Tim Matheson, an American actor, was born Tim Matthiesin on December 31, 1947, in Glendale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. He is possibly better known for his portrayal of the smooth talking, sex-obsessed Otter in the 1978 comedy Animal House, but has got the kind of more easily-known roles each prior to & since.

As a stripling, Matheson provided a voice of Jonny Quest in the original animated series of that title. When you took a final year of the TV american Bonanza in 1973, Matheson played Griff King, a probationer world health organization endeavors to reform his life as a cattle farm hand at a Ponderosa Ranch under Ben Cartwright's follow.

As a result his high-profile role in the ensemble cast of Beast Home, he as well starred in the 1984 comedy movie Up the Creek with Animal Home co-star Stephen Furst.

Matheson, along by owning partner Dan Grodnik, bought National Lampoon in 1989 when the magazine was facing financial decline. It were unable to reverse a decline & sold it within 1991.

He went around to work in across the hundred film & television projects.

From either 1999, Matheson had the revenant role when Vice President John Hoynes on The West Wing. Inside 2003, his character resigned due to scandal, but returned sustaining the goal of run President, which fell apart when other hearsay from either his retiring surfaced.

He played Sheriff Matthew Donner in the shortlived Wolf Lake.

He has likewise directed episodes of Third Watch, Ed, The Twilight Zone, Cold Case, and Without a Trace.

Matheson appeared in the motion-picture show Van Wilder in 2002, playing a father of the title character, world health organization was inspired by his have character around Carnal Home Twenty-four years earliest.

Matheson is married to Megan Murphy Matheson, by having whom he has tercet tykes. He was antecedently married to actress Jennifer Leak.