Bill Sage

Bill Sage

1962-04-03 New York City, New York, USA 88 Credits

Biography

William Sage III (born April 3, 1962) is an American actor and alumnus of State University of New York at Purchase. He is known for his collaborations with director Hal Hartley. Sage has appeared in more than 80 movies, most notable American Psycho (2000), We Are What We Are (2013), Every Secret Thing (2014), and Wrong Turn (2021). On television, he appeared on Nurse Jackie, Hap and Leonard and Power.

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Edward

Edward

2024

as Edward

Acting

Edward, an AI scientist, realizes that the program he developed has been applied to military weapons and caused many deaths.

Hayseed

Hayseed

2023

as Leo Hobbins

6.0
Acting

Following the discovery of a reverend’s body, a retired detective uncovers corruption and murder in a Rust Belt community.

Payback

Payback

2021

as Randy

5.6
Acting

Mike Markovich, a young stockbroker at a Mob-controlled Wall Street firm, is betrayed and imprisoned for six years. When he is released, his deadly qu...

Wrong Turn

Wrong Turn

2021

as John Venable

6.0
Acting

Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into l...

The Catch

The Catch

2020

as Tom McManus

6.9
Acting

A troubled woman returns to her estranged family in coastal Maine. With her lobsterman father caught up in a turf war at sea, she and an ex-boyfriend ...

The Pale Door

The Pale Door

2020

as Dodd

5.2
Acting

The Dalton gang escape to a nearby town after a train robbery goes south, but they are met by a coven of witches with sinister plans for the unsuspect...

The Dinner Party

The Dinner Party

2020

as Carmine Braun

4.4
Acting

A budding playwright and his wife attend a dinner party hosted by wealthy, cultural elites, who have promised to bankroll the writer's latest play to ...

The Wave

The Wave

2019

as Jonas

6.0
Acting

A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really i...

After Everything

After Everything

2018

as Paul

6.6
Acting

When Elliot, a brash 23-year-old living carefree in New York City, meets the sensible Mia and receives a damning diagnosis all in the same week, his w...

The Big Take

The Big Take

2018

as Jack Girardi

4.9
Acting

A reclusive movie star hires a private detective after he's anonymously blackmailed. Things turn violent when an aspiring writer is fingered for the c...

Delinquent

Delinquent

2018

7.4
Acting

A rebellious teen is sentenced to serve time on his uncle's organic farm, only to learn that there's much more to the farm than meets the eye.

The Price

The Price

2017

as John Kocher

4.9
Acting

Seyi, a 24-year-old Nigerian-American, works on Wall Street. Desperate to succeed because of his outsider status-due to class and race-he commits a cr...

AWOL

AWOL

2017

as Roy

5.6
Acting

A young woman in the Army must make tough decisions when her love for an older woman causes her to question just where she is going. Adapted from Deb ...

Ascent to Hell

Ascent to Hell

2017

as Mr. Browning

5.9
Acting

When a realtor shows an old New York factory building to a group of would-be investors, they are unwittingly caught in its tragic and sinister history...

The Archer

The Archer

2017

as Bob Patrice

5.4
Acting

Archer champion Lauren Pierce escapes a corrupt juvenile correctional facility with Rebecca, a fierce but alluring inmate. Together they must survive ...

All Summers End

All Summers End

2017

as Mr. Turner

6.6
Acting

A teenager tries to deal with his guilty conscience after his role in a prank that causes the death of his girlfriend's older brother.

Welcome to Willits

Welcome to Willits

2016

as Brock

4.1
Acting

Deep in the Northern California woods, in the heart of the notorious Emerald Triangle, lies a remote cabin. The residents struggle to fight off the re...

Delinquent

Delinquent

2016

as Rich

5.8
Acting

Delinquent is the thrilling and dramatic exploration of a teenager's struggle to manage the fall-out of a robbery gone wrong.

Fender Bender

Fender Bender

2016

as The Driver

5.1
Acting

In a small New Mexico town, teenager Hilary gets into a fender bender and innocently exchanges her personal information with the other driver, a terri...

