Biography
Philip Baker Hall (September 10, 1931 – June 12, 2022) was an American actor. Although known primarily as a prolific character actor, he starred in leading roles on films, such as Secret Honor, Hard Eight and Duck. Other films in supporting roles including Say Anything..., Boogie Nights, The Truman Show, Magnolia, The Contender, Zodiac and Argo. Description above from the Wikipedia article Philip Baker Hall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Dear Chickens
2018
as Emil
When a stubborn old man and a fretful teenaged girl are forced to share a hospital room, an unexpected friendship forms over their hatred of fake chee...

Person to Person
2017
as Jimmy
Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.

The Last Word
2017
as Edward
A retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist takes up the task of find...

Playing It Cool
2014
as Granddad
A young man meets and instantly falls in love with an engaged woman.

Altman
2014
as Self
Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema left an indelible mark, not merely on the evolution o...

Clear History
2014
as McKenzie
Nathan Flomm, in order to avoid the humiliation of having missed out on a hugely successful business, assumes a new identity on Martha's Vineyard. He ...

Showing Up
2014
as Self
An unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable artists including Kristin Chenoweth, Richard Griffiths, Zoe ...

Bad Words
2013
as Dr. Bowman
Forty-year-old misanthrope, Guy Trilby, enters the National Golden Quill Spelling Bee through a loophole in the rules.

Argo
2012
as CIA Director Stansfield Turner (uncredited)
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter ...

People Like Us
2012
as Ike Rafferty
After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must de...

Dog Eat Dog
2012
as Old Man
When Oliver becomes obsessed with a dog at the pound, he finds himself in a desperate rivalry with an unexpected stranger.

Bending The Rules
2012
as Herb Gold
Detective Nick Blades is a New Orleans cop on trial for corruption. Assistant District Attorney Theo Gold is the man in charge of putting him behind b...

50/50
2011
as Alan
Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

Mr. Popper's Penguins
2011
as Franklin
Tom Popper is a successful businessman who’s clueless when it comes to the really important things in life...until he inherits six “adorable” penguins...

The Chicago 8
2011
as Judge Julius Hoffman
Based on actual court transcripts of 8 anti-war protesters on trial for conspiring to cause riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicag...

All Good Things
2010
as Malvern Bump
Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murd...

Fired Up!
2009
as Coach Byrnes
Popular high schoolers and best friends Shawn and Nick decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader camp. For the girls and for the glory.

The Lodger
2009
as Captain Smith
Follows a seasoned detective on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. It appears that...

Wonderful World
2009
as The Man
Ben Singer is a failed children's folk singer, a career proofreader, a less-than-extraordinary weekend dad, and perhaps the most negative man alive. F...

Rush Hour 3
2007
as Capt. William Diel
After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling to retrieve a precious list of names, as the murderous...

The TV Set
2007
as Vernon Maxwell
As a writer named Mike struggles to shepherd his semi-autobiographical sitcom into development, his vision is slowly eroded by a domineering network e...

Zodiac
2007
as Sherwood Morrill
The Zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.

You Kill Me
2007
as Roman Krzeminski
While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return ...

The Shaggy Dog
2006
as Lance Strictland
The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the most important job - being a great dad.

Mrs. Harris
2006
as Arthur Schulte
Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean ...

Islander
2006
as Popper
After a tragic accident at sea, Eben Cole loses his family, friends and stature in his island fishing community. He returns to the island an outcast b...

The Zodiac
2005
as Frank Perkins
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims mor...

The Matador
2005
as Mr. Randy
The life of Danny Wright, a salesman forever on the road, veers into dangerous and surreal territory when he wanders into a Mexican bar and meets a my...

The Amityville Horror
2005
as Father Callaway
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sl...

Duck
2005
as Arthur Pratt
An aging widower and a duck encounter helpful and hostile characters as they search for a place and a reason to live.

A Buck's Worth
2005
Gun in hand, a homeless man requests a dollar.

In Good Company
2004
as Eugene Kalb
Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naiv...

A House on a Hill
2003
as Harry Mayfield
A once-successful architect (Philip Baker Hall) has become a grumpy loner, but a young couple plead with him to come out of retirement to rebuild his ...

