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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Complete Filmography

The Long Game
2024
as Judge Milton Cox
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
2023
as Self
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
2022
as Paul
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
2022
as Harper Finn
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
2021
as Walter Sylvan
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
2019
as Ed
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
2019
as Thomas Wayne
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
2018
as Steve
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
2018
as Dr. Willard Pearrow
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
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
2016
as Father
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
2015
as Captain Beckett
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
2015
as Self - Friend
Documentary featuring an intimate profile of American rock legend Meat Loaf, spanning from his childhood of domestic violence, through a decade of rej...

42
2013
as Clay Hopper
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
2012
as Ben
An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.

The Dark Knight Rises
2012
as Congressman
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
2012
as Sgt. Tom Eckert
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
2012
as Sgt. Nickerson
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
2012
Co-Producer
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
2011
as Nathaniel Price
A lawyer who is a drug addict fights a medical-supplies corporation in court while battling his personal demons.

The Space Between
2011
as Used Car Salesman
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
2011
as Robert
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
2011
as David Wheeler
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
2010
as Donald Currie
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for The Runaways -- the now-legendary group that...

Reunion
2009
as Jake
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
2008
as Robert
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
2008
as Avery
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
2007
as Paul McFee
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
2007
as Barton Blaze
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
2006
as Frank Torrance
Under the leadership of their counselor, teenagers at a juvenile detention center gain self-esteem by playing football together.

Pixel Perfect
2004
as Xander
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
2004
as David Harris
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
2004
as Hub Weber
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
2004
as Sam Penny
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
2004
as Dr. Jake Mitchell
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.
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
2003
as Heston
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
2002
as Carson Drew
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
2001
as Charlie Martin
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
2000
as Eddie Martel
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
2000
as Deacon
A group of female convicts volunteers for a mission to rescue a woman from a Cuban prison.

The Hired Heart
1997
as Bryan
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
1997
as Coach David Blair
Obsessed with perfection, young gymnast Andie Bradley nearly starves herself to realize her dream of making the Olympic gymnastics team.

The Killing Jar
1997
as Michael Sanford
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
1997
as James
Sarah Paulson stars as a pregnant teenager who searches for her biological mother, with the help of a guardian angel.

Shattered Mind
1996
as Sean
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
1995
as Jack Mann
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
1995
as Jamie Johnson
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
1995
as CAPCOM 1
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
1994
as Sundance Kid
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
1994
as Saddle Tramp
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
1994
as Carl Jasper
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
1994
as Police Chief Sam Wasser
A one-time investigator gets back in the game when a family suffers a trauma similar to her own.

Prehysteria!
1993
as Frank
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
1993
as Dennis Becker
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
1993
as Ed Wylie
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
1992
as Kurt
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
1991
as John Whitney
A murder mystery writer misreads the nervous man he bullies in a spooky Hollywood mansion.

By the Sword
1991
as Gallagher
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
1991
as Peter Harmon
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
1991
as Jeff Harper
A delusional babysitter goes on a psychotic rampage, putting the little girl she is looking after in grave danger.

The Image
1990
as Malcolm Dundee
When career-focused journalist's investigation indirectly causes a suicide, he questions his own methods and life in general.

Dead Solid Perfect
1988
as Donny Smithern
A second-string pro golfer desperate for his shot at success tours the country.

Stewardess School
1986
as Philo Henderson
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
1986
as Billy
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
1985
as Brad Turner
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
1984
as Duane
Men and women gather at local singles bars in search of lasting love or casual action.

Hard Matter
N/A
as Sawyer
A power-hungry corporation has taken over the conventional prison system and made criminals the new law enforcers.