Biography
William Jacob "Jake" Busey (born June 15, 1971) is an American actor, musician and film producer. He is sometimes credited as "Jacob Busey" or "William Busey". He is the son of actor Gary Busey. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Guns & Moses
2025
as Owen Gibbons
A small town rabbi becomes an unlikely gunslinger after his community is violently attacked.

Killing Mary Sue
2025
as Wes Adamle
A corrupt senator arranges for the murder of his biggest liability, his erratic burnout stepdaughter, only for her to unwittingly discover her natural...

Rust
2025
as Drum Parker
Infamous outlaw Harland Rust breaks his estranged grandson Lucas out of prison, after Lucas is convicted to hang for an accidental murder. The two mus...

Black Zone
2025
as Dr. William Roberts
An unknown object crashes and disables all electronics within a fifty mile radius, later causing extreme manias to surface within the affected populat...

The Legend of Johnny Jones
2024
as Deputy Godwin
Born in the New Jersey public housing, the young Johnny Jones (Robert Crayton) in his life has known only abuse and poverty. Pushed over the edge, Joh...

A Gettysburg Christmas
2023
as Sam
When Hope gives up on relationships and Christmas, it takes a Christmas miracle in the form of Charley to help mend her heart, trust again, realize th...

Bluegrass Spirits
2023
as Nicholas
A recovering alcoholic owns a failing Kentucky bourbon distillery and meets a ghost-hunter

Scalper
2023
as Det. Hayden
Everyone around psychic Clementine Carter is being brutally murdered by a masked killer dubbed ‘The Scalper.’ Is it dead psycho Andrew Lubitz back fro...

It Wants Blood 2
2023
as Veal Armstrong
Two giant monsters are forced to battle head to head on the political circuit as they run against each other for a seat in the Senate.

Chaos on the Farm
2023
as Lawrence
Shaken from the death of her beloved mother, Jessica is forced to visit her estranged Aunt and Uncle's farm to tie up loose ends in her mother's will.

Falling Higher: The Story Of Ampage
2023
as Narrator (voice) / Self
In the years following the collapse the 80s Glam Metal era of the Sunset Strip, a songwriter chronicles the unexpected events of his life and the tran...

No Way to Make a Living: A Look Back at 'The Frighteners'
2022
as Self
A retrospective of Peter Jackson's "The Frighteners" featuring new interviews with the cast & crew.

Pig Killer
2022
as Willy
Inspired by the terrifying story of Robert 'Willy' Pickton, the pig farmer cum prolific lady killer whose horrific crimes shocked the world, PIG KILLE...

Shooting Star
2022
as Mr. York
When Star's little sister is injured in a horse riding accident, she enters a shooting competition with a money prize that would cover her surgery.

A Tale of Two Guns
2022
as McCloskey
In the lawless West, The Cowboys, a notorious brotherhood of killers and thieves, reigned over the land with brutal fists and fast guns. Fate had fina...

A Soldier's Revenge
2021
as Captain McCalister
Haunted by wartime horrors, Civil War soldier-turned-bounty-hunter Frank Connor spends his time post-war polishing off two things: whiskey and fugitiv...

DIVOS!
2020
as Mr. Kelly
Teenage egos collide when a self-proclaimed "Broadway Legend in the Making" is forced to share the spotlight with the school's star athlete in the hig...

Ghost in the Graveyard
2019
as Charlie Sullivan
A small town comes under the thumb of Martha, a ghost who returns to haunt the children who witnessed her death during a "game" of Ghost in the Gravey...

Adventures of Dally and Spanky
2019
as Aaron
A girl inherits a miniature horse that develops an unlikely friendship with her half-sister's Jack Russell Terrier, who takes to riding on the horse's...

The Predator
2018
as Keyes
When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scient...

A Boy Called Sailboat
2018
as Bing
A Hispanic family find hope in their extraordinary son named Sailboat when a personal gesture awakens a global desire. Armed with a "little guitar", S...

Dead Ant
2017
as Merrick
When the 1989 "one-hit-wonder" glam-metal band "Sonic Grave" embark on a trip to Coachella in hopes of a comeback, their peyote trip pit stop in Joshu...

Dead Again in Tombstone
2017
as Colonel Jackson Boomer
The devil’s outlaw and reluctant servant, Guerrero returns from the dead again in this action-packed western which promises to be one hell of a ride. ...

Area of Conflict
2017
as Tony
Human traffickers wipe out a young girl's family and village. She then seeks revenge on those responsible, eventually becoming first the hunted then t...

Swing State
2017
as Woody Woodrow
A bohemian Seattle DJ uses his on-air charisma to create a fictitious conservative radio personality, becoming an overnight sensation. Won best comed...

Growing Up Smith
2017
as Officer Dick
In 1979, an Indian family moves to America with hopes of living the American Dream. While their 10-year-old boy Smith falls head-over-heels for the gi...

Deserted
2016
as Clay
When twenty-four-year-old Jae is released from prison for killing her mother, she returns to her childhood home in small-town Ridgecrest. The desire t...

