Timothy Darrell "Tim" Russ (born June 22, 1956) is an American actor, film director, screenwriter and musician. He is known for his roles as Lieutenant Commander Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager, as Frank on Samantha Who?, and as Principal Franklin, a recurring character on the Nickelodeon live-action teen sitcom iCarly. Russ was born in Washington, D.C. to a state government employee mother and a U.S. Air Force officer father. He spent part of his childhood in Turkey. During his early life, Tim Russ had many dogs.

Filmography

• 2025One Big Happy Family — Lawrence
• Unconventional — Collin Charles
• 2024Surge of Power: Where There's Smoke — Mortrigard
• 2024The Star City Murders — Captain Royce Aikman
• ted — ER Doctor
• 2023Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham — Lucius Fox (voice)
• Poker Face — Max
• 2023Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event — Captain Tuvok
• 2022Classified — Director Branch
• 2022Nightshade — Captain Burns
• The Rookie: Feds — Mel
• 4400 — Elijah Landry
• 2021The Slayer Chronicles - Volume 1 — News Reporter (voice), Director
• Them — The Custodian
• 2021Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion — Uncle Leon
• iCarly — Principal Franklin
• Star Trek: Picard — Captain Tuvok
• 2020The Midnight Sky — Mason Mosley
• 2020Unbelievable!!!!! — Unreal Robert Schmitt
• Black Monday — Walter
• 2019Ghost in the Gun — Ghost in the Gun
• 2019Junkie — Martin Green, Director
• Swamp Thing — Marais Doctor, Dr. Chowodury
• 2019The Circuit
• 2019Vitals — The Surgeon
• 20185th Passenger — Franklin
• 9-1-1 — Marriage Counselor
• 2018A Fairy's Game — Warlock (voice)
• 2018Her Side of the Bed — Charles Harwell
• 2018Karma — Frank Hudson
• The Resident — Tyrone Griffiths
• 2018They Want Dick Dickster — Sammy Davas Jr
• 2017Blade Of Honor — Yuni
• 2017Sun, Sand & Romance — Gus Van Houtten
• The Good Doctor — Chuck
• The Orville — Dr. Sherman
• 2016Six Gun Savior — Ezekiel Roake
• 2015Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! — General Gottleib
• Star Trek: Renegades — Tuvok, Creator
• Supergirl — Jul-Us
• 2014Alongside Night — General Jack Guerdon
• 2014Asteroid vs Earth — Captain Rogers
• How to Get Away with Murder — Kofi Bonaparte
• NCIS: New Orleans — Felix Hill
• 2013Social Nightmare — Ajeti
• 2012A Night at the Silent Movie Theater — Director
• 2012Gibby — Principal Ted Franklin
• Guys with Kids — Specialist
• Lab Rats — Agent Gordon / Parallel Agent Gordon
• The Soul Man — Devon
• American Horror Story — David
• Suits — Robert Geller
• Good Luck Charlie — Dr. Meyer
• Regular Show — Sergeant / Helicopter Pilot (voice)
• Castle — Malcolm Wickfield
• Trust Me — Gordon Benedict
• 2008InAlienable — News Anchor
• The Secret Life of the American Teenager — Fast Eddie / Judge Cooper
• 2007Live Free or Die Hard — Agent Chuck Summer
• 2007Plugged — Director, Writer
• Samantha Who? — Frank
• iCarly — Ted Franklin
• Hannah Montana — Dr. Meyer
• 2006The Oh in Ohio — Douglas
• Twenty Good Years — Marty
• 2006Unbeatable Harold — Diner Manager
• Criminal Minds — Agent Lawrence
• 2005The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari — Town Clerk
• NCIS — Jerry Kemper, Dr. Erik Harper
• CSI: Miami — Leonard Sterling
• Without a Trace — Phil Hansen
• 2000Star Trek: Voyager - Future's End — Tuvok
• 2000Star Trek: Voyager - Scorpion — Tuvok
• 1999Star Trek: Voyager - Dark Frontier — Tuvok
• 1998East of Hope Street — Casey, Writer, Producer
• 1996Star Trek: Voyager - Basics — Tuvok
• Star Trek: Voyager — Tuvok, Director
• 1994Bitter Vengeance — Lt. James
• 1994Dead Connection — Det. Chuck Roland
• ER — Dr. Medford
• Spider-Man — Hobie Brown / Prowler (voice)
• 1994Star Trek: Generations — Lieutenant
• 1993Journey to the Center of the Earth — Joe Briggs
• Living Single — Officer Taylor
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — T'Kar, Tuvok
• seaQuest DSV — Martin Clemens
• Hangin' with Mr. Cooper — Victor
• Melrose Place — Roger Chambers
• 1992Mr. Saturday Night — A.D.
• 1991Dead Silence — Dep. Ryan
• 1991Eve of Destruction — Carter
• 1991Night Eyes II — Jesse Younger
• 1991The Heroes of Desert Storm — Julian Crumes
• Cop Rock — Juror
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air — Eugene
• Alien Nation
• Family Matters — Jeff
• Mancuso, F.B.I.
• The People Next Door — Answering Machine Guy
• Freddy's Nightmares — Dr. Henry Picard
• Police Story
• 1988Police Story: Cop Killer
• 1988Pulse — Policeman
• 1988Roots: The Gift — Marcellus
• 1988Who Gets the Friends?
• 21 Jump Street — Ray Davies
• Beauty and the Beast — Lieutenant Eric Parker
• 1987Death Wish 4: The Crackdown — Jesse
• Jake and the Fatman
• 1987Spaceballs — Trooper
• Star Trek: The Next Generation — Devor
• The Highwayman — D.C. Montana
• 1987Timestalkers — Sgt. Filton
• thirtysomething
• 1986Casebusters — Dixon
• 1986Crossroads — Robert Johnson
• 1986Fire with Fire — Jerry
• Heart of the City — Collins
• Throb
• Amazing Stories — Security guard
• The Twilight Zone — Archer (segment "Kentucky Rye"), Archer (segment "Voices in the Earth")
• Hunter — Sam
• Hill Street Blues — Burton
• Vampire Slayer — News Reporter (voice), Director, Producer

Appearances as themselves (13)

• 2024To the Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager — Self
• The Shuttlepod Show — Self
• The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek — Self
• Star Trek Day — Self
• The Ready Room — Self
• 201650 Years of Star Trek — Self
• 2010The Captains of The Final Frontier — Self
• 2004Star Trek's Favorite Moments — Self
• 1996Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond — Self
• 1995E! Inside Star Trek: Voyager — Himself
• 1995Launch of Star Trek: Voyager — Himself
• 1995Star Trek: Voyager - Inside the New Adventure — Self
• 1992The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live! — self