Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joel David Moore (born September 25, 1977) is an American actor who has appeared in television commercials, feature films, and television series. He is best known for his roles as Owen Dittman in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Dr. Norm Spellman in Avatar, Colin Fisher in Bones and J.P. in Grandma's Boy.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Avatar 5
2031
as Norm Spellman
The fifth installment of the Avatar franchise.

Avatar 4
2029
as Norm Spellman
The fourth installment of the Avatar franchise.

Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025
as Norm Spellman
In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash Peop...

Bride Hard
2025
Producer
Sam is a secret agent whose toughest mission to date is pleasing her bride-to-be best friend at a lavish destination wedding. When a team of mercenari...

Daniel's Gotta Die
2025
as Daniel Powell
Daniel Powell’s plan to reconnect with his siblings hits a snag when he discovers they all want to kill him for his inheritance. As the brothers and s...

Kinda Pregnant
2025
as Mark
When Lainy's plan to settle down and start a family falls apart, she puts on a fake baby bump, tells a lie — and accidentally falls for her dream guy.

Some Other Woman
2024
Director, Producer
Eve was promised a few months on a tropical island for her husband’s work... but years later, unable to build the family they wanted, she has given up...

The Retirement Plan
2023
as Fitzsimmons
When Ashley and her young daughter Sarah get caught up in a criminal enterprise that puts their lives at risk, she turns to the only person who can he...

The Baker
2023
as Peter
A quiet, stoic man, lives a monk-like existence in self-imposed exile. When his estranged son is killed in a drug deal gone bad, he is left to look af...

Paint
2023
Executive Producer
Carl Nargle, Vermont’s #1 public television painter, is convinced he has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke… u...

Inside Pandora's Box
2023
as Self
A series of featurettes on the challenges facing cast and crew as filmmakers devise new technologies to push the limits of cinema

The Morning After
2023
as Guy
Couple gets stuck in a massive traffic jam after a one night stand.

Avatar: The Way of Water
2022
as Norm Spellman
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follo...

The Immaculate Room
2022
Producer
Mike and Kate, a young couple, get the once-in-a lifetime chance to win a cool five million dollars. The challenge: Live for 50 days in a blank space....

Hide and Seek
2021
Director, Screenplay
Noah is seeking to reconnect with his outcast brother after the death of their father. He hopes to make amends and share the family's fortune, but ins...

Cut Throat City
2020
as Peter Felton
Four boyhood friends return to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, to find their home decimated and prospects for work swept away. ...

La Petite Mort
2019
A depressed filmmaker has an existential crisis.

The Intervention
2018
as Himself
All good things must come to an end. Or do they? Adam Green comes face to face(s) with one of his worst nightmares in the 20th annual ArieScope Hallow...

For the Love of Halloween
2018
as Herself
The full feature-length documentary about filmmaker Adam Green / ArieScope Pictures' (HATCHET, FROZEN, "Jack Chop") 20 year tradition of making Hallow...

Drone
2017
as Gary
Ideologies collide with fatal results when a military drone contractor meets an enigmatic Pakistani businessman.

Budding Prospects
2017
as Phil
A group of friends leave San Francisco in 1983 to start their own marijuana enterprise out in the country.

Youth in Oregon
2017
Director
A man is tasked with driving his embittered 80-year-old father-in-law cross country to be legally euthanized in Oregon, while along the way helping hi...

Divine Access
2015
as Nigel
Jack Harriman becomes a spiritual celebrity after debunking Reverend Guy Roy on a public-access TV show. While on the road speaking his brand of truth...

Grace
2014
as Luke
A unique horror film told from the first-person perspective of Grace - a naive, virginal college freshman trying to deal with campus culture and her o...

The Guest
2014
as Craig
A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into the...

#Stuck
2014
as Guy
A hot one-night stand turns into an awkward morning after when Guy and Holly get stuck in a dead-stopped traffic jam.

#Stuck
2014
Executive Producer
A hot one-night stand turns into an awkward morning after when Guy and Holly get stuck in a dead-stopped traffic jam.

CBGB
2013
as Joey Ramone
A look at New York's dynamic punk rock scene through the lens of the ground-breaking Lower East Side club started by eccentric Hilly Kristal in 1973 w...

Hatchet III
2013
as Ben (uncredited)
A search and recovery team heads into Victor Crowley’s haunted swamp to pick up the pieces, and Marybeth learns the secret to ending the voodoo curse ...

Driving Lessons
2012
as Driving Instructor
In John Carpenter's 1978 classic HALLOWEEN, Michael Myers was suddenly able to drive a car after having sat in a sanitarium staring at the wall since ...

Savages
2012
as Craig
Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.

Grassroots
2012
as Grant Cogswell
Grant Cogswell, a liberal music critic decides to run for city council against a popular black incumbent and is assisted by a reporter who recently lo...

