Tobin Bell

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1942 age 0

   Born

2. 1988 age 46

   CreditMississippi Burning

3. 1990 age 48

   CreditGoodfellas

4. 1993 age 51

   CreditIn the Line of Fire

   CreditThe Firm

5. 1995 age 53

   CreditThe Quick and the Dead

6. 2003 age 61

   CreditSaw

7. 2005 age 63

   CreditSaw II

8. 2006 age 64

   CreditSaw III

9. 2007 age 65

   CreditSaw IV

10. 2008 age 66

    CreditSaw V

11. 2009 age 67

    CreditSaw VI

12. 2010 age 68

    CreditSaw 3D

13. 2017 age 75

    CreditJigsaw

14. 2023 age 81

    CreditSaw X

• SSShawnee Smith9 titles
• CCCharlie Clouser9 titles
• KGKevin Greutert9 titles
• JWJames Wan8 titles
• LWLeigh Whannell8 titles
• OKOren Koules8 titles
• MBMark Burg7 titles
• BSBahar Soomekh6 titles
• GHGregg Hoffman6 titles
• CMCostas Mandylor6 titles

• You learn a lot watching that, because so much of what you do in film and television is technical. You could go to acting class until you're blue in the face, but when it really comes down to it, you'd better have that acting training where so much of what you do is actually technical.

  Tobin Bell, CC BY-SA 4.0

• What's interesting is that you can have a set that's very calm, very smooth, very cooperative...and end up with a terrible movie. And you can have a set that's really horrible as far as relationships and volatility, and come up with a great movie. Sometimes that energy gets infused into what ends up on film -- it's interesting in that way.

  Tobin Bell, CC BY-SA 4.0

• So much of acting is technical. Actually, I don’t want people to think that acting is technical, that you don’t need to have a rich fountain of emotional life and all those kinds of things, and know how to focus and concentrate and have good imagination and all of the other things that really make up an actor. One of the things they teach you, for example, in acting class is respond to your instinct, to your moment-to-moment instincts. If they just did that, they’d never get the shot, you know? Because you’d be walking all over… You’d be doing it differently every time. And the camera guys and the light guys, they need to know what you’re going to do. That’s what I mean by, if you just followed your instinct, or follow your impulses, which is what they say to you in acting class, you have to do that but you have to do it in a very confined window.

  Tobin Bell, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I understand that people refer to me as an icon and that sort of thing because there are certain guys who play a certain role. And horror fans are very passionate people. They love their genre. And they love the Saw films. So the fact that I played a central role in those films, that puts you in a position where people... You know, the screen is sixty feet across, and people sometimes forget that you’re an actor and you play... Because you become established as a certain kind of character. But in fact, we continue to try and occupy the skins of different human beings. That’s what you get involved in being an actor for in the first place.

  Tobin Bell, CC BY-SA 4.0