Biography
Sean Michael O'Bryan (born September 10, 1963) is an American film and television actor. He co-starred with William Ragsdale on the short-lived series Brother's Keeper. Early television work includes guest roles on television series in Married... with Children, MacGyver, Northern Exposure, Cold Case, Diagnosis: Murder, Quantum Leap, Murder, She Wrote, Chicago Hope, Roswell, Roseanne, Criminal Minds, The King of Queens and Dexter. More recent television guest star credits include CSI, Bones, Mel...
Known For
Complete Filmography

I Am Gitmo
2025
as General Geoffrey Miller
A Muslim schoolteacher is taken to a CIA black site and then Guantanamo Bay Cuba, where he is interrogated and tortured, despite professing his innoce...

Bad Painter
2025
as Steven / Gallerist
Albert Oehlen steps behind the camera to present a portrait of himself, in life and at work, albeit substituted by actor and similarly brazen iconocla...

Purgatory Station
2024
as Freddie Shade
When a crooked lawyer wakes up in a large, pitch-dark container, he learns he has eight hours to scuttle a corporate land grab or see everyone he love...

The Christmas Letter
2024
as Tigger Woods
Every year, unemployed copywriter Joe Michaels reads his wealthy friend's annual over-the-top Christmas letter, and feels like a loser. But this year'...

Traumatika
2024
as John Reed
Mikey's night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he's about to experience will haunt him for the ...
Revv
2024
REVV is a slow-burning revenge drama that follows John “Revv” Revere on his last day on earth… or so he thinks. Upon his release from prison, Revv is ...

Nyctophobia
2024
as Thomas
Twin sisters Rose and Azalea and their friend Brooks find themselves trapped in a supernatural blackout in which monsters are real. Their only hope fo...

The Veil
2023
as Douglas
Redemption gives way to a reckoning when a reclusive retired priest shelters a young Amish runaway in crisis, only to reveal a mystery that ties her t...

Shift
2023
as Hal
Tom, a Steve Buscemi type with less drive, takes the night shift job at Your Storage in Chicago armed with security monitors, lackluster wit, a late n...

Missing
2023
as Radio Host
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuc...

Babylon
2022
as Studio Executive (Billy)
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity dur...
Jumping the Gun
2020
A struggling inventor films his enthusiastic quest to launch a new sport, the 100m Jump Rope Sprint, and cameras follow him everywhere, from therapy s...

Murder at the Mansion
2020
as Chandler
As her wedding day approaches the would be bride uncovers some secrets at the family home of her fiancé.

The Stand at Paxton County
2020
as Vin Scurlock
A military veteran comes home to find her father harassed by a sheriff intent on confiscating the livestock on their ranch under shady pretenses.

Rust Creek
2019
as Sheriff O'Doyle
When an overachieving college senior makes a wrong turn, her road trip becomes a life-changing fight for survival in rural Kentucky.

Christmas Break-In
2018
as Pete
Izzy is an energetic 9-year-old. Overscheduled and running late, Izzy's parents can't pick her up on-time the last day of school before Christmas brea...

Searching
2018
as Radio Jockey
After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and w...

Beatriz at Dinner
2017
as Security Guard
Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner. Doug Strutt is a cutthr...

First Night
2017
as Hitman
Joey is woken up in the middle of the night by a damsel in distress. Realizing he is in danger, Joey takes matters into his own hands to protect himse...

Mother's Day
2016
as Male Cop
Sandy is a stressed-out, single mom who learns that her ex-husband is marrying a younger woman. Her friend Jesse's parents don't know that she has a f...

Get a Job
2016
as Alan Fredricks (Wilheimer Client)
Life after college graduation is not exactly going as planned for Will and Jillian who find themselves lost in a sea of increasingly strange jobs. But...

London Has Fallen
2016
as NSA Deputy Director Ray Monroe
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

The House Sitter
2015
as Kyle Lawrence
A family still reeling after the accidental death of one of their daughters, returns home after an aborted month long getaway to Rebecca, a seemingly ...

Whitney
2015
as Hotel Manager
Chronicles Whitney Houston's rise to fame and turbulent relationship with husband Bobby Brown.

