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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Opus | Alfred Moretti | 2025-03-13 |
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Cravata galbenă | Sergiu Celibidache | 2025-11-14 |
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Sacrifice | Gunnar | 2025-09-06 |
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In the Hand of Dante | Joe Black | 2025-09-03 |
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A Vida dos Espelhos | 2025-07-13 | |
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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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Fool's Paradise | Ed Cote | 2023-05-12 |
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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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Breaking Rachmaninoff | 2023-04-01 | |
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Savage Salvation | Peter | 2022-12-02 |
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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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The Survivalist | Aaron Ramsey | 2021-12-02 |
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Rogue Hostage | Sam Nelson | 2021-06-11 |
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A Journey to Sundance | Self | 2021-01-01 |
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Arkansas | Bright | 2020-05-05 |
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Ava | Duke | 2020-07-02 |
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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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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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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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Linhas de Wellington | General Wellington | 2012-10-04 |
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Drunkboat | Mort | 2012-07-13 |
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All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set | Self | 2012-05-15 |
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Side by Side | Self | 2012-08-19 |
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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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Jonah Hex | Turnbull | 2010-06-18 |
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RED | Marvin Boggs | 2010-10-13 |
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Saturday Night | Self | 2010-05-02 |
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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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Musik und Meer | Self | 2008-09-28 |
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In Tranzit | Pavlov | 2008-03-04 |
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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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Gardens of the Night | Michael | 2008-11-21 |
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Burn After Reading | Osborne Cox | 2008-09-05 |
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Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies | Narrator | 2008-10-01 |
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Afterwards | Joseph Kay | 2008-10-01 |
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Mutant Chronicles | Constantine | 2008-08-07 |
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Disgrace | David Lurie | 2008-09-06 |
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Changeling | Rev. Gustav Briegleb | 2008-10-24 |
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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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The Call | Exorcist | 2006-03-01 |
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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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Klimt | Gustav Klimt | 2006-03-03 |
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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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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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Um Filme Falado | Comandante John Walesa | 2003-08-31 |
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Johnny English | Pascal Sauvage | 2003-03-14 |
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Ripley's Game | Tom Ripley | 2002-09-02 |
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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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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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Je rentre à la maison | John Crawford | 2001-05-13 |
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Hotel | Omar Jonnson | 2001-09-12 |
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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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Le Temps retrouvé | Baron de Charlus | 1999-05-19 |
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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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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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Der Unhold | Abel | 1996-09-12 |
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Cannes Man | Self | 1996-06-03 |
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The Portrait of a Lady | Gilbert Osmond | 1996-10-17 |
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Mary Reilly | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde | 1996-02-23 |
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Mulholland Falls | General Thomas Timms | 1996-04-26 |
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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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In the Line of Fire | Mitch Leary | 1993-07-08 |
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Alive | Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited) | 1993-01-15 |
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Jennifer Eight | Agent St. Anne | 1992-11-06 |
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Of Mice and Men | Lennie Small | 1992-09-16 |
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Annie Lennox: Totally Diva | 1992-04-06 | |
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Old Times | 1991-10-26 | |
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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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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 | 1987-10-23 |
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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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True West | Lee | 1984-02-01 |
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The Killing Fields | Al Rockoff | 1984-11-23 |
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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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Thelma | Walker Percy | |
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8 Husbands | George Ambrose | |
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A Winter's Journey | Leiermann | |
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Lost and Found in Paris | Wim Waldemar | |
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Wild Horse Nine | Chris | |
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A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf | Unferth | |
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100 Years | ||
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Dream Walkers |