Biography
Stephen Lang (born July 11, 1952) is an American actor and playwright. He started in theatre on Broadway but is well known for his film portrayals of Stonewall Jackson in Gods and Generals (2003), George Pickett in Gettysburg (1993), and his 2009 roles as Colonel Miles Quaritch in Avatar and as Texan lawman Charles Winstead in Public Enemies. Lang was the co-artistic director (along with Carlin Glynn and Lee Grant) of the famed Actor's Studio at its headquarters in New York City from 2004 to 200...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Avatar 5
2031
as Colonel Miles Quaritch
The fifth installment of the Avatar franchise.

Avatar 4
2029
as Colonel Miles Quaritch
The fourth installment of the Avatar franchise.

Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025
as Colonel Miles Quaritch
In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash Peop...
Sisu 2
2025
The sequel of the 2023 film. Plot TBA.

Barron's Cove
2025
as Benji Faulkner
When his young son is viciously murdered by a classmate, a grieving father with a history of violence kidnaps the child responsible, igniting a frenzi...

Avenue of the Giants
2023
as Herbert Heller
The true story of Herbert Heller, who kept his experience as a teenage boy surviving for years in Auschwitz hidden from his family. That is until he m...

Muzzle
2023
as Leland
LAPD K-9 officer Jake Rosser has just witnessed the shocking murder of his dedicated partner by a mysterious assailant. As he investigates the shooter...

The Featherweight
2023
as Bill Gore
Set in 1964, a camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired featherweight boxing champion. Down and out in Hartford CT, married to a woman half his age and...

My Love Affair with Marriage
2023
as Jonas (voice)
From an early age, songs and fairytales convinced Zelma that Love would solve all her problems as long as she abided by societal expectations of how a...

Inside Pandora's Box
2023
as Self
A series of featurettes on the challenges facing cast and crew as filmmakers devise new technologies to push the limits of cinema

Avatar: The Way of Water
2022
as Colonel Miles Quaritch
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follo...

Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20
2022
as Self
An inside look at one of the most anticipated movie sequels ever with James Cameron and cast.

The Independent
2022
as Gordon
It's the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history. America is poised to elect either its first female president or its f...

Old Man
2022
as Old Man
Deep in the woods, a lost hiker stumbles upon the cabin of an erratic and reclusive old man. What starts off as cordial conversation soon turns danger...

Death in Texas
2022
as John
Recently released from prison, Billy will do whatever it takes to save the only person who has stuck by him, his mother Grace who desperately needs a ...

Mid-Century
2022
as Frederick Banner
A husband and wife's weekend in a mid-century modern vacation rental turns deadly when the husband discovers the owner is a psychopath with a backyard...

The Lost City
2022
as Fantasy Villain
Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour...

Don't Breathe 2
2021
as The Blind Man
The Blind Man has been hiding out for several years in an isolated cabin and has taken in and raised a young girl orphaned from a devastating house fi...

Don't Breathe 2
2021
Executive Producer
The Blind Man has been hiding out for several years in an isolated cabin and has taken in and raised a young girl orphaned from a devastating house fi...

Val
2021
as Self (archive footage)
For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film a...

The Seventh Day
2021
as Archbishop
A renowned exorcist teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and ...

Rogue Warfare: Death of a Nation
2020
as The President
After rescuing Daniel from the terrorist Black Mask Organization, the team uncovers plans for a deadly bomb set to detonate in 36 hours that threatens...

Rogue Warfare: The Hunt
2019
as Président
The next installment of the Rogue Warfare Trilogy. Daniel has been captured and it is up to the TEAM to find him before it is to late.

Rogue Warfare: The Hunt
2019
Co-Executive Producer
The next installment of the Rogue Warfare Trilogy. Daniel has been captured and it is up to the TEAM to find him before it is to late.

Justice - Verstrickt im Netz der Macht
2019
Justice shows the story of the eternal conflict between morality and humanity in the Bank Millieu.

Rogue Warfare
2019
as President
A group of military elite from the U.S., Russia, UK, China and France join forces to fight an elite underground terrorist network.

