Tim Reid
Tim Reid
Timothy L. "Tim" Reidis an American actor, comedian and film director best known for his roles in prime time American television programs, such as Venus Flytrap on WKRP in Cincinnati, Marcel "Downtown" Brown on Simon & Simon, Ray Campbell on Sister, Sisterand William Barnett on That '70s Show. Reid starred in a CBS series, Frank's Place, as a professor who inherits a Louisiana restaurant...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth19 December 1944
CityNorfolk, VA
CountryUnited States of America
The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.
It was kind of like the tortoise and the hare. We were the tortoise and we won.
What helped me get the part was that I turned it down. When I read the script, Venus was just a black guy who came in wearing a big coat and a hat and making jive talk. I'd been up for so many of those! I'd had enough of caricatures, what white writers conceive blacks to be. I told the producer I wasn't interested in doing anything like that for three or four years. He said that it was just a pilot, that Venus would be given a human dimension and would be quiet off-the-air. I wanted that input. I thought that side was as important as the comic side. For 'WKRP,' too much of either would be bad.
One problem when you get energy and want to go with it is that with so large a cast of talented people, you have to wait three or four shows for some 'meat.'
It's easier on the animal because you don't have to move them while they are tranquilized,
I don't believe I'm going to take him down and put him up every night. I believe I'll just stay here all night and watch him from the property.