Biography
William James "Willem" Dafoe (/dəˈfoʊ/də-FOH or /ˈdeɪfoʊ/ DAY-foh; born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. Known for his prolific career portraying diverse roles in both mainstream and arthouse films, he is the recipient of various accolades, including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, four Golden Globe Awards, four Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. He has frequently collaborated with filmmakers Paul Sch...
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Complete Filmography

The Phoenician Scheme
2025
as Knave
Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon becom...

Grande Envie
2025
Set in an opulent chateau, a widowed Count (Willem Dafoe) meets three young strangers, who are full of desire of adventures. But then, the deceased Co...

Wick Is Pain
2025
as (archive footage)
Witness the never-before-seen footage and true story behind the John Wick phenomenon – from independent film to billion-dollar franchise.

The Legend of Ochi
2025
as Maxim
In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when Yuri di...

Zero
2025
as (voice)
Two Americans wake up in Dakar, Senegal, with bombs strapped to their chests ticking down from ten hours. Guided by a threatening voice on the phone, ...

Nosferatu: An Inside Look
2024
as Self
An exclusive behind-the-scenes look “Nosferatu,” Robert Eggers’ gothic tale of obsession. Now playing exclusively in theaters.

Nosferatu
2024
as Prof. Albin Eberhart von Franz
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

Jesus Goes to Hollywood
2024
as Self (archive footage)
From popular piety to blockbuster, from musical to social criticism - Jesus Christ has many faces in film history. And the Italian city of Matera has ...

run 002
2024
The second chapter of the 'run' series.

Saturday Night
2024
as David Tebet
At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. This is the story of what happened behin...

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024
as Jackson
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside ...

Kinds of Kindness
2024
as Raymond / George / Omi
A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at...

Da Suisa - Tributo
2024
as Himself

Can Creativity Save the World?
2024
as Self
The final part of the Creativity Trilogy explores existential threats our world is facing. An inspiring film about imagination's power and a hopeful g...

Finally Dawn
2024
as Rufo Priori
A young Roman woman during the 1950s is on the verge of becoming engaged to a man. She goes to Cinecittà to do an audition as an extra and is thrust i...

Poor Things
2023
as Godwin Baxter
Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the pr...

Interior (The Spectator)
2023
as Narrator
Contemplates the filmmaker’s relationship to the painter Howard Hodgkin. The highly personalised domestic interior of Hodgkin’s London home becomes a ...

Gonzo Girl
2023
as Walker Reade
A young college graduate toiling as an intern has dreams of making it big in publishing, and the chance comes when they accept an offer to become the ...

Pet Shop Days
2023
as Francis
In an act of desperation, impulsive black sheep Alejandro flees his home in Mexico. On the run from his unforgiving father, Alejandro finds himself in...

Asteroid City
2023
as Saltzburg Keitel
In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.

The Wild One
2023
as Narrator (voice)
In the work of Jack Garfein - Holocaust survivor, theater and film director, key figure in the formation of the Actors Studio - past and and present f...

Inside
2023
as Nemo
An art thief trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn't go as planned. Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use...

Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone
2022
Documentary by Marco Spagnoli.

Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022
as Self / Grand Duc
Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creative challenges Lars von Trier presents his cast and crew to bring his vision to life from script t...

Dead for a Dollar
2022
as Joe Cribbens
In 1897, veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens — a sworn enemy he sen...

7 Deaths of Maria Callas
2022
as Film Actor
A meditation on the female body as a source of both power and pain that focuses on the tragic figure of renowned American-Greek opera singer Maria Cal...

Il coraggio di essere Franco
2022
as Sé stesso

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022
as Self
JB Smoove and Martin Starr host a celebration of 20 years of "Spider-Man" movies, from the Sam Raimi trilogy to Marc Webb's movies and the trio from J...

The Northman
2022
as Heimir the Fool
Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Am...

Finding Satoshi
2022
as Narrator
With only a photograph and a name, a group of passionate puzzle players have been trying without success to answer the question: "Who is this man?" Fi...

Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
2022
as Self
We look back at more than half a century of mysterious artistic creation while trying to crack a unique artistic code. Why are people moved to tears w...

Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021
as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
Peter Parker is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a super-hero. When he asks for help from Doctor ...

