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 | 2025-09-03 |
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Sacrifice | Gunnar | 2025-09-06 |
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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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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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Savage Salvation | Peter | 2022-12-02 |
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Shattered | Ronald | 2022-01-14 |
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Chariot | Dr. Karn | 2022-04-15 |
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White Elephant | Glen Follett | 2022-06-03 |
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A Journey to Sundance | Self | 2021-01-01 |
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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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Valley of the Gods | Wes Tauros | 2020-09-17 |
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Arkansas | Bright | 2020-05-05 |
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Last Call | Dr. Felton | 2020-11-25 |
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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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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda | Port (archive footage) | 2017-11-04 |
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The Wilde Wedding | Laurence | 2017-09-15 |
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Unlocked | Bob Hunter | 2017-04-27 |
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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 | лектор Эд | 2017-09-01 |
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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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Zoolander 2 | Chazz Spencer | 2016-02-06 |
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Cesar Chavez | Bogdanovitch | 2014-03-28 |
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Cut Bank | Sheriff Vogel | 2014-10-04 |
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The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue | 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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Penguins of Madagascar | Dave (voice) | 2014-11-22 |
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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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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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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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Drunkboat | Mort | 2012-07-13 |
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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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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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Jonah Hex | Turnbull | 2010-06-18 |
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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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Disgrace | David Lurie | 2008-09-06 |
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Gardens of the Night | Michael | 2008-11-21 |
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In Tranzit | Pavlov | 2008-03-04 |
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Mutant Chronicles | Constantine | 2008-08-07 |
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Changeling | Rev. Gustav Briegleb | 2008-10-24 |
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Burn After Reading | Osborne Cox | 2008-09-05 |
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The Great Buck Howard | Buck Howard | 2008-01-18 |
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Welcome Back, George | Self | 2008-12-21 |
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Afterwards | Joseph Kay | 2008-10-01 |
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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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Musik und Meer | Self | 2008-09-28 |
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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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Eragon | King Galbatorix | 2006-12-14 |
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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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Klimt | Gustav Klimt | 2006-03-03 |
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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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The Dancer Upstairs | Abimael Guzman (uncredited) | 2002-09-20 |
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Adaptation. | John Malkovich (uncredited) | 2002-12-06 |
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Ripley's Game | Tom Ripley | 2002-09-02 |
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Hideous Man | 2002-08-01 | |
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Je rentre à la maison | John Crawford | 2001-05-13 |
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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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Shadow of the Vampire | F. W. Murnau | 2000-08-30 |
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RKO 281 | Herman Mankiewicz | 2000-04-07 |
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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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Joan of Arc | Charles VII | 1999-10-27 |
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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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Cannes Man | Self | 1996-06-03 |
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The Portrait of a Lady | Gilbert Osmond | 1996-10-17 |
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Der Unhold | Abel | 1996-09-12 |
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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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O Convento | Michael | 1995-09-06 |
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Al di là delle nuvole | The Director | 1995-10-27 |
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Fare un film è per me vivere | Self (uncredited) | 1995-09-02 |
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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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Heart of Darkness | Kurtz | 1993-10-01 |
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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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Annie Lennox: Totally Diva | 1992-04-06 | |
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Old Times | 1991-10-26 | |
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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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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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Dangerous Liaisons | Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont | 1988-12-21 |
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Miles from Home | Barry Maxwell | 1988-09-16 |
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Santabear's High Flying Adventure | Santa Claus (voice) | 1987-12-01 |
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Making Mr. Right | Jeff Peters / Ulysses | 1987-04-03 |
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Empire of the Sun | Basie | 1987-12-09 |
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The Glass Menagerie | Tom Wingfield | 1987-10-23 |
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The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun | Self | 1987-12-30 |
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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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Eleni | Nicholas 'Nick' Gage | 1985-11-01 |
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Death of a Salesman | Biff Loman | 1985-08-16 |
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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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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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Dream Walkers | ||
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100 Years | ||
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A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf | Unferth | |
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Thelma | Walker Percy | |
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Lost and Found in Paris | Wim Waldemar | |
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A Winter's Journey | Leiermann | |
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The Yellow Tie | Sergiu Celibidache | |
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