William Sanderson

William Sanderson

1944-01-10 Memphis, Tennessee, USA 69 Credits

Biography

William Sanderson (born January 10, 1944) is an American character actor.

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Pastacolypse

Pastacolypse

2023

as Al Dente Bob (voice)

5.6
Acting

A billionaire celebrity chef seeks revenge on all mankind when a global ban on gluten destroys his life. In the process, Alfredo Manicotti is disfigur...

Deadwood: The Movie

Deadwood: The Movie

2019

as E. B. Farnum

6.7
Acting

Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wo...

The Griddle House

The Griddle House

2018

as Gus

4.5
Acting

The story follows teenager Jack Benson, who is on the hunt for his birth mother. He finds she has been a regular all along at the nearby Griddle House...

A Merry Friggin' Christmas

A Merry Friggin' Christmas

2014

as Father Juge

5.4
Acting

Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hi...

The Face is Familiar

The Face is Familiar

2009

2.0
Acting

Get to know some of Hollywood's most talented character actors, who have supported leading roles in films for decades. Some have even gone on to beco...

Pretty Ugly People

Pretty Ugly People

2008

as Sam

4.3
Acting

Lucy has always used food to escape life's problems, but when this self-titled "fat friend" lures her group of old college buddies to the Montana wild...

Disappearances

Disappearances

2007

as Rat Kinneson

4.7
Acting

Quebec Bill Bohomme is a hardy schemer and dreamer, who, desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered herd through the rapidly approaching wint...

The Treasure of Painted Forest

2006

as Paul

1.0
Acting

A group of paintball-playing kids battle against bullies for the forest while attempting to prevent two theives from stealing gold treasure rumored to...

Beyond the Wall of Sleep

Beyond the Wall of Sleep

2006

as Joe Slaader

1.9
Acting

Joe Slaader is a mysterious mountain man being held in the Ulster County Asylum after the brutal murder of his family. Edward Eischel, a young intern,...

Cyber Wars

Cyber Wars

2004

as Riley

5.0
Acting

In the near future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone's identity is recorded in the vast CyberLink. The only way around this is using illegal ...

Promised Land

2004

as Clark

5.0
Acting

The film is about a former child star who still can't accept that his one film is likely to be the last he ever starred in. He drives around in a car ...

The Low Budget Time Machine

The Low Budget Time Machine

2003

as The Prospector

6.0
Acting

A conniving professor and his gorilla side-kick convince down-and-out astronauts to go on a time-journey to benefit mankind. Once transported to the ...

Gods and Generals

Gods and Generals

2003

as Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill

6.3
Acting

The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from th...

Monte Walsh

Monte Walsh

2003

as Skimpy Eagens

6.1
Acting

Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their live...

Monkey Love

Monkey Love

2002

as Bradley Chalmers

3.6
Acting

To spice up her ho-hum life, college senior Amy sleeps with Aaron and Dil, her two best friends since the 3rd grade. But her best-laid plans turn thei...

Dying on the Edge

Dying on the Edge

2001

as Tommy

3.0
Acting

An ex cop turned insurance investigator tries to hold his life together as he investigates the death of a music producer who may have been murdered.

Crossfire Trail

Crossfire Trail

2001

as Dewey

6.3
Acting

Rafe Covington is as good as his word, and he's determined to keep his promise to a dying man that he'll look after the man's widow and Wyoming ranch....

On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

2000

as Self

7.2
Acting

This is the rare UK Channel 4 documentary about Blade Runner, giving insights into it's history with interviews of Ridley Scott, the writers and nearl...

Stanley's Gig

2000

as Stanley Myer

5.8
Acting

An emotionally dysfunctional ukulele minstrel lands a gig at a nursing home where he strikes up an unlikely relationship with an ancient jazz chanteus...

Psyko Ferret

2000

as Stan Veinous (voice)

Acting

Jackie and Jill swill have an unusual pet called a "psyko ferret"; a unidentified species of weasel,. Together they try to keep it secret.

Stageghost

Stageghost

2000

as Jack Butler

6.0
Acting

A group of people are trapped inside a stagecoach station under attack by spirits.

