Biography
Was an English actor with decades long career in film and stage in the United States. He began his acting career on and off Broadway which included appearances in The Wild Duck and Right You Are If You Think You Are, earning a Tony Award nomination for both, as well as Painting Churches for which he received an Obie Award. Moffat also appeared in several feature films including The Thing and The Right Stuff, along with his guest appearances in the television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

61*
2001
as Ford Frick
In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally ha...

Cookie's Fortune
1999
as Jack Palmer
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.

The Sleep Room
1998
At the height of the cold war, the C.I.A. secretly funded Dr. Ewen Cameron, director of the Allan Memorial Institute, and his experimental research in...

A Smile Like Yours
1997
as Dr. Felber
A comedy about a couple who cannot conceive a baby

The Evening Star
1996
as Hector Scott
Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has on...

Trapped in Paradise
1994
as Clifford Anderson
Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.

Is There Life Out There?
1994
as Grandpa Walter
Lily Marshall has a loving, supportive husband, two great kids and an unfulfilled dream: to return to college and get the degree she always wanted. "I...

Clear and Present Danger
1994
as President Bennett
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, ...

Love, Cheat & Steal
1993
as Frank Harrington
Paul Harrington thinks he has the perfect wife... stunning, kind, and ambitious. Yet behind Lauren's pretty face lies a wicked person who sent her for...

Majority Rule
1992
as Walter Simms
A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in the battle: corruption and the dangerous game of p...

Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
1992
as O'Connell
For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jac...

Housesitter
1992
as George Davis
After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis proposes marriage to his girlfriend, only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-ni...

Babe Ruth
1991
as Jacob Ruppert
A film based on the home-run legend's life.

Regarding Henry
1991
as Charlie Cameron
Respected lawyer Henry Turner survives a convenience-store shooting only to find he has lost his memory, and has serious speech and mobility issues. A...

The Great Pretender
1991
as Owen Milner
A newspaper reporter, who has just won a trial against his newspaper which had fired him, suffers dangerous reprisals at his work.

Class Action
1991
as Quinn
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie ag...

The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990
as Mr. McCoy
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and ...

Kaleidoscope
1990
as Arthur Patterson
A family friend hires gumshoe John Chapman to find and reunite three sisters estranged by fate for 30 years. The circuitous trail leads Chapman from t...

A Son's Promise
1990
as Paw Paw
An iron-willed Georgia boy accepts the burden of a man on his young shoulders. Fifteen-year-old Terry O'Kelly is fatherless and his remaining parent, ...

Kojak: Flowers For Matty
1990
as Garrett Fitzsimons
Kojak charms his way into high society to investigate art thefts that are tied to munitions smuggling and murder.

Music Box
1989
as Harry Talbot
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.

Far North
1988
as Uncle Dane
After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope with their original issues.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1988
as Chief Surgeon
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to...

Necessary Parties
1988
as Grampa Mills
Fifteen-year-old Chris Mills isn't too happy with his divorcing parents. In fact, he doesn't want them to split at all, so he hires car repair shop ow...

When the Time Comes
1987
as Harold
A terminally ill woman seeks assistance in taking her life when her husband refuses.

Desperado
1987
as Malloy, Nora's Dad
Cowboy Duell McCall wants to quickly deliver a herd of cattle to town, get paid and move on but romance with local girl Nora gets him involved in a fe...

License to Kill
1986
as Howard Webster
A grieving family whose daughter was killed in a car crash with a drunken driver is outraged and frustrated as they encounter the inevitable bureaucra...

Houston: The Legend of Texas
1986
as Col. John Allen
Sam Elliot stars as Sam Houston, the visionary who nearly single-handedly forged the state of Texas into a powerful entity in its own right. Refusing ...

Lily
1986
as John Farnsworth
Lily Miniver is an eccentric, intrepid young woman whose job as associate curator at the prestigious Jeffersonian Museum in Washington, D.C. takes her...

Monster in the Closet
1986
as General Franklin Turnbull
After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college professor, her son and a befuddled professor band...

The Best of Times
1986
as Herbert ("The Colonel")
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.

Alamo Bay
1985
as Wally
A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing indus...

Who Will Love My Children?
1984
as Dick Thomas
Lucile Fray has 10 children and terminal cancer. As her ne'er-do-well alcoholic husband, isn't capable enough to handle raising them, there's only one...

Through Naked Eyes
1983
as Patrolman
A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an attractiv...

The Right Stuff
1983
as Lyndon B. Johnson
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history b...