The Preppie Connection

The Preppie Connection

2016

as Mike Hammel

6.3
Acting

A student at a private school uses his connections to establish a drug trafficking network.

Fan Girl

Fan Girl

2015

5.3
Acting

A 15-year-old girl decides to bring her two passions together for her final film project: making movies and her favorite band.

The Boy

The Boy

2015

as Sheriff Deacon Whit

5.7
Acting

An intimate portrait of a 9 year old sociopath as he discovers his taste for killing.

Ned Rifle

Ned Rifle

2015

as Bud

5.9
Acting

Henry’s and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan,...

The Blackout

The Blackout

2014

as Frank

4.9
Acting

An expecting couple, a survival expert and four teenagers deal with a global blackout and the disintegration of society around them. In their plight f...

Shockwave Darkside

Shockwave Darkside

2014

as Dalton

1.2
Acting

The nano-plague that poisoned Earth’s water supply has reached its 60-year critical mass. The Unlight enemy forced the first exodus to the moon where ...

Surviving Family

Surviving Family

2014

as Jerry Malone

4.6
Acting

Terry hasn't seen or spoken with her family in 2 years. When she shows up unannounced on her father's doorstep - with her fiancé and a plan to get mar...

The Legend of the Flying Tomato

2014

as Taco Salesman / El Pirana

4.0
Acting

Once a victim of bullying, Frida finds a hero in the legendary luchador El Pirana. However she finds herself at her lowest once more when she's ridicu...

Cold in July

Cold in July

2014

as Baseball Announcer (voice)

6.5
Acting

While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of a low-life burglar. Although he’s ha...

Every Secret Thing

Every Secret Thing

2014

as Dave Fuller

6.1
Acting

One clear summer day in a Baltimore suburb, a baby goes missing from her front porch. Two young girls serve seven years for the crime and are released...

Born to Race: Fast Track

Born to Race: Fast Track

2014

as Frank

6.5
Acting

Danny Krueger is a twenty-year old drag racer who plays by his own rules. After winning a scholarship to the prestigious Fast Lane Racing Academy, Dan...

We Are What We Are

We Are What We Are

2013

as Frank Parker

5.8
Acting

The Parkers, reclusive people who cling to ancient customs, find their secret lives threatened when a torrential downpour and the death of the family ...

Blumenthal

2013

as Interviewer

4.0
Acting

A comedy that follows the relatives of Harold Blumethal, a legendary playwright who made his career parodying his family in his work and died laughing...

Bad Parents

Bad Parents

2012

as Dan

3.5
Acting

A suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control.

Electrick Children

Electrick Children

2012

as Tim

6.4
Acting

Rachel is a rambunctious girl from a polygamist colony in southern Utah. On Rachel’s 15th birthday, she finds a forbidden cassette tape. Having never ...

The Green

The Green

2011

as Leo

5.5
Acting

Michael Gavin and his partner Daniel trade the rat race of New York City for the idyllic charm of the Connecticut shoreline, with hopes of a simpler l...

Sweet Little Lies

Sweet Little Lies

2011

as Roach

3.0
Acting

Bess, a lonely, trailer park teen, steals a car and makes a desperate journey from Kansas to Vegas in search of a father she never knew. Her trip take...

Boy Wonder

Boy Wonder

2010

as Terry Donovan

6.3
Acting

A young Brooklyn boy witnesses the brutal murder of his mother and grows up obsessed with finding her killer. Thus begins his life as a quiet, straigh...

The Scientist

The Scientist

2010

as Dr. Marcus Ryan

5.5
Acting

A reclusive physicist creates an infinite-energy machine in his basement that changes his life and all those around him.

Off Season

Off Season

2009

as Man

8.0
Acting

A man and his dog traverse a cold, barren climate and discover some disturbing things along the way.

Precious

Precious

2009

as Mr. Wicher

7.3
Acting

Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the se...