Die, Mommie, Die!
2003
as Sol Sussman
Angela Arden is a washed up, has-been singing star who is trapped in a hateful marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. In an attempt to escape her marr...

Path to War
2003
as Everett Dirksen
A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at the way the USA goes to war—as seen from inside t...

Bruce Almighty
2003
as Jack Baylor
Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bru...

Dogville
2003
as Tom Edison Sr.
When beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters, and...

A Gentleman's Game
2002
as Charlie Logan
A drama revolving around characters whose lives are transformed one summer at an exclusive East Coast country club.

The Sum of All Fears
2002
as Defense Secretary Becker
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia a...

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000
as Aristotle Onassis
Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy and life after Camelot.

Lost Souls
2000
as Father James
A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected...

The Contender
2000
as Oscar Billings
The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. W...

Rules of Engagement
2000
as Gen. H. Lawrence Hodges
A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen.

Psycho Path
2000
as Self - Actor / Sheriff Chambers
Documentary on the making of Gus Van Sant's "Psycho."

That Moment: Magnolia Diary
2000
as Self
A very in-depth documentary that follows the very over-worked director Paul Thomas Anderson through a gruelling 80+ days of shooting for the film Magn...

Altman on His Own Terms
2000
as Self
A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. The genius director who shook the cinema industry w...

The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999
as Alvin MacCarron
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U...

Magnolia
1999
as Jimmy Gator
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy geniu...

Cradle Will Rock
1999
as Gray Mathers
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

The Insider
1999
as Don Hewitt
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

Let the Devil Wear Black
1999
as Sol Hirsch
A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.

Implicated
1999
as Mr. Sawyer
In this offbeat thriller, Ann is a young woman trying to put her life back together after she lost her child in a car wreck. Formerly a single mother,...

Psycho
1998
as Sheriff Chambers
A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.

Enemy of the State
1998
as Mark Silverberg (uncredited)
The life of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert 'Bobby' Dean is turned upside down after a chance meeting with a college buddy while holiday ...

Rush Hour
1998
as Captain Diel
When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Dete...

Judas Kiss
1998
as Pobby Malavero
The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate.

The Truman Show
1998
as Network Executive
Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, ...

Witness to the Mob
1998
as Toddo Aurello
Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder, including the slayings of his best friends, his wife's b...

Sour Grapes
1998
as Mr. Bell
The bond between cousins is tested when one wins a fortune with the other's money at Atlantic City.

Tempting Fate
1998
as Dr. Bardwell
A man who is still mourning the death of the woman he loves, meets a man who says he created a machine that can bring anyone to a parallel world. He g...

Boogie Nights
1997
as Floyd Gondolli
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his cra...

Air Force One
1997
as Attorney General Ward
When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossibl...

Buddy
1997
as Minister
An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.

Hit Me
1996
as Lenny Ish
A bellhop living with his mentally impaired brother becomes involved with an unbalanced woman and a scheme to steal guests' valuables.

The Rock
1996
as Chief Justice (uncredited)
When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into Sa...

Hard Eight
1996
as Sydney
A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

The Little Death
1996
as Detective Snyder
A photographer obsessed with a wealthy man's beautiful wife kills her jealous husband in self-defense. The deceased man's down-and-out musician son so...

Eye for an Eye
1996
as Sidney Hughes
It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Ro...

Kiss of Death
1995
as Big Junior Brown
Jimmy Kilmartin's an ex-con who's trying to go straight. But he can't say no to a quick driving job because his so-called friend's life is threatened....

Without Warning
1994
as Dr. Kurt Lowden
A television program is interupted by a news network announcing that three meteors have hit the United States, France and China. At first it seems nat...

Roswell
1994
as Roswell General
Based on the book "UFO Crash at Roswell" by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, Roswell follows the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth ...

M.A.N.T.I.S.
1994
as 'Smitty'
A brilliant, wheelchair-bound scientist invents a form of exo-skeleton called the Mechanically Augmented Neuro Transmitter Interception System (M.A.N....

Cigarettes & Coffee
1993
as Sydney
Cigarettes & Coffee tells the story of five people's lives all interconnected through a $20 bill.

Live Wire
1992
as Senator Thyme
Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within t...

Stormy Weathers
1992
as Dr. Comden
Shepherd is the detective hired by an aristocratic Italian to locate a relative and thereby solve an ancient inheritance problem. As she sinks into th...

