Ray McKinnon (actor)

Ray McKinnon
Born	(1957-11-15) November 15, 1957 Adel, Georgia, U.S.
Years active	1989-present
Spouse(s)	Lisa Blount (1998-2010) (her death)

Ray McKinnon (born November 15, 1957) is an American actor, screenwriter, film director and producer. He was married to actress and producer Lisa Blount from 1998 until her death on October 25, 2010. He graduated with a degree in Theatre from Valdosta State University.

Along with his wife, McKinnon won the Academy Award in the category Live Action Short Film in 2001 for The Accountant. The film was produced by Ginny Mule Pictures, a company founded by himself, Lisa Blount and Walton Goggins. McKinnon currently lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, the hometown of his late wife. As an actor, he is best known for his role as Reverend Smith in the HBO series Deadwood and for his role as Lincoln Potter in the fourth season of the critically acclaimed FX show Sons of Anarchy.

McKinnon wrote, produced, directed and played Snake in the critically acclaimed 2004 film Chrystal starring Blount and Billy Bob Thornton. The supporting cast included Goggins, Grace Zabriskie, Harry Lennix, Harry Dean Stanton and Johnny Galecki.

He created the television series Rectify, the first original series from Sundance Channel. The first season was broadcast from April to May 2013 and is on its third season.

Filmography

Actor

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1989	In the Heat of the Night	Jethro Puller	1989–1991
1989	Driving Miss Daisy	Trooper #1
1991	Bugsy	David Hinton
	Designing Women	Dwayne Dobber	1991–1992
1993	Sommersby	Lawyer Webb
	Needful Things	Deputy Norris Ridgewick
1994	The Stand	Charlie D. Campion	TV mini-series
	Matlock	Wade Parsons
	Roswell	Deputy Joe Pritchard
1995	Walker, Texas Ranger	Garland Briscoe
	Apollo 13	FIDO (Flight Dynamics Officer), White team
	The Net	Dale
1996	Dead Man's Walk	Long Bill Coleman
	The Pretender	Lawson	Goodbye Lover-Rollins
1999	NYPD Blue	Ted
2000	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Vernon T. Waldrip
2001	The Practice	Frank Vaughan
	The Accountant	The Accountant
2002	The X Files	Mad Wayne
	Philly	Dewey Hicks
2003	The Missing	Russell J. Wittick, photographer
2004	Deadwood	Rev. H.W. Smith
	Chrystal	Snake
2006	Come Early Morning	Toby
	Things That Hang from Trees	Tom Wheeler Sr.
2007	Randy and The Mob	Randy and Cecil Pearson
2008	Comanche Moon	Bill Coleman	TV mini-series
	The Last Lullaby	Ominous Figure
2009	That Evening Sun	Lonzo Choat	Nominated - Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male
	The Blind Side	Coach Burt Cotton
2010	Justified	Mr. Duke	Blind Spot, Season 1, Episode 7
2011	Sons of Anarchy	Lincoln Potter
	Dolphin Tale	Mr. Doyle
	Take Shelter	Kyle
	Footloose	Wes Warnicker
2012	Mud	Senior

Director

Year	Film	Other notes
2001	The Accountant	Academy Award for Live Action Short Film shared with Lisa Blount & Walton Goggins
2004	Chrystal
2006	Randy and The Mob
2013	Rectify	"Jacob's Ladder" (season 1, episode 6)

Screenwriter

Year	Film	Other notes
2001	The Accountant
2004	Chrystal
2006	Randy and The Mob
2013–present	Rectify	Creator and head writer

Producer

Year	Film	Other notes
2004	Chrystal
2008	I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down
2013–present	Rectify	Executive producer

External links

• Ray McKinnon at the Internet Movie Database