Handsome Harry

Handsome Harry

2009

as Pauley

5.7
Acting

An ex-Navy man carrying out the last wish of a dying shipmate renews contact with old friends to break the code of silence around a mysterious, long-b...

The New Twenty

The New Twenty

2009

as Robert Cameron

5.5
Acting

Five best friends in their late 20's discover new truths about themselves and the friendships they thought would last forever.

Tennessee

Tennessee

2008

as Roy

3.2
Acting

The story of three people who strive to realize their dreams. Brothers Carter and Ellis set out on a road trip to their childhood home in a desperate ...

If I Didn't Care

If I Didn't Care

2007

as Davis Meyers

5.8
Acting

When a maid is shot dead in the exclusive resort community of the Hamptons, private investigator Linus must play a dangerous game of cat and mouse wit...

One Night

2007

as Larry

7.3
Acting

Fifteen New Yorkers go into a Friday night unaware of the fact that their lives are about to change.

The Handyman

The Handyman

2006

as Caleb Tucker

Acting

Follows a lonely spinster, who's living on her own on a secluded farm in the mid-west of the USA. Unable to keep the farm by herself she hires a drift...

Heavens Fall

Heavens Fall

2006

as Thomas Knight, Jr.

6.9
Acting

Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freig...

Mysterious Skin

Mysterious Skin

2005

as Coach

7.7
Acting

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Shooting Vegetarians

Shooting Vegetarians

2005

as Prosecutor

4.0
Acting

Neil, a punk rock vegetarian, is being forced to go into the family butcher business. He decides to save the world instead.

The Girl from Monday

The Girl from Monday

2005

as Jack

4.3
Acting

A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.

The Maldonado Miracle

The Maldonado Miracle

2003

as Lyle

4.7
Acting

A story about a small, dying town in need of hope until one day a young boy gives them something to believe in.

Sin

Sin

2003

as Cal Brody

4.9
Acting

Retired cop Eddie Burns gave 15 years and the use of his left arm to the Reno homicide squad. When his wayward sister, Kassie, goes missing Eddie Burn...

EvenHand

2002

as Officer Ted Morning

7.5
Acting

Set in a dirt-poor neighborhood in the fictional city of San Lovisa, Texas, EvenHand tells the story of two very different cops, working together for ...

Stray Dogs

Stray Dogs

2002

as Myers Carter

0.5
Acting

A mother must choose between love and devotion to her sons and unborn child or staying with her sexy, maniacal husband and his patriarchal sister, who...

No Such Thing

No Such Thing

2002

as Carlo

5.9
Acting

A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.

Desert Saints

Desert Saints

2002

as Agent Davis

5.7
Acting

Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills the...

My Best Friend's Wife

My Best Friend's Wife

2001

as Chuck

3.4
Acting

Two friends are about to learn that they are "Grownups."

On the Borderline

On the Borderline

2001

as Dean

3.7
Acting

A young couple embark on a cross-country journey, only to run into trouble at the Texas/Mexico border.

Glitter

Glitter

2001

4.3
Acting

A young woman is catapulted into pop stardom, with her already-famous DJ boyfriend calling the shots.

The Atlantis Conspiracy

The Atlantis Conspiracy

2001

as Jon

2.0
Acting

Lauren Marcus (Amanda Donohoe) reluctantly moves back to New York City and is forced to decide whether she wants to reconnect with the life she abrupt...

American Psycho

American Psycho

2000

as David Van Patten

7.4
Acting

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his i...

Boiler Room

Boiler Room

2000

as FBI Agent David Drew

6.7
Acting

A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm and is on the fast track to success—but the job might not be as legitimate as ...

Double Parked

Double Parked

2000

as Karl Severson

7.0
Acting

A resourceful and high-spirited woman deals with financial distress and her asthmatic thirteen-year-old son when his life is gravely complicated by a ...

Urbania

Urbania

2000

as Chuck

5.6
Acting

A series of urban legends take place around the life of a troubled man who is searching New York City for a mysterious stranger.

