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 film Too Many Cooks.
Career
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
| 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 | Jacob's Ladder | Commuter | ||
| 2023 | Fetal Position | Jedidiah | short film | |
| TBA | Miss Winn's Garden | Mr. Hill | short film | |
| Penance Lane | Crazy Ray | post-production | ||
| Indomitable | Bartender Jack | post-production | ||
| The Bounty Hunter | Clarence 'Preacher' Turner | filming | ||
| The Poison Rose | Sanitarium Patient | filming | ||
| Brothers | TBA |
| 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
- 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.