Timothy Ross Armstrong is an American musician, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor. Known for his distinctive hoarse and soulful voice, he is the singer/guitarist for the punk rock band Rancid and hip hop/punk rock supergroup Transplants. Prior to forming Rancid, Armstrong was in the ska punk band Operation Ivy. In 1997, along with Brett Gurewitz of the band Bad Religion and owner of Epitaph Records, Armstrong founded Hellcat Records. In 2012, through his website, Armstrong started releasing music that influenced him, along with stripped-down cover songs of his own under the name Tim Timebomb. Armstrong is also a songwriter for other artists. Armstrong won a Grammy Award for his work with Jimmy Cliff and Pink, and has also worked with Joe Walsh and the Interrupters. At the age of five, Armstrong met Matt Freeman while playing Little League Baseball. They grew up a few blocks apart in Albany, California, where Armstrong lived with his mother, father, and older brother, Jeff. Freeman and Armstrong formed bands many years later based on their shared love of bands such as the Clash and the Ramones. They both went to Albany High School. Armstrong's relationship with Bikini Kill drummer Tobi Vail inspired the Rancid song "Olympia, WA" from ...And Out Come the Wolves. He was married to musician Brody Dalle from 1997 to 2003. They met in 1995, when Dalle was 16 and Armstrong was 30, after Rancid and Dalle's band Sourpuss both played Summersault Festival in Australia. In 1997, when Dalle was 18, she moved to Los Angeles to live with Armstrong, and she formed the band the Distillers. The couple separated in 2003, after Armstrong saw a picture of Dalle kissing Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme in an issue of Rolling Stone magazine; she and Homme would later marry. Homme claimed he received death threats from Armstrong's fans. Dalle claimed Armstrong was very controlling of her and it took her three years to leave him. Some of Rancid's songs on 1998's Life Won't Wait ("Who Would've Thought", "Corazón de Oro") detail Armstrong and Dalle's relationship, and songs on 2003's Indestructible ("Fall Back Down", "Ghost Band", "Tropical London") deal with Armstrong's feelings about his divorce. Armstrong's cousin, Scott, was the guitarist for Canadian punk band Desperate Minds, but they did not know each other until they were introduced at a show in Chicago in 1988 by John Jughead of Screeching Weasel
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Biography from TMDB.
- November 25, 1965 (60)
- Albany, California, USA
- Actor, composer and producer
- 8 on MovieCove · 16 credits in all
Known for
What are Tim Armstrong's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Survival.
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
Light 2 · Serious 2 · Dark 1
A split, not a type: Grounded 4 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 1
Gentle 1 · Charged 2 · Intense 2
A split, not a type: Steady 3 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 3 · Funny 0
Slow burn 4 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
Casual 3 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 4 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 1
Resolved 5 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Roles they play
- Heraldas Narrator in Live Freaky Die Freaky (2006)
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet3
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Tim Armstrong's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 5 of their 8 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (3).
- Curiosity Stream
Subscription and free streaming for Tim Armstrong's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
16 credits, 8 with a MovieCove page; 14 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Freaky Tales(2024)
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
The Twilight Zone(2019)
Midcredits score: 18th percentile of all shows
Everything You Wanted to Know About Gay Porn Stars: The Movie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Everything You Wanted to Know About Gay Porn Stars *But Were Afraid to Ask (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Rancid: The Music Videos: 1993-2003 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Punk's Not Dead(2007)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
Live Freaky Die Freaky(2006)
Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all films
Give 'Em The Boot (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films
Punk Rock Summer Camp (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
South Park(1997)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows
Larry is Dead (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
The X-Files(1993)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all showsOperation Ivy - Live at the Boilermaker (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Under The Influence: New York Hardcore (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 50th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 16 titles, 14 of them dated from 1993 to 2025; peak year 2025.
Biggest box office
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk (2017)
Highest rated
Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear (2026)
Film career
Peak 2025 · steadily prominent in film for years. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 2004Screen debut· The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Tim Armstrong's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 56th percentile, the median of all 5; across their 5 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 92nd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up4
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 8 titles are Universally Loved.
- Universally Loved3
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser1
- Mixed3
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Tim Armstrong work with?
People who share at least 2 of Tim Armstrong's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Billie Joe Armstrong shares the most, 3.
Actors
- Billie Joe ArmstrongShared titles: Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk (2017), Punk's Not Dead (2007), Live Freaky Die Freaky (2006)See all 3 shared titles with Billie Joe Armstrong
- Rob AstonShared titles: Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear (2026), Live Freaky Die Freaky (2006)See all 2 shared titles with Rob Aston
- Travis BarkerShared titles: Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear (2026), Live Freaky Die Freaky (2006)See all 2 shared titles with Travis Barker
- Fat MikeShared titles: Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk (2017), Punk's Not Dead (2007)See all 2 shared titles with Fat Mike