Nightmare Alley
2021
as Clem Hoatley
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dang...

The French Dispatch
2021
as Albert 'the Abacus'
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student ri...

Why are We (Not) Creative?
2021
as Self
In this second installment of his exploration of creativity, Hermann Vaske looks for factors that inhibit it. He asks artists, activists, and thinkers...

The Card Counter
2021
as Gordo
William Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry yo...

River
2021
as Narrator
A cinematic and musical odyssey that explores the remarkable relationship between humans and rivers. Throughout history, rivers have shaped our landsc...

Maresco / Pasolini
2021
as Self
Franco Maresco celebrates the heritage of Pier Paolo Pasolini on the 99th anniversary of his birth through a series of exchanges with renowned intelle...

Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
as Vulko
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahu...

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020
as Self
Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last w...

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020
Associate Producer
Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last w...

Sportin' Life
2020
as Self
Sportin’ Life is the sixth incarnation of the international art project Self, curated by Saint Laurent’s creative director, Anthony Vaccarello. This p...

Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
as Self
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German...

Siberia
2020
as Clint
Clint is a dead man who lives alone in a frozen tundra. However, this isolation cannot bring either evasion or peace. One night, he begins a journey w...

Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago
2020
Author Barry Gifford's gritty autobiographical stories of growing up in 1950s Chicago provide the backdrop for an impressionistic documentary portrait...

The Last Thing He Wanted
2020
as Richard McMahon
At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts he...

The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy Tale
2020
as Self
A look behind the scenes of "The Lighthouse" (2019).

Tommaso
2020
as Tommaso
Tommaso is an American expat film director living in Rome with his young wife and their daughter. Disoriented by his past misgivings and subsequent un...

Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
2019
as Self / Norman Osborn/ Green Goblin (archive footage)
Filmed in part in front of a live audience at The New Amsterdam Theater in New York City, this Stan Lee tribute takes viewers on an action-packed jour...

Togo
2019
as Leonhard Seppala
The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting ...

Vincent van Gogh Superstar
2019
as Vincent van Gogh (archive footage)
Documentary about famous painter Vincent van Gogh.

Motherless Brooklyn
2019
as Paul Randolph
New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed ...

The Lighthouse
2019
as Thomas Wake
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

Love, Antosha
2019
as Self
From a prolific career in film and television, Anton Yelchin left an indelible legacy as an actor. Through his journals and other writings, his photog...

Manou the Swift
2019
as Manou's Father (voice)
The little swift Manou grows up believing he's a seagull. Learning to fly he finds out he never will be. Shocked, he runs away from home. He meets bir...

Opus Zero
2018
as Paul
Paul, an American composer, arrives in the desert town of Real de Catorce where his father recently died. For the past ten years, Paul has been consum...

Aquaman
2018
as Nuidis Vulko
Half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry is taken on the journey of his lifetime to discover if he is worth of being a king.

At Eternity's Gate
2018
as Vincent van Gogh
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.

Brothers in Arms
2018
as Self
Charlie Sheen narrates, as cast and crew share their personal experiences making the Academy Award winning film, Platoon. This non-union, low budget, ...

Friedkin Uncut
2018
as Self
An introspective insight into the life and artistic journey of William Friedkin, an extraordinary and offbeat director of cult films such as The Frenc...

Vox Lux
2018
as Narrator (voice)
In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making...

The House That Jack Built
2018
Thanks
Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering...

Theatron. Romeo Castellucci
2018
Theatron, the film by the multi-award-winning film-maker Giulio Boato, is an unprecedented portrait of Romeo Castellucci. Castellucci and his theatre ...

Under the Rainbow: Making The Florida Project
2018
as Self
An interesting featurette which has some good behind the scenes footage, including early location scouting, table reads and interactions with the ofte...

Mountain
2017
as Narrator (voice)
An epic cinematic and musical collaboration between SHERPA filmmaker Jennifer Peedom and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, that explores humankind's f...

Murder on the Orient Express
2017
as Gerhard Hardman
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

The Florida Project
2017
as Bobby
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of ...

Piazza Vittorio
2017
as Himself
Vivid mosaic/portrait of Rome’s biggest public square, Piazza Vittorio, featuring talks with African musicians and restaurant workers, Chinese barkeep...

