Tim Russell
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Tim Russell is a radio announcer and voice actor (AFTRA/SAG) in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. He is “Entertainment Editor” in the early morning hours at WCCO-AM radio and one of the actors on Garrison Keillor's radio show, A Prairie Home Companion. As a voice-over talent & announcer, Tim Russell also appears in radio and television commercials.
Russell graduated from the University of Notre Dame and attended law school at the University of Minnesota. He took broadcasting classes at Brown Institute of Broadcasting in Minneapolis.
He began his radio career at WDBQ-AM in Dubuque, Iowa. He began work at WCCO-FM when it went on the air in 1973. While working there he began developing character voices and doing commercials. Between 1983 and 1993, he worked at WCCO-AM. Thereafter, he worked for country station KJJO-FM and "easy listening" station KLBB-AM.
In 1994, he began performing on the public radio show, A Prairie Home Companion. As a radio comedy actor, Russell is the voice behind Dusty from "Lives of the Cowboys", Fred Farell, and all of the famous celebrities.
In 1997, he went back to work for WCCO-AM. Russell was voted the "Outstanding Broadcast Personality" by the Minnesota Broadcasters Association.
Tim Russell plays "Al, the Stage Manager" in A Prairie Home Companion, 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. The film was released in theaters June 9, 2006.
