Biography
Jeffrey DeMunn (born April 25, 1947) is an American theatre, film and television actor. He is known as a favorite of director Frank Darabont, who has cast him in all four of his films, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, The Majestic and The Mist (he also appeared in the 1988 remake of The Blob, which Darabont co-wrote). He also has an extensive television résumé, appearing in shows such as Kojak, Law & Order, and two of its spin-offs, SVU and Trial by Jury. He has been involved in more S...
Known For
Complete Filmography

King on Screen
2023
as Self
1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror's books, in more than...

The 8th Year of the Emergency
2019
as Ed
Lil is eight years into her struggle with Alzheimer's and sometimes she can't find the right words. But, a visit from her family inspires a moment of ...

The Amaranth
2018
as Richard Kendrick
Lily and Richard move to a luxurious and cult-like community, where Lily becomes unsettled by the transformation she observes in her older husband and...

Marshall
2017
as Dr. Sayer
Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.

Halfway
2017
as Walt
A recently released convict finds himself trapped between his urban criminal past and his new life on probation as the only black man in a conservativ...

A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.
2017
as Old boy
Set at a roadside café in the early morning in the Spring of 1947, a young boy and an older man meet by chance. The man relates a luminous tale of per...

Walking the Mile
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Full-length documentary about the making of Frank Darabont's drama, The Green Mile, based on Stephen King's novel.

Adult Beginners
2014
as Bill
A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move ...

Another Happy Day
2011
as Lee
A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.

The Making of The Walking Dead
2010
as Self
The Making of the TV Series The Walking Dead.

6 Souls
2010
as Dr. Harding
A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's ...

Cayman Went
2009
as Rodgers Bowman
Cayman Went is the story of Josh Anders, a fading Hollywood underwater action star whose life takes on new meaning when he's forced to spend time with...

Burn After Reading
2008
as Cosmetic Surgeon
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money f...

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
2008
as Self
Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
2008
Thanks
Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.

The Mist
2007
as Dan Miller
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store wi...

Hollywoodland
2006
as Art Weissman
When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of li...

Our Town
2003
as Mr. Webb
Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth c...
The Lucky Ones
2003
as Simon
While looking into a strange spiritual ritual, Lorenzo discovers his virtues and unlocks his demons, taking him from a shameless, shallow existence to...

The Majestic
2001
as Mayor Ernie Cole
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a lon...

Noriega: God's Favorite
2000
as Nuncio
The story of Panamanian dictator, Manuel Noriega.

The Green Mile
1999
as Harry Terwilliger
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. Wh...
Harvest
1999
as Jake Yates
A DEA agent and a local sheriff have to wrestle with their consciences as they start raids on local farmers, who have started growing marijuana simply...

Black Cat Run
1998
as Bill Grissom
A girl is in love with a gas station attendant and sees him against her father's wishes. The father is the sheriff and shortly after a confrontation w...

The X-Files
1998
as Bronschweig
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about ...

A Christmas Memory
1997
as Seabone
A new version of Truman Capote's 1956 tale based on his own bittersweet upbringing in Alabama. The story deals with a seven-year-old who forms a speci...

RocketMan
1997
as Paul Wick
An accident-prone and obnoxious geek joins a NASA space mission to Mars. During the flight, he manages to put himself and the entire crew in jeopardy,...

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
as Moshe Beisky / Martin Földi (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...

Turbulence
1997
as Brooks
On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As various peop...

Killer: A Journal of Murder
1996
as Sam Lesser
Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for...

Phenomenon
1996
as Professor Ringold
An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.

Ebbie
1995
as Jake Marley
In this updated retelling of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," ruthless business-woman and shopping store owner Elizabeth "Ebbie" Scrooge is taught the tr...

Down Came a Blackbird
1995
as Rob Rubenstein
A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.

Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
1995
as Mel Korn
The story of one of America's first female reporters.

Citizen X
1995
as Andrei Chikatilo
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17...

Safe Passage
1994
as Doctor
Recently estranged from her husband, and mother of seven sons, Mag Singer stands poised to pursue a whole new way of life. But when one of her childre...

The Shawshank Redemption
1994
as 1946 D.A.
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, wh...

Betrayal of Trust
1994
as Dick Shelton
A woman has been to a psychiatrist for years for drug and alcohol addiction, and whose treatment includes being injected with a drug that knocks her o...

Barbarians at the Gate
1993
as H. John Greeniaus
F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier, fa...

Newsies
1992
as Mayer Jacobs
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze ...

