Biography
Josh Hamilton (born June 9, 1969) is an American actor. He received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the indie film Eighth Grade.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Jay Kelly
2025
Two middle-aged friends rediscover their youthful spirit during a chaotic weekend reunion, facing hilarious mishaps and heartfelt moments that force t...

The Long Walk
2025
Every year, fifty teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as "The Long Walk." Among this year's chosen crop is sixteen-year-old Ra...

Squeeze
2023
as Jay Levy
When a high school wrestling coach recruits outsider Noah, a student with autism, for his tram, Noah has to confront his overprotective single father ...

Scene Partners
2023
as Hugo + Others
Winter, 1985. 75-year-old Meryl ditches ice-cold Milwaukee for sunny Los Angeles, hell-bent on becoming a movie star. She’s got big dreams, a little m...

Maestro
2023
as John Gruen
A towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. A love lett...

Landscape with Invisible Hand
2023
as Mr. Marsh
Years into a benevolent alien occupation, mankind is still adjusting to its new overlords. Their technology initially held promise for global prosperi...

Reality
2023
as Agent Garrick
Augusta, Georgia, United States, June 3, 2017. After running some errands, Reality Winner returns home, where she is approached by two men.

Plague at the Golden Gate
2022
as Rupert Blue (voice)
Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off feat and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco. A fascinating medical mystery and timely exam...

Ray Donovan: The Movie
2022
as Kevin Sullivan
A showdown decades in the making brings the Donovan family legacy full circle. As the events that made Ray who he is today finally come to light, the ...

A Mouthful of Air
2021
as Dr. Salzman
Julie is a new mom and children's book author, who escapes into the bright Crayola-colored world of her creation in order to leave behind the darkness...

False Positive
2021
as Greg
After months of trying and failing to get pregnant, Lucy and Adrian finally find their dream fertility doctor in the illustrious Dr. Hindle. But after...

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
2021
as Daniel
Two teenagers trapped in an endless time loop set out to find all the tiny things that make that one day perfect.

Tesla
2020
as Robert Underwood Johnson
The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by pioneering...

Blaze
2018
as Zee
Re-imagining the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting Texas legend.

Eighth Grade
2018
as Mark Day
Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the ...

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2017
as Loretta's Friend
An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.

The Great War
2017
as Self (voice)
Drawing on unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, The Great War tells the rich and complex story of World War I through the voices of nurses, journ...

The Chinese Exclusion Act
2017
A sweeping chronicle of the entire exclusion era - the latter part of the 1800s, when anti-Chinese agitation led to federal laws targeting Chinese abr...

Manchester by the Sea
2016
as Wes (Joe's Lawyer)
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tr...

Experimenter
2015
as Tom Shannon
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering pain...
Carvalho's Journey
2015
as Voice
Carvalho's Journey is a feature length documentary about Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815-1897) a pioneering American Jewish artist and daguerreotypist bo...

Take Me to the River
2015
as Keith
A naive California teen plans to remain above the fray at his Nebraskan family reunion, but a strange encounter places him at the center of a long-bur...

Amok
2015
as Adam
A horrible work accident triggers a terrifying event from Adam's childhood. Newly settled in NYC with his wife and newborn son, he's haunted by the pa...
This American Life: Live at BAM
2014
as Joshua
It’s This American Life’s wildest, most ambitious live show ever! Nearly 50 actors, singers, dancers, musicians and comedians joined Ira Glass onstage...

Frances Ha
2013
as Andy
An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbac...

Bottled Up
2013
as Becket
A solitary woman (Melissa Leo) earning her living by delivering mail and body piercing, makes every attempt to help her volatile adult daughter (Marin...

The Wait
2013
as Sammy's Dad
An enigmatic phone call from a psychic catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resu...

Dark Skies
2013
as Daniel
From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the...
The Ogre's Feathers
2012
as The Ogre
A young man sets out on a journey to the Ogre's lair, in search of a feather with the power to save a dying king.

The Letter
2012
as Raymond
A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is ...

Harry Grows Up
2012
as Harry (voice)
New York is a tough place to find love. Especially for an 18-month-old living on his own.

See Girl Run
2012
as Graham
What happens when a 30-something woman allows life's "what ifs" to overwhelm her appreciation for what life actually is. Disregarding her current obli...

J. Edgar
2011
as Robert Irwin
As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind close...

Margaret
2011
as Victor
A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people...
I'm Coming Over
2011
as Matt Downing
I'm Coming Over reveals a day in the life of Matt Downing, owner and proprietor of I’m Coming Over, specializing in holistic happiness. When tradition...