The Thing
1982
as Garry
In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years....

A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
1982
as Captain Vesey
Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this fa...

The White Lions
1981
as Vreeland
A college professor, his wife, and daughter go the the wilds of Africa to live, and study the rare white lions of the region.

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
1981
as Hugh Auchincloss
Biography of the former first lady, focusing on her years as a photojournalist and leading up to her marriage to John F. Kennedy and their moving into...

Popeye
1980
as The Taxman
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and wi...

HealtH
1980
as Colonel Cody
At a luxury Florida resort, health food lobbyists choose their new president at their annual convention. As the conference progresses, underhanded tri...

The Long Days of Summer
1980
as Josef Kaplan
In this sequel to his 1978 "When Every Day Was the Fourth of July" (and a pilot to a prospective series), producer/director Dan Curtis recalls more of...

On the Nickel
1980
as Sam
Sam, a recovering alcoholic, feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of the good times he enjoyed with his wino friends o...

Promises in the Dark
1979
as Dr. Walter McInerny
A young doctor, Alexandra Kendall, seeking change while recovering from a recent heartbreak, moves from Chicago, Illinois to Hartford, Connecticut. Sh...

Mrs. R's Daughter
1979
as Frank Randell
When a young woman is brutally raped and beaten, her mother sets out to find justice for her.

Ebony, Ivory and Jade
1979
as Ian Cabot
In this prospective pilot, Mick Jade, a tennis bum-turned-Las Vegas-song-and-dance man, doubles as a private eye with two female dancers, Ebony and Iv...

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
1979
as Wally Ball
A woman, who had left home 20 years previously under acrimonious circumstances, finds out that she is terminally ill. She returns home and tries to re...

The Gift of Love
1978
as William Schuyler
Inspired by O. Henry's short story about a young bride and groom, each of whom foolishly--but quite lovingly--sacrifices a treasured possession to buy...

Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force
1978
as Col. Benton
The true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who, in 1975, publicly divulged his homosexuality and fought to remain in service.

Tartuffe
1978
as Tartuffe
Donald Moffat stars in Moliere's classic comedy about lovable scoundrel Tartuffe, who befriends the wealthy Orgon and then attempts to seduce both his...

Exo-Man
1977
as Wallace Rogers
A professor, who has been paralyzed in an attack by mob hitmen, builds a suit that enables him to walk and fight crime.
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
1977
as Harry Hopkins
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.

Mary White
1977
as Sir James Barrie
The true story of the relationship between famed author William Allen White and his teenaged daughter Mary, who died in a horseback-riding accident at...

The Call of the Wild
1976
as Simpson
A prospector, a trapper and their sled dog battle the Klondike elements on their journey to get to the gold country.

Forget-Me-Not Lane
1975
as Charles Bisley
A college professor remembers the humor and sorrow of his youth in World War II Britain.

Earthquake
1974
as Dr. Harvey Johnson
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.

The Terminal Man
1974
as Dr. Arthur McPherson
As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures...

Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
1974
as Fred
Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different segmen...

A Touch of the Poet
1974
as Jamie Cregan
Cornelius "Con" Melody is an Irish tavern keeper in New England who lives in reverence of his former days as a nobleman and decorated officer in the B...

Showdown
1973
as Art Williams
Two men who have been friends since childhood find themselves on opposite ends of the law.

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
1972
as Manning
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but things do not go as planned.

The Devil and Miss Sarah
1971
as Appleton
A notorious outlaw being escorted to prison by a homesteader and his wife turns out to have satanic powers. He uses them on the man's wife to try to p...

R.P.M.
1970
as Perry Howard
R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of ...

The File on Devlin
1969
as John Heywood
A young woman finds herself engulfed in Cold War intrigue when her father, a Nobel Prize-winning author, vanishes while travelling near the Russian bo...

Rachel, Rachel
1968
as Niall Cameron
Rachel is a 35-year-old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, sh...

Of Mice and Men
1968
as Slim
Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depression, but luck is not in their cards.

Art, what is it? Why is it?
1963
as Narrator
John Canaday analyzes the place of art among the humanities as an expression of man's attempt to define what it means to be a human being. Mr. Canaday...

The Battle of the River Plate
1956
as Swanston - Lookout, HMS Ajax (uncredited)
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Is...
Roger Williams: Founder Of Rhode Island
N/A
as Roger Williams
Recreates the conflict of Roger Williams with the Puritan leaders of New England, including his attempts to achieve separation of church and state, fr...