Biography
Eric Bogosian (born April 24, 1953) is an American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist.
Known For
Complete Filmography

On a String
2025
A young, Juilliard-trained violist is still living at home with her parents in the heart of NYC, while trying to make a living playing gigs with her f...

Reptile
2023
as Captain Robert Allen
Following the brutal murder of a young real estate agent, a hardened detective attempts to uncover the truth in a case where nothing is as it seems, a...

Make Me Famous
2023
as self
An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on sucess, who thwarted his own career with antics t...

Uncut Gems
2019
as Arno Moradian
A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of...

It Takes a Lunatic
2019
as Self
The extraordinary life of beloved acting teacher and theatre producer Wynn Handman is recalled in this portrait of a provocative, innovative artist.

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
2018
as Self
A feature-length documentary focusing on the acclaimed work and eclectic career of maverick filmmaker Larry Cohen, writer-director of "Black Caesar," ...

Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction
2017
as Self
INTENT TO DESTROY embeds with a historic feature production as a springboard to explore the violent history of the Armenian Genocide and legacy of Tur...

Rebel in the Rye
2017
as Harold Ross
The life of celebrated but reclusive author J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel The Catcher in the Rye.

Who the Fuck Is That Guy?: The Fabulous Journey of Michael Alago
2017
as Self
The astonishing story of a gay Puerto Rican kid growing up in a Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood, who got on the subway one day and began a musical odyss...

Mall
2014
Novel
Malcom's done with his life. Only the noise of Crystal Meth gives him a reason to keep going - everything else it has long regardless. Equipped with a...

Highway
2014
Writer, Director
Sebastian Stan's performance of Eric Bogosian's monologue "Highway" is the 84th in the "100 Monologues" collection. This initiative features various a...

Listen Up Philip
2014
as Narrator
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise,...

Don't Go in the Woods
2012
as Executive
Don't Go in the Woods is sound advice, especially when there's a killer on the loose. First-time director Vincent D'Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket, "Law &...

F--k
2010
as Eric
Some people will do anything to find the location.

Cadillac Records
2008
as Alan Freed
The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, includ...
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
2007
as Himself
He is considered to be one of the most significant links in the history of comedy, admired by such people as Eric Bogosian and Woody Allen. His televi...

Heights
2005
as Henry
Spanning twenty-four hours, HEIGHTS follows five New Yorkers challenged to choose their destiny before the sun comes up the next day.

Blade: Trinity
2004
as Bentley Tittle
For years, Blade has fought against the vampires in the cover of the night. But now, after falling into the crosshairs of the FBI, he is forced out in...

King of the Corner
2004
as Rabbi Evelyn Fink
Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and h...

Wonderland
2003
as Eddie Nash
On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The...

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
2003
as Alan Caulfield
The Angels are charged with finding a pair of missing rings that are encoded with the personal information of members of the Witness Protection Progra...

Igby Goes Down
2002
as Mr. Nice Guy
Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophre...

Ararat
2002
as Rouben
Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

Shot in the Heart
2001
as Larry Schiller
The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his own...

15 Minutes
2001
Thanks
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts fil...

Eric Bogosian: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
2001
as Himself
A profoundly insightful and wickedly provocative performer, Obie Award winner Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio) has never shied away from the disturbing trut...

Eric Bogosian: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
2001
Writer
A profoundly insightful and wickedly provocative performer, Obie Award winner Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio) has never shied away from the disturbing trut...

In the Weeds
2000
as Simon
It's Martha's first night as a waitress in an upscale New York restaurant. Veteran Chloe shows her the ropes and introduces her to the lives of the re...

Gossip
2000
as Professor Goodwin
For a class project, three college students decide to invent an unfounded rumor about the most popular girl on campus. But as the rumor spreads, it be...
The Wedding Toast
1999
as Toaster
A best man gives an increasingly uncomfortable toast at his friends' wedding reception.
The Wedding Toast
1999
Writer
A best man gives an increasingly uncomfortable toast at his friends' wedding reception.

Totally Bill Hicks
1998
as Self
Consisting of two parts: ‘Revelations’, Bill Hicks’ last live performance in the United Kingdom made at the Dominion Theatre; and a documentary about...

Safe Men
1998
as Edward Templeton Sr. (voice)
Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the loca...

A Bright Shining Lie
1998
as Doug Elders
Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advi...

Deconstructing Harry
1997
as Burt
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated fr...

