Biography
Anthony LaPaglia (/ləˈpɑːliə/, Italian pronunciation: [laˈpaʎʎa]; born 31 January 1959) is an Australian actor. He is best known for his role as Jack Malone in the television drama Without a Trace (2002–2009), for which he received a Golden Globe Award in 2004.
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Complete Filmography

Nitram
2021
as Dad
Based on true events, "Nitram" lives with his parents in suburban Australia in the mid-90s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never fitt...

Pearl
2021
as Jack Wolf
After her mother is murdered by her stepfather, gifted 15 year old student Pearl goes to live with an ex-lover of her mother, a grumpy unemployed film...

Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe
2020
as Self
Before The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It began filming, a bishop from the Order of Exorcists was called to bless the studio, cast, and crew. This...

Dark Whispers - Volume 1
2019
as Driver
When Clara discovers her deceased mother’s revered ‘Book of Dark Whispers’, she can’t stop reading the strange stories within its mystical pages. Each...

Below
2019
as Terry
In a near-future, darknet grifter Dougie is recruited to work security at a refugee detention centre. There, he is drawn into an underground operation...

Toy Gun
2018
as Gaetano Lolli
Ruggero, a meek young man, impulsively robs a bank to prove to his ex-wife that he is courageous and masculine. A police investigation engulfs everyon...

Directing Annabelle: Creation
2017
as Himself
Director David F. Sandberg takes you through the process behind making the 2017 horror film Annabelle Creation.

Annabelle: Creation
2017
as Samuel Mullins
Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into t...

The Assignment
2016
as Honest John Hartunian
Ace assassin Frank Kitchen is double crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon known as The Doctor who turns him into a woman. Th...

A Month of Sundays
2016
as Frank Mollard
Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One ...

A Month of Sundays
2016
Executive Producer
Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One ...

This Isn't Funny
2015
as Mike
Meeting the right person at the wrong time can be the best thing that ever happened to you.

Newcomer
2015
as Daniel
When a rookie operative's mistake costs the lives of his entire team, he's forced on the run and must piece together the truth by re-creating the even...

Holding the Man
2015
as Bob Caleo
Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor ...

The Eichmann Show
2015
as Leo Hurwitz
The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous...

Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show
2014
as Self
“Showrunners” is the first ever feature length documentary film to explore the fascinating world of US television showrunners and the creative forces ...

Big Stone Gap
2014
as Spec Broadwater
A story centered around a transitional point in the life of Ave Maria Mulligan, the heart of her community in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.

A Good Marriage
2014
as Bob Anderson
After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband's sinister secret?
Lygon Street - Si parla Italiano
2013
as Narrator
The true story of an iconic street, as told by the men and women who made it. Narrated by Anthony LaPaglia. After the disaster of World War II, a wav...

Crazy Kind of Love
2013
as Gordie
While re-evaluating her life, a mother relies on her stoner son and his awkward brother to keep life interesting. When an unlikely romance blossoms be...

Underground: The Julian Assange Story
2012
as Ken Roberts
In 1989, known as Mendax, Julian Assange and two friends formed a group called the International Subversives. Using early home computers and defining ...

Mental
2012
as Barry Moochmore
A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.

Americana
2012
as Robert Soulter
A legendary fashion designer - his life, his job and his family.

Overnight
2012
as Tully
After breaking up with her boyfriend on Valentine's Day, Jenny shares a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York with a love-damaged group of pass...

Happy Feet Two
2011
as Alpha Skua (voice)
Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters the Mighty Sven — a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mu...

All Star Superman
2011
as Lex Luthor (voice)
Lex Luthor enacts his plan to rid the world of Superman, once and for all. Succeeding with solar radiation poisoning, the Man of Steel is slowly dying...
In Loco Parentis
2011
as Dad
Two men confront each other in a strange underground room. Before long, this uneasy interrogation takes a series of unexpected turns.

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010
as Twilight (voice)
When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace.

Balibo
2009
as Roger East
As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian based journalists go missing. Four weeks later, veteran foreign corresp...

Balibo
2009
Producer
As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian based journalists go missing. Four weeks later, veteran foreign corresp...