Death Note
2017
as Ryuk (voice)
Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class.

What Happened to Monday
2017
as Terrence Settman
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the go...

Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
as Self
Chronicles the making of director Werner Herzog’s 2009 feature, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, providing profound insight into the director and hi...

Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
2017
as Self
A chronicle of the personal life and public career of the celebrated artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel.

Sanctuary
2017
as Narrator
Donkeys inhabit and communicate with each other - and the filmmakers - in a Sanctuary.

The Great Wall
2016
as Ballard
European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.

Dog Eat Dog
2016
as Mad Dog
Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men who are all out of pr...

Father
2016
as James Verdun
Mourning the death of her father, Giulia is contacted by him from the other dimension.

A Family Man
2016
as Ed Blackridge
Dane Jensen is a driven, Chicago-based headhunter, working at a cut-throat job placement firm. When his boss pits Dane against Lynn Vogel, Dane's equa...

Sculpt
2016
Sculpt depicts an international market organized around new shapes and experiences, all the more sought-after as they are almost unattainable. In this...

Finding Dory
2016
as Gill (voice)
Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did ...

Nelson Algren Live
2016
as Role1 / Frankie Machine / Role2 / Blackie Cavanaugh
A performance of some of Nelson Algren's greatest and least known works, performed live at the Steppenwolf theatre in Algren's hometown, Chicago.

My Hindu Friend
2016
as Diego Fairman
Diego is a film director who, when he is told that he has a malignant disease which could be fatal, marries his girlfriend of many years, says goodbye...

Mind the Gap
2016
as Self
Without a doubt, Willem Dafoe really likes his gappy teeth.

Fukushima: A Nuclear Story
2015
as Narrator
A powerful documentary that sheds some light on what really happened at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after the 2011 earthquake and the tsunami th...

The Making of A Most Wanted Man
2015
as Self
Behind-the-scenes look at making the film adaptation of John le Carré's A Most Wanted Man.

John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry
2015
as Self
Short documentary that looks at a number of elements like the initial pitch for the project and the 2nd Unit action sequences.

Don't F*#% With John Wick
2015
as Self
Behind the scenes look at fight choreography and action training.

John Wick
2014
as Marcus
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.

Bad Country
2014
as Bud Carter
When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's mo...

Pasolini
2014
as Pier Paolo Pasolini
We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, sh...
SPYMASTER: John le Carré in Hamburg
2014
as (archive footage)

A Most Wanted Man
2014
as Tommy Brue
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team tracking the movements of potential ter...

The Fault in Our Stars
2014
as Peter van Houten
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed u...

The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
as Jopling
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becom...

The Benaki Museum
2013
as Narrator (voice)
A promotional video directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari and narrated by Willem Dafoe about the history and the importance of the Museum Benaki.

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013
as L
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
2013
as L
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac...

Out of the Furnace
2013
as John Petty
Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the m...
Love's Routine
2013
as Barry
LOVE’S ROUTINE is a dark comedy about a discordant elderly couple, who ultimately prove that love is greater than flesh and blood.

The Smile Man
2013
as Willem
A gentleman deals with the consequences of a car accident, which has left him with a spinal injury that means he has a permanent smile on his face.
Saving Norman
2013
as Lionel Pembrooke
Saving Norman tells the story of a hypochondriac ex-ping pong player who missed the biggest tournament of his career because of a cold. Now years late...

Odd Thomas
2013
as Wyatt Porter
In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.

Tomorrow You're Gone
2012
as The Buddha
Charlie Rankin, recently released from prison, seeks vengeance for his jail-house mentor William "The Buddha" Pettigrew. Along the way, he meets the e...

Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic
2012
as Self
This hourlong semi-documentary records the musical stage collaboration between director Robert Wilson and veteran performance artist Marina Abramovic....

4:44 Last Day on Earth
2012
as Cisco
A look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an end.

John Carter
2012
as Tars Tarkas
John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctant...

The Hunter
2011
as Martin David
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.

Miral
2010
as Eddie
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.

A Woman
2010
as Max Oliver
A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dea...

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
as Detective Hank Havenhurst
Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange ta...
The Making of Daybreakers
2010
as Self
Behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the 2008 science ficiton/horror film, Daybreakers featuring interviews with members of the cast and cre...

