Biography
William Sanderson (born January 10, 1944) is an American character actor.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Pastacolypse
2023
as Al Dente Bob (voice)
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
2019
as E. B. Farnum
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
2018
as Gus
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
2014
as Father Juge
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
2009
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
2008
as Sam
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
2007
as Rat Kinneson
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
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
2006
as Joe Slaader
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
2004
as Riley
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
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
2003
as The Prospector
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
2003
as Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill
The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from th...

Monte Walsh
2003
as Skimpy Eagens
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
2002
as Bradley Chalmers
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
2001
as Tommy
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
2001
as Dewey
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'
2000
as Self
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
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)
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
2000
as Jack Butler
A group of people are trapped inside a stagecoach station under attack by spirits.

Nice Guys Sleep Alone
1999
as Rufus
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
1998
as Deuce
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
1997
as T.Y. Odum
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
1996
as Paul Carpio
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
1996
as Joe Monday
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
1996
as Munn
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
1995
as Manny / Giggles
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
1995
as Tully
The Deputy Marshall tracks down an escaped convict along with a young deputy and the help of a former prostitute.

Phoenix
1995
as Miro
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!
1994
as Zeke
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
1994
as Wally Boxx
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
1994
as Roger
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
1993
as Ray
A dog turns from man's best friend into man's worst nightmare as he attacks everything that moves.

Skeeter
1993
as Gordon Perry
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
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
1991
as Skeets
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
1991
as Mueller
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
1990
as Percey Crow
A mountain man is falsely accused of the murder of his parents.

Mirror Mirror
1990
as Mr. Veze
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
1989
as Ratman
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
1989
as Reverend Smith
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
1987
as Trump
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
1987
as Casper
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
1987
as Brennan
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
1986
as Bobby Fuller
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
1986
as Tyke Thayden
An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.

The Defiant Ones
1986
as Mason
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
1985
as Weasel
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
1985
as Jim Swarthout
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
1984
as Lonnie Ash
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?
1984
as Cleve Shelby
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*
1983
as Carl
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
1983
as Countee
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.

Nightmares
1983
as Gas station attendant (segment "Terror in Topanga") (uncredited)
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
1983
as Cowboy
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
1983
as Snow
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
1983
as Little Germ
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
1982
as Sebastian
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
1981
as Calvin
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
1981
as Ned Warren
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
1980
as Harlan
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
1980
as Randy Webb
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
1980
as Lee Dollarhide
Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.

The Onion Field
1979
as Young Con
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
This film dramatizes the problems facing ordinary American soldiers during the Revolutionary War, explaining why most ultimately chose to stay and fig...

Savage Weekend
1979
as Otis
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
1978
as Guy in Jail
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
1977
as Jessie Lee Kane
A minister dispenses justice on three convicts who take his family hostage.