1953-12-09 Christopher, Illinois, USA
John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor. He has received several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Malkovich started his career as a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 1976. He moved to New York City, acting in a Steppenwolf production of the Sam Shepard play True West (1980). He made his Broadway debut as Biff in the revival of the Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman (1984). He directed the Harold Pinter play The Caretaker(1986) and acted in Lanford Wilson's Burn This(1987). Malkovich has received two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his performances in Places in the Heart (1984) and In the Line of Fire (1993). Other films include The Killing Fields (1984), Empire of the Sun (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Of Mice and Men (1992), Con Air (1997), Rounders (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999), Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Ripley's Game (2002), Johnny English (2003), Burn After Reading (2008), and Red (2010). He has also produced films such as Ghost World (2001), Juno (2007), and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012). For his work on television, he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for Death of a Salesman (1985). His other Emmy-nominated roles were for portraying Herman J. Mankiewicz in RKO 281 (1999) and Charles Talleyrand in Napoléon (2002). Other television roles include Crossbones (2014), Billions (2018–19), The New Pope (2020), and Space Force (2020–2022).
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100 Years | 2099-12-31 | |
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Sacrifice | Gunnar | 2026-08-20 |
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In the Hand of Dante | Joe Black | 2025-09-03 |
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Cravata galbenă | Sergiu Celibidache | 2025-11-14 |
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Opus | Alfred Moretti | 2025-03-13 |
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A Vida dos Espelhos | 2025-07-13 | |
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Safe Sets - Dying to Work in the Film Industry | self | 2024-10-19 |
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The Line | Beach Miller | 2024-10-18 |
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A Journey to Sundance | Self | 2023-01-01 |
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Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes | Seneca | 2023-02-20 |
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Fool's Paradise | Ed Cote | 2023-05-12 |
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Complètement Cramé ! | Andrew Blake | 2023-11-01 |
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One Ranger | Geddes | 2023-05-05 |
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Breaking Rachmaninoff | 2023-04-01 | |
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Mindcage | The Artist | 2022-12-16 |
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White Elephant | Glen Follett | 2022-06-03 |
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Chariot | Dr. Karn | 2022-04-15 |
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Shattered | Ronald | 2022-01-14 |
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Savage Salvation | Peter | 2022-12-02 |
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The Survivalist | Aaron Ramsey | 2021-12-02 |
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Rogue Hostage | Sam Nelson | 2021-06-11 |
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Last Call | Dr. Felton | 2020-11-25 |
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Valley of the Gods | Wes Tauros | 2020-09-17 |
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Arkansas | Bright | 2020-05-05 |
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Ava | Duke | 2020-07-02 |
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Velvet Buzzsaw | Piers | 2019-02-01 |
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile | Judge Edward D. Cowart | 2019-05-02 |
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Supercon | Sid Newberry | 2018-04-27 |
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Mile 22 | Bishop | 2018-08-16 |
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Casanovagen | 2018-02-17 | |
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Bird Box | Douglas | 2018-12-13 |
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The Music Critic | The Narrator | 2018-12-10 |
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Just Call Me God | Satur Diman Cha | 2017-04-30 |
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Про любовь. Только для взрослых | лектор Эд | 2017-09-01 |
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Unlocked | Bob Hunter | 2017-04-27 |
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Bullet Head | Walker | 2017-12-07 |
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The Wilde Wedding | Laurence | 2017-09-15 |
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I Love You, Daddy | Leslie Goodwin | 2017-09-09 |
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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda | Port (archive footage) | 2017-11-04 |
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Zoolander 2 | Chazz Spencer | 2016-02-06 |
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Psychogenic Fugue | All characters | 2016-09-27 |
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Deepwater Horizon | Donald Vidrine | 2016-09-28 |
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Casanova Variations | Giacomo | 2014-08-21 |
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Cesar Chavez | Bogdanovitch | 2014-03-28 |
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The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue | Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice) | 2014-07-22 |
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Penguins of Madagascar | Dave (voice) | 2014-11-22 |
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Le paradoxe de John Malkovich | Himself | 2014-03-02 |
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Jack Unterweger - der charmante Serienkiller | 2014-06-23 | |
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Noseland | Self | 2014-05-08 |
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Cut Bank | Sheriff Vogel | 2014-10-04 |
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RED 2 | Marvin Boggs | 2013-07-18 |
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Warm Bodies | Colonel Grigio | 2013-01-31 |
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Educazione siberiana | Grandfather Kuzya | 2013-02-27 |
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Ecstasy | Vinny | 2013-06-30 |
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Drunkboat | Mort | 2012-07-13 |
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Side by Side | Self | 2012-08-19 |
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All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set | Self | 2012-05-15 |
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Linhas de Wellington | General Wellington | 2012-10-04 |
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100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story | Self | 2011-03-13 |
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Bruce Brazos | 2011-06-28 |
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The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer | Jack Unterweger | 2010-06-08 |
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Secretariat | Lucien Laurin | 2010-08-20 |
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Saturday Night | Self | 2010-05-02 |
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RED | Marvin Boggs | 2010-10-13 |
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Jonah Hex | Turnbull | 2010-06-18 |
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La Traversée du désir | Self | 2009-03-16 |
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SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas | (archive footage) | 2009-12-17 |
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Musik und Meer | Self | 2008-09-28 |
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The Great Buck Howard | Buck Howard | 2008-01-18 |
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Disgrace | David Lurie | 2008-09-06 |
