Biography
James Keane was born on September 26, 1952 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Apocalypse Now (1979), Falling Down (1993) and Dick Tracy (1990).
Known For
Complete Filmography

Megalopolis
2024
as Laughing Man
Genius artist Cesar Catilina seeks to leap the City of New Rome into a utopian, idealistic future, while his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, remain...

The Rizen: Possession
2019
as Extra
A group of young urban explorers and a private military unit could become the final pieces in a 60-year plan to reopen a door that should have stayed ...

Rules Don't Apply
2016
as Tom
It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Ang...

Miss Meadows
2014
as Father Peter
Miss Meadows is a school teacher with impeccable manners and grace. However, underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides a ruthless gun-toting vigilante...
Emit
2013
as Graydon Wofford
In a world where time flows backwards, an old man eagerly awaits meeting his wife for the first time. His 7-year granddaughter contemplates her upcomi...

Love's Christmas Journey
2011
as Mr. Peters
While still mourning the loss of her husband and daughter, recently widowed Ellie King visits her brother Aaron Davis and his children for Christmas. ...

Water for Elephants
2011
as Chaplain
In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces ...

Crazy Heart
2009
as Manager
When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a ...

A Gunfighter's Pledge
2008
as Preacher
After killing former sheriff Matt Austin's wife and son for revenge, a quest begins. An escaped prisoner shows that he remembers who sent him to do ti...

Silent Partner
2005
as Senator Banner
Gordon Patrick, a young CIA analyst is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of a major Russian political figure.

Seabiscuit
2003
as Car Customer
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation...

Assassination Tango
2003
as Whitey
John J. is a seasoned hit man sent on a job to Argentina. When the General he's sent to kill delays his return to the country, John passes the time wi...

Hey Arnold! The Movie
2002
as Marty Green / Riot Cop (voice)
Arnold and his friends must recover a stolen document in order to prevent the neighborhood from being bulldozed.

Don't Let Go
2002
as Wes
Scott Wilson plays Jimmy Ray in 'Don't Let Go'. He's a Rockabilly star who's a legend both because of his great hits and because he gave up music very...
The Vampire Hunters Club
2001
as Jonathan White

Pleasantville
1998
as Police Chief Dan
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and...

Bulworth
1998
as American Politics Director
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecti...

Arnold's Halloween
1997
as Marty Green / EBN Announcer (voice)
Arnold and Gerald try to play a Halloween prank on Grandpa by making him think aliens have landed in the city. However, the broadcast gets leaked and ...

The Fumbleheads
1997
as Veteran Cop
When his town's beloved football team, the Buzzards, moves out of state, diehard fan Charlie confronts the team's greedy owner. With the help of his n...

Journey Beneath the Sea
1996
as Rick (voice)
Jack Pumpkinhead, a pal of the Oz Kids, who wants to take a boat ride with all of his friends. During the ride, the boat begins to sink and Jack and t...

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

Angus
1995
as Coach
Angus is a large, pathetic 14-year-old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of only one girl, Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks ...

Here Come the Munsters
1995
as Maitre d'
The Munsters come to America to search for Herman's brother-in-law Norman Hyde, only to find out that he has turned himself into Brent Jekyll, who is ...

Coneheads
1993
as Harv
A pair of aliens arrive on Earth to prepare for invasion, but crash instead. With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toil...

Falling Down
1993
as Detective Keene
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

The Last Boy Scout
1991
as Garage Patrolman
When the girl that detective Joe Hallenback is protecting gets murdered, the boyfriend of the murdered girl attempts to investigate and solve the case...

Talent for the Game
1991
as Ray Coffey
Virgil Sweet is on the verge of losing his job as a talent scout with the California Angels when he discovers Sammy Bodeen, a country boy with no pro ...

Dick Tracy
1990
as Pat Patton
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Ca...

New York Stories
1989
as Jimmy
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...

Let's Get Harry
1986
as Al King
Harry Burck has been kidnapped by South American terrorists, and when the US Government refuses to intervene, Harry's friends decide to take matters i...
The Sound of Murder
1984
The wife of a cynical children's author and her navy man lover decide to murder him because he won't give her a divorce. Their plan is so diabolically...

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984
as Duck Hunter Bubba
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.

10 to Midnight
1983
as Jerry
Warren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his advances. To minimize the evidence, Stacy always kills while...

48 Hrs.
1982
as Vanzant
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 Eddie
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...

Pray TV
1982
as Fats
A newly ordained minister accepts a summer job with a dynamic TV evangelist only to find deep conflicts between the latter's conventional activities s...

The Ambush Murders
1982
as Lambert
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims t...

Life on the Mississippi
1980
Most mid-19th-century Mississippi River boys dreamed of occupying that pinnacle of power and glamour, the pilot house of a riverboat. In a riot of loc...

Brubaker
1980
as Pinky
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

The Rose
1979
as Dealer
Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road.

Apocalypse Now
1979
as Kilgore's Gunner
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." ...

Ike
1979
as Corporal
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal rel...

Love and Bullets
1979
as Doctor
Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in ...

Zero to Sixty
1978
as Girlie Bar Bartender
A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.

Night Cries
1978
as Charlie
A young woman whose baby died in childbirth refuses to believe it and has dreams that her child is still alive and in danger. A scientist who is condu...

Uncle Joe Shannon
1978
as Jeels
A trumpet player, self-destructive after the death of his wife and child in a fire, befriends a crippled youngster and together they battle obstacles ...

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
as Radio Telescope Team
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is abou...

Sunshine Christmas
1977
as Hugh Bob
A musician, brooding over the marriage of his sometime girlfriend, decides to take his adopted daughter to his home in Texas to celebrate Christmas wi...

Intimate Strangers
1977
as Rusty Fenton
The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.

Three Days of the Condor
1975
as Store Clerk
When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those r...
I Am the Man
1924
as George Lawson
A jealous politician tries to force a woman to marry him by framing her father for a crime.