Timothy Patrick Blaney (born April 23, 1959) is an American puppeteer and voice actor. He has provided the voices for Frank the Pug in the Men in Black franchise,[1][2][3][4] and the robot Johnny 5 in Short Circuit and Short Circuit 2.

Filmography

Films

Year Title Role Notes
1985 The Hugga Bunch Additional puppeteer Television film
1986 Short Circuit Number 5/"Johnny Five" (voice) [5]
1986 Flight of the Navigator Puppeteer, Puckmaren (voice)
1988 Short Circuit 2 Johnny 5 (voice) [5]
1989 The Abyss Puppeteer
1994 Muppet Classic Theater Additional Muppet Performer
1997 Men in Black Frank the Pug (voice) [5]
1998 Blues Brothers 2000 Puppeteer
2000 How the Grinch Stole Christmas Puppeteer
2002 Men in Black II Frank the Pug (voice) [5]
2004 The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Goofy Goober (voice) [5]
2004 Team America: World Police Puppeteer
2008 Forgetting Sarah Marshall Puppeteer
2008 Studio DC: Almost Live Puppeteer
2009 Where the Wild Things Are Puppeteer
2011 The Muppets Additional Muppet Performer
2012 Casa de mi padre Puppeteer
2012 Men in Black 3 Worm Guy #4 (voice) [5]
2013 Lady Gaga and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular Additional Muppet Performer
2014 Muppets Most Wanted LA Muppet Performer
2017 Soylent Scrooge: Or, Christmas Is Made of People Mr. Fezziwig (voice)
2018 It's A Tell-Tale Valentine, Eddie Poe! Edgar Allan Poe, Snooby, Woodraven (voice)
2018 The Happytime Murders Additional puppet performer
2018 The Tragicall Historie of Plan the IX The Ruler (voice)
2018 Do Rabbots Dream of Electric Cheepz? Mr. Marigold (voice)
2018 It's the Great Spaghetti Squash, Eddie Poe! Snooby, Woodraven (voice)
2019 Albert Kitschschlock Presents: The Films That Blew Too Much Narrator (voice)
2019 Men in Black: International Frank the Pug (voice)
2019 The Legend of Joan of Arc Ladvenu (voice)
2020 It's the Masque of the Polychrome Death, Eddie Poe! Snooby (voice)
2020 The Young Witchfinder Mauldrix, Goobley Television film
2021 It's A Mystery Trip to the Rue Morgue, Eddie Poe! Edgar Allan Poe, Snooby, Woodraven (voice)

Short film

Year Title Role Notes
1989 The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: The Legend of Grimace Island Long John Silver, Captain Smollett (voice) Direct-to-video
2002 MIB ADR Self
2002 Creature Featurettes Self
2009 The Macabre World of Lavender Williams Puppeteer
2014 Pillywags Mansion Greg [5]
2020 Life After the Navigator Self

TV series

Year Title Role Notes
1980 Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters Puppeteer Episode #1.3
1984-1994 McDonaldland Puppeteer
1994 Dinosaurs Additional Dinosaur Performer "Earl's Big Jackpot" (1994)
1996–1997 Muppets Tonight Additional Muppets (voice) "Cindy Crawford" (1996)
Season 2 (1996-1997) episodes 1, 5, 6, 7
2004 Angel Puppeteer, Grufus Episode: "Smile Time"
2006 Still Standing Jess Milton Episode: "Still Eighteen"
2013 Community Puppeteer Episode: "Intro to Felt Surrogacy"
2013–2017 Uncle Grandpa Emperor Krell, additional voices 2 episodes
2017–2018 Mystery Science Theater 3000 GPC (puppeteer)

Events

Year Title Role Notes
2017 The Muppets Take the Bowl Additional Muppet Performer Live show at the Hollywood Bowl, Sept. 8–10
2018 The Muppets Take the O2 Additional Muppet Performer Live show at the O2 Arena, Jul. 13-14

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
2011 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Male Argonians, Usha
2012 Asura's Wrath Kagebosh English dub
2012 MIB: Alien Crisis Frank the Pug, Archeologist, C-YA Programmer Riddick [5]
2012 Guild Wars 2 Vlast
2013 Marvel Heroes Ben Urich [5]
2017 Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire Vlast
2019 Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order Kingpin [5]
2022 Men in Black: First Assignment — VR Experience Frank the Pug English dub

References

  1. ^ Lindsay, Jessica (June 14, 2019). "Men in Black: International cast and who has returned since Men In Black 3?". Metro. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  2. ^ Karger, Dave (July 11, 2002). "The story behind MIBII's scene-stealing dog". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  3. ^ Beck, Lia (June 13, 2019). "Everything You May Have Forgotten About Emma Thompson's Intimidating MIB Character". Bustle. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  4. ^ Wong, Kevin (June 17, 2019). "'Men in Black: International': 10 Connections To The First Three Movies". Complex. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Tim Blaney (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved March 30, 2025. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
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