Biography
Ken Howard (March 28, 1944 — March 23, 2016) was an American actor, best known for his roles in 1776 and on White Shadow. He was the National President of The Screen Actors Guild from 2009 until his death in 2016.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Joy
2015
as Mop Executive
A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.

The Wedding Ringer
2015
as Ed Palmer
Doug Harris is a loveable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With less than two weeks to go until he marries the gi...

The Judge
2014
as Judge Warren
A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of mur...

Better Living Through Chemistry
2014
as Walter Bishop
A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride i...

A.C.O.D.
2013
as Gary
A grown man is still caught in the crossfire of his parents' 15 year divorce. He discovers he was unknowingly part of a study on divorced children and...

J. Edgar
2011
as Harlan Fiske Stone
As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind close...

A Numbers Game
2010
as Harold
Neil Black is a good looking schmoozer who can sell anything to anyone, literally. The beautiful Catherine (Madison Walls) doesn’t seem to close deals...

The Beacon
2009
as Oficer Ford
While trying to get their lives back on track after the loss of their four year old son, Bryn and Paul Shaw move to the charming old Beacon Apartments...

Grey Gardens
2009
as Phelan Beale
Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis raised as Park Avenue débutantes but who withdrew from New York soc...

2:13
2009
as Sheriff Sedgewick
A police profiler has just returned from psychiatric leave only to find that he is caught up in a serial killer's rampage. Fighting to keep buried the...

Smother
2008
as Gene Cooper
After he's fired from his job, an everyday guy faces pressure from his wife to have a baby and from his mom, who has decided to move in with the young...

Under Still Waters
2008
as Conrad
A young married couple encounters a stranger who threatens their marriage and their lives.

Rambo
2008
as Arthur Marsh
In Thailand, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn neighboring Myanmar to rescue a group of Christian ...

Michael Clayton
2007
as Don Jeffries
A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty ...

Spring Thaw
2007
as Thane Weston
Katelyn 'Kate' Weston, a country girl who became a lawyer and joined an L.A. law firm years ago, specializes in defending minors having committed viol...

Arc
2006
as Santee
Set in the belly of Los Angeles' criminal underworld, Arc is the story of Paris Pritchert, a former police officer turned drug dealer and addict, who ...

In Her Shoes
2005
as Michael Feller
Irresponsible party girl Maggie is kicked out of her father's and stepmother's home—where she lives for free—and is taken in by her hard-working siste...

Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story
2005
as William Ford
Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the mare and save it from being sacrifice...

Double Dare
2004
as Self
With being thrown off buildings an occupational hazard, professional stuntwomen Jeannie Epper and Zoë Bell (the alter egos of Wonder Woman and Xena, r...

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
2000
as Alex Hunter
About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigatio...

At First Sight
1999
as Virgil's Father
A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.

A Vow to Cherish
1999
as John Brighton
John and Ellen have a picture-perfect life: while John runs a successful business, Ellen works as a schoolteacher, and they've raised two beautiful ch...

Tactical Assault
1998
as General Horace White
In this high-flying action thriller, an expert Air Force flyer finds himself forced to use every trick he has ever learned to stop a murderous, insane...

Something Borrowed, Something Blue
1997
as Senator John Farrell
Three about-to-be-newlywed chums are taken to Australia for a photoshoot
Her Hidden Truth
1995
as Jack Devereaux
A young Billie Calhoun is accused of killing her mother and sister in a house fire. she is taken to a juvenile detention center. When she reaches 18 s...

The Net
1995
as Michael Bergstrom
Angela Bennett is a freelance computer systems analyst who tracks down software viruses. At night she hooks up to the internet and chats to others 'su...

OP Center
1995
as The President
Paul Hood is the newly appointed director of the OP Center, a special agency gathering a wide variety of experts monitoring international crisis. On h...

Clear and Present Danger
1994
as Committee Chairman
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, ...
Moment of Truth: To Walk Again
1994
as Ed Keating
A marine is paralyzed after being shot during a training exercise, leaving his parents to fight to get him proper medical care.