A Child's Garden of Poetry
2011
as Self (voice)
Poems by some of the greatest writers of all time are brought to life through lyrical animation and readings by some of today’s most respected perform...

Panama Canal
2011
On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signaling America's emergence as a global superpower.

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
2010
as Owen Chase & Peleg Folger (voice)
Examine the American whaling industry from its 17th-century origins in drift and shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the ...

The Last New Yorker
2010
as Zach
Lifelong friends Lenny Sugarman and Ruben Liebner , both in their 70s, both dyed-in-the-wool New Yorkers, barely recognize the Manhattan of their yout...

Away We Go
2009
as Roderick
Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Verona expecting their first child, Burt's parents inexplicably decide ...

Alexander the Last
2009
as Playwright
An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.

Alexander the Last
2009
Additional Writing
An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.

Broken English
2007
as Charlie Ross
Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has children. Nora is in her thirties, alone with job she's ...

Outsourced
2007
as Todd Anderson
After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement.

The Hottest State
2007
Thanks
A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.

Diggers
2006
as Cons
Diggers is a coming-of-age story directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Sho...

Sorry, Haters
2005
as Man (uncredited)
Against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America, an Arab cab driver picks up a troubled professional woman with unexpected results.

Robin's Big Date
2005
as Tony
Robin tries to go on a date without The Bat-Man tagging along and ruining the evening... it doesn't work...

The F Word
2005
as Joe Pace
A frustrated radio DJ takes to the streets of Manhattan during the Republican National Convention after the FCC has slapped his station with $1 millio...

Stella Shorts 1998-2002
2002
as David's Cousin Greg
STELLA is a three-man comedy troupe from New York City, comprised of well-known comedians/actors Michael Showalter, David Wain, and Michael Ian Black....

The Bourne Identity
2002
as Research Tech
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank accoun...

West of Here
2002
as Gilbert Blackwell
Finding his only escape in music, Gil Blackwell (Josh Hamilton) decides to leave his monotonous business life in Boston when his cousin dies in a car ...

Ice Age
2002
as Dodo / Aardvark (voice)
With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and S...

On_Line
2002
as John Roth
John, a computer whiz on the rebound from a disastrous break-up, starts an adult Internet site with his roommate, Moe. They are soon caught up in the ...

Urbania
2000
as Matt
A series of urban legends take place around the life of a troubled man who is searching New York City for a mysterious stranger.

Freak Talks About Sex
1999
as David Keenan
Dave Keenan left Syracuse for a new life in Arizona. When that didn't work out, he moved back to upstate New York. He works a dead-end job at a depart...

The 60s
1999
as Michael Herlihy
The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High Schoo...
Chocolate For Breakfast
1998
Four very different female roommates try to stick together while dealing with hectic daily schedules that living in New York City often conditions.

The House of Yes
1997
as Marty
Jackie-O is anxiously awaiting the visit of her brother home for Thanksgiving, but isn't expecting him to bring a friend — and she's even more shocked...

Drive, She Said
1997
as Tass Richards
Nadine, a late 20's small town bank teller is stuck. Stuck at a job that's comfortable, but not very challenging. Stuck in a relationship of five year...

The Proprietor
1996
as William O'Hara
An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.

Don't Look Back
1996
as Steve
Los Angeles heroin addict Jesse endangers the lives of his childhood friends after he discovers a briefcase full of money from a drug deal gone bad, a...

Kicking and Screaming
1995
as Grover
After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding inste...

With Honors
1994
as Jeffrey Hawks
Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who m...

Straight to One
1993
as Jim Green
Newlyweds and artists have recently moved to New York and reflect on their relationship and whether or not they want to have a baby.

Alive
1993
as Roberto Canessa
The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull...
O Pioneers!
1992
as Young Carl
A young woman inherits her father's farm after he dies. Over the years, she overcomes challenges and turns it into a success, all the while yearning f...

Another Woman
1988
as Laura's Boyfriend
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acousti...

Summer Switch
1984
as Swenson
Father and son magically switch personalities with comical results.

Old Enough
1984
as Timothy
The 12 years old well-bred Lonnie meets the impudent Karen on the street. They spend some time together and Karen teaches Lonnie some of her favorite ...

Charles Ives: A Good Dissonance Like a Man
1977
as Young Charles Ives
A thoroughly researched biopic of Charles Ives, America's greatest and most innovative composer (and insurance executive), who combined strikingly fut...
Tonight at Noon
N/A
as Gus
Lee and Mae are a couple trying to work out their differences. As Mae struggles with memories of a former flame, Lee, who is a writer, works through h...
Concessions
N/A
As the Royal Alamo Cinema closes its doors for good, jaded staff, eccentric patrons, and an unhinged manager stumble through one last night at the mov...