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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/coy9c0ev_400x400.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350: ''[[Franchise/{{Saw}} "I want to play a game."]]'']]
3	->''"Tobin was the guy laying facedown for seven days. He just laid in that pool of blood. It was never like, 'Oh, I gotta lay here.' It was like, 'That's what I gotta do... I lay in the pool of blood.'"''
4	-->-- '''David Armstrong''', Director of Photography on ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''
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6	Tobin Bell (born Joseph Henry Tobin, Jr., August 7, 1942 in Queens, New York) is an American actor best known for portraying John Kramer in the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' franchise. An off-Broadway theater veteran, he did mostly background work for the first part of his screen career, and had settled into a character actor role in the 1990s, only for ''Saw'' to catapult him to the status of horror icon.
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8	!!Filmography
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10	[[AC:Film]]
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12	* ''Film/MississippiBurning'' (1988) as Agent Stokes
13	* ''Film/AnInnocentMan'' (1989) as Zeke
14	* ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'' (1990) as Parole Officer
15	* ''Film/TheFirm'' (1993) as The Nordic Man
16	* ''Film/InTheLineOfFire'' (1993) as Mendoza
17	* ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead'' (1995) as Dog Kelly
18	* ''Film/BestOfTheBestWithoutWarning'' (1998) as Lukasz Slava
19	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'' (2000) as Zaragoza
20	* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' as [[Characters/SawJohnKramer John Kramer/Jigsaw]]:
21	** ''Film/SawI'' (2004)
22	** ''Film/SawII'' (2005)
23	** ''Film/SawIII'' (2006)
24	** ''Film/SawIV'' (2007)
25	** ''Film/SawV'' (2008)
26	** ''Film/SawVI'' (2009)
27	** ''Film/Saw3D'' (2010)
28	** ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'' (2017)
29	** ''Film/SawX'' (2023)
30	* ''Film/TwelveFeetDeep'' (2017) as [=McGradey=]
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32	[[AC:Television]]
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34	* ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS07E18BrandX Brand X]]" (2000), as Ashman
35	* ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "[[Recap/TheSopranosS3E13ArmyOfOne Army of One]]" as Maj. Carl Zwingli
36	* ''Series/TwentyFour'' as Peter Kingsley (Season 2)
37	* ''Series/Charmed1998'' as Orin.
38	* ''Series/TheKillPoint'' as Alan Beck
39	* ''Series/TheFlash2014'' as Dr. Alchemy/Savitar (Voice)
40	* ''Series/{{Creepshow}}'' episode "Grey Matter" as Chief Connors
41	* ''Series/MacGyver2016'' as Leland (Season 4)
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43	!!Tropes associated with Tobin's performances:
44	* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: Tobin will often write his own dialogue for Jigsaw, or at least be allowed to tweak the script to his liking. He's even been known to help design traps to make them more thematically relevant.

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