Table 58
2015
as Coach Peterson
Table 58 is the odd table in the lunchroom, made up of kids from all different social cliques. When new kid Logan moves to town, he rallies the mismat...

Dawn Patrol
2014
as Mace
After the brutal murder of his beloved brother, a small-town surfer seeks revenge against the gang of merciless thugs he holds responsible. However, w...
Heaven
2013
as Clerk
Having trouble returning to his pre-prison sexual orientation, an ex-con orders an aging call girl whose life depends on him wanting her.

Olympus Has Fallen
2013
as Ray Monroe
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former President...

Playing for Keeps
2012
as Coach Jacob
A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.

Cinema Verite
2011
as Johnny Hall
In 1973, the Loud family became a television sensation of a new kind. It was long before a metal rock star showed his eccentric family on the small sc...

Hatching Pete
2009
as Leon Ivey
Pete is very inconspicuous at school, unlike his extrovert mate Cleatis who's happy to don a chicken suit and be the school mascot, but unfortunately,...

Yes Man
2008
as Ted
Carl Allen, a guy whose life is going nowhere, signs up for a self-help program based on one simple covenant: say yes to everything…and anything.

Vantage Point
2008
as Cavic
During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is struck down by an assassin's bullet. Eight strangers have ...

Deck the Halls
2006
as Mayor Young
Determined to unseat Steve Finch's reign as the town's holiday season king, Buddy Hall plasters his house with so many decorative lights that it'll be...

Mission: Impossible III
2006
as Party Goer
Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, ...

Raising Helen
2004
as Paul Davis
Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned u...

A Place Called Home
2004
as Dave
Tula Jetters is a stubborn widow living her older years in a huge, yet crumbling, country house. Wary of visitors, her routine is shaken by two con ar...

Big Fat Liar
2002
as Leo
After one of his class papers is stolen and turned into a movie, a young student and his best friend exact a hilarious, slapstick revenge on the Holly...

The Princess Diaries
2001
as Patrick O'Connell
A socially awkward but very bright 15-year-old girl being raised by a single mom discovers that she is the princess of a small European country becaus...

Nice Guys Sleep Alone
1999
as Carter
Carter (O'Bryan) wonders if he's ever going to find a woman who wants to be more than "just friends." His conniving best friend Pat and beautiful step...

I'll Be Home for Christmas
1998
as Max
Estranged from his father, college student Jake is lured home to New York for Christmas with the promise of receiving a classic Porsche as a gift. Whe...

Out to Sea
1997
as Allan
Care-free Charlie cons his widower brother-in-law Herb into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies. The catch is that they ar...

Mary & Tim
1996
Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged young man and the older, lonely widow who takes him ...

Dear God
1996
as Undercover Cop
A judge gives con-man Tom Turner a choice—a jail sentence, or a year of honest work. But when he gets a job in the U.S. Post Office's dead letter offi...

The Twilight of the Golds
1996
as Steven
A woman discovers her unborn baby has a genetic predisposition to homosexuality, unwittingly exposing deep-seated prejudices within her family.

Phenomenon
1996
as Banes
An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.

Crimson Tide
1995
as Phone Talker
After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on...

Here Come the Munsters
1995
as Detective Cartwell
The Munsters come to America to search for Herman's brother-in-law Norman Hyde, only to find out that he has turned himself into Brent Jekyll, who is ...

Trapped in Paradise
1994
as Dick Anderson
Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.

Exit to Eden
1994
as Tommy Miller
Photographer Elliot Slater has inadvertently snapped the only existing photos of elusive jewel thief Omar. When Elliot leaves for a private vacation o...

Heart and Souls
1993
as John McBride
A fateful night in 1959, four people die when the bus they are riding crashes. They continue as ghosts; their souls become eternally entwined to the l...

Chaplin
1992
as Lewis Seeley
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent per...

Frankie and Johnny
1991
as Bobby
When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fl...

The First Circle
N/A
as Hearn
Shift
N/A
as Hal
Tom, a Steve Buscemi type with less drive, takes the night job at Your Storage in Washington Park, Chicago, armed with security monitors, lackluster w...