Jim Ortlieb is an actor, known for Contagion, Magnolia, Home Alone, and Flatliners. Other film credits include Shakti's Retreat, Black Mail, Drunkboat, Ernesto, The Onion Movie, The Enigma with a Stigma, Say Uncle, Latter Days, A Mighty Wind, Bug, Crazy as Hell, Chain Reaction, The Babe, and Scared Justice.

Television credits include Dr. George Murrow on ABC’s Boston Legal, Professor Bill Hodges on WB’s Felicity, and Nasedo/Ed Harding on WB’s Roswell.

Theatre credits include his Broadway debut as Justin Tolman/Jim Harbord/Doctor in The Farnsworth Invention (Music Box Theatre); the Boss in Of Mice and Men (Longacre Theatre); and Arvide Abernathy in Guys and Dolls (Nederlander Theatre); and Regionally, as Sheriff Jim in Trevor (Circle X Theatre); George Aaronow in Glengarry Glen Ross, and George in Half 'n Half 'n Half (Merrimack Repertory); Roger in Sunset Park (Inkwell Theatre); and Albert Einstein in Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Weston Playhouse Theatre).