Biography
Nicholas King Nolte (/ˈnoʊlti/; born February 8, 1941) is an American actor. Known for his leading man roles in both dramas and romances, he has received a Golden Globe Award and nominations for three Academy Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. Nolte first became famous for his role in the ABC miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie nomination. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion P...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Crime 101
2026
A series of high level jewelry thefts up and down the Pacific Coast Highway have gone unsolved for years, primarily because the perpetrator has lived ...

Die My Love
2025
as Harry
A woman living in a remote rural area is driven to the brink of insanity by marriage and motherhood.

The Golden Voice
2025
as Barry
A young street singer and a homeless veteran, both on a self-destructive path, battle dark times through friendship and music.

Blackout
2022
as Ethan McCoy
A man wakes in a hospital with no memory, and quickly finds himself on the run in a locked down hospital with the Cartel on his tail.

Last Words
2020
as Shakespeare
The year is 2085 and no human babies have been born in over a decade. A group of disparate survivors respond to a call to meet in Athens, where the fi...

Angel Has Fallen
2019
as Clay Banning
After a treacherous attack, Secret Service agent Mike Banning is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trumbull. Chased by his own colleagu...

Head Full of Honey
2018
as Amadeus
A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkabl...

The Padre
2018
as Nemes
American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown of...

The Ridiculous 6
2015
as Frank Stockburn
When his long-lost outlaw father returns, Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn goes on an adventure-filled journey across the Old West with his five brothers...

Asthma
2015
as Werewolf (voice)
A young musician takes a beautiful tattoo artist on a ride in a stolen classic car.

A Walk in the Woods
2015
as Stephen Katz
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appa...

Return to Sender
2015
as Mitchell Wells
A nurse living in a small town goes on a blind date with a man who is not the person he says he is.

Run All Night
2015
as Eddie Conlon
Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—...

Hateship Loveship
2014
as Mr. McCauley
A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's pran...

Noah
2014
as Samyaza (voice)
A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

The Trials of Cate McCall
2013
as Bridges
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal ...

Parker
2013
as Hurley
A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely all...

Gangster Squad
2013
as Bill Parker
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, th...

The Company You Keep
2012
as Donal Fitzgerald
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.

The Cold Call
2012
as Mr. Battleworth
The story of salesman Salvador Lozano and his ambiguous relationship with young hostess Inés.

Redemption: Bringing Warrior to Life
2011
The cast and crew of the 2011 film 'Warrior' discuss the movie making process and the themes explored in the film.

Warrior
2011
as Paddy Conlon
The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament – a pa...

Zookeeper
2011
as Bernie the Gorilla (voice)
Kindhearted Griffin Keyes is one of the best-loved caretakers at the Franklin Park Zoo, but he's more comfortable with the animals than with females o...

Arthur
2011
as Burt Johnson
A drunken playboy stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman that his family doesn't like.

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
2010
as Butch (voice)
The ongoing war between the canine and feline species is put on hold when they join forces to thwart a rogue cat spy with her own sinister plans for c...

Arcadia Lost
2010
as Benerji
Two teenagers wander rural Greece after being stranded by a car crash. They encounter an itinerant vagabond on their travels.

My Own Love Song
2010
as Caldwell
A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.

Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness
2008
as Four Leaf Tayback
A behind-the-scenes mockumentary of Tropic Thunder.

Tropic Thunder
2008
as Four Leaf Tayback
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the fru...

Chicago 10
2008
as Thomas Foran (voice)
Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic Natio...

The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008
as Mulgarath
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselv...

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
2008
as Joe Bechstein
Based on Michael Chabon's novel, the film chronicles the defining summer of a recent college graduate who crosses his gangster father and explores lov...

Nick Nolte: No Exit
2008
as Self/Interviewer
A frank and unconventional view of the life and work of actor Nick Nolte.

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
2006
as Self
A personal, intimate look at journalist Hunter S. Thompson with a special emphasis on his Hollywood relationships. It captures the legacy and "gonzo" ...

Off the Black
2006
as Ray Cook
An aging, disillusioned alcoholic gets a younger friend and wants him to pose as his son at a school reunion.

A Few Days in September
2006
as Elliott
1 September 2001. Elliot, an American C.I.A. agent holding top secret information on the immediate future of the world, disappears. His sole aim was t...

Paris Je T'aime
2006
as Vincent (Parc Monceau)
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,...

Over the Hedge
2006
as Vincent (voice)
A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that poppe...

Peaceful Warrior
2006
as Socrates
A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast.

Neverwas
2005
as T. L. Pierson
Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What h...

Hotel Rwanda
2004
as Colonel Oliver
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnot...

Clean
2004
as Albrecht Hauser
After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to rega...

The Beautiful Country
2004
as Steve
After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a...
Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
2003
A short behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "Northfork" (2003).

Northfork
2003
as Father Harlan
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town,...

Hulk
2003
as Father
Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers massive radiation exposure in his laboratory that causes him to transform into a ragin...

This So-Called Disaster
2003
as Earl
Director Michael Almereyda's documentary on the weeks just prior to Sam Shepard's stage production of his play "The Late Henry Moss."

The Good Thief
2002
as Bob Montagnet
An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.

Intimate Affairs
2002
as Faldo
Edgar organizes a salon on the topic of sexuality and arranges to use the lavish estate of Faldo as a venue. In light of the overwhelming brilliance o...

Intimate Affairs
2002
Producer
Edgar organizes a salon on the topic of sexuality and arranges to use the lavish estate of Faldo as a venue. In light of the overwhelming brilliance o...

The Making of 'Cape Fear'
2001
as Self
A retrospective documentary on the making of Cape Fear (1991) and Cape Fear (1962).

