Biography
Thomas Haden Church (born Thomas Richard McMillen; June 17, 1960) is an American actor. After starring in the 1990s sitcom Wings and playing the lead for two seasons in Ned & Stacey (1995–1997), Church became known for his film work, including his role of Lyle van de Groot in George of the Jungle (1997), his Academy Award-nominated performance in Sideways (2004), his role as the Marvel Comics villain Sandman in the superhero films Spider-Man 3 (2007) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), as well a...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
as Samson Holt
World-renowned detective Benoit Blanc returns for his most dangerous case yet.

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
2024
Explore the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Spanning 15 years before, during, and followi...

Accidental Texan
2024
as Merle
Erwin blows his first acting job and finds himself stranded in Texas, where he's taken under the wing of a nearly bankrupt oil driller Merle and his c...

Acidman
2023
as Lloyd
After a decade apart, Maggie tracks down her elusive father. His fixation with UFOs has intensified over the years, which frustrates her attempts to c...

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022
as Self (archive footage)
JB Smoove and Martin Starr host a celebration of 20 years of "Spider-Man" movies, from the Sam Raimi trilogy to Marc Webb's movies and the trio from J...

Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021
as Flint Marko / Sandman
Peter Parker is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a super-hero. When he asks for help from Doctor ...

Big Bend: The Wild Frontier of Texas
2021
as Narrator (voice)
Roam the Wild West frontier land of the Rio Grande’s Big Bend alongside its iconic animals, including black bears, rattlesnakes and scorpions.

The 24th
2020
as Col. Norton
The incredibly powerful and timely true story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917. The Housto...

The Peanut Butter Falcon
2019
as Salt Water Redneck
A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolin...

Hellboy
2019
as Lobster Johnson
Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin's consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a ...

Crash Pad
2017
as Grady
Hopeless romantic Stensland thinks he's found true love with an older woman, Morgan, only to learn that she's married and that their fling is merely a...

Cardboard Boxer
2016
as Willie
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.

Daddy's Home
2015
as Leo Holt
The story of a mild-mannered radio executive who strives to become the best stepdad ever to his wife's two children, but complications ensue when thei...

Max
2015
as Ray
A dog that helped soldiers in Afghanistan returns to the U.S. and is adopted by his handler's family after suffering a traumatic experience.

Heaven Is for Real
2014
as Jay Wilkins
The true story of the 4-year old son of a small-town pastor who, during emergency surgery, slips from consciousness and enters heaven. When he awakes,...

Lucky Them
2013
as Charlie
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to ...

Whitewash
2013
as Bruce Landry
In the harsh, wintry woods of rural Quebec, Bruce (Thomas Haden Church), a down-on-his-luck snowplow operator, accidentally kills a man during a drunk...

Killer Joe
2012
as Ansel Smith
A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal si...

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

We Bought a Zoo
2011
as Duncan Mee
Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son i...

Another Happy Day
2011
as Paul
A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.

The Making of Easy A
2010
as Self
As featured on the Blu-ray.

Easy A
2010
as Mr. Griffith
Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine ...

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
2010
as Self
At 89 years old, Stan Lee's name appears on more than one BILLION comics in 75 countries in 25 languages. Arguably the most recognized name in comics,...

All About Steve
2009
as Hartman
After one short blind date, Mary Horowitz, a brilliant and eccentric crossword constructor, is convinced that Steve, a CCN cameraman, is her soul mate...

Aliens in the Attic
2009
as Tazer (voice)
A group of kids must protect their vacation home from invading aliens.

Imagine That
2009
as Johnny Whitefeather
A financial executive who can't stop his career downspiral is invited into his daughter's imaginary world, where solutions to his problems await.

Don McKay
2009
as Don McKay
Everything appears off-kilter when a man returns to his hometown after 25 years to visit his former lover.

Don McKay
2009
Executive Producer
Everything appears off-kilter when a man returns to his hometown after 25 years to visit his former lover.