Office Killer
1997
as Peter Douglas (uncredited)
When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to...

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
as Franz Meyer / Israel Gutman (voices)
David Brinkley hosts this shattering two-hour documentary about the trial of the man whose role in deporting the Jews of Europe for extermination made...

SubUrbia
1997
Theatre Play, Screenplay
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
1996
as Old Faithful Ranger / White House Press Secretary / Strategic Air Command Lieutenant (voice)
Slacker duo Beavis and Butt-Head wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a new one takes them on a clueless adventure across Ameri...

The Substance of Fire
1996
as Gene Byck
Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the gr...

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
1995
as Travis Dane
A passenger train has been hijacked by an electronics expert and turned into an untraceable command center for a weapons satellite. He has planned to ...

Dolores Claiborne
1995
as Peter
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk ...

Witch Hunt
1994
as Sen. Larson Crockett
Magic and murder connect an actress, a private eye, a senator and a witch in 1950s Hollywood.

Bill Hicks: It's Just a Ride
1994
as Himself
Short documentary / tribute to the late, truly great American stand-up comedian Bill Hicks, included as an extra in several box sets. Bill Hicks passe...

Naked in New York
1993
as Self
Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, and to whom you can turn to for help while fa...

The Thief and the Cobbler
1993
as Phido the Vulture (voice)
It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the...

Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
1991
as Various characters
A filmed record of Eric Bogosian's acclaimed one-man show.

Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
1991
Writer
A filmed record of Eric Bogosian's acclaimed one-man show.
Last Flight Out
1990
as Larry Rose
Fact-based story set in Saigon on April, 1975, shortly after U.S. combat troops have withdrawn, and immediately before Communist forces overrun the ci...

Suffering Bastards
1989
as Mr.Leeds
Two brothers try to get back the nightclub that was swindled from their mother.

Decade
1989
as Self
Interviews with personalities including John Mellencamp, Spike Lee, Lou Reed, Roseanne Barr, David Byrne, George Michael and more, as they reflect on ...

Talk Radio
1988
as Barry Champlain
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.

Talk Radio
1988
Screenplay, Theatre Play
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1988
as Lt. Barney Greenwald
A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".

Vandemonium Plus
1987
Ann Magnuson is launched off the back of her boyfriend's motorcycle while doing a bong rip, and into a strange fantasy world airbrushed on the side of...

Arena Brains
1987
as The Entertainer
A short film by painter-turned-filmmaker Robert Longo, "Arena Brains" is a series of interlocking vignettes set in and around the art world of 1980s N...

Arena Brains
1987
Writer
A short film by painter-turned-filmmaker Robert Longo, "Arena Brains" is a series of interlocking vignettes set in and around the art world of 1980s N...

Crime Story: Pilot
1986
as Dee
One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show.

Funhouse
1986
as Himself
"Welcome to the Freak Show" is a refrain in the Funhouse: a claustrophobically small, dark room in which Eric Bogosian's furious series of monologues ...

The Stuff
1985
as Supermarket Clerk (uncredited)
Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dess...

The Tear Collector
1985
as Junkie
A young woman who can't stop crying meets a mysterious man who collects tears.

Special Effects
1984
as Chris Neville
After murdering a young would-be actress, megalomaniacal movie director Chris Neville sets about making a feature based on the murder, casting the dea...
The Specialist
1984
A return to Super-8 after "Vortex"; concerned with training in torture.

Made for TV
1984
Combining Rubnitz’s skillful manipulation of the familiar “look” of TV shows with an extraordinary range of characters, performer Ann Magnuson convinc...

Born in Flames
1983
as CBS Technician
In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality r...
Random Positions
1983
Guys talk about women. Women talk about guys. People meet at a club: they dance, they drink. Two women who live together retire, and as they are falli...
Random Positions
1983
Additional Dialogue
Guys talk about women. Women talk about guys. People meet at a club: they dance, they drink. Two women who live together retire, and as they are falli...

Static
1981
Short film by John Sanborn

Another Great Day
1980
as Radio Announcer
Another Great Day depicts a day in the life of a housewife as she routinely performs her daily chores; TV, radio and pulp novels form her world of fan...

Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire: Behind the Scenes
N/A
as Himself
A behind the scenes look at AMC's new adaptation of Anne Rice's iconic novel, Interview With The Vampire. Learn about the exciting new series in this ...