The Insider

The Insider

1999

as Intense Young Intern

7.5
Acting

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

Roberta

1999

as Philip

3.0
Acting

When Jonathan Fishman, a young Manhattan computer specialist randomly encounters a prostitute he is shocked to recognize her as Roberta whom he knew w...

Remembering Sex

1998

as Matt Devlin

4.5
Acting
High Art

High Art

1998

as Arnie

6.2
Acting

When Syd, a young editor at an influential art magazine, becomes involved with her neighbor, a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both seek to explo...

Somewhere in the City

Somewhere in the City

1998

as Justin

1.0
Acting

The film portrays life of New York City's Lower East Side inhabitants. Introvert therapist Betty is befriended with Chinese immigrant Lu Lu, leftist r...

Too Tired to Die

Too Tired to Die

1998

as White Soldier

4.5
Acting

Kenji is a Japanese twenty-something who is followed by Death in various disguises. When he finally faces her, Death tells him that he has only 12 hou...

Cost of Living

Cost of Living

1997

as Converse

6.0
Acting

A film about one woman's personal freedom and the price she pays to keep it.

Boys

Boys

1996

as Officer Bill Martone

5.3
Acting

Fed up with boarding school and frustrated with the way others have planned his life, John Baker Jr. wants a change -- anything to shake up his staid ...

I Shot Andy Warhol

I Shot Andy Warhol

1996

as Tom Baker

6.2
Acting

Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a f...

If Lucy Fell

If Lucy Fell

1996

as Dick

5.2
Acting

Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor he's never...

Flirt

Flirt

1995

as Bill

6.2
Acting

The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returni...

Affair Play

Affair Play

1995

as Mickey Davis

2.0
Acting

A merchant marries a woman who looks exactly like his former lover, who died because of him. But the man has a morbid jealousy, he sees a rival in eve...

The Perez Family

The Perez Family

1995

as Steve Steverino

6.2
Acting

In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dis...

Lies to Live By: Babylon

1994

as Charles Forrester

Acting

During a trip to the USA Carla falls in love with Charles, an ex-punk rocker now working as a security guard. She returns to Torino, Italy, and breaks...

Flirt

Flirt

1993

as Bill

Acting

In New York, Bill struggles to decide whether he has a future with Emily, while attempting to restrain Walter, the angry husband of a woman he thinks ...

Rift

Rift

1993

as Tom

5.0
Acting

A songwriter seeks a psychiatrist's help after his obsession with his best friend's wife turns to chilling fantasies of murder.

Simple Men

Simple Men

1992

as Dennis McCabe

6.8
Acting

Two diametrically opposite brothers set off on a journey to reunite with their estranged father but when their motorcycle breaks down while passing th...

Laws of Gravity

Laws of Gravity

1992

as Guy's Pal

6.8
Acting

The lives of two incompetent young men from Brooklyn spin out of control after a friend returns from Florida with guns to sell.

Ambition

Ambition

1992

5.5
Acting

Follows a day in the life of a young artist who longs for professional success and the attention of beautiful women, but who encounters only frustrati...

Theory of Achievement

Theory of Achievement

1991

6.2
Acting

This short film was packaged on video with Hartley's featurette "Surviving Desire." It affectionately examines the lives of a group of "young, middle-...

Trust

Trust

1990

as John Bill

6.8
Acting

After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The ...

The Unbelievable Truth

The Unbelievable Truth

1990

as Gus

6.9
Acting

After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where he meets Audry Hugo. No one can remember exactly what Josh did...

Sidewalk Stories

Sidewalk Stories

1989

as Carriage Couple

7.5
Acting

A New York City street artist rescues a baby girl after her father is murdered. He then sets off to find the mother, but has to first learn how to car...

Where to Land

N/A

as Joe Fulton

Acting

Joseph Fulton, a famous director, wants to work at a cemetery. Meanwhile, he has his last will and testament drawn up. His girlfriend thinks he's dyin...