Smart People
2008
as Chuck Wetherhold
Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving th...

Spider-Man 3
2007
as Sandman / Flint Marko
The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers a...

Charlotte's Web
2006
as Brooks the Crow (voice)
Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Ch...

Idiocracy
2006
as Brawndo CEO
To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and s...

Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western
2006
as self
A documentary about the making of the 2006 AMC miniseries Broken Trail.

Over the Hedge
2006
as Dwayne (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...

Spanglish
2004
as Mike (Realtor)
Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own...

Sideways
2004
as Jack
Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the ...

George of the Jungle 2
2003
as Lyle Van de Groot
George and Ursula now have a son, George Junior, so Ursula's mother arrives to try and take them back to "civilization".

Rolling Kansas
2003
as Agent Madsen / Trooper (uncredited)
A group of friends go on a journey to a secret marijuana forest in Kansas.

Rolling Kansas
2003
Director, Writer
A group of friends go on a journey to a secret marijuana forest in Kansas.

The Badge
2002
as David Hardwick
A sheriff begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high ranking politicians may have been involved. Although h...

Lone Star State of Mind
2002
as Killer
Earl and Baby, two young lovers with a plan to escape their small Texas town. But when Baby's dim-witted cousin Junior gets tangled up in a whole heap...

Yee Hah & Doo Dah: Bronco Breakin' Boots
2001
as Doo Dah
A cowboy and his horse, Yee Hah and Doo Dah, reside in Manhattan's Central Park. Yee Hah enjoys the city life until he discovers that the city pavemen...

3000 Miles to Graceland
2001
as Quigley
It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino's count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all th...

Monkeybone
2001
as Death's Assistant
After a car crash sends repressed cartoonist Stu into a coma, he and the mischievous Monkeybone, his hilarious alter-ego, wake up in a wacked-out ways...

The Specials
2000
as The Strobe
America's seventh best superhero team, the Specials, are a group of geeks and oddballs. Lifelong fan Nightbird joins the group just in time for the gr...

Goosed
1999
as Steven Troy
Sheltered rich girl Charlene has an over-protective mother who insists that her daughter should marry a rich doctor. After Charlene's psychic predicts...

Free Money
1998
as Larry
A deranged prison warden with a nasty habit of killing escapees forces the boyfriends of his teenage twin daughters into a shotgun wedding, after they...

Susan's Plan
1998
as Dr. Chris Stillman
Susan wants her reprehensible ex-husband dead and, in several bungled attempts by henchmen, tries to accomplish the deed.

Mr. Murder
1998
as Drew Oslett Jr.
A group of scientists are trying to produce the perfect soldier by cloning. The day the clone is born, Marty Stillwater, a mystery novel writer, feels...

Serial Killing 101
1998
as Grimaldi
Casey Noland, a high school kid with no direction in life, decides to pursue the serial killing profession. Only problem...he can't bring himself to k...

One Night Stand
1997
as Don
In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle tr...

George of the Jungle
1997
as Lyle Van de Groot
Deep in the African jungle, a baby named George, the sole survivor of a plane crash, is raised by gorillas. George grows up to be a buff and lovable k...

Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
1995
as Roach
Ex-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sinister Collector is a demon who wants the key so he ...

Tombstone
1993
as Billy Clanton
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining t...

Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert
1993
as Nelson Hareem
A lady private eye on her first job working a routine divorce case teams up with a cynical, heavy-drinking police detective after inadvertently stumbl...

Protect and Surf
1989
as Dwight Jesmer
A group of young police officers make up for the harsh realities of working on mean streets by sharing a dream house at the beach in California.
The Happy Worker
N/A
Follows Joe who battles to save what he and others have spent years building.

Deception Road
N/A
as Hal
A darkly comic thriller set in the atomic age about a husband and wife who will stop at nothing to become the perfect, ideal nuclear family.