Brett Cullen

Brett Cullen

1956-08-26 Houston, Texas, USA 68 Credits

Biography

Peter Brett Cullen (born August 26, 1956) is an American actor who has appeared in numerous motion pictures and television programs. Early in 2007, he was cast as the role of an estranged father to one of the American football players, Tim Riggins (played by actor Taylor Kitsch), in the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights. Cullen was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Lucien Hugh Cullen, an oil industry executive, and Catherine Cullen. He graduated from Madison High School in Houston in 1974. ...

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The Long Game

The Long Game

2024

as Judge Milton Cox

7.1
Acting

In a segregated Texas, five Mexican-American teenage caddies were prohibited from playing at the country club where they worked. Against all odds, the...

Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life

Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life

2023

as Self

Acting

A short film tribute about the musician Meat Loaf, released by his family in 2023 on the anniversary of his death.

It Snows All the Time

It Snows All the Time

2022

as Paul

6.2
Acting

When Paul is diagnosed with young onset Frontotemporal Dementia at 58, his family comes closer together than ever before. Along the way, he and his mi...

American Carnage

American Carnage

2022

as Harper Finn

5.9
Acting

After a governor issues an executive order to arrest the children of undocumented immigrants, the detained youth are offered an opportunity to have th...

Reminiscence

Reminiscence

2021

as Walter Sylvan

6.6
Acting

Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offe...

The Turkey Bowl

The Turkey Bowl

2019

as Ed

5.2
Acting

A 30-something urbanite is pulled back to his rural hometown by his high school buddies on Thanksgiving to finish The Turkey Bowl - an epic football g...

Joker

Joker

2019

as Thomas Wayne

8.1
Acting

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychop...

White Lie

White Lie

2018

as Steve

8.2
Acting

Ahmed falls in love with an American girl called Kristy whom he takes to Cairo for a family visit, causing many paradoxes due to the difference in cus...

The Riot Act

The Riot Act

2018

as Dr. Willard Pearrow

4.8
Acting

After a quiet murder seen by only three people, two avengers bring to life the idea of a ghost in attempt for justice.

River Guard

2016

as Chuck Flynn

Acting

Crime writer Sean Flynn returns home to Riverport, North Carolina from New York after a long absence when authorities reopen the old murder case that ...

The Shallows

The Shallows

2016

as Father

6.3
Acting

While surfing on a secluded beach, Nancy finds herself in the feeding grounds of a great white shark. Though stranded only 200 yards from shore, survi...

The Last Rescue

The Last Rescue

2015

as Captain Beckett

4.6
Acting

World World II: Shortly after D-Day, three American soldiers and two Army Corps nurses are stranded behind enemy lines. They take a high-ranking Germa...

Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell

Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell

2015

as Self - Friend

9.0
Acting

Documentary featuring an intimate profile of American rock legend Meat Loaf, spanning from his childhood of domestic violence, through a decade of rej...

42

42

2013

as Clay Hopper

7.2
Acting

In 1946, Branch Rickey, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, took a stand against Major League Baseball's infamous color line when he signed Jackie Robinson...

The Guilt Trip

The Guilt Trip

2012

as Ben

5.6
Acting

An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.

The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises

2012

as Congressman

7.8
Acting

Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is...

Red Dawn

Red Dawn

2012

as Sgt. Tom Eckert

5.7
Acting

A city in Washington state awakens to the surreal sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky—shockingly, the U.S. has been invaded and their ...

Beneath the Darkness

Beneath the Darkness

2012

as Sgt. Nickerson

4.7
Acting

After watching their best friend get murdered, a group of teens struggle to expose a local hero as the vicious killer and keep from becoming his next ...

Beneath the Darkness

Beneath the Darkness

2012

Co-Producer

4.7
Producing

After watching their best friend get murdered, a group of teens struggle to expose a local hero as the vicious killer and keep from becoming his next ...

Puncture

Puncture

2011

as Nathaniel Price

6.7
Acting

A lawyer who is a drug addict fights a medical-supplies corporation in court while battling his personal demons.

The Space Between

The Space Between

2011

as Used Car Salesman

6.8
Acting

Montine McLeod, a world-weary flight attendant, and Omar Hassan, a prematurely wise 10-year-old Pakastani-American boy connect with one another amidst...

Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo

2011

as Robert

6.6
Acting

Three young women vacationing in Paris find themselves whisked away to Monte Carlo after one of the girls is mistaken for a British heiress.

Skateland

Skateland

2011

as David Wheeler

5.2
Acting

In the early 1980s, in small-town Texas, dramatic events force a 19-year-old skating rink manager to look at his life in a very new way.

The Runaways

The Runaways

2010

as Donald Currie

6.5
Acting

Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for The Runaways -- the now-legendary group that...

Reunion

Reunion

2009

as Jake

Acting

Ten years after the death of a close friend, a group of Yale graduates who formed a secret society to make the world a better place reunite, only to d...

The Burning Plain

The Burning Plain

2008

as Robert

6.6
Acting

A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic...

Brothel

Brothel

2008

as Avery

3.3
Acting

In a once thriving Arizona mining town, a woman starts renovating an abandoned brothel and meets the ghosts who still haunt it.

The Life Before Her Eyes

The Life Before Her Eyes

2007

as Paul McFee

6.1
Acting

As the 15th anniversary of a fatal high school shooting approaches, former pupil Diana McFee is haunted by memories of the tragedy. After losing her b...

Ghost Rider

Ghost Rider

2007

as Barton Blaze

5.6
Acting

In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Sim...

Gridiron Gang

Gridiron Gang

2006

as Frank Torrance

7.1
Acting

Under the leadership of their counselor, teenagers at a juvenile detention center gain self-esteem by playing football together.

Pixel Perfect

Pixel Perfect

2004

as Xander

5.3
Acting

Samantha's band, the Zettabytes, is meeting with little success, so her friend Roscoe uses his knowledge of technology designed by his father to creat...

Suburban Madness

Suburban Madness

2004

as David Harris

5.0
Acting

Based on the real story of Clara Harris, the Houston, Texas dentist who made headlines in July 2002 when she killed her adulterous husband by repeated...

NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323

NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323

2004

as Hub Weber

5.1
Acting

A team of federal investigators have to comb through the wreckage of a crashed airplane to find the cause of the fatal downing. Was it terrorism? Negl...

Deceit

Deceit

2004

as Sam Penny

3.7
Acting

Ellen's life is turned upside down after her wealthy hubby vanishes at sea. Everyone close to her is a liar - especially Ellen's missing spouse. Was t...

Life on Liberty Street

Life on Liberty Street

2004

as Dr. Jake Mitchell

3.7
Acting

A nurse, trying to salvage her life after her husband and job are gone, winds up working in a halfway house full of mildly brain-damaged patients and ...

Learning Curves

2003

as Brad, Sr.

1.0
Acting

Brad, an art student hoping to win a prestigious fellowship, finds his life and career turned upside down when he falls for a faculty member at his co...

National Security

National Security

2003

as Heston

6.0
Acting

Earl Montgomery, a bombastic police academy reject, and Hank Rafferty, a disgraced, mild-mannered cop, can't seem to escape each other. They met on op...

Nancy Drew

Nancy Drew

2002

as Carson Drew

5.6
Acting

Nancy and her faithful sidekicks Bess and George just entered River Heights University, where she tackles the mystery of a football star's drug-induce...

On Golden Pond

On Golden Pond

2001

as Charlie Martin

9.0
Acting

Character-driven story about an elderly man coming to terms with his age, and the nearing of death; a middle-aged woman attempting to enter into a fat...

The Replacements

The Replacements

2000

as Eddie Martel

6.7
Acting

Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that im...

The Expendables

The Expendables

2000

as Deacon

7.4
Acting

A group of female convicts volunteers for a mission to rescue a woman from a Cuban prison.

The Hired Heart

The Hired Heart

1997

as Bryan

5.3
Acting

A small-town, country doctor has been a widow for two years but is still in love with her dead husband, Michael. Despite the best efforts of her fathe...

Perfect Body

Perfect Body

1997

as Coach David Blair

6.0
Acting

Obsessed with perfection, young gymnast Andie Bradley nearly starves herself to realize her dream of making the Olympic gymnastics team.

The Killing Jar

The Killing Jar

1997

as Michael Sanford

3.8
Acting

Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, gruesome murders of children start to happen. Mean...

Levitation

Levitation

1997

as James

6.0
Acting

Sarah Paulson stars as a pregnant teenager who searches for her biological mother, with the help of a guardian angel.