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Burn After Reading | Osborne Cox | 2008-09-05 |
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In Tranzit | Pavlov | 2008-03-04 |
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Mutant Chronicles | Constantine | 2008-08-07 |
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Gardens of the Night | Michael | 2008-11-21 |
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Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies | Narrator | 2008-10-01 |
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Finding the Burn | Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage) | 2008-12-21 |
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Changeling | Rev. Gustav Briegleb | 2008-10-24 |
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Afterwards | Joseph Kay | 2008-10-01 |
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Welcome Back, George | Self | 2008-12-21 |
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Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place | 2007-04-01 | |
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Beowulf | Unferth | 2007-11-05 |
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Klimt | Gustav Klimt | 2006-03-03 |
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Eragon | King Galbatorix | 2006-12-14 |
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Art School Confidential | Professor Sandiford | 2006-05-05 |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Humma Kavula | 2005-04-28 |
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Colour Me Kubrick | Alan Conway | 2005-10-06 |
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Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' | Self | 2005-09-05 |
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The Libertine | Charles II | 2004-09-16 |
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Johnny English | Pascal Sauvage | 2003-03-14 |
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Um Filme Falado | Comandante John Walesa | 2003-08-31 |
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Adaptation. | John Malkovich (uncredited) | 2002-12-06 |
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Hideous Man | Narrator | 2002-08-01 |
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Ripley's Game | Tom Ripley | 2002-09-02 |
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The Dancer Upstairs | Abimael Guzman (uncredited) | 2002-09-20 |
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Les Âmes fortes | Monsieur Numance | 2001-05-20 |
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Knockaround Guys | Teddy Deserve | 2001-11-30 |
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Hotel | Omar Jonnson | 2001-09-12 |
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Je rentre à la maison | John Crawford | 2001-05-13 |
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RKO 281 | Herman Mankiewicz | 2000-04-07 |
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Shadow of the Vampire | F. W. Murnau | 2000-08-30 |
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Joan of Arc | Charles VII | 1999-10-27 |
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Ladies Room | Roberto | 1999-11-30 |
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Being John Malkovich | John Horatio Malkovich | 1999-10-29 |
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Le Temps retrouvé | Baron de Charlus | 1999-05-19 |
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Rounders | Teddy KGB | 1998-09-11 |
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The Man in the Iron Mask | Athos | 1998-03-12 |
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Con Air | Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom | 1997-06-05 |
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Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady | Self | 1997-01-01 |
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Cannes Man | Self | 1996-06-03 |
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Der Unhold | Abel | 1996-09-12 |
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The Portrait of a Lady | Gilbert Osmond | 1996-10-17 |
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Mulholland Falls | General Thomas Timms | 1996-04-26 |
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Mary Reilly | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde | 1996-02-23 |
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Al di là delle nuvole | The Director | 1995-10-27 |
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O Convento | Michael | 1995-09-06 |
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Fare un film è per me vivere | Self (uncredited) | 1995-09-02 |
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Heart of Darkness | Kurtz | 1993-10-01 |
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Alive | Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited) | 1993-01-15 |
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In the Line of Fire | Mitch Leary | 1993-07-08 |
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Annie Lennox: Totally Diva | 1992-04-06 | |
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Of Mice and Men | Lennie Small | 1992-09-16 |
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Jennifer Eight | Agent St. Anne | 1992-11-06 |
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The Object of Beauty | Jake Bartholomew | 1991-04-12 |
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Shadows and Fog | Clown | 1991-12-05 |
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Old Times | 1991-10-26 | |
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Queens Logic | Eliot | 1991-02-01 |
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The Sheltering Sky | Port | 1990-10-25 |
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Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter | Self | 1990-12-01 |
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Decade | Self | 1989-12-09 |
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Miles from Home | Barry Maxwell | 1988-09-16 |
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Dangerous Liaisons | Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont | 1988-12-21 |
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Empire of the Sun | Basie | 1987-12-09 |
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Making Mr. Right | Jeff Peters / Ulysses | 1987-04-03 |
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Santabear's High Flying Adventure | Santa Claus (voice) | 1987-12-01 |
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The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun | Self | 1987-12-30 |
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The Glass Menagerie | Tom Wingfield | 1987-05-27 |
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Rocket to the Moon | Ben Stark | 1986-05-05 |
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Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ | Self / Biff | 1986-06-23 |
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Death of a Salesman | Biff Loman | 1985-08-16 |
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Eleni | Nicholas 'Nick' Gage | 1985-11-01 |
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The Killing Fields | Al Rockoff | 1984-11-23 |
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True West | Lee | 1984-02-01 |
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Places in the Heart | Mr. Will | 1984-09-11 |
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Say Goodnight, Gracie | Steve | 1983-02-15 |
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Word of Honor | Gary | 1981-01-06 |
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American Dream | 1981-04-26 | |
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A Wedding | Wedding Guest (uncredited) | 1978-08-29 |
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8 Husbands | George Ambrose | |
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"American Arts & Culture" Presents John Horatio Malkovich: "Dance of Despair and Disillusionment" | Self | |
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Lost and Found in Paris | Wim Waldemar | |
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A Winter's Journey | Leiermann | |
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A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf | Unferth | |
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Thelma | Walker Percy | |
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Wild Horse Nine | Chris |