Rogue Warfare
2019
Co-Executive Producer
A group of military elite from the U.S., Russia, UK, China and France join forces to fight an elite underground terrorist network.

VFW
2019
as Fred
A typical night for veterans at a VFW turns into an all-out battle for survival when a desperate teen runs into the bar with a bag of stolen drugs. Wh...

VFW
2019
Executive Producer
A typical night for veterans at a VFW turns into an all-out battle for survival when a desperate teen runs into the bar with a bag of stolen drugs. Wh...

The Gandhi Murder
2019
as D.I.G Sunil Raina
Three Senior police officers in different parts of India, who, well aware of the intelligence that Gandhi’s life in under threat, must take key decisi...

Mortal Engines
2018
as Shrike
Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources...

Braven
2018
as Linden
A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.

Hostiles
2017
as Colonel Abraham Biggs
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...

Justice
2017
as Mayor Pierce
A U.S. Marshal seeking justice for his brother's murder defends a small town from a corrupt Mayor and his henchmen with intents to revive the civil wa...

Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
2016
as Emil F. Reinhardt
An intense thriller from the frontlines of World War II. As Operation Valkyrie prepares to assassinate Adolph Hitler, an Allied special ops team prepa...

Gridlocked
2016
as Korver
Former SWAT leader David Hendrix and hard-partying movie star Brody Walker must cut their ride-along short when a police training facility is attacked...

Don't Breathe
2016
as The Blind Man
A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.

Band of Robbers
2016
as Injun Joe
A comedic thriller that re-imagines Mark Twain's iconic literary characters of "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" as grown men in current day.

Isolation
2015
as William
Inspired by the true events of a couple vacationing on a remote island in the Bahamas who are hunted by a group of modern-day pirates, after their ide...

Beyond Glory
2015
Follows acclaimed actor Stephen Lang as he tracks the ten year odyssey behind his one-man show about eight medal of honor recipients.

Sun Belt Express
2015
as Officer Rick
A down-on-his-luck ethics professor ends up on a completely unhinged run across the Mexican border with his teenage daughter in tow - and four undocum...

Exeter
2015
as Father Conway
During an all-night, drug-fueled party at an abandoned asylum known for the horrific treatment of its patients, a group of ordinary teens decide to ex...

23 Blast
2014
as Coach Farris
When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe handicapped life or bra...

Gutshot Straight
2014
as Duffy
A professional poker player falls deep into underworld when he takes an unexpected wager from a mysterious high roller.

A Good Marriage
2014
as Holt Ramsey
After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband's sinister secret?

Jarhead 2: Field of Fire
2014
as Major Gavins
Battle-scarred and disillusioned by the war, Corporal Chris Merrimette is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to resupply a remote outpost o...

The Girl on the Train
2014
as Det. Lloyd Martin
When documentary filmmaker Danny Hart boards a train at Grand Central Station he has no reason to expect anything more than a pleasant ride to upstate...

In the Blood
2014
as Casey
When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.

The Nut Job
2014
as King (voice)
Surly, a curmudgeon, independent squirrel is banished from his park and forced to survive in the city. Lucky for him, he stumbles on the one thing tha...

The Monkey's Paw
2013
as Tony Cobb
After Jake Tilton is given a mystical "monkey's paw" talisman that grants its possessor three wishes, he finds his world turned upside down after his ...

Pioneer
2013
as John Ferris
Pioneer is set in the early '80s, at the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and the au...

The Gettysburg Story
2013
as Voice
A documentary about the Battle of Gettysburg during the US Civil War.

Love, Marilyn
2013
as Self
Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote ...

Pawn
2013
as Charlie
A petty robbery spirals into a tense hostage situation after three gunmen hold up a diner that's a front for the mob.

Officer Down
2013
as Lieutenant Jake 'Lieu' LaRussa
When a cop's crooked past comes back to get him, can he do the right thing, or will he succumb to the threats of his dangerous connections?

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
2012
as Barry Rogers
Precocious yet sensitive teenager James has a deep perception of the world but no idea how to live in it. Finding no help from his divorced parents no...

Conan the Barbarian
2011
as Khalar Zym
A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, ...