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
1992
as Sam Gochenour
Authentic drama of United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago. The DC-10 crashed during an emergency landing at Sioux City Gateway Airport on J...

Blue Desert
1991
as Joe
After surviving rape, comic-book artist Lisa Roberts moves from New York City to small town in Arizona. But there's danger in small towns too.

Incident at Dark River
1989
as Dr. Leo Manus
When Tim McFall's young daughter dies as the result of toxic waste dumped in the local river, he tries to shut down the company and everybody turns ag...

An Innocent Man
1989
as Judge Kenneth Lavet
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a maj...

A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
1989
as Judge Blumenfeld
Tracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets a restraining order, and the police do little to help...

Ghostbusters II
1989
as Police Commissioner
The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.

How I Got Into College
1989
as Dean Patterson
High school senior Marlon Bowne is smitten with overachieving classmate Jessica Kailo. But, if he wants to have a shot with her, he'll have to find a ...

Say Anything...
1989
as IRS Boss
Lloyd, an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school beauty and straight-A student. He surprises just about ev...

Goddess of Love
1988
as Detective Charles
The god Zeus sends Venus, the goddess of love, to Earth to find her own true love.

Midnight Run
1988
as Sidney, Chicago mobster
A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who embezzled $15 million of mob money. He is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I....

Three O'Clock High
1987
as Detective Mulvahill
Nerdy high schooler Jerry Mitchell is assigned to write an article for the school paper about the infamous new delinquent transfer student, Buddy Reve...

The Spirit
1987
as Sevrin
A legally dead police detective decides to battle crime as a masked superhero.

Who Is Julia?
1986
as Dean May
A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lowe...

Nothing in Common
1986
as Colonial Airlines Executive (uncredited)
A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.

Secret Honor
1984
as Richard Milhous Nixon
In his New Jersey study, Richard Nixon retraces the missteps of his political career, attempting to absolve himself of responsibility for Watergate an...

Games Mother Never Taught You
1982
as Lester Greene
Hard-working career wife Laura becomes the first female executive in an all-male office and is dismayed to find she now has to learn the rules of the ...
Dream on!
1981
Dream On! takes real risks with cinema as form...manifesting a kind of narrative-collage. The film's action follows a group of young actors as they st...

This House Possessed
1981
as Clerk
A sinister force permeating a secluded mountain estate convinces the nurse/companion of rock star Parker Stevenson, who has had a nervous collapse, th...

The Man with Bogart's Face
1980
as Dr. Inman
In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so much that he has his features altered to look exactly li...

The Night the Bridge Fell Down
1980
as Warren Meech
A group of random individuals get stranded on a bridge that begins collapsing at both ends. Not only that, but there's a gun-wielding bank robber usin...

The Last Reunion
1980
as Mike Sills
Several members of a platoon of American soldiers not only kill a Japanese general, but also rape and murder the man's wife. The couple's son, Kimon, ...

Samurai
1979
as Prof. Owens
Lee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and battles a crazed multi-millionaire who is planning to des...

Terror Out of the Sky
1978
as Starrett
TV sequel to "The Savage Bees" featuring more rampaging insects. This time a marching band and a school bus get in the path of the bees.

The Bastard
1978
as Shopkeeper
Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath o...

Coma
1978
as Doctor (uncredited)
A young female doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple oper...

Kill Me If You Can
1977
as Phillips
The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed.

The Hostage Heart
1977
as Dr. Harvey Fees
When billionaire industrialist goes into a hospital for a heart operation, some people who claim to be revolutionaries enter the operating room and dr...

Mayday at 40,000 Feet
1977
as Reporter
The co-pilot and engineer of a passenger jet struggle to keep the plane airborne after a marshal onboard, transporting a murderer to prison, has a hea...

The Last Survivors
1975
When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an ap...
Throw Out the Anchor
1974
as Ryan
A comedy about an unemployed widower who heads to Florida with his children for a vacation on a houseboat. When he gets there there is no houseboat

Zabriskie Point
1970
as Diner Owner (uncredited)
Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the author...

Love-In '72
1970
as Father Reis
A man must decide whether to flee the U.S. draft and go to Canada or stay or go fight for his country in Vietnam.