Tim Russell

Tim Russell (born 1947) is an American radio announcer and voice actor (AFTRA/SAG) in Minneapolis – Saint Paul.

As a radio comedy actor, he is the voice behind Dusty from "Lives of the Cowboys", Bill Clinton[1] and many other characters in sketches that also utilized his many celebrity and politician impressions.

Russell played "Al, the Stage Manager" in A Prairie Home Companion (2006), the movie based on a screenplay by Garrison Keillor and filmed by Robert Altman at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota during the summer of 2005.

In 2017, A Prairie Home Companion was given a new name, Live From Here with Chris Thile, to reflect the change in hosts.

In addition to his role in the film version of A Prairie Home Companion, Russell had small parts in two films set in Minnesota, Little Big League (1994) and the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man (2009), and I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016).