White Irish Drinkers
2011
as Patrick
A coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, in which two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and their well-meaning but in...

Capturing Avatar
2010
as Self
Capturing Avatar is a feature length behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Avatar. It uses footage from the film's development, as well as...

Christina
2010
as Inspector Edgar Reinhardt
Inspired by a true story about a young German woman prepares to leave her war-ravaged city to begin a new life in America with her G.I. fiance. But st...

Christina
2010
Writer
Inspired by a true story about a young German woman prepares to leave her war-ravaged city to begin a new life in America with her G.I. fiance. But st...

False Creek Stories
2010
as Narrator (voice)
This is False Creek, perhaps an insignificant point on a map. Its happenings won't splash across the front page of your morning newspaper, but the dai...

Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora
2010
as Self
The Making-of James Cameron's Avatar. It shows interesting parts of the work on the set.
Matadors
2010
as Victor Galloway
Two wealthy families in Chicago find themselves in an on-going struggle of pride and power.

Avatar
2009
as Colonel Miles Quaritch
In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecti...

The Men Who Stare at Goats
2009
as Brigadier General Dean Hopgood
A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Ea...

Save Me
2009
as Ted
A sex and drug addicted young man who is forced into a Christian-run ministry in an attempt to cure him of his "gay affliction", where instead he is f...

Public Enemies
2009
as Charles Winstead
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side o...

From Mexico With Love
2009
as Big Al Stevens
A washed-up trainer takes a self-destructive young boxer under his wing.
Der Regisseur Uli Edel - Fakten und Fiktion
2009
as Self
Documentary about the German director Uli Edel

George Washington: We Fight to be Free
2006
as Dr. James Craik
We Fight to be Free' vividly illustrates defining moments that made George Washington an indispensable leader. You'll see Washington take command of B...

The Making of 'Last Exit to Brooklyn'
2006
A wonderful making of featurette that focuses on the controversial novel that inspired the film Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) as well the production hi...

The I Inside
2004
as Mr. Travitt
When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the last two years from his memory. He learns that his br...

Code 11-14
2003
as Justin Shaw
An FBI agent went to Australia with his family to capture a serial killer. When Australian Police captured the main suspect, he and his family went ba...

Gods and Generals
2003
as Lt. Gen. Thomas Stonewall Jackson
The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from th...

D-Tox
2002
as Jack Bennett
A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming. ...

After the Storm
2001
as Sargeant Major Jim
On the run from smugglers and the police, world-weary scavenger Arno (Benjamin Bratt) takes a job as a courier for a tycoon. But when the tycoon's yac...

Story of a Bad Boy
2001
as Spryos
17 year old Pauly is a closeted high school kid who wants it all. His dad wants him to make the track team, his mom wants him to do well in band, and ...

The Proposal
2001
as Simon Baclg
An undercover cop lets his job get personal while on an underground assignment.

Trixie
2000
as Jacob Slotnick
Passed over at work and numbed after she witnesses a colleague's murder, security guard Trixie Zurbo takes a relatively easy job at a lakefront casino...

At the Mercy of a Stranger
1999
as Dr. Thomas Cooper
When Thomas, a prominent doctor, hires a hitman to murder his wife, Elizabeth, the hitman decides to help Elizabeth after realizing she is not the per...

A Town Has Turned to Dust
1998
as Sheriff Harvey Denton
In a futuristic desert hamlet, a ruthless town boss lynches a falsely accused Native American teen, setting the stage for revolt and a clash with a tr...

Escape: Human Cargo
1998
as Dennis McNatt
An American entrepreneur is closing a deal in Saudi Arabia in 1977. After a fallout with his influential Saudi partners, they have him arrested. Due t...

Niagara, Niagara
1998
as Claude
An outsider and a young woman plagued by Tourette's syndrome meet and together journey to Canada.

Fire Down Below
1997
as Earl Kellogg
When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, EPA undercover agent Jack Taggart is sent in—posing as a handyman working wit...

Loose Women
1997
as Prophet Buddy
On the brink of turning 30, friends Rachel, Gail, and Tracy navigate the clubs of New York City dissing on their relationships and men in general.