Jewtopia
2012
as Adam Lipschitz
Smitten with a Jewish woman, a gentile asks his Jewish pal to advise him on how to act like a member of the community.

Gone
2012
as Nick Massey
Jill Conway is trying to rebuild her life after surviving a terrifying kidnapping attempt. Though she is having a difficult time, she takes small step...

Chillerama
2011
as Adolf Hitler
It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash u...

Julia X
2011
as Sam
Meeting a man on the Internet, Julia decides to see him in person, only to get abducted and branded with the letter "x" by that guy. A game of cat and...

Shark Night 3D
2011
as Gordon
A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to fresh-water shark attacks.

Ticket Out
2011
as Riley
A desperate mother is forced to break the law in order to protect her children from her abusive ex-husband, and rely on the kindness of strangers who ...

Janie Jones
2010
as Dave
A young girl who has been abandoned by her former-groupie mother informs a fading rock star that she is his daughter.

The Third Rule
2010
as Peter

Bastard
2010
as Passenger 1
This film explores what makes the unbelievable believable. When we hear a story that seems mysterious or far-fetched, we put more trust in its accurac...

Avatar
2009
as Norm Spellman
In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecti...

Stuntmen
2009
as Troy Lebowski
When the industry's two biggest stuntmen are nominated for Stuntman of the Year, an over-ambitious documentarian reignites a dormant rivalry between t...

Shadowheart
2009
Executive Producer
James Conners comes home to the town of Legend, New Mexico in 1865 to avenge his fathers death against the ruthless Will Tunney. Along the way he re-c...

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
2009
as Corey Finley
Remake of a 1956 Fritz Lang film in which a novelist's investigation of a dirty district attorney leads to a setup within the courtroom.

The Tiffany Problem
2008
as Sam Hane
30 year old Sam has his Trick or Treating plan's foiled when his wife stays home sick for the night.

Wieners
2008
as Glenn
A road trip comedy about three friends who travel across the country in a Wiener Wagon to beat up a popular daytime talk show therapist.

The Hottie & The Nottie
2008
as Nate Cooper
Nate moves to L.A. to track down Cristabel, the woman he's been in love with since childhood, only to discover that his plan to woo her only has one h...

The Making of 'Hatchet'
2007
as Self
Making of documentary for the 2006 horror film 'Hatchet'.

Shanghai Kiss
2007
as Joe Silverman
Liam Liu unwittingly gets involved with a high school girl. He suddenly has to go to China after learning from his father that he has inherited his gr...

The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning
2007
as Cooter
When mischievous teenaged cousins Bo and Luke Duke are arrested, both boys are paroled to the care of their Uncle Jesse in Hazzard, sentenced to a sum...

The Dead One
2007
as Zak
Trapped between the living and the dead, Diego de la Muerte fights to rescue his soul from the evil god of death that controls him. But a bigger battl...

Spiral
2007
as Mason
A reclusive telemarketer has only one semblance of a friend: His telecommuter boss. But the telemarketer's social circle seems to improve greatly when...

Spiral
2007
Writer, Director
A reclusive telemarketer has only one semblance of a friend: His telecommuter boss. But the telemarketer's social circle seems to improve greatly when...

Art School Confidential
2006
as Bardo
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really ...

Hatchet
2006
as Ben
When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a ...

The Shaggy Dog
2006
as Pound Employee
The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the most important job - being a great dad.

Grandma's Boy
2006
as J.P.
Even though he's 35, Alex acts more like he's 13, spending his days as the world's oldest video game tester and his evenings developing the next big X...

The Elder Son
2006
as Kenny
A thief on the run convinces a single father that he is his long-lost son. Complications ensue when he falls in love with his newfound "sister".

Confessions of an Action Star
2005
as Self
A 'mockumentary' on the rise and fall of Chip and Dales dancer turned martial arts action star, Francis Allen Sledgewick, AKA Frank Sledge. When fame ...

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004
as Owen
When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-...

Raising Genius
2004
as Rolf (as Joel Moore)
The film is about a boy who locks himself in the bathroom to work out math equations on the shower wall. The boy has obsessive compulsive parents. The...

Foxfire
1996
as First Geek
The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. They build a solid friendship but...
The Leader
N/A
Producer
In 1997, thirty-nine members of the American cult known as "Heaven's Gate" committed the largest mass suicide to ever take place on American soil. Thi...
In the Cradle of Granite
N/A
Producer
Set in the brutal American west of the late 1800s, a young mother struggles to provide for her family after her husband dies and the local town folk w...
Dead Man's Wire
N/A
Producer
Set in 1977 and based on a true story, Tony Kiritsis, a former real estate developer puts a dead man's switch on himself and the mortgage banker who d...