Eyes of an Angel
1991
as Georgie
John Travolta is a downtrodden single father raising his daughter under difficult circumstances in Chicago. The young girl comes upon and then nurses ...

The Haunted
1991
as Jack Smurl
When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out it's haunted. When the Catholic Church is no help, they reach out to famous demonologists Ed ...

Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
1990
as Scott Cody
Diane and Greg Halstead were once happily married, even deciding to try and have a baby in later years, despite the fact that she had already suffered...

By Dawn's Early Light
1990
as Harpoon
A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race...

Sensibility and Sense
1990
as Peter
Three friends who bonded over their radical beliefs in the 1930s reunite after becoming estranged over a book one of them wrote.

Blaze
1989
as Eldon Tuck
A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made ...

Settle the Score
1989
as Dr. Josh Longcrest
Katherine Whately, a tough, young Chicago cop, comes home to her small town to settle her teenage rape. She is welcomed by her brother but shunned by ...

Betrayed
1988
as Flynn
An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.

The Blob
1988
as Sheriff Herb Geller
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touch...

Pigeon Feathers
1988
as George
From the pen of Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("Witches of Eastwick," "Rabbit Run"), comes the story of a young man's search through the q...

Young Harry Houdini
1987
as Adult Harry Houdini
This biographical movie depicts the youth of the magician Harry Houdini (1874 - 1926). As a boy his name was Eric Weiss and his father wanted him to b...

Kojak: The Price of Justice
1987
as Marsucci
When the bodies of two young boys are discovered in the Harlem River, their mother is the obvious suspect, particularly with her scandalous past. But ...

Who Is Julia?
1986
as Dr. David Matthews
A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lowe...

The Hitcher
1986
as Captain Esteridge
On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1985
as Bottom
Theseus has defeated Hippolyta in battle, and now claims her as his bride. But before the nuptials begin, a pair of young lovers flee into the forest ...

Doubletake
1985
as Andrew Lane
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investiga...

A Time to Live
1985
as Larry Weisman
The problems of a mother who helps her son in his struggles against muscular dystrophy. From the true story of Peter and Mary-Lou Weisman.

Warning Sign
1985
as Dr. Dan Fairchild
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.

The Joy That Kills
1985
as Brently Mallard
Louise dreams of traveling the world, but her weak heart and husband Brently's overbearing concern keep her from doing so. However, news of a train ac...

Windy City
1984
as Bobby
The lives of a group of young Chicago men, as seen through the eyes of one of them, a writer.

When She Says No
1984
as Brian Garvey
After divorced college professor Rose Michaels invites three of her male colleagues to her room during a teacher's convention, she later accuses them ...

Sessions
1983
as Dr. Walter Hemmings
High-priced call girl Lee Churchill, is examining her life via therapy "sessions". Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and "straight" ma...
The Face of Rage
1983
as Jeff Hammil
Filmed in quasi-documentary fashion, the made-for-TV The Face of Rage is set in a rehabilitation facility. Here a group of rapists are required to con...

Keeping On
1983
as Teddy
A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked.

I Married Wyatt Earp
1983
as Doc Holliday
Based on the memoirs of Josephine Marcus Earp, a young opera singer from San Francisco, this docudrama tells the story of how she became the wife of l...

O’Malley
1983
as Carl
An ex-New York detective becomes a poor man's private eye and gets involved in a high-stakes scam.

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
1983
as Ricardo
This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. In the first segment, Virginia and her three child...

Frances
1982
as Clifford Odets
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

Ragtime
1981
as Harry Houdini
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nos...

Word of Honor
1981
as Dist. Atty. Jim Burke
A reporter refuses to reveal his source in the case of the murder of a young girl. As a result, he and his family are shunned by the residents of the ...

Christmas Evil
1980
as Philip Stadling
Garbed in his red suit, Harry, a toy factory worker, decides that the only thing he can do to save the spirit of Christmas is to become Santa Claus hi...

The First Deadly Sin
1980
as Corelli
A serial killer is stalking New York. Inspector Edward X. Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces o...

Resurrection
1980
as Joe
The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an ...

King Crab
1980
as Sam Campana
Two brothers take over the family seafood business, and battle each other for control of the company - and their father's attention.

Sanctuary of Fear
1979
as Whitney Fowler
A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents sh...

The Last Tenant
1978
as Vinnie
Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which particula...
Cat Killer
N/A
as The Vet
A dark comedy about a dying cat and a desperate man. When conventional veterinary practice won't help, two old friends venture into the woods on a mis...