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
2010
as Narrator
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 ...

Daybreakers
2010
as Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into a vampire. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots t...

The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
2009
as Paul Smecker
Skillfully framed by an unknown enemy for the murder of a priest, wanted vigilante MacManus brothers Murphy and Connor must come out of hiding on a sh...

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009
as Gavner Purl
When Darren Shan is taken to a circus that's chock-full of sideshow oddities, he meets a vampire and receives a life-changing bite on the neck.

Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
as Rat (voice)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with t...

Farewell
2009
as Feeney
An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of Af...

Antichrist
2009
as He
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course...

The Dust of Time
2008
as A
A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy...

Adam Resurrected
2008
as Commandat Klein
After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an ...

Fireflies in the Garden
2008
as Charles Waechter
The semi-autobiographical story centers on the complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart when faced with an unexpected tragedy.

To Each His Own Cinema
2007
as (segment "Occupations") (archive footage)
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak...

Cannes: All Access
2007
as Self
From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Cannes Film Festival has become the must-attend red ...

Voom Portraits
2007
as Self
Iconic artist and theater director Robert Wilson has created a series of video portraits of celebrities, ordinary people and animals called "VOOM Port...

Anamorph
2007
as Stan Aubray
A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing i...
The Procedure
2007
as Christopher
Christopher is under a lot of stress at work and decides to undergo a surgical procedure that makes you listen to your favorite song all the time.

Go Go Tales
2007
as Ray Ruby
A financial struggle between owners of a go-go club threatens its future.

Spider-Man 3
2007
as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers a...

Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007
as Carson Clay
Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers Franc...

The Walker
2007
as Larry Lockner
An escort who caters to Washington D.C.'s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case.

Paris Je T'aime
2006
as Le cow-boy (Place des Victoires)
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,...

Inside Man
2006
as John Darius
When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiation...

American Dreamz
2006
as Chief of Staff
The new season of "American Dreamz," the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country's attention, as the competition looks to ...

Ripley Under Ground
2005
as Neil Murchison
After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend's name a...

Before It Had a Name
2005
as Leslie
A young Italian woman inherits from her deceased lover an enigmatic modern house in the New York country side, and goes to see it for the first time. ...

Before It Had a Name
2005
Screenplay
A young Italian woman inherits from her deceased lover an enigmatic modern house in the New York country side, and goes to see it for the first time. ...

Manderlay
2005
as Grace's Father
In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is illegal...

This Is an Adventure
2005
as Self
During production on the film "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou", documentary filmmakers followed the cast and crew of a film which depicts other do...

Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
2005
as Self
Documentary created by Matthew Gray Gubler during, and about, his time on the set of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. (Released in 2005)

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
2005
as Willem Dafoe (uncredited)
Hungry for an A-list interview that could launch him into the gossip-page stratosphere, Jiminy Glick, a small-time journalist with big aspirations and...

xXx: State of the Union
2005
as Gen. George Octavius Deckert
Darius Stone's criminal record and extreme sports obsession make him the perfect candidate to be the newest XXX agent. He must save the U.S. governmen...

On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'
2005
as Self / Klaus D.
Director Wes Anderson and The Life Aquatic crew discuss the effort that went into crafting the world of Steve Zissou. Join us as we dive deep into the...

The Aviator
2004
as Roland Sweet
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer ...

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004
as Klaus Daimler
Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is...

Control
2004
as Dr. Michael Copeland
Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new chemical treatment used to modify behavior.

Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
2004
A documentary about the making of the movie Wild at Heart, produced for the DVD release of the film.
The Misbehavers
2004
as Self
The Misbehavers documents a small army of guerrilla filmmakers as they converge at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival for a mission dubbed Operation: Alt...

Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate
2004
as Narrator (voice)
Michael Cimino's "Heaven's Gate" stands as one of the most influential and important films of all time; one that changed the movie industry in ways no...

The Clearing
2004
as Arnold Mack
When affluent executive Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a forest, Wayne’s wife is forced to reckon with the ...

Spider-Man 2
2004
as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves th...

Behind the Scenes of 'Spider-Man'
2004
as Self
Explores the making of 'Spider-Man' (2002).

The Reckoning
2004
as Martin
In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small tow...

Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
2003
as Self
The magic and creation behind the making of William Friedkin's classic action film To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). It follows cast, crew and the direc...

Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2003
Intimate portrait of Abel Ferrara: the result is an eccentric road movie, with the restless film maker as a charming, shabby guide around New York by ...

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003
as Armando Barillo
A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the President ...

Overnight
2003
as Self
Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches stor...

Finding Nemo
2003
as Gill (voice)
Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome ...

Rockets Redglare!
2003
as Self
A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his death in 2001. Rockets was the sometimes bodyguard/drug...

Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure
2002
as Hunter (voice)
In search of fun and freedom, a trio of animal friends -- a bold monkey with a temper, a timid, bespectacled parrot and a lightning-fast cheetah -- es...

Auto Focus
2002
as John Carpenter
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona...

The Spider-Man Story
2002
as Self
A documentary tie-in for the 2002 Spider-Man 2 film. Somewhat lost media as an incomplete version was uploaded to YouTube.

Spider-Man
2002
as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to b...

Spider-Mania
2002
as Self
E! Entertainment special on the making of Sam Raimi's first Spider-Man film.

Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'
2002
as Self
Documentary on the making of 'Spider-Man.'

Edges of the Lord
2001
as Priest
A 12-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.

Pavilion of Women
2001
as Father Andre
With World War II looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while de...

A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'
2001
as Self
A documentary about the making of Oliver Stone's Vietnam War film, Platoon (1986).

Animal Factory
2000
as Earl Copen
Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug deale...

Bullfighter
2000
as Father Ramirez
Jack is a wanderer whose aimless roaming leads him to a number of interesting locations and into the company of many interesting people, and despite h...

Shadow of the Vampire
2000
as Max Schreck
Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."

American Psycho
2000
as Donald Kimball
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his i...

eXistenZ
1999
as Gas
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been dam...

New Rose Hotel
1999
as X
A corporate raider and his henchman use a chanteuse to lure a scientific genius away from his employer and family.

New Rose Hotel
1999
Co-Producer
A corporate raider and his henchman use a chanteuse to lure a scientific genius away from his employer and family.

The Boondock Saints
1999
as Paul Smecker
Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their home...

Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle
1999
as Narrator
Painter, fisherman, visionary, eccentric - Forrest Bess lived his life in obscurity, at an isolated bait camp off the East Coast of Texas. From 1949 ...

Lulu on the Bridge
1998
as Dr. Van Horn
This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy, whose life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.

Abel/Asia
1998
as Self (archival footage)
Behind the scenes mini-doc from Asia Argento on Abel Ferrara during the filming of New Rose Hotel.

Affliction
1997
as Rolfe Whitehouse
A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally...

Speed 2: Cruise Control
1997
as Geiger
A disgruntled former employee hijacks the Seabourn Legend cruise liner. Set on a fixed course, without any means of communication and at the mercy of ...
Wrong Guys
1997
as Jack Straw
Adapted from a novella by James Strahs (the author of “Queer and Alone”, as well as the Wooster Group’s play, “North Atlantic”), this unfinished 1997 ...

Victory
1996
as Axel Heyst
Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, He...

The English Patient
1996
as David Caravaggio
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along w...

Basquiat
1996
as The Electrician
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

The Night and the Moment
1995
as Lo scrittore
The Night and the Moment is a 1995 erotic drama. A writer (Dafoe) is invited to the house of a noblewoman (Olin) who adores free-thinkers. He attempts...

Clear and Present Danger
1994
as John Clark
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, ...

Tom & Viv
1994
as Tom Eliot
The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaecological and emotional problems a...

Faraway, So Close!
1993
as Emit Flesti
Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more and more dissa...

Brace Up!
1993
as Colonel Alexander Ignatyevich Vershinin
The Wooster Group's production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, translated by Paul Schmidt and directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, with performances from...

White Homeland Commando
1993
as Karl
White Homeland Commando takes the familiar terrain of network action drama and tilts the playing field. Reminiscent of today's popular reality-based c...

Body of Evidence
1993
as Frank Dulaney
When an elderly millionaire is found dead with cocaine in his system, his will leaves $8 million to Rebecca Carlson, who was having an affair with him...

