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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Edward
2024
as Edward
Edward, an AI scientist, realizes that the program he developed has been applied to military weapons and caused many deaths.

Hayseed
2023
as Leo Hobbins
Following the discovery of a reverend’s body, a retired detective uncovers corruption and murder in a Rust Belt community.

Payback
2021
as Randy
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
2021
as John Venable
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
2020
as Tom McManus
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
2020
as Dodd
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
2020
as Carmine Braun
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
2019
as Jonas
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
2018
as Paul
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
2018
as Jack Girardi
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
2018
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
2017
as John Kocher
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
2017
as Roy
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
2017
as Mr. Browning
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
2017
as Bob Patrice
Archer champion Lauren Pierce escapes a corrupt juvenile correctional facility with Rebecca, a fierce but alluring inmate. Together they must survive ...

All Summers End
2017
as Mr. Turner
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
2016
as Brock
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
2016
as Rich
Delinquent is the thrilling and dramatic exploration of a teenager's struggle to manage the fall-out of a robbery gone wrong.

Fender Bender
2016
as The Driver
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
2016
as Mike Hammel
A student at a private school uses his connections to establish a drug trafficking network.

Fan Girl
2015
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
2015
as Sheriff Deacon Whit
An intimate portrait of a 9 year old sociopath as he discovers his taste for killing.

Ned Rifle
2015
as Bud
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
2014
as Frank
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
2014
as Dalton
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
2014
as Jerry Malone
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
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
2014
as Baseball Announcer (voice)
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
2014
as Dave Fuller
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
2014
as Frank
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
2013
as Frank Parker
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
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
2012
as Dan
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
2012
as Tim
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
2011
as Leo
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
2011
as Roach
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
2010
as Terry Donovan
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
2010
as Dr. Marcus Ryan
A reclusive physicist creates an infinite-energy machine in his basement that changes his life and all those around him.

Off Season
2009
as Man
A man and his dog traverse a cold, barren climate and discover some disturbing things along the way.

Precious
2009
as Mr. Wicher
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
2009
as Pauley
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
2009
as Robert Cameron
Five best friends in their late 20's discover new truths about themselves and the friendships they thought would last forever.

Tennessee
2008
as Roy
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
2007
as Davis Meyers
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
Fifteen New Yorkers go into a Friday night unaware of the fact that their lives are about to change.

The Handyman
2006
as Caleb Tucker
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
2006
as Thomas Knight, Jr.
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
2005
as Coach
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Shooting Vegetarians
2005
as Prosecutor
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
2005
as Jack
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
2003
as Lyle
A story about a small, dying town in need of hope until one day a young boy gives them something to believe in.

Sin
2003
as Cal Brody
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
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
2002
as Myers Carter
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
2002
as Carlo
A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.

Desert Saints
2002
as Agent Davis
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
2001
as Chuck
Two friends are about to learn that they are "Grownups."

On the Borderline
2001
as Dean
A young couple embark on a cross-country journey, only to run into trouble at the Texas/Mexico border.

Glitter
2001
A young woman is catapulted into pop stardom, with her already-famous DJ boyfriend calling the shots.

The Atlantis Conspiracy
2001
as Jon
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
2000
as David Van Patten
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
2000
as FBI Agent David Drew
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
2000
as Karl Severson
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
2000
as Chuck
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
1999
as Intense Young Intern
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
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

High Art
1998
as Arnie
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
1998
as Justin
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
1998
as White Soldier
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
1997
as Converse
A film about one woman's personal freedom and the price she pays to keep it.

Boys
1996
as Officer Bill Martone
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
1996
as Tom Baker
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
1996
as Dick
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
1995
as Bill
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
1995
as Mickey Davis
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
1995
as Steve Steverino
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
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
1993
as Bill
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
1993
as Tom
A songwriter seeks a psychiatrist's help after his obsession with his best friend's wife turns to chilling fantasies of murder.

Simple Men
1992
as Dennis McCabe
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
1992
as Guy's Pal
The lives of two incompetent young men from Brooklyn spin out of control after a friend returns from Florida with guns to sell.

Ambition
1992
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
1991
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
1990
as John Bill
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
1990
as Gus
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
1989
as Carriage Couple
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
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...