$9.99
2009
as Jim Peck (voice)
Have you ever wondered "What is the meaning of life? Why do we exist?" The answer to this vexing question is now within your reach! You'll find it in ...

The Architect
2006
as Leo Waters
An architect engages in conflict with an activist who lives in a dangerous complex the architect designed.

Happy Feet
2006
as Boss Skua (voice)
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fier...

Played
2006
as Detective Drummond
An examination of the malevolent London underworld with it's despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight year prison sent...

Winter Solstice
2004
as Jim Winters
A widower confronts his older son's decision to leave home and his younger son's self-destructive behavior.

Winter Solstice
2004
Executive Producer
A widower confronts his older son's decision to leave home and his younger son's self-destructive behavior.

Spinning Boris
2003
as Dick Dresner
Russian political elite hires American consultants to help with President Yeltsin's re-election campaign when his approval rating is down to single di...

Manhood
2003
as Jack's Attorney
Filled with both laughter and tears, Manhood is a fascinating exploration of the interpersonal relationships that can define - or destroy - a family. ...

Happy Hour
2003
as Tulley
Tulley, a once-promising literary star now biding his time as an advertising copy editor, moves from cynicism to acceptance as he secretly hopes to wr...

Analyze That
2002
as Anthony Bella / Nicky Caesar (uncredited)
The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel fo...

The Guys
2002
as Nick
The story of a fire captain who lost eight men in the collapse of the World Trade Center and the editor who helps him prepare the eulogies he must del...

I'm with Lucy
2002
as Date 3 - Bobby
It's an hour before Lucy's wedding and her best friend wants to hear all about what led up to that moment. So, Lucy tells about the five men she had b...

The Nature of Lantana
2002
as Self
The making of Lantana, a 2001 Australian drama film directed by Ray Lawrence and starring Anthony LaPaglia, Kerry Armstrong, Geoffrey Rush and Barbara...

Dead Heat
2002
as Ray
Boston cop Pally is forced into early retirement, putting a strain on his marriage. Pally's stepbrother, Ray, attempts to lift his spirits by tipping ...

Road to Perdition
2002
as Al Capone (uncredited)
Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, ...

The Salton Sea
2002
as Al Garcetti
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriend...

Lantana
2001
as Leon Zat
Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detecti...

The Bank
2001
as Simon O'Reily
The Bank, a world ripe with avarice and corruption, where O'Reilly and his ilk can thrive and honest Aussie battlers lose everything. Enter Jim Doyle ...

On the Edge
2001
as Dr. Maas (segment "The Other Side")
A compendium of three short science-fiction films, each with a decidedly feminist slant.

Jack the Dog
2001
as Jack's Attorney
Jack is a dog. When he's not photographing women, as a profession, he's seducing them. Until now. Home from Paris, he feels empty and fed up with his ...

The House of Mirth
2000
as Sim Rosedale
In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her fri...

Autumn in New York
2000
as John Volpe
Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free-spirited young woman. Together t...

Looking for Alibrandi
2000
as Michael Andretti
Josie Alibrandi is 17 and doesn't know where she belongs. This year, however, everything is going to change. Josie will face her fears, uncover secret...

Company Man
2000
as Fidel Castro
In the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then sen...

Sweet and Lowdown
1999
as Al Torrio
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.

Black and Blue
1999
as Bobby Benedetto
After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her son join the witness protection program and move away secretly.

Summer of Sam
1999
as Detective Lou Petrocelli
During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders.

Lansky
1999
as Charlie "Lucky" Luciano
Organized crime boss Meyer Lansky remembers his life as he is moving about the world looking for some country that will take him in since the USA have...

Phoenix
1998
as Mike Henshaw
Gambling fever -- along with a brutal bookie -- leads three crooked cops into a double-dealing scheme that lands them in hot water way over their head...
The Repair Shop
1998
A former member of a covert government agency turns the table on his pursuers and former colleagues.

The Garden of Redemption
1997
as Don Paolo Montale
A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman operati...

Commandments
1997
as Harry Luce
Seth Warner has reached the end of his rope. Ever since his wife died two years earlier, his world has been in turmoil. He is despondent, his career h...

