Biography
Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American actor. After taking minor roles in television, he established himself as a leading actor in both comedic and dramatic works on stage and screen. He has received several accolades, including six Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Tony Awards, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. Cranston first gained prominence playing Hal in the Fox sit...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie
2026
George Hardy, a shepherd who loves his sheep and raises them only for their wool. Every night he reads aloud a murder mystery, pretending his sheep ca...

When We Went MAD!
2025
as Self (archive footage)
A historical documentary and tribute to the legacy and influence of MAD Magazine featuring interviews with MAD celebrity readers, along with MAD artis...

Everything's Going to Be Great
2025
as Buddy
When they are unexpectedly forced to move in with an estranged relative, the Smart Family must navigate oversized dreams, identity struggles and regio...

The Phoenician Scheme
2025
as Reagan
Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon becom...

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 10th Anniversary Special
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Fallon celebrates 10 years as host of The Tonight Show in a two-hour primetime special, featuring highlights from monologues, sketches, guest in...

Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés
2024
as Self
Andrés invites Jamie Lee Curtis, Bryan Cranston and O’Shea Jackson Jr., over for food and conversation. His guests join him in the kitchen, getting th...

Kung Fu Panda 4
2024
as Li (voice)
Po is gearing up to become the spiritual leader of his Valley of Peace, but also needs someone to take his place as Dragon Warrior. As such, he will t...

Argylle
2024
as Director Ritter
When the plots of reclusive author Elly Conway's fictional espionage novels begin to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, quiet ...

Asteroid City
2023
as The Host
In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.

Jerry & Marge Go Large
2022
as Jerry Selbee
The remarkable true story of how retiree Jerry Selbee discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massachusetts lottery and, with the help of his wife, M...

Sell/Buy/Date
2022
as Self
A hybrid doc/narrative following Tony winning performer and comedian Sarah Jones. As a mixed-race Black woman in America, Sarah, alongside the multicu...

Experience Yosemite
2022
Narrated by Bryan Cranston, "Experience Yosemite" is a cinematic virtual reality experience that details the Yosemite National Park’s rich history and...

Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
2022
as Self
Friends and stars pay tribute to America's comedy sweetheart and her trailblazing television career.

An Audience with Adele
2021
as Self
Joining multi-Grammy Award winning and one of the biggest UK artists of all time, Adele, for a unique and special night at the legendary London Pallad...

Show of Titles
2021
as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
An evening of celebrated stars performing the titles songs from Broadway’s best.

The One and Only Ivan
2020
as Mack
A gorilla named Ivan who’s living in a suburban shopping mall tries to piece together his past, with the help of other animals, as they hatch a plan t...
Malcolm in the Middle 2020 Zoom Reunion
2020
as self
A documentary where the cast meet 20 years after the series started (filmed at the peak covid-19 outbreak) they do a readthrough of the first episode

Love Letters
2020
as Andrew Makepeace Ladd III
Andrew Makepeace Ladd III wrote his first letter to Melissa Gardner to tell her she looked like a lost princess. They were both seven years old. For t...

The Story of Soaps
2020
as Self
This ABC/PEOPLE television special highlights the impact of the soap opera. In today's shifting television landscape, "The Story of Soaps" traces how ...

David Blaine: The Magic Way
2020
as Self
Magician David Blaine performs reality-defying magical acts; featured celebrities include Odell Beckham Jr., Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Tom Brady, G...

Ancient Caves
2020
as Self - Narrator
Ancient Caves brings science and adventure together as it follows paleoclimatologist Dr. Gina Moseley on a mission to unlock the secrets of the Earth’...

The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019
as Self (extended version)
Aaron Paul, Vince Gilligan and other cast members, producers and crew share stories and footage from the making of "El Camino."

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019
as Walt
In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.

The Upside
2019
as Phillip Lacasse
Phillip is a wealthy quadriplegic who needs a caretaker to help him with his day-to-day routine in his New York penthouse. He decides to hire Dell, a ...

Pink Elephants
2018
as Self
The dynamics of a cult? Fragile actors are deconstructed by their mentor. Forbidden from discussing it with the outside, instructed to rid their lives...

CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion
2018
as Self
An investigation into the way media portrayals impact the actual inclusion of people with disabilities in society.

Every Act of Life
2018
as John Steinbeck (voice)
The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime): 60 years of groundbreaking plays and musicals, the struggle for gay righ...

Isle of Dogs
2018
as Chief (voice)
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must ...

Network
2018
as Howard Beale
A stage production with the similar plot of the 1976 film of the same name but uses stage devices and audio visual technology to immerse the audience ...

Last Flag Flying
2017
as Sal Nealon
Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry, Sal and Richard reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Mar...

The Words That Built America
2017
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
In recognition of the 4th of July, several celebrities and politicians of differing ideologies join to read the historic documents which laid the foun...