Nice Guys Sleep Alone

Nice Guys Sleep Alone

1999

as Rufus

5.2
Acting

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...

Babylon 5: Thirdspace

Babylon 5: Thirdspace

1998

as Deuce

6.7
Acting

Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then strange things start happening. People are being telep...

George Wallace

George Wallace

1997

as T.Y. Odum

6.8
Acting

George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer...

Forest Warrior

Forest Warrior

1996

as Paul Carpio

4.3
Acting

John McKenna is a spiritual being who is able to transform into bear, wolf or eagle. He lives in the forests of Tanglewood and has dedicated his life ...

Last Man Standing

Last Man Standing

1996

as Joe Monday

6.4
Acting

John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances fr...

Andersonville

Andersonville

1996

as Munn

6.6
Acting

This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The drama unfolds through the eyes o...

Hologram Man

Hologram Man

1995

as Manny / Giggles

4.2
Acting

Five years after the mad terrorist Slash Galagher was sentenced to holographic stasis, he is given a parole hearing. But an equipment failure engineer...

Siringo

Siringo

1995

as Tully

5.0
Acting

The Deputy Marshall tracks down an escaped convict along with a young deputy and the help of a former prostitute.

Phoenix

Phoenix

1995

as Miro

3.6
Acting

When a mining colony is taken over by genetically altered androids, an elite attack team is sent in to take down the android leader.

Wagons East!

Wagons East!

1994

as Zeke

4.9
Acting

After the 1860s Wild West, a group of misfit settlers - including ex-doctor Phil Taylor, prostitute Belle, and homosexual bookseller Julian - decide t...

The Client

The Client

1994

as Wally Boxx

6.7
Acting

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 ...

Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance

Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance

1994

as Roger

3.4
Acting

A mysterious mirror is found hidden in a church orphanage, yet few realize its legacy of evil. When an innocent teen discovers that she is being stalk...

Man's Best Friend

Man's Best Friend

1993

as Ray

5.9
Acting

A dog turns from man's best friend into man's worst nightmare as he attacks everything that moves.

Skeeter

Skeeter

1993

as Gordon Perry

4.3
Acting

As the result of a corrupt businessman's illegal toxic waste dumping, a small desert town is beset by a deadly swarm of huge bloodthirsty mutant mosqu...

The Bob Newhart Show 19th Anniversary Special

1991

as Larry

Acting

Bob is recovering from the horrible nightmare about a crazy little town in Vermont. As that happens, he begins reminiscing of events from episodes of ...

The Rocketeer

The Rocketeer

1991

as Skeets

6.5
Acting

A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost...

Sometimes They Come Back

Sometimes They Come Back

1991

as Mueller

5.9
Acting

Desperate for a job to help him support his family, Jim Norman takes a position teaching high school in the town where his brother was murdered in fro...

The Giant of Thunder Mountain

The Giant of Thunder Mountain

1990

as Percey Crow

5.2
Acting

A mountain man is falsely accused of the murder of his parents.

Mirror Mirror

Mirror Mirror

1990

as Mr. Veze

5.1
Acting

Shy teenager Megan moves to a new town with her widowed mother and quickly becomes the most unpopular girl in high school. But when she starts to comm...

Thunderground

Thunderground

1989

as Ratman

2.3
Acting

A con-artist meets a tough fighter and sees him as her ticket to a better life. The two make an agreement and head off to New Orleans to arrange a mat...

Deadly Weapon

Deadly Weapon

1989

as Reverend Smith

4.2
Acting

An experimental gun powered by an atomic reactor is misplaced when the transport carrying it crashes into a river. The weapon soon falls into the hand...

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains

1987

as Trump

6.6
Acting

The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.

Last Man Standing

Last Man Standing

1987

as Casper

4.0
Acting

Roo Marcus has just spent 8 years in a mental institution, and takes up bare-knuckle boxing and gets a job fighting in a gym run by Napoleon. Roo is o...

