Eric Bogosian

Eric Bogosian

1953-04-24 Woburn, Massachusetts, USA 70 Credits

Biography

Eric Bogosian (born April 24, 1953) is an American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist.

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On a String

On a String

2025

Acting

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

Reptile

2023

as Captain Robert Allen

6.7
Acting

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

Make Me Famous

2023

as self

Acting

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

Uncut Gems

2019

as Arno Moradian

7.2
Acting

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

It Takes a Lunatic

2019

as Self

5.3
Acting

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

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen

2018

as Self

6.6
Acting

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

Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction

2017

as Self

4.8
Acting

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

Rebel in the Rye

2017

as Harold Ross

6.6
Acting

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

Who the Fuck Is That Guy?: The Fabulous Journey of Michael Alago

2017

as Self

6.0
Acting

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

Mall

2014

Novel

4.7

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

Highway

2014

Writer, Director

10.0
Writing Directing

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

Listen Up Philip

2014

as Narrator

5.8
Acting

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

Don't Go in the Woods

2012

as Executive

2.5
Acting

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

F--k

2010

as Eric

5.8
Acting

Some people will do anything to find the location.

Cadillac Records

Cadillac Records

2008

as Alan Freed

7.1
Acting

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

4.0
Acting

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

Heights

2005

as Henry

6.6
Acting

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

Blade: Trinity

Blade: Trinity

2004

as Bentley Tittle

5.9
Acting

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

King of the Corner

2004

as Rabbi Evelyn Fink

5.7
Acting

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

Wonderland

2003

as Eddie Nash

6.1
Acting

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

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

2003

as Alan Caulfield

5.5
Acting

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

Igby Goes Down

2002

as Mr. Nice Guy

6.6
Acting

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

Ararat

2002

as Rouben

6.1
Acting

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

Shot in the Heart

2001

as Larry Schiller

5.6
Acting

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

15 Minutes

2001

Thanks

5.9

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

Eric Bogosian: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

2001

as Himself

Acting

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

Eric Bogosian: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

2001

Writer

Writing

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

In the Weeds

2000

as Simon

6.4
Acting

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

Gossip

2000

as Professor Goodwin

5.8
Acting

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

Acting

A best man gives an increasingly uncomfortable toast at his friends' wedding reception.

The Wedding Toast

1999

Writer

Writing

A best man gives an increasingly uncomfortable toast at his friends' wedding reception.

Totally Bill Hicks

Totally Bill Hicks

1998

as Self

7.8
Acting

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

Safe Men

1998

as Edward Templeton Sr. (voice)

5.5
Acting

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

A Bright Shining Lie

1998

as Doug Elders

5.5
Acting

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

Deconstructing Harry

1997

as Burt

7.3
Acting

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

Office Killer

1997

as Peter Douglas (uncredited)

5.2
Acting

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

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

1997

as Franz Meyer / Israel Gutman (voices)

5.8
Acting

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

SubUrbia

1997

Theatre Play, Screenplay

6.3
Writing

A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

1996

as Old Faithful Ranger / White House Press Secretary / Strategic Air Command Lieutenant (voice)

6.6
Acting

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

The Substance of Fire

1996

as Gene Byck

7.2
Acting

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

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

1995

as Travis Dane

5.8
Acting

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

Dolores Claiborne

1995

as Peter

7.3
Acting

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

Witch Hunt

1994

as Sen. Larson Crockett

5.2
Acting

Magic and murder connect an actress, a private eye, a senator and a witch in 1950s Hollywood.

Bill Hicks: It's Just a Ride

Bill Hicks: It's Just a Ride

1994

as Himself

7.4
Acting

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

Naked in New York

1993

as Self

4.5
Acting

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

The Thief and the Cobbler

1993

as Phido the Vulture (voice)

7.1
Acting

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

Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll

1991

as Various characters

6.2
Acting

A filmed record of Eric Bogosian's acclaimed one-man show.

Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll

Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll

1991

Writer

6.2
Writing

A filmed record of Eric Bogosian's acclaimed one-man show.

Last Flight Out

1990

as Larry Rose

Acting

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

Suffering Bastards

1989

as Mr.Leeds

1.0
Acting

Two brothers try to get back the nightclub that was swindled from their mother.

Decade

Decade

1989

as Self

7.0
Acting

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

Talk Radio

Talk Radio

1988

as Barry Champlain

7.0
Acting

A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.

Talk Radio

Talk Radio

1988

Screenplay, Theatre Play

7.0
Writing

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

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

1988

as Lt. Barney Greenwald

6.5
Acting

A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".

Vandemonium Plus

Vandemonium Plus

1987

Acting

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

Arena Brains

1987

as The Entertainer

3.7
Acting

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

Arena Brains

1987

Writer

3.7
Writing

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

Crime Story: Pilot

1986

as Dee

8.3
Acting

One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show.

Funhouse

Funhouse

1986

as Himself

Acting

"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

The Stuff

1985

as Supermarket Clerk (uncredited)

6.0
Acting

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

The Tear Collector

1985

as Junkie

Acting

A young woman who can't stop crying meets a mysterious man who collects tears.

Special Effects

Special Effects

1984

as Chris Neville

4.6
Acting

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

Acting

A return to Super-8 after "Vortex"; concerned with training in torture.

Made for TV

Made for TV

1984

Acting

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

Born in Flames

1983

as CBS Technician

6.1
Acting

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

Acting

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

Static

1981

Acting

Short film by John Sanborn

Another Great Day

Another Great Day

1980

as Radio Announcer

Acting

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

Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire: Behind the Scenes

N/A

as Himself

Acting

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 ...