Trixie
2000
as Senator Drummond Avery
Passed over at work and numbed after she witnesses a colleague's murder, security guard Trixie Zurbo takes a relatively easy job at a lakefront casino...

The Golden Bowl
2000
as Adam Verver
Adam Verver, a US billionaire in London, dotes on daughter Maggie. An impecunious Italian, Prince Amerigo, marries her even though her best friend, Ch...

Simpatico
1999
as Vincent Webb
As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an of...

Breakfast of Champions
1999
as Harry Le Sabre
A millionaire car salesman who runs the biggest dealership in Midland City, Dwayne Hoover is a celebrity, loved and trusted by everyone. Then one day,...

The Thin Red Line
1998
as Lt. Col. Gordon Tall
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselve...

Affliction
1997
as Wade Whitehouse
A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally...

Affliction
1997
Executive Producer
A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally...

Afterglow
1997
as Lucky Mann
Lucky Mann is a builder equally handy at repairs and seduction. The latest housewife to succumb to his charms is Marianne, unhappily married to corpor...

U Turn
1997
as Jake McKenna
When a desperate man’s car breaks down in a bizarre desert town while evading vengeful bookies, he becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle. Cau...

Nightwatch
1997
as Inspector Cray
A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect in a series of murders.

Mother Night
1996
as Howard Campbell
An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real...

Mulholland Falls
1996
as Max Hoover
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

Jefferson in Paris
1995
as Thomas Jefferson
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult...

I Love Trouble
1994
as Peter Brackett
Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett join forces to uncover a train wreck conspiracy.

Blue Chips
1994
as Pete
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future ar...

I'll Do Anything
1994
as Matt Hobbs
Matt Hobbs is a talented but unsuccessful actor. When estranged (and strange) ex-wife Beth dumps their daughter Jeannie on Matt, father and daughter h...

Lorenzo's Oil
1992
as Augusto Odone
Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the...

The Player
1992
as Nick Nolte
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

The Prince of Tides
1991
as Tom Wingo
A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the p...

Cape Fear
1991
as Sam Bowden
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14...

Another 48 Hrs.
1990
as Jack Cates
For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the Ice Man. Jack finds a picture ...

Q & A
1990
as Mike Brennan
A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who...

Everybody Wins
1990
as Tom O'Toole
A seemingly good Samaritan hires a private detective to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers dee...

New York Stories
1989
as Lionel Dobie
Get ready for a wildly diverse, star-studded trilogy about life in the big city. One of the most-talked about films in years, New York Stories feature...

Farewell to the King
1989
as Learoyd
An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among...

Three Fugitives
1989
as Lucas
On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decide...

Weeds
1987
as Lee Umstetter
A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.

Extreme Prejudice
1987
as Jack Benteen
A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...

Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986
as Jerry Baskin
Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.

Grace Quigley
1985
as Seymour Flint
Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. On the day she's being evicted, she witnesses a murder being com...

Teachers
1984
as Alex Jurel
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still canno...

Under Fire
1983
as Russell Price
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.

48 Hrs.
1982
as Jack Cates
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

Cannery Row
1982
as Doc
Doc, who has just moved to Cannery Row, realizes that the only entertainment is the brothel. There he meets the spunky Suzy and they fall in love, giv...

Heart Beat
1980
as Neal Cassady
An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and Cassady's wife, Carolyn.

North Dallas Forty
1979
as Phillip Elliott
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.

Who'll Stop the Rain
1978
as Ray Hicks
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside...

The Deep
1977
as David Sanders
A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters.

The Northville Cemetery Massacre
1976
as Chris (voice) (uncredited)
Mayhem starts when a gang of bikers is accused of a sadistic rape in a small town.

Return to Macon County
1975
as Bo Hollinger
In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag ra...

The Runaway Barge
1975
as Roy Blount
Two bargemen on the Mississippi River find themselves mixed up in a kidnapping and hijacking plot.

Death Sentence
1974
as John Healy
A juror on a murder trial begins to believe that the man charged with the crime is innocent — and that the real killer is her own husband.

The California Kid
1974
as Buzz Stafford
A sadistic small-town sheriff has a habit of deliberately forcing speeders to their deaths on the mountain roads leading into town. The brother of one...

Winter Kill
1974
as Dave Michaels
Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith) must figure out the connection that links the victims and...

Electra Glide in Blue
1973
as Hippie Kid (uncredited)
A short Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to Homicide following the mysterious murder of a hermit. He is forced to confront his ill...

Dirty Little Billy
1972
as Town Gang Leader (uncredited)
Clearly influenced by the darker, more sinister style of spaghetti westerns, Dirty Little Billy offers a unique insight into the beginnings of the not...

The Feather Farm
1969
Ostrich raising in 1915 is not as easy as it seems, as a Boston matron and her niece sadly discover. They almost lose their investment as the ostrich...

Aggie
1969
Thanks
As the oldest of three, Aggie takes on the responsibility of raising her siblings. A dark secret makes her life even more complicated: she is a nympho...
A Magnificent Death from a Shattered Hand
N/A
An ex-soldier attempts to clear his name while being relentlessly tracked down for the murder and rape of a well-to-do woman.
Poacher
N/A
as John Hardy
Vengeance motivates a young man to go to war with the corrupt fishing barons that rule his town, sending him on an epic journey that transforms him fr...
The Ploughmen
N/A
Strange friendship between a haunted young deputy sheriff and a notorious old murderer turns both their worlds upside down.
Shelter Me
N/A
Jon Boylan, an A.I. research scientist, develops a remote monitoring system that exposes personal struggles, weaknesses and strengths during the isola...