Shattered Mind

Shattered Mind

1996

as Sean

4.4
Acting

Heather Locklear stars in this psychological thriller as a woman who is racked by multiple personalities and confronts a horrifying past of dark secre...

The Omen

The Omen

1995

as Jack Mann

4.0
Acting

Jack Mann is a writer reporter for the Associated Press. Annalisse Summer is an ER nurse dedicated to help people: Dr Linus is a doctor who has seen w...

Something to Talk About

Something to Talk About

1995

as Jamie Johnson

5.7
Acting

Grace King Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie is deceiving her with another woman. After confronting...

Apollo 13

Apollo 13

1995

as CAPCOM 1

7.5
Acting

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with th...

The Gambler: Playing for Keeps

The Gambler: Playing for Keeps

1994

as Sundance Kid

6.0
Acting

Brady Hawkes has to run to his son's rescue once again in this continuation of the Gambler stories. Jeremiah is now a young man who has become involve...

Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp

1994

as Saddle Tramp

6.8
Acting

From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matters more than family and the law. Joined by his bro...

A Kiss Goodnight

A Kiss Goodnight

1994

as Carl Jasper

3.3
Acting

Advertising exec Natalie engages in a passionate, but brief, love affair with a stranger named Kurt. When Natalie returns to her boyfriend, she finds...

Keys

Keys

1994

as Police Chief Sam Wasser

3.7
Acting

A one-time investigator gets back in the game when a family suffers a trauma similar to her own.

Prehysteria!

Prehysteria!

1993

as Frank

4.8
Acting

A young boy and his family embark on a series of adventures when the boy finds some mysterious eggs which hatch to reveal a brood of baby dinosaurs.

Mother of the Bride

Mother of the Bride

1993

as Dennis Becker

6.4
Acting

A mother's plans for her daughter's wedding are complicated when her ex-husband, who abandoned the family more than 20 years earlier, shows up.

Complex of Fear

Complex of Fear

1993

as Ed Wylie

6.4
Acting

Condominium residents are terrified when they learn that two of their neighbors have been brutally raped and that the culprit may be living in their m...

Leaving Normal

Leaving Normal

1992

as Kurt

6.2
Acting

Darly, a waitress with a past that's weighing her down, decides to drive to Alaska to try and come to terms with her unfortunate history. Along the wa...

Where Sleeping Dogs Lie

Where Sleeping Dogs Lie

1991

as John Whitney

4.4
Acting

A murder mystery writer misreads the nervous man he bullies in a spooky Hollywood mansion.

By the Sword

By the Sword

1991

as Gallagher

5.8
Acting

An elderly man named Max comes to the famous fencing coach Villar and asks to take him on as a coach. But the coach does not like his weapon technique...

In a Stranger's Hand

In a Stranger's Hand

1991

as Peter Harmon

5.8
Acting

Jack Bauer, a workaholic businessman, accidentally gets involved in a case of child kidnapping when he returns a doll found in the subway.

The Sitter

The Sitter

1991

as Jeff Harper

5.8
Acting

A delusional babysitter goes on a psychotic rampage, putting the little girl she is looking after in grave danger.

The Image

The Image

1990

as Malcolm Dundee

5.2
Acting

When career-focused journalist's investigation indirectly causes a suicide, he questions his own methods and life in general.

Dead Solid Perfect

Dead Solid Perfect

1988

as Donny Smithern

6.6
Acting

A second-string pro golfer desperate for his shot at success tours the country.

Stewardess School

Stewardess School

1986

as Philo Henderson

4.8
Acting

A group of varied misfits (including a former prostitute/stripper and a bumbler who can't see more than 6 inches in front of his face) enter a school ...

Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story

Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story

1986

as Billy

Acting

Outraged by the treatment of New York City’s unhoused residents, an activist brings national attention to the issue by taking their case to Congress.

Midas Valley

Midas Valley

1985

as Brad Turner

Acting

Set in Silicon Valley, California, follows the lives of a group of people involved in the competitive world of computer electronics and the greed, pas...

Single Bars, Single Women

Single Bars, Single Women

1984

as Duane

Acting

Men and women gather at local singles bars in search of lasting love or casual action.

Hard Matter

Hard Matter

N/A

as Sawyer

Acting

A power-hungry corporation has taken over the conventional prison system and made criminals the new law enforcers.