An Emmy Award-winning actor for his work on "thirtysomething," Timothy Busfield has been a regular or recurring character on 11 television series including "All My Children," "Reggie," "The Paper Chase," "Family Ties," "Trapper John, M.D," "thirtysomething," "The Byrds Of Paradise," "Champs," "The West Wing," "ED," and "Without A Trace." Busfield has appeared in over 30 feature films and television movies including "Stripes," "Revenge of the Nerds" (parts one and two), "Field of Dreams," "Sneakers," "Quiz Show," "Striking Distance," "Little Big League," "First Kid," and "National Security." Busfield has directed series such as "thirtysomething," "Sports Night," "ED," "Las Vegas" and "Without A Trace."

In addition to directing over 40 episodes of television Timothy has served as Co-Executive Producer on two series "ED," and "Without A Trace." As a theater actor he has appeared in over 50 plays including the Broadway productions of Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and Aaron Sorkin's "A Few Good Men." He has also directed over 25 theater productions.

Busfield has produced over 100 professional theater productions. He also founded two of the nations most productive new works theaters; The Fantasy Theatre (named Honorary State Children's Theatre of California) was founded in 1986 and tours to more than 140,000 Northern California children a year. The highly respected and awarded B. Street Theatre, founded in 1992, has premiered original or west coast productions by Aaron Sorkin, Richard Dresser, Morris Panych, Joe DePietro, James McLure, Jane Martin, Jeff Daniels, Kenneth Lonnergan, and many other world-class playwrights.


Attended school in East Lansing, Michigan Son, Wilson, with his first wife. He is married to Jenny Merwin, sister of Melissa Merwin who is married to Joshua Malina. Both Malina and Busfield have starred in "The West Wing" (1999). Tim has been interested in standard-bred harness horse racing since the late 1980s and brought the cast of "thirtysomething" (1987) with him to Los Alamitos Ractrack in 1988 for a night of harness racing. Tim has owned several standard-bred horses, and he can be seen sometimes at the Golden Bear racetrack at Cal Expo in Sacramento, California, watching harness racing with his children. Following the demise of "Trapper John," Tim joined forces with his brother Buck to create the Fantasy Theatre, a professional touring company for children's audiences - and later Honorary State Children's Theater for California - based in his new hometown of Sacramento. In 1981, he moved to New York City, NY, where he joined the Circle Repertory Company for their production of Lanford Wilson's "Talley and Son". T. Landed his first professional acting job at 18 in a children's theater adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".