No Touching
2016
as Carp
In a shady haunted house attraction where the performers are assaulting female patrons in order to make a name for themselves, the tables are turned w...

Arbor Demon
2016
as Sean
An adventurous woman with a secret from her husband insists they go for a romantic camping trip in a remote wood to reconnect and share some quality t...

Last Man Club
2016
as Diamond Jim
A WW2 veteran destined for life in a retirement home escapes his difficult family situation and embarks on a cross country adventure to find the last ...

A Christmas Reunion
2015
as Dylan Carruthers
A Madison Avenue executive, Amy, discovers an unusual Christmas surprise when she inherits her Aunt’s hometown bakery. The real surprise comes when sh...

Most Likely to Die
2015
as Tarkin
A group of former classmates gather for a pre-party at one of their homes the night before their 10-year high school reunion, and one by one, they are...

Fractured
2015
as Detective James Harding
May Oster (Athena Lebessis), is a beautiful, pensive, somber woman in her mid twenties; one morning, she discovers her boyfriend's bloody scarf in her...

Reaper
2014
as Bill
Criminals and a beautiful but cunning hitchhiker must battle a supernatural force known as the Reaper.

Wicked Blood
2014
as Bobby Stinson
Hannah and Amber Baker are trapped in a dark Southern underworld of violence, drugs and bikers. Both live in fear of their "Uncle Frank" Stinson, the ...

Alongside Night
2014
as President of the United States
Alongside Night is the story of the final economic collapse of the United States as seen through the eyes of 16-year-old Elliot Vreeland, searching fo...

Girl Meets Boy
2013
as Richard
Looking for inspiration, a wild LA musician and a buttoned up novelist unexpectedly end up double booked at a remote cabin retreat. Sparks fly when th...

Paranormal Movie
2013
as Stepdad
A man, long haunted by the paranormal, captures on camera the horror and hilarity he and his beautiful girlfriend encounter after moving into a new ho...

Sparks
2013
as Sledge
A masked vigilante who discovers the dark side to heroism. Going after the nation's most notorious super criminal leaves Sparks' life and reputation i...

The Devil's Dozen
2013
The Devil's Dozen is a supernatural horror/thriller where twelve strangers find themselves in a life or death game where sins are judged and every cho...

Don't Pass Me By
2013
as Fred Norwick
A stirring story about regret, love, and second chances, woven together in a vignette style. The story follows four women who sit at a crisis point in...

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva la Fiesta!
2012
as Oscar (voice)
When Papi, Chloe, the pups, Uncle Pedro, and their owners move to a hotel, the smallest pup Rosa feels like she doesn't fit in, and Papi wants to make...

Crazy Eyes
2012
as Dan Drake
Zack is a young, divorced father who starts to develop romantic feelings towards his friend Rebecca, whom he refers to as "Crazy Eyes". He spends a lo...

Nazis at the Center of the Earth
2012
as Adrian Reistad
A group of researchers in Antarctica are abducted by a platoon of masked soldiers and dragged into a hidden continent in the center of the Earth. Ther...

Cross
2011
as Backfire
Given incredible power by an ancient Celtic Cross. Callan continues to fight evil... Now, joined by a team of weapons experts, Callan battles an unsto...

Cross
2011
Producer
Given incredible power by an ancient Celtic Cross. Callan continues to fight evil... Now, joined by a team of weapons experts, Callan battles an unsto...

The Killing Jar
2010
as Greene
A stranger armed with a shotgun takes seven patrons hostage in a remote roadside diner. But as the body count increases, the desperate survivors disco...

Play Dead
2009
as Merle Jones
The story is about Ronnie Reno, a former TV action star in need of a comeback. After a failed audition, he ends up snowbound in a remote town in Nevad...

Time Bomb
2008
as Jason Philby
Jason tragically lost his young son when their SUV exploded. Now fighting as a soldier in Iraq, the suicide bombings that occur around him on a daily ...
Playing Chicken
2007
An intellectual leftist is forced to live with a loud-mouthed conservative.

Wristcutters: A Love Story
2007
as Brian (uncredited)
Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down...

Broken
2007
as Vince
A waitress confronts all the wrong turns she has made in her short life and ultimately ends up facing the biggest wrong turn of all: her dangerous ex-...

Death Row
2006
as Marco
Haunted Prison - AKA Death Row - a horrifying live action film based on the short story by Kevin VanHook-takes place at Isla de la Roca Penitentiary. ...

Road House 2: Last Call
2006
as Wild Bill
Shane Tanner, the son of a legendary cooler named Dalton, learns that his uncle Nate got beat up by a group of men because he doesn't want to sell his...

Code Breakers
2005
as Straub
In 1951, a cheating scandal rocks West Point academy, as 83 cadets -- including the son of the school's football coach (Glenn) -- are implicated and u...

H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds
2005
as Lt. Samuelson
In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of a...

The Tao of Pong
2005
as Maurice
When an ex-ping-pong prodigy seeks the wisdom of a taoist sage, he learns that life - and table tennis - is more about the journey than the destinatio...

