Jonny Quest in the original series of that name before going on to act in over a hundred film and television projects. East Prussian-born Armin Mueller-Stahl was a noted concert violinist while he was a teenager.

Although perhaps best known for his portrayal of the smooth talking, sex-obsessed Otter in the 1978 comedy Animal House, Matheson's career spans five decades, many genres, and several facets of the entertainment industry. He was born in Tilsit, Germany, now Russia. Tim Matheson, an American actor, was born Tim Matthieson on December 31, 1947, in Glendale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Armin Mueller-Stahl (born December 17, 1930) is a leading German film actor.