The Power of the Present
2017
as Self
Exploring the history of the 'Power Rangers' franchise, casting, special effects and music.

Wakefield
2017
as Howard Wakefield
A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months.

Power Rangers
2017
as Zordon
Five ordinary teens must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove — and the world — is on the verge of bein...

The Disaster Artist
2017
as Bryan Cranston (uncredited)
An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have pred...

Why Him?
2016
as Ned Fleming
A dad forms a bitter rivalry with his daughter's young rich boyfriend.

In Dubious Battle
2016
as Sheriff
In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise 'in dubious battle' against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own—stronger ...

The Infiltrator
2016
as Robert Mazur
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.

The Infiltrator
2016
Executive Producer
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.

All the Way
2016
as Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his...

All the Way
2016
Executive Producer
Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his...

Get a Job
2016
as Roger Davis
Life after college graduation is not exactly going as planned for Will and Jillian who find themselves lost in a sea of increasingly strange jobs. But...

Kung Fu Panda 3
2016
as Li (voice)
While Po and his father are visiting a secret panda village, an evil spirit threatens all of China, forcing Po to form a ragtag army to fight back.

Trumbo
2015
as Dalton Trumbo
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklist...

The Concert for Valor
2014
as Self
A live HBO concert honoring United States veterans in Washington DC.

Barely Legal Pawn
2014
as Buzz Jackson
Two men open a pawn shop together. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is one of their clients, trying to offload television’s most coveted item.

Sense of Smell
2014
as Tyler
Iraq War vet Tyler has had enough and finally deals with all of the other rude party guests.

Godzilla
2014
as Joe Brody
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe....

No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
2013
as Self
A documentary about the making of season five of the acclaimed AMC series Breaking Bad.

David Blaine: Real or Magic
2013
as Self
David Blaine's signature brand of street magic mystifies the most recognisable celebrities in the world, such as Jamie Foxx, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Pau...
Writer's Block
2013
The short film is a poetic interpretation of the writer's mental journey during the writing process. The writer, played by Bryan Cranston (AMC’s Break...

Cold Comes the Night
2013
as Topo
A struggling motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a nearly blind career criminal to be his eyes as he attempts to retrieve his cash packa...

Übermansion
2013
as Titanium Rex
A group of superheroes live in a mansion where dealing with each other is more difficult than dealing with villains

Seth Rogen Is the Worst Person in the World
2013
as Heisenberg
In this short from Funny Or Die, Seth Rogen realizes that after raising millions of dollars for charity, he's done with good deeds -- and can finally ...

Argo
2012
as Jack O'Donnell
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter ...

Total Recall
2012
as Cohaagen
Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure...

Rock of Ages
2012
as Mayor Mike Whitmore
A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
2012
as Vitaly (voice)
Animal pals Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo. They are forced to take a detour to Europ...

John Carter
2012
as Powell
John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctant...

Red Tails
2012
as Colonel William Mortamus
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

Batman: Year One
2011
as Jim Gordon (voice)
A wealthy playboy named Bruce Wayne and a Chicago cop named Jim Gordon both return to Gotham City where their lives unexpectedly intersect.

Drive
2011
as Shannon
Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming ...

Contagion
2011
as Lyle Haggerty
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control t...

Larry Crowne
2011
as Dean Tainot
When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes p...

Leave
2011
as Eliot
Henry Harper is a successful novelist who has it all. But after surviving a recent trauma he finds himself haunted by a dream that terrifies him. Conv...

Detachment
2011
as Mr. Dearden
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Bar...

The Lincoln Lawyer
2011
as Detective Lankford
Mick Haller is a charismatic defense attorney who does business out of his Lincoln Continental sedan. Mick spends most of his time defending petty cro...

Love Ranch
2010
as James Pettis
Story of a couple that starts the first legal brothel in Nevada and a boxer they own a piece of.

Hard Four
2007
as Lt. Bryce Baxter
When legendary gambler Golden Hands Segal suffers a fatal heart attack at the craps table in Las Vegas, his grandson Freddy Meingold and boyhood pal S...

Little Miss Sunshine
2006
as Stan Grossman
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Special Unit
2006
Director
A rebel cop (Titus) is assigned to train a squad of physically and mentally challenged officers.

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
2005
as Buzz Aldrin (voice)
Twelve men who belong to one of the world's most exclusive fraternities -- people who've walked on the surface of the moon -- are paid homage in this ...

Illusion
2004
as David
A once-powerful, but now ailing movie director nears the end of his life. As he awaits death, he slips into a "dream" and is shown three "snippets" of...

Seeing Other People
2004
as Peter
Ed and Alice are two months shy of getting married when she realizes that she wishes she'd had a more active love life while still single. Reluctantly...

Holiday Reunion
2003
as Woodrow Snider
All Mitch Snider wants for his family is a traditional holiday feast with the relatives. The problem is that he doesn't have any. That is until he get...