Dead Aim

Dead Aim

1987

as Brennan

4.3
Acting

Ed Marinaro is Malcolm "Mace" Douglas, a street-tough detective who's out for justice-no matter what the cost. While investigating the mysterious suic...

Dalton: Code of Vengeance II

Dalton: Code of Vengeance II

1986

as Bobby Fuller

Acting

Sequel to Code of Vengeance in which Vietnam vet-turned-loner David Dalton goes off this time in pursuit of his crazy former commanding officer and hi...

Black Moon Rising

Black Moon Rising

1986

as Tyke Thayden

5.6
Acting

An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.

The Defiant Ones

The Defiant Ones

1986

as Mason

4.7
Acting

Monroe and 'Joker' Johnson are two prisoners who despise each other. But after their prison transport crashes, they manage to escape chained to each o...

Streets of Justice

Streets of Justice

1985

as Weasel

5.0
Acting

After bikers kill the wife and son of an auto worker (John Laughlin) and then get off with a light sentence in the court system, he decides to seek hi...

Fletch

Fletch

1985

as Jim Swarthout

6.7
Acting

When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy bu...

City Heat

City Heat

1984

as Lonnie Ash

5.5
Acting

Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye na...

Who Will Love My Children?

Who Will Love My Children?

1984

as Cleve Shelby

6.2
Acting

Lucile Fray has 10 children and terminal cancer. As her ne'er-do-well alcoholic husband, isn't capable enough to handle raising them, there's only one...

Imps*

Imps*

1983

as Carl

3.7
Acting

Once Upon a Time in a mythical place called Hollywood, a long, long, long time ago in a galaxy not so very far away, a witty group of actors with 38 E...

Women of San Quentin

Women of San Quentin

1983

as Countee

1.0
Acting

A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.

Nightmares

Nightmares

1983

as Gas station attendant (segment "Terror in Topanga") (uncredited)

5.6
Acting

A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problem...

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

1983

as Cowboy

6.9
Acting

Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in d...

Lone Wolf McQuade

Lone Wolf McQuade

1983

as Snow

6.5
Acting

The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves hi...

China Lake

China Lake

1983

as Little Germ

6.7
Acting

China Lake tells the story of motorcycle cop Donnelly, a man who spends his vacation time driving around on his Harley in the desert highways still dr...

Blade Runner

Blade Runner

1982

as Sebastian

7.9
Acting

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have ...

Raggedy Man

Raggedy Man

1981

as Calvin

5.3
Acting

Nita, a divorced mother of two boys, is stuck working as a telephone operator in a small Texas town in World War II. Her friendship with a sailor on l...

Death Hunt

Death Hunt

1981

as Ned Warren

6.6
Acting

Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, buys a dog almost dead after a brutal dogfight, a ...

Scared Straight! Another Story

Scared Straight! Another Story

1980

as Harlan

Acting

A group of young delinquents well on the road to careers in crime, are given a shock course in prison life. Brought face to face with hardened crimina...

Seed of Innocence

Seed of Innocence

1980

as Randy Webb

5.0
Acting

A love story about two teenagers who fall in love, have a child, and escape from their families in an attempt to make life for themselves in New York ...

Coal Miner's Daughter

Coal Miner's Daughter

1980

as Lee Dollarhide

7.2
Acting

Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.

The Onion Field

The Onion Field

1979

as Young Con

6.0
Acting

An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice...

The Other Side of Victory

1979

as Ben Oakley

Acting

This film dramatizes the problems facing ordinary American soldiers during the Revolutionary War, explaining why most ultimately chose to stay and fig...

Savage Weekend

Savage Weekend

1979

as Otis

4.4
Acting

Several couples head upstate to the country to watch a boat being built. Unfortunately they are stalked by a murderer behind a ghoulish mask.

Blue Nude

Blue Nude

1978

as Guy in Jail

4.0
Acting

Obscure, sleazy and laid back picture about a young man being dragged down into the seedy and ruthless underbelly of 70s New York pornographers.

Fight for Your Life

Fight for Your Life

1977

as Jessie Lee Kane

6.1
Acting

A minister dispenses justice on three convicts who take his family hostage.