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
as Aaron Lindenstrauss / Dr. Joseph Melkman (voices)
David Brinkley hosts this shattering two-hour documentary about the trial of the man whose role in deporting the Jews of Europe for extermination made...

Journey of the Heart
1997
as Thomas Deblois
Janice is the subject of the town gossips for four reasons: she wears too much lipstick, her hair is too big, she is a single-mother and her two child...

Shadow Conspiracy
1997
as The Agent
Bobby Bishop is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets his friend professor Pochenko on the street. Pochenk...

An Occasional Hell
1996
as Alex Laughton
A former policeman-turned college professor of forensics, is asked by a widow to solve the murder of her unfaithful husband and the disappearance of h...

Gang in Blue
1996
as Moose Tavola
A black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.

The Amazing Panda Adventure
1995
as Michael Tyler
Far from home in the lush bamboo forests of China, ten-year-old Ryan Tyler, with the help of a young girl, goes on a wonderful journey to rescue a bab...

The Possession of Michael D.
1995
as Michael
When a dark force begins to destroy a couple's happiness, they decide to turn to a parapsychologist who discovers that the husband is possessed by a d...

Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure
1995
as Jonas Hackett
A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to ste...

A Season of Hope
1995
as Michael Hackett
When trees in their only source of income, a lemon grove, start showing signs of disease, a burdened Californian family reaches their breaking point. ...

The Mother
1994
as Boss
Paddy Chayefsky's 1954 play set in the Bronx tells the story of a recently widowed 66-year-old woman who seeks a job after 40 years of being a homemak...
Murder Between Friends
1994
as Kerry Myers
True story about two friends become involved in murder when the wife of one of them begins cheating on her spouse.

Tombstone
1993
as Ike Clanton
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining t...

Gettysburg
1993
as Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching t...

Guilty as Sin
1993
as Phil Garson
Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty.

Darkness Before Dawn
1993
as Guy Grand
An uplifting family drama about the danger of drug addiction, DARKNESS BEFORE DAWN stars Meredith Baxter (TV's FAMILY TIES). Baxter plays Mary Ann, a ...

Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story
1992
as Steven Ziegenmeyer
True story about a rape victim who took a stand that rape is never the victim's fault and inspired many other victims who felt shame about what had ha...

Babe Ruth
1991
as George Herman 'Babe' Ruth
A film based on the home-run legend's life.

Another You
1991
as Dibbs
George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is suppose...

The Hard Way
1991
as Party Crasher
Seeking to raise his credibility as an actor and to land a role as a tough cop on a new show, Hollywood action star Nick Lang works a deal with New Yo...

Last Exit to Brooklyn
1989
as Harry Black
A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute...

Finish Line
1989
as Coach Harkins
In order to get better results, a young athlete starts using steroids and begins his downfall.

Project X
1987
as Watts
A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious 'Project X'. Getting to know the chimps ...

Crime Story: Pilot
1986
as Atty. David Abrams
One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show.

Manhunter
1986
as Freddy Lounds
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a ne...

Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1986
as Self - Happy
Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions telepla...

Band of the Hand
1986
as Joe
An Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.

Stone Pillow
1985
as Tim
A homeless woman named Florabelle becomes the unwitting guide to the streets for a New York social worker named Carrie who thinks she has lessons to o...

Twice in a Lifetime
1985
as Keith
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in a...

Death of a Salesman
1985
as Harold 'Happy' Loman
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's ...

King of America
1982
as Vassilis
Hot-tempered Greek immigrant Andreas arrives in America in 1915. He finds work on a railroad, but soon gives his corrupt foreman Mekakis a savage beat...

We're Fighting Back
1981
as Janos
Inspired by the exploits of New York's Guardian Angels, which began as a band of streetwise young people who formed an anti-crime subway patrol and we...
Hellfire
N/A
as Man
A drifter with a mysterious past arrives in a small town and finds the residents in the grip of a ruthless crime boss and realizes he has to help them...
Convergence
N/A
as Rear Admiral James Bradford
Supervisory ICE Officer Sam Reilly comes to question his worldview as he’s forced into conflict with an alien threat, fighting to save the Earth from ...