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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In the Hand of Dante | Joe Black | 2026-06-12 |
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Wild Horse Nine | Chris | 2026-11-04 |
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Sacrifice | Gunnar | 2026-09-03 |
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Biti u rodu s Johnom Malkovichem | Self | 2026-04-27 |
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A Vida dos Espelhos | 2025-07-13 | |
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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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The Line | Beach Miller | 2024-10-18 |
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Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry | self | 2024-10-19 |
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One Ranger | Geddes | 2023-05-05 |
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Complètement Cramé ! | Andrew Blake | 2023-11-01 |
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Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes | Seneca | 2023-02-20 |
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A Journey to Sundance | Self | 2023-01-01 |
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Fool's Paradise | Ed Cote | 2023-05-12 |
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Breaking Rachmaninoff | 2023-04-01 | |
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Savage Salvation | Peter | 2022-12-02 |
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Shattered | Ronald | 2022-01-14 |
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White Elephant | Glen Follett | 2022-06-03 |
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Mindcage | The Artist | 2022-12-16 |
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Chariot | Dr. Karn | 2022-04-15 |
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Rogue Hostage | Sam Nelson | 2021-06-11 |
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The Survivalist | Aaron Ramsey | 2021-12-02 |
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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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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile | Judge Edward D. Cowart | 2019-05-02 |
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Velvet Buzzsaw | Piers | 2019-02-01 |
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Mile 22 | Bishop | 2018-08-16 |
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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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Supercon | Sid Newberry | 2018-04-27 |
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Casanovagen | 2018-02-17 | |
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Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA | Port (archive footage) | 2017-11-04 |
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Just Call Me God | Satur Diman Cha | 2017-04-30 |
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Unlocked | Bob Hunter | 2017-04-27 |
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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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Bullet Head | Walker | 2017-12-07 |
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Про любовь. Только для взрослых | Ed | 2017-09-01 |
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Deepwater Horizon | Donald Vidrine | 2016-09-28 |
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Psychogenic Fugue | All characters | 2016-09-27 |
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Zoolander 2 | Chazz Spencer | 2016-02-06 |
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Cesar Chavez | Bogdanovitch | 2014-03-28 |
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Penguins of Madagascar | Dave (voice) | 2014-11-22 |
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The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover | Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice) | 2014-07-22 |
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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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Casanova Variations | Giacomo | 2014-08-21 |
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Noseland | Self | 2014-05-08 |
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Cut Bank | Sheriff Vogel | 2014-10-04 |
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Educazione siberiana | Grandfather Kuzya | 2013-02-27 |
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Ecstasy | Vinny | 2013-06-30 |
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Warm Bodies | Colonel Grigio | 2013-01-31 |
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RED 2 | Marvin Boggs | 2013-07-18 |
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Drunkboat | Mort | 2012-07-13 |
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Linhas de Wellington | General Wellington | 2012-10-04 |
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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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Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Bruce Brazos | 2011-06-28 |
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100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story | Self | 2011-03-13 |
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Butterflies | Man | 2011-06-01 |
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Jonah Hex | Turnbull | 2010-06-18 |
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Saturday Night | Self | 2010-05-02 |
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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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RED | Marvin Boggs | 2010-10-13 |
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SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas | (archive footage) | 2009-12-17 |
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La Traversée du désir | Self | 2009-03-16 |
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Changeling | Rev. Gustav Briegleb | 2008-10-24 |
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Gardens of the Night | Michael | 2008-11-21 |
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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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Musik und Meer | Self | 2008-09-28 |
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Disgrace | David Lurie | 2008-09-06 |
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The Great Buck Howard | Buck Howard | 2008-01-18 |
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Finding the Burn | Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage) | 2008-12-21 |
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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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Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies | Narrator | 2008-10-01 |
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Beowulf | Unferth | 2007-11-05 |
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Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place | 2007-04-01 | |
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Klimt | Gustav Klimt | 2006-03-03 |
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Art School Confidential | Professor Sandiford | 2006-05-05 |
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Eragon | King Galbatorix | 2006-12-14 |
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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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Colour Me Kubrick | Alan Conway | 2005-10-06 |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Humma Kavula | 2005-04-28 |
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The Libertine | Charles II | 2004-09-16 |
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Um Filme Falado | Comandante John Walesa | 2003-08-31 |
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Johnny English | Pascal Sauvage | 2003-03-14 |
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Adaptation. | John Malkovich (uncredited) | 2002-12-06 |
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The Dancer Upstairs | Abimael Guzman (uncredited) | 2002-09-20 |
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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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Les Âmes fortes | Monsieur Numance | 2001-05-20 |
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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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Knockaround Guys | Teddy Deserve | 2001-11-30 |
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Shadow of the Vampire | F. W. Murnau | 2000-08-30 |
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Le Temps retrouvé | Baron de Charlus | 1999-05-19 |
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RKO 281 | Herman Mankiewicz | 1999-11-20 |
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Ladies Room | Roberto | 1999-11-30 |
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Joan of Arc | Charles VII | 1999-10-27 |
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Being John Malkovich | John Horatio Malkovich | 1999-10-29 |
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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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Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady | Self | 1997-01-01 |
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Con Air | Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom | 1997-06-05 |
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Mary Reilly | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde | 1996-02-23 |
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Cannes Man | Self | 1996-06-03 |
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Der Unhold | Abel | 1996-09-12 |
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Mulholland Falls | General Thomas Timms | 1996-04-26 |
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The Portrait of a Lady | Gilbert Osmond | 1996-10-17 |
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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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Alive | Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited) | 1993-01-15 |
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Heart of Darkness | Kurtz | 1993-10-01 |
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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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Shadows and Fog | Clown | 1991-12-05 |
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The Object of Beauty | Jake Bartholomew | 1991-04-12 |
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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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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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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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Empire of the Sun | Basie | 1987-12-09 |
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Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ | Self / Biff | 1986-06-23 |
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Rocket to the Moon | Ben Stark | 1986-05-05 |
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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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True West | Lee | 1984-02-01 |
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Places in the Heart | Mr. Will | 1984-09-11 |
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The Killing Fields | Al Rockoff | 1984-11-23 |
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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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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 |