Ulterior Motives
1993
as Malcolm Carter
A private eye becomes the bodyguard of a beautiful reporter being pursued by a Japanese mob.

Mastergate
1992
as Secretary of State Courtleigh Bishop
A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate ...

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
as Self
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such me...

Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story
1991
as Bill Smart
Pamela Smart knows exactly what she wants and is willing to do anything to get it. She is fed up with teaching, and her marriage offers little excitem...

Oscar
1991
as Kirkwood
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite ...

The Man in the Brown Suit
1989
as Gordon Race
An American woman gets involved in a diamond theft in South Africa.

Strange Interlude
1988
as Sam Evans
Adaptation of an experimental play in nine acts by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Strange Interlude makes extensive use of a soliloquy technique,...
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
1988
as Self, Host
Ken Howard hosts a series of role-playing vignettes (featuring some of Hollywood's top stars) to help parents and children deal with typical family si...

Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
1986
as Adam J. Warner
Jennifer's life changes when Warner, now Vice President of the United States, decides to see her and her son, Joshua. At the same time, Jennifer is un...

Amazing Masters of Martial Arts
1985
as Self - Host
This collection of archive footage from martial arts films offers an array of power-packed kicks, chops, leaps, and other dramatic fighting moves from...

He's Not Your Son
1984
as Michael Saunders
Two couples face the possibility that their infant sons, both born on the same day, were inadvertently switched at the hospital, and a chain of revela...

Second Thoughts
1983
as John Michael
Lawyer Amy finds herself courted by two very different men: her client, a roguish street musician named Will, and her ex John Michael. A curious trian...

Rage of Angels
1983
as Adam Warner
Based on Sidney Sheldon's novel. A young assistant district attorney is used by a ruthless attorney to get his client off. She is fired and almost dis...

Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City ...

Victims
1982
as Joe Buckley
A serial rapist gets acquitted of his crimes due to a police mishandling of the investigation. His victims decide to turn the tables on him and begin ...

The Country Girl
1982
as Bernie Dodd
Director Bernie Dodd hires alcoholic has-been actor Frank Elgin and strikes up a stormy relationship with the actor's wife Georgia.
Damien: The Leper Priest
1980
as Father Damien
A dramatization of the life of the 19th-Century priest who devoted himself to service in Hawaii's leper colony.

A Real American Hero
1978
as Danny Boy Mitchell
When two boys are killed and two girls are blinded for life in a tragic accident, Buford Pusser, the town sheriff, is determined to get revenge. Thoug...

Superdome
1978
as Dave Walecki
It's the biggest event of the year — the Super Bowl! But the star players for the Cougars, gathered in New Orleans for the big game, are preoccupied w...

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
1977
as Major Asa B. Gandiner - Prosecuting Attorney
General Custer is on trial for the deaths of his men at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Independence
1976
as Thomas Jefferson
John Huston directs this film giving relevance and life to the hallowed buildings and ground making up Independence National Historical Park. Through ...

Manhunter
1974
as Dave Barrett
Pilot movie for the short-lived TV series set in the 1930's about a World War I ex-marine-turned-bounty-hunter, named Dave Barrett, who goes after two...

1776
1972
as Thomas Jefferson
Colonial representatives gather in Philadelphia with the aim of establishing a set of governmental rules for the burgeoning United States. Benjamin Fr...

The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie
1972
as Virgil
A traveling salesman is lured by a precocious teenage girl to her shack in the desert for some sexual escapades. However, a scuzzy biker comes along a...

Such Good Friends
1971
as Cal
Julie Messinger, a repressed woman, grapples with her hidden passions when a routine hospital visit for her husband, Richard, spirals into chaos. As s...

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
1970
as Arthur
The story of three wildly neurotic characters: a facially disfigured girl, a homosexual paraplegic, and an introvert epileptic who, after leaving the ...
Untitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary
N/A
as Self (archive footage)
Tracks the evolution of the union between 2008 and 2024, a time that saw a failed strike authorization, a merger and the 2023 work stoppage.