Brilliant Lies
1996
as Gary Fitzgerald
Susy Conner accuses former employer, Gary Fitzgerald, of harassment and unfair dismissal for failing to comply with his sexual demands. Relating the i...

Trees Lounge
1996
as Rob
Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other r...

Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
1996
as Jim Valvano
The biography of Jimmy Valvano, American sports reporter and basketball coach, who died of cancer in 1993.

Chameleon
1996
as Willie Serling
An undercover agent uses his rare personality disorder in pursuing the drug-cartel leader responsible for the deaths of his wife and kids.

Empire Records
1995
as Joe Reaves
The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try to stop the store from being absorbed by a large chain.

Mixed Nuts
1994
as Felix
The events of a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.

Lucky Break
1994
as Eddie Mercer
Sophie, a writer of racy romance novels, is working on one of her stories in the library, when Eddie overhears her. Sophie, embarrassed by her paralyz...

Killer
1994
as Mick
Cynical hit man Mick is tiring of his job and asks his boss George for time off. However, George gives him the assignment of his life, prompting Mick'...

The Client
1994
as Barry Muldano
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a ...

Past Tense
1994
as Larry Talbert
A former cop who is now a novelist notices an attractive young woman move in next door to him. He strikes up a conversation, one thing leads to anothe...

The Custodian
1994
as James Quinlan
Detective James Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt polic...

So I Married an Axe Murderer
1993
as Tony Giardino
Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels and introduces her to his parents. But, as voracious consumers o...

Innocent Blood
1992
as Joe Gennaro
Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than s...

Black Magic
1992
as Ross Gage
A young man is tormented by visions of his dead cousin who attempts to warn him of a Witch capable of casting deadly spells!

Whispers in the Dark
1992
as Larry Morgenstern
Psychiatrist Ann Hecker is ending one relationship and possibly starting an important new one, while finding that some of the sexual exploits her pati...

Keeper of the City
1991
as Vince Benedetto
A vigilante killer becomes a celebrity by gunning down Chicago mobsters, but nobody except a police detective and a local journalist seems eager to ca...

29th Street
1991
as Frank Pesce Jr.
After winning $6.2 million in the 1976 New York State Lottery, he is arrested for throwing rocks at a church. He then tells his story at the police st...

One Good Cop
1991
as Stevie Diroma
When his partner is killed in the line of duty, Artie Lewis becomes the legal guardian of his three orphaned girls. But during his investigation of th...

He Said, She Said
1991
as Mark
Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the ...

Criminal Justice
1990
as David Ringel
A knife-scarred victim must identify her assailant beyond a reasonable doubt. Meanwhile the accused is offered a deal if he pleads guilty. Is he as in...

Betsy's Wedding
1990
as Stevie Dee
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but B...

Mortal Sins
1989
as Vito
A PI hired to find a killer is led to a corrupt televangelist.

Slaves of New York
1989
as Henry
Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion while hoping for love and...

Police Story: Gladiator School
1988
as Sgt. Petrelli
Robert Conrad is Officer Stacy, an LAPD cop with an attitude. After busting a prostitute, she files a complaint against him. A week later he shoots he...

Frank Nitti: The Enforcer
1988
as Frank Nitti
Al Capone may be the most famous Chicago mobster, but his successor, Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti (Anthony LaPaglia), was just as ruthless. This biopic ...

Cold Steel
1987
as Spooky
On Christmas Eve, Johnny Modine's father is murdered by a psycho cut-throat. The cop swears bloody revenge, though he's taken off the case. He doesn't...

Amazing Stories
1986
as Mechanic #2
A feature film edited from three episodes of Amazing Stories (1985): The Mission, Mummy Daddy and Go to the Head of the Class.

Kenny & Dolly: A Christmas to Remember
1984
as British Flyer
A holiday musical special with Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers based around their best-selling album "Once Upon a Christmas."

The Change-Up Kid
N/A
as Coach Dewey D'Angelo
Baseball pitching phenom Dean Fosh has a dream - he wants to play the game like no one's ever played it before. Who says some wishes don't come true?
R.U.R.
N/A
A young woman visits the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots to emancipate the robots from capitalist exploitation, with catastrophic results.