Rhyme 'Em to Death
1993
Rhyme 'Em To Death reconstructs the trial from Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame from a new perspective, that of a minor character - the goat. The...

Light Sleeper
1992
as John LeTour
John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even though he’s trying to move on from t...

White Sands
1992
as Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal
A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigat...

North on Evers
1992
In NORTH ON EVERS James Benning takes the road movie seriously, making his circular trip across the U.S. a marvelously photographed, intensely felt, a...

Flight of the Intruder
1991
as Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole
U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by t...

Wild at Heart
1990
as Bobby Peru
Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a te...

Cry-Baby
1990
as Hateful Guard
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.

Born on the Fourth of July
1989
as Charlie
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought fo...

Triumph of the Spirit
1989
as Salamo Arouch
During World War II, Salamo Arouch, a passionate boxer, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Soon, he is forced to box against his fellow pri...

Mississippi Burning
1988
as Agent Alan Ward
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where...
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ
1988
as Self
Behind the scenes of 'The Last Temptation of the Christ'

The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
as Jesus
Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -...

Off Limits
1988
as Buck McGriff
McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S. military policemen on duty in war-time ...

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987
as Elephant Grass (voice)
Real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive f...

Platoon
1986
as Sergeant Elias Grodin
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

To Live and Die in L.A.
1985
as Rick Masters
When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance vows revenge, setting out to nab dangerous counter...

O Panama
1985
O Panama features a man confined to his apartment on a winter day as he suffers through an illness. Built on the polarity between hot and cold, the te...

Roadhouse 66
1984
as Johnny Harte
Beckman driving a '55 Thunderbird on Route 66 hooks up with Johnny after hoodlum Hoot and his gang shoot his car. Continuous conflicts between Hoot an...

Streets of Fire
1984
as Raven Shaddock
Raven Shaddock and his gang of merciless biker friends kidnap rock singer Ellen Aim. Ellen's former lover, soldier-for-hire Tom Cody, happens to be pa...

New York Nights
1984
as Boyfriend
Nine New Yorkers' successful lives all intertwined in a treacherous tale of passion, a game of seduction. The only rule; anything goes.

The Loveless
1984
as Vance
Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.

Atalanta Strategy
1984
as Immigration Staff
The story of Willard from Ashley's opera Atalanta, recounted in 3 parts.

The Hunger
1983
as 2nd Phone Booth Youth
Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he ...

Heaven's Gate
1980
as Willy (uncredited)
Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished imm...
The Man in My Basement
N/A
as Anniston Bennett
Down on his luck, Charles Blakey agrees to rent his basement to a mysterious stranger, unaware he may be letting in a force much darker than he imagin...

American Nails
N/A
The rise and fall of a modern Phaedra, in a tale set in the gangster world of primal violence, power and revenge. This no-holds-barred retelling of Eu...

Late Fame
N/A
as Ed Saxberger
A long time ago Ed Saxberger wrote a book of poetry that no one ever cared about. When a group of young artists rediscover his work, he must reassess ...
Tenzing
N/A
as Colonel John Hunt
A biopic of Tenzing Norgay, the legendary Nepalese-Indian mountaineer who summited Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953, becoming one of the ...
Tropico
N/A
as Raymond
Raymond is hired to spy on Mark, an American businessman, in a steamy coastal town in Northern Brazil. However, things get complicated when he falls s...
The Birthday Party
N/A
as Marcos Timoleon
The story is set in the late 1970s somewhere in the Mediterranean where Marcos Timoleon, an Aristotle Onassis-like tycoon, is throwing a lavish, extra...

The Sleeping Shepherd
N/A
The world's greatest art thief collects almost two-billion dollars in masters only to have his mother burn them all in the family backyard.
The Souffleur
N/A
Lucius Glantz, a veteran hotel manager in Vienna, fights to save his beloved establishment from a scheming realtor's plan to demolish it, leading to a...
Cuddle
N/A
as Dante
Dante is a professional cuddler who offers platonic comfort to strangers craving connection. His clients range from the overwhelmed to the emotionally...
A Christmas Carol
N/A
as Ebenezer Scrooge
A retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas ghost story.
Tropico
N/A
Producer
Raymond is hired to spy on Mark, an American businessman, in a steamy coastal town in Northern Brazil. However, things get complicated when he falls s...