The Rain Makers
2005
as Shaw
A man returns to his small home town from the Vietnam War and discovers corruption, graft, a crooked Sheriff and other dirty deeds.

Christmas with the Kranks
2004
as Officer Treen
When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip ...

The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting
2003
as Jack
A sadistic serial killer terrorizes a couple driving on a rural highway in Texas while killing numerous people and framing them for his killings.

Overnight
2003
as Self
Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches stor...

Identity
2003
as Robert Maine
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers th...

Lost Junction
2003
as Matt
A hitchhiker gets a ride with an oddball woman who has her husband's body in the trunk of the car.

The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest
2002
as Darrell Claxton
Andy, a successful marketing guy quits his job, gets a new job at a research facility, makes a powerful enemy who makes him volunteer for a nearly imp...

Death from Above: The Making of 'Starship Troopers'
2002
as Himself
A behind-the-scenes look at director Paul Verhoeven's imaginative re-telling of Robert Heinlein's classic science fiction novel.

Fast Sofa
2001
as Rick Jeffers
Rick, a dope fiend, believes his goal in life is to track down Ginger, a famous porn star who is currently staying in her Beverly Hills hideaway. Rick...

Tomcats
2001
as Kyle Brenner
College buddies chip in and promise that the group's last unmarried man will collect a cash pot. Seven years later, the kitty is worth $500,000 -- mon...

Tail Lights Fade
1999
as Bruce
A young woman (Tanya Allen) rally races across Canada with her boyfriend (Breckin Meyer) and another couple (Jake Busey and Denise Richards) to bail h...

Held Up
1999
as Beaumont
What should have been a romantic getaway turns into one hilarious debacle after another when Michael's woman dumps him in the desert where he gets car...

Home Fries
1998
as Angus Montier
Dorian and Angus chase down their womanizing stepfather with a helicopter, frightening him to death. In his effort to cover their tracks, Dorian begin...

The Making of 'The Frighteners'
1998
as Himself
Documentary about the making of the 1996 horror-comedy.

Enemy of the State
1998
as Krug
The life of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert 'Bobby' Dean is turned upside down after a chance meeting with a college buddy while holiday ...

Black Cat Run
1998
as Deputy Norm Babbitt
A girl is in love with a gas station attendant and sees him against her father's wishes. The father is the sheriff and shortly after a confrontation w...

Starship Troopers
1997
as Private Ace Levy
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from...

Contact
1997
as Joseph
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and ...

Quiet Days in Hollywood
1997
as Curt
Behind the glitz and glamour of Tinseltown exists a harsh reality. Lolita is a streetwalker hustling for business on Hollywood Blvd. Julie is a waitre...

The Frighteners
1996
as Johnny Bartlett
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the r...

Twister
1996
as Mobile Lab Technician
An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma. Tornado chasers, headed by Dr. Jo Harding, attempt to release a groundbreaki...

Expendable Assets
1996

The Stöned Age
1994
as Jimmy Muldoon
Determined to avoid another night of driving aimlessly around Torrance in the Blue Torpedo, Joe and Hubbs set out on a quest for fine chicks. Their pa...

S.F.W.
1994
as Morrow Streeter
An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to the...

Motorcycle Gang
1994
as Jake
Cal and his family are driving to their new home in California and are terrorized by a motorcycle gang along the highway.

WindRunner
1994
as Dave Promisco
A young man in high school moves in with his Mother to a town in the U.S. Southwest where his father is serving time in prison.

PCU
1994
as Mersh
Nervous high school senior Tom Lawrence visits Port Chester University, where he gets a taste of politically correct college life when he's guided by ...

I'll Do Anything
1994
as Burke's Fired Driver
Matt Hobbs is a talented but unsuccessful actor. When estranged (and strange) ex-wife Beth dumps their daughter Jeannie on Matt, father and daughter h...

The Foot Shooting Party
1994
as Tree
The lead singer of a band gets drafted for war in Vietnam. So as not to break up the band, he decides to shoot his own foot.

Shimmer
1993
as Richard Halverson
The solo actor in Shimmer tells the story by becoming each character in turn. The play takes place in 1956, in a harsh Midwestern juvenile detention c...

Street Beat
1993
as Gang member 3
A cop and a gang member trade places and find more than they bargained for through the power of music and love.

Hider in the House
1989
as Teenage Tom (voice)
A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.

Barbarosa
1982
as Cook Boy
Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbaro...

Straight Time
1978
as Henry Darin
After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at ...

Bad Haircut
N/A
as Officer Steve
When a college student goes to a new place to get a haircut, he discovers that his barber is a psychopath.

Bikers vs Werewolves
N/A
as Sheriff Ray
As bikers roll into a forgotten town during their journey to Sturgis, a night of respite takes a sinister turn when a rival gang transforms into werew...

CATnip
N/A
as Detective Pendleton
Trapped in an apartment building on Christmas Eve, an eclectic group of residents must band together to survive the night against a horde of feral kil...

Dead of Night
N/A
as Craig Williams
A small town is terrorized by a series of brutal murders, as a determined sheriff, his daughter, and a desperate mayor race to uncover the truth behin...