William Tokarsky
William Tokarsky is an American character actor known for his recurring role as Len on Welcome to Flatch . He is also known for playing the Demon William on the Adult Swim series Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell , and the Killer in the cult short film Too Many Cooks .
Career
[edit ]Tokarsky began acting following retirement from a job at General Motors in Doraville, Georgia.[1] While visiting the film set for Get Low to catch a glimpse of its stars, Robert Duvall and Bill Murray, Tokarsky spoke with some extras and decided that acting "looked like fun".[1] His first roles were bit parts in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues . Following his role as William the Demon on the Adult Swim series Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell , Tokarsky was cast as the killer Bill in the short film Too Many Cooks .[2] [3]
In a 2015 article about Adult Swim for the British newspaper The Guardian , it was mentioned that tourists took photos of "William Tokarsky’s grim face, as he reprises his role from Adult Swim’s 70s and 80s sitcom title-sequence parody Too Many Cooks."[4]
In 2015, a life cast mold of Tokarsky was made by Silver Scream FX Lab.[5]
Filmography
[edit ]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Someone Else | |
| Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues | Cab Driver | ||
| 2014 | Too Many Cooks | Killer | short film |
| Lifelines | Mike/Michael | short film | |
| Play | Birtram Terra | ||
| Home for the Holiday | Santa | short video | |
| Hearts of Dust | Chaplain | short film | |
| 2015 | The Lost Footage | The Body | short film |
| Auld Lang Syne | The Black Mask | short film | |
| The Exchange CMF | Brother 2 | short film | |
| Mallick | Cheating Lawyer | short film | |
| Five Windows | Thomas | short film | |
| Keening Nigh | The Taise | short film | |
| Samhain | Grandpaw | short film | |
| Gwilliam | Ex-Con | short film | |
| Roanoke: Search for the Lost Colony | Englishman #1 | ||
| 2016 | Crime Avenue | Harvey Feueranzunder | short film |
| Bleed | Prisoner | ||
| Osterhase | Osterhase | short film | |
| Hart of America | Not the serial killer | TV short | |
| The Conscience | Michael Bailey | short film | |
| Conflicted | Boss | short film | |
| Escape | Killer | short film | |
| Merry Christmas, Baby | Nursing Home Resident | ||
| Behind 13 | Phil | ||
| 2017 | The People Could Fly | Master | short film |
| Tragedy Girls | Mr. Gordon | ||
| Hamlet & Hutch | Trailer Park Trash | ||
| The God Inside My Ear | Mr. Stuffy Bottoms | voice | |
| Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | Bread/Cake Vendor | ||
| Manak: Deck The Halls | Veteran | short video | |
| Progidy [sic?] | Coach Ramrod | ||
| 2018 | The Good Die Young | Buck | |
| Through Her Eyes | Harvey Winstein | ||
| Tropical Cop Tales | Man with Gold Boots | ||
| My Annoying Dead Brother | Groundskeeper | ||
| Trial by Fire | Man in the Stetson Hat | ||
| 2019 | The Poison Rose | Sanitarium Patient | |
| Jacob's Ladder | Commuter | ||
| 2020 | Penance Lane | Crazy Ray | |
| 2023 | Fetal Position | Jedidiah | short film |
| The Marks | Sinclair | ||
| 2024 | Brothers | TBA | |
| TBA | Miss Winn's Garden | Mr. Hill | short film |
| Indomitable | Bartender Jack | post-production | |
| The Bounty Hunter | Clarence 'Preacher' Turner | filming |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Swamp Murders | Choppin Charlie | Episode: "Quilbillies" |
| 2015 | The Carbonaro Effect | Eugene Burger | Episode: "Dangerously Drinkable" |
| 2015 | Snapped: Killer Couples | Willis Honeycutt | documentary; episode: "Dena Riley & Richard Dean Davis" |
| 2015 | Fatal Attraction | Neighbor | documentary; episode: Social Media Murder |
| 2015 | Victoria's Path | Gruff the Troll | Episode: "My Bully" |
| 2014-16 | Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda | Freddie/Joe Economy | documentary; 2 episodes: "Bump in the Night", "Murder Haunts Me" |
| 2016 | #killerpost | Melvin Potter | Episode: "Payne/Potter" |
| 2016 | Hidden America with Jonah Ray | Redneck | Episode: "Atlanta: Past, Present, Living, and Dead" |
| 2014-2016 | It's Supernatural! | Crippled Man/Neighbor | 3 episodes: "James Durham", "Steve Swanson", "Aliss Cresswell 2016" |
| 2015–2016 | The Bubble | Creepy Stalker | Mini-series; 2 episodes: "Double Trouble", "Pilot" |
| 2013-2017 | Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell | William/Demon William | 14 episodes |
| 2017 | Kelly Talk Show | Himself | |
| 2017 | Love in 500 Characters | Jake | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2018 | Murder Comes to Town | Carl Sanders | documentary; episode: "The Sinner and the Saint" |
| 2018 | Lodge 49 | Older Gentleman | Episode: "Full Fathom Five" |
| 2018 | Murder by Numbers | Neighbor | Episode: "Monster Among Us" |
| 2020 | A-Men | Nuada Necht | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2022 | Welcome to Flatch | Len | 7 episodes |
References
[edit ]- ^ a b Joyner, Chris (4 January 2018). "Watchdog: New tax bill bad for Georgia's film workers". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
- ^ "Talking With the Killer From 'Too Many Cooks'". Vulture. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
- ^ "Adult Swim smash "Too Many Cooks" is made with Atlanta ingredients". Atlanta Magazine. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
- ^ Lee, Cristina (18 June 2015). "A day inside Adult Swim: the craziest TV network in America". The Guardian. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
- ^ "Molding William Tokarsky". SSFXLab. Retrieved August 19, 2018.