Livingston Dell in Ocean's Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen: Played by Eddie Jemison

Livingston Dell is a member of Danny Ocean's crew, played by Eddie Jemison in Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). Jemison plays him in all three films of the Soderbergh trilogy, billed tenth, twelfth, then thirteenth, which makes Dell a steady ensemble presence rather than a headline name.

No alternate name or nickname appears in the credits; he is Livingston Dell in all three films.

The crew is the heart of the series. In Ocean's Eleven, Danny Ocean and Rusty Ryan gather a team of specialists that includes a pickpocket, a demolitions expert, a card dealer and an acrobat. Dell sits in that ensemble next to Linus Caldwell, Basher Tarr, Frank Catton, Yen and Saul Bloom, with Reuben Tishkoff backing the job.

He does not appear in the cast of the 1960 Ocean's Eleven, which follows a different group of Second World War veterans, or in Ocean's Eight (2018), whose crew is led by Debbie Ocean.

Livingston Dell has no solo storyline; he is part of Danny Ocean's crew in the Las Vegas vault job of Ocean's Eleven, the European comeback of Ocean's Twelve and the revenge heist of Ocean's Thirteen.

In Ocean's Eleven, Danny Ocean walks out of a New Jersey prison and plans to rob a vault shared by three casinos owned by Terry Benedict. The team builds a replica of the vault to rehearse, knocks out power across the city with a device that creates an electromagnetic pulse, and feeds Benedict's security staff a looped recording of the vault. That loop is the cleverest piece of engineering in the job, because Terry Benedict believes the vault is still guarded while the real money is carried out. Dell is billed tenth in the crew that pulls it off.

In Ocean's Twelve, Terry Benedict tracks down all eleven members of Danny Ocean's old crew and demands his money back with interest within two weeks. The group scatters to Europe, an early Amsterdam job goes wrong, and a rival thief called the Night Fox forces a bet over a Fabergé egg. The scheme is interrupted and most of the crew ends up in custody before Linus Caldwell's mother, an FBI agent, helps get them freed. Dell is billed twelfth.

In Ocean's Thirteen, Danny Ocean's crew returns to Las Vegas after Willy Bank cheats Reuben Tishkoff out of a hotel deal. Their plan is to rig the tables and slot machines so players win big, ruin the opening and beat the casino's cheat detection system. When their drilling equipment fails, they turn to Terry Benedict for money. Dell is billed thirteenth.

Livingston Dell's closest connections are Danny Ocean and Rusty Ryan, who assemble the crew, and the fellow crew members billed around him in all three films.

Terry Benedict is the crew's opponent in the first film, the man demanding repayment in the second and an uneasy backer in the third. Willy Bank is the target of the revenge job in Ocean's Thirteen. Those relationships shape every job the crew takes.

The TMDB cast lists show the same faces around Dell in all three films: George Clooney as Danny Ocean, Brad Pitt as Rusty Ryan, Matt Damon as Linus Caldwell, Don Cheadle as Basher Tarr, Casey Affleck as Virgil Malloy, Scott Caan as Turk Malloy, Bernie Mac as Frank Catton, Elliott Gould as Reuben Tishkoff, Carl Reiner as Saul Bloom, Andy Garcia as Terry Benedict and Shaobo Qin as Yen (credited as The Amazing Yen in Ocean's Twelve). Julia Roberts as Tess Ocean joins the first two films but not the third.

Livingston Dell survives to the end of the trilogy as a free member of the crew. Each film closes with the crew intact: Ocean's Eleven ends with the gang gathered in front of the Bellagio fountain, Ocean's Twelve ends with the debt settled and the crew free, and Ocean's Thirteen ends with the rigged casino paying out and the crew left free and wealthy.

Nothing in the three films' plots marks Dell's death, capture for good or departure from the group. He does not return in Ocean's Eight, but that film follows Debbie Ocean and a new team, so his absence there is a casting choice of that spin-off, not a plot event.

The ending of Ocean's Thirteen also settles the old crew's score: the crew uses part of the take to set Reuben Tishkoff up with his own casino, and Danny Ocean gives Terry Benedict's share to charity in Benedict's name.

Dell's best showcase is the Ocean's Eleven vault heist, where the crew's looped security feed keeps Terry Benedict convinced the vault is guarded. It is the kind of job a mechanic would admire, because every part has to run on time: the replica vault for rehearsal, the electromagnetic pulse to kill the lights, and the fake feed that keeps Benedict calm while the cash walks out.

The second pick is the opening of the Thirteen revenge plan, where the crew sets out to beat a casino's cheat detection system and rig the games rather than steal from a vault. That is a different kind of job, one built on probability and timing, and the ensemble earns its place by making it feel plausible.

Ocean's Twelve is the least tidy of the three, and Dell is billed twelfth there, behind newcomers Catherine Zeta-Jones and Vincent Cassel. If you want the crew working at its sharpest, start with Ocean's Eleven and then follow the Ocean's movies in watch order.