The Santa Claus Brothers
2002
as Santa Claus (voice)
This tale of Santa's 3 sons seeks the true meaning of Christmas. Kevin McDonald and Richard Kind add voices that instill a genuine comedy feel. With a...

'Twas the Night
2001
as Nick Wrigley
A mischievous 14-year-old boy and his irresponsible uncle almost ruin Christmas when they decide to take Santa's new high-tech sleigh for a joyride.

Terror Tract
2000
as Ron Gatley
A real estate agent terrifies a couple with the grim fates of the previous owners of a house they're looking at.

Last Chance
1999
as Lance
Dreams collide in a small cafe in the California desert when a man and a woman must decide whether or not to gamble on an uncertain future.

Last Chance
1999
Producer, Writer, Director
Dreams collide in a small cafe in the California desert when a man and a woman must decide whether or not to gamble on an uncertain future.

Saving Private Ryan
1998
as War Department Colonel
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain Joh...

Time Under Fire
1997
A US submarine runs into a time rift. A special unit goes on a mission to see what's on the other side. They find themselves in an alternate dystopian...

Strategic Command
1997
as Phil Hertzberg
Rick Harding is a former Marines officer, now working in the FBI as a chemical weapons designer. While packing up for the night, a group of armed sold...

That Thing You Do!
1996
as Virgil "Gus" Grissom
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.

Street Corner Justice
1996
as Father Brophy
Pittsburgh cop Mike Justus is kicked off the force and moves away to relax in sunny Los Angeles. Unfortunately his dream retirement turns out to be a ...

The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime
1996
as Patrick Dougherty
Laid-back private eye Jim Rockford and his brown Pontiac Firebird become embroiled in another case when he runs across an old flame, blind book editor...

Armitage III: Poly Matrix
1996
as Eddie (voice)
Ross Sylibus is assigned to a police unit on a Martian colony, to find that women are being murdered by a psychotic named D'anclaude. He is assigned a...
Kissing Miranda
1995
as Special Agent Falsey
A young man falls in love with a co-worker's mail order bride from Latin America.

The Companion
1994
as Alan
In the near-distant future, a female romance writer is planning to write her next book in a remote mountain cabin. A friend convinces her to bring alo...

Erotique
1994
as Dr. Robert Stern (segment 'Let's Talk About Love')
The sexual fantasies of women are explored by three female directors.

Clean Slate
1994
as Club Official
Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle...

Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story
1993
The take-down of an infamous leader of a small polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group, who ordered assassinations of his opponents.

Dead Space
1991
as Dr. Frank Darden
In this loose remake of "Forbidden World" (1982), Commander Krieger and his robot companion Tinpan are summoned by a distress call to a research facil...

Dead Silence
1991
as Prof. Harris
Three friends on spring break hit and kill a transient in the California desert. Will they keep silent or turn on each other?

Corporate Affairs
1990
as Darren
An executive discovers that his former lover has given their firm's CEO a fatal heart attack during sex.

The Big Turnaround
1988
as Jim
Two trained men, one angry local woman and the local priest take on the local crime lord and his crew of narcotic smugglers and human traffickers in a...

Amazon Women on the Moon
1987
as Paramedic #1 (segment "Roast Your Loved One") (uncredited)
Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird ...

The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1987
as Dr. Shepherd
Ten years after his retirement from the government, Colonel Steve Austin must again team up with Jaime Sommers to stop a terrorist group. Complicating...

Loving
1983
as Douglas Donovan
Feature-length prime time pilot for a daytime soap centered around the wealthy and influential Aldens family, who almost alone own the small universit...

To Race the Wind
1980
as Quarterback (uncredited)
A lighthearted dramatization of the autobiography of Harold Krents, a blind Harvard Law School student trying to make his way in a sighted world.

Grendel
N/A
as King Hrothgar
The tale of the legendary monster at the heart of the Beowulf epic poem who steps forth to tell his side of the riveting story.
Tangles
N/A
When Alzheimer’s disease begins to strip away her mother’s vibrant personality, a headstrong young woman is forced to return to her oddball family in ...
Jackpot
N/A
Four guys win a jackpot over a million dollars, but when it comes to dividing it up, things get bloody. Based on the 2011 Norwegian film, "Jackpot".
Assassination
N/A
A new take on the JFK conspiracy, centering around Dorothy Kilgallen, one of the most famous voices in media at the time. When Dorothy suspects that L...
Lone Wolf
N/A
A troubled vet struggling with addiction is recruited by a contractor for a covert plot to assassinate a politician. After learning she's set up to ta...
Chili Finger
N/A
A recently empty-nested mother who discovers a human finger in her bowl of fast-food chili. When she blackmails the restaurant for a cash payout, the ...
The Big Thing
N/A
as Roberto Montalban
Zany situations and lapses of twisted logic make for a comedic romp when a free-spirited hippy couple (Mo and Ned) inadvertently show up a week late t...