Acting
Feb 7, 1943
Los Angeles, California, USA
Creed Bratton
Acting
Biography
**Creed Bratton** (born William Charles Schneider on February 8, 1943) is an American actor, musician, singer, and songwriter. Known for his offbeat persona, deadpan delivery, and dual career in classic rock and television comedy, he achieved cult fame portraying a fictionalized, eccentric version of himself on the hit NBC mockumentary series *The Office* (2005 to 2013). Born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in Coarsegold near Yosemite, Bratton showed early musical aptitude, picking up the guitar as a teenager. After studying drama at the College of the Sequoias and Sacramento State College, he traveled extensively across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as an itinerant musician. In the late 1960s, he co-founded the legendary American folk-rock group The Grass Roots, playing lead guitar and singing vocals. During his tenure, the band generated a string of major Billboard hits, including "Let's Live for Today" and "Midnight Confessions," before he departed in 1969 to pursue solo projects and acting. Following decades as a working character actor and recording artist, Bratton joined the cast of *The Office* during its first season. Initially hired as an extra, he pitched a self-scripted talking-head segment showcasing a bumbling, morally ambiguous, and mysterious older employee who shared his real name. The bit became a hit with showrunner Greg Daniels, turning Creed Bratton into a beloved recurring character who served as Dunder Mifflin's inscrutable quality assurance manager. Along with the ensemble cast, he won two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Outside of *The Office*, Bratton has appeared in independent films and television series, including *Terri* (2011), *The Guilt Trip* (2012), *Grace and Frankie*, and *Into the Dark*. He has maintained an active recording and touring career, releasing numerous solo folk-rock albums such as *Chasin' the Ball* (2001), *While the Young Punks Dance* (2018), and *Slightly Altered* (2020), frequently blending his live musical performances with storytelling and comedy. He remains an enduring, multi-talented fixture in American pop culture.
Feature Films (27)
A significantly deformed but highly intelligent teenage boy and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.
Mask
A young woman pretends to be pregnant in order to avoid being fired from her job. When that gets her a bunch of special treatment by everyone involved in her life, she tries to keep up the lie for nine months.
Labor Pains
Terri, a pajama-clad, disaffected high school student learns how to engage the world with the help of Mr. Fitzgerald, his assistant principal.
Terri
A strait-laced FBI agent and a hulking, big-hearted narcotics cop team up to track down a drug lord associated with a militant hate group.
The Wild Pair
The almost entirely true story of Abraham Lincoln and his self-appointed bodyguard, U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon - a banjo-playing Southerner who foiled repeated attempts on the President's life, and kept him functioning during the darkest hours of the Civil War.
Saving Lincoln
The Ghastly Love of Johnny X is a quirky adventure that defies categorization. It combines elements of science-fiction, film noir, teen angst and even musical comedy to create an entertainment unlike any other. With familiar faces like Reggie Bannister, Paul Williams, and Kevin McCarthy, this independently produced film pays homage to cult films of a bygone era.
The Ghastly Love of Johnny X
Television & Series (15)
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
The Office
Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.
Quincy, M.E.
Based on Scott Aukerman’s popular podcast of the same name, COMEDY BANG! BANG! cleverly riffs on the well-known format of the late night talk show, infusing celebrity appearances and comedy sketches with a tinge of the surreal. In each episode, Aukerman engages his guests with unfiltered and improvisational lines of questioning, punctuated by banter and beats provided by bandleader, one-man musical mastermind Reggie Watts, to reinvent the traditional celebrity interview. Packed with character cameos, filmic shorts, sketches and games set amongst an off-beat world, COMEDY BANG! BANG! delivers thirty minutes of absurd laugh-loaded fun featuring some of the biggest names in comedy.
Comedy Bang! Bang!
A group of low-level employees take control of a major corporation after accidentally killing their boss.
The New V.I.P.'s
Young Finn and his shape-shifting dog buddy, Jake, go on a series of surreal adventures as they journey through the postapocalyptic Land of Ooo.
