Timothy Van Patten | |
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Born |
Timothy Van Patten June 10, 1959 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
Occupation | Director, actor, screenwriter, producer |
Years active | 1978–present |
Timothy "Tim" Van Patten (born June 10, 1959) is an American television director, actor, screenwriter, and producer. He has directed episodes of Boardwalk Empire, Deadwood, Ed, Game of Thrones, The Pacific, Rome, Sex and the City, The Sopranos, and The Wire.
As an actor, he is perhaps best known for portraying Salami on The White Shadow. He also played the villainous teenager Peter Stegman in Class of 1984 and Max Keller on The Master.
Van Patten was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Massapequa, New York. He is the half-brother of Dick Van Patten and Joyce Van Patten, and the uncle of Vincent Van Patten and Talia Balsam. He graduated from Massapequa High School in 1977, in the same class as musician Brian Setzer and football player Brian Baldinger.
In 2001, together with Terence Winter, Van Patten won both the Edgar Award and Writers Guild of America Award for Episodic Drama for The Sopranos episode "Pine Barrens", directed by Steve Buscemi. In 2004, Van Patten directed an episode called "Long Term Parking", which won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.