Biography
John Benjamin Hickey (born June 25, 1963) is an American actor with a stage, film and television career. He won the 2011 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Felix Turner in The Normal Heart. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Benjamin Hickey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Lilly
2025
as Charles Ledbetter
A suspense drama based on the life of Fair Pay activist Lilly Ledbetter.

Salem's Lot
2024
as Father Callahan
Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.

Sublet
2020
as Michael
A gay New York Times travel writer comes to Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy. The energy of the city and his relationship with a younger man brings ...

Mapplethorpe
2019
as Sam Wagstaff
A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.

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

Forever My Girl
2018
as Pastor Brian
After being gone for a decade, a country star returns home to the love he left behind.

Hostiles
2017
as Captain Royce Tolan
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family thr...

Barry
2016
as Professor Gray
A young Barack Obama forges his identity while dealing with race, divergent cultures and ordinary life as a New York City college student.

Tallulah
2016
as Stephen
Desperate to be rid of her toddler, a dissatisfied Beverly Hills housewife hires a stranger to babysit and ends up getting much more than she bargaine...

Truth
2015
as Mark Wrolstad
As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather, Mary Mapes believes she’s broken the biggest story of the 2004 election: revelations of a si...

Big Stone Gap
2014
as Theodore Tipton
A story centered around a transitional point in the life of Ave Maria Mulligan, the heart of her community in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.

Get on Up
2014
as Richard
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

Pitch Perfect
2012
as Dr. Mitchell
College student Beca knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that's exactly where she finds herself after arriving at her new school. Thru...

The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
2009
as Self
The definitive feature-length documentary on the creation of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen".

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009
as Galloway
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is drag...

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009
as Deputy Mayor LaSalle
Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatche...

Living Proof
2008
as Blake Rogers
Dr Dennis Slamon, an American oncologist, discovers a treatment that could possibly cure breast cancer without radiation or chemotherapy. He tries to ...
CIA: Secret Experiments
2008
as Self - Narrator
It's the height of the Cold War and the United States government is desperate to combat the spread of Communism. The CIA launches a highly classified,...

Unabomber: The Secret History
2008
as Narrator
An overview on the actions, hunt and capture of Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber.

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
2007
as John Stenton
A boy's life is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the f...

Then She Found Me
2007
as Alan
A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an e...

Freedom Writers
2007
as Brian Gelford
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

The Ex
2006
as Wesley's Dad
When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at his father-in-law's advertising firm. Tom has to ad...

Flags of Our Fathers
2006
as Keyes Beech
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the s...

Infamous
2006
as Jack Dunphy
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

Silver Bells
2005
as Lawrence
Manhattanite Catherine O'Mara (Heche) bonds with a young man who has run away from his father. When the father returns to New York a year later to sel...

Flightplan
2005
as David
Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did s...

National Geographic: Inside the U.S. Secret Service
2004
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Even though they are frequently seen flanking presidential convoys in their trademark dark suits and sunglasses, little is truly known about the insul...

Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
2003
as Verus (voice)
Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death aka Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama which tells the true story of Verus a gladiator...

Changing Lanes
2002
as Carlyle
A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two pe...

The Anniversary Party
2001
as Jerry Adams
While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, American actress Sally Nash and British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close fr...

A Glimpse of Hell
2001
A Navy officer tries to set the record straight after the Navy blames a 1989 explosion aboard the USS Iowa on a homosexual affair between two sailors.

Hamlet
2000
as Horatio
A revised version of the Shakespeare play set in turn-of-the-20th-century America, where a prince seeks revenge against his father's killer.

The Lady in Question
1999
as Paul Kessler
In 1938, Jewish-rights activist Emma Sachs is targeted by the Nazis. When she dies, foul play is suspected. But was it the Nazis, or was it someone el...

The Bone Collector
1999
as Dr. Barry Lehman
Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and ...

The General's Daughter
1999
as Captain Goodson
When the body of Army Capt. Elisabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill,...

Finding North
1998
as Travis Furlong
Rhonda, a big-haired bankteller from Brooklyn, encounters Travis, naked, suicidal and about to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge. Mistaking him for her per...

The Ice Storm
1997
as Mark Boland
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.

Love! Valour! Compassion!
1997
as Arthur Page
A group of gay friends spend summer weekends together at a lakeside house in upstate New York. As the season progresses and secrets begin to surface, ...

Eddie
1996
as Joe Nader
Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre r...

Comfortably Numb
1995
as Priest
A clean-cut young lawyer meets a beautiful prostitute who drags him into a decadent dead-end world of sex and corruption.

Only You
1994
as Dwayne
Two childhood paranormal incidents have convinced schoolteacher Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named "Damon Bradley," but she has yet to m...

Normandy: The Great Crusade
1994
as Louis Simpson (voice)
Documentary on the World War II invasion of Normandy by the Allies on June 6, 1944 utilizing diaries, personal letters, home movies, snapshots, period...
The Bet
1992
as Henry
Harry and Henry Hicks are partners in the deli they've inherited from their old man. But, younger brother Harry has a gambling problem and its gotten ...

Dangerous Music
1991
as Tyler
A woman, a string quartet, and a lot of anxiety.

History's Secrets: Atomic Bomb
N/A
as Narrator (voice)
The revelation behind how an Israeli physicist sold nuclear technologies to Iran after learning secrets from the United States, the Soviet Union, and ...