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Arliss Howard (born Leslie Richard Howard; October 18, 1954) is an American actor, writer and film director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arliss Howard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Thicket
2024
as Rev. Ephron Karlsson
An innocent young man, Jack, goes on an epic quest to rescue his sister Lula after she has been kidnapped by the violent killer Cut Throat Bill and he...

The Killer
2023
as The Client - Claybourne
After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.

With/In Volume 2
2022
Director
An anthology film that centres around relationships, love and family. A man misses his flight and instead finds love in quarantine, a lonely therapist...

With/In Volume 2
2021
as (segment "Still Life")
Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directo...

With/In Volume 2
2021
Director, Screenplay
Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directo...

The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
2021
as Self
Join acclaimed director David Fincher, actors Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried, and the cast and crew of MANK, for a peek behind the curtain of Netflix...

Lapsis
2021
as Dr. Mangold
In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles an...

Mank
2020
as Louis B. Mayer
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the sc...

The Boy Downstairs
2018
as Diana's Father
A young woman is forced to reflect on her first relationship when she inadvertently moves into her ex boyfriend's apartment building.

Mosaic
2017
A dissection of hybrid identity in ten chapters through the life of a chimeric evolving creature 'Mosaic' and confessions by the most influentials sci...

Concussion
2015
as Dr. Joseph Maroon
A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologi...

Over/Under
2013
as Victor
A man becomes a bookie after losing his job as a day trader.

Moneyball
2011
as John Henry
The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-gen...

The Time Traveler's Wife
2009
as Richard DeTamble
Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true lov...

Awake
2007
as Dr. Jonathan Neyer
While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the oper...

Weapons
2007
as Mikey's Uncle
Weapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America, and trag...

Dawn Anna
2005
Director, Co-Producer, Writer
The true story of a single mom who overcomes many of life's obstacles.

Birth
2004
as Bob
It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving...

Dandelion
2004
as Luke Mullich
In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love s...

Word of Honor
2003
as J.D. Runnells
Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 1...

Big Bad Love
2001
as Barlow
Vietnam veteran Leon Barlow is struggling as a writer, and his personal life isn't much better. His unsympathetic ex-wife Marilyn doesn't approve of h...

Big Bad Love
2001
Director, Screenplay
Vietnam veteran Leon Barlow is struggling as a writer, and his personal life isn't much better. His unsympathetic ex-wife Marilyn doesn't approve of h...

A Map of the World
1999
as Paul Reverdy
School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property ...

You Know My Name
1999
as Wiley
In six months, the population of Cromwell, Oklahoma, has climbed from 500 to 10,000. Boom times have come to the oil-rich town. So has a new breed of ...

The Lesser Evil
1998
as Ivan
Four best friends reunite in a remote cabin for the first time in two decades. They are not there to reminisce about the good old days, but rather, to...

Amistad
1997
as John C. Calhoun
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are th...

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
as Peter Ludlow
Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing tha...

Old Man
1997
as J.J. Taylor
A prisoner set on serving his time gets recruited to save a pregnant woman trapped in a tree during the Great Flood of 1927. A massive storm drives th...

Johns
1996
as John Cardoza
It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night a...

The Man Who Captured Eichmann
1996
as Peter Malkin
Set in 1960, the story follows the efforts of the Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service, to find former SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who ran from Germany t...

Beyond the Call
1996
as Keith O'Brien
Russell Gates (David Strahairn) is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood sweetheart, Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek), is stunne...

Tales of Erotica
1996
A series of erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings.

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1995
as Virgil
Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When th...

The Infiltrator
1995
as Eaton
In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction intent on bri...

Natural Born Killers
1994
as Owen Traft
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Wet
1994
as Bruce Lomann
The attractive Davida enters a shop shortly before off-time and wants to buy a bathtub. Just the manager is still there. As business is not well, he i...

Wilder Napalm
1993
as Wilder
Wilder and Wallace are brothers and pyrokinetics. Ever since childhood they've been able to start fires with their minds but following a tragedy in wh...

The Sandlot
1993
as Adult Scotty Smalls (uncredited)
During a summer of friendship and adventure, one boy becomes a part of the gang, nine boys become a team and their leader becomes a legend by confront...

CrissCross
1992
as Joe
Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. The boy finds out ...

Ruby
1992
as Maxwell
Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.

Those Secrets
1992
as Simon
A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.

Till Death Us Do Part
1992
as Vincent Bugliosi
This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put Ch...

For the Boys
1991
as Sgt. Michael Leonard (uncredited)
Talented USO entertainer Dixie Leonard and comedian Eddie Sparks deal with their relationship over the course of 5 decades from World War II to the Vi...

Iran: Days of Crisis
1991
as John Limbert
Follows the events of Iran hostage crisis of 1979 and people who were held as hostages in the US embassy in Tehran, Iran for over 400 days.

Men Don't Leave
1990
as Charles Simon
A widowed mother and her two sons move to Baltimore and struggle to adjust to urban life, encountering numerous eccentric characters along the way.

Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
1990
as Raymond Eames
Taut thriller about a photographer who races the clock to clear a man about to be executed.

Tequila Sunrise
1988
as Gregg Lindroff
In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, whil...

Plain Clothes
1988
as Nick Dunbar
To prove his brother's innocence, undercover officer Nick enrolls in high school again, dealing with crushes, bullies, humiliations, popularity swings...

Full Metal Jacket
1987
as Pvt. Cowboy
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the ...

Hands of a Stranger
1987
as Felix Lyttle
A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.

The Ladies Club
1986
as Ed Bricker
A policewoman who was raped forms a vigilante group of various rape victims. They abduct and castrate men who have committed repeated violations of wo...

The Lightship
1985
as Eddie
A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.

Sylvester
1985
as Peter
Charlie is a 16-year-old orphan struggling to raise her two younger brothers when she endeavors to train a wild horse she names Sylvester and turn him...

Door to Door
1985
as Leon Spencer
A smooth-talking vacuum cleaner salesman takes a young man under his wing and teaches him how to swindle his way to riches. The two team up, conning e...

The Day After
1983
as Tom Cooper
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue thei...

A Killer in the Family
1983
as John Lyons
Three teenage boys break their father out of prison only to discover that he is a murderous sociopath. Based on a true story.

The Prodigal
1983
as Scott Stuart
They were a family torn apart by redemption...kept apart by pride...but brought together by a miracle.

Butterfly in the Typewriter
N/A
as Shelby Foote
Troubled author John Kennedy Toole's struggle to bring A Confederacy of Dunces to print.