Biography
Character actor David Jensen was born in DuQuoin, Illinois. He studied theater at LSU with John Dennis and worked on the early film work of Steven Soderbergh, culminating with Schizopolis a low-budget comedy in the spirit of Richard Lester and Bunuel. He is known for The Mist, Midnight Special, Benjamin Button, and Love Song for Bobby Long.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Average Joe
2024
as Thomas
After a troubled childhood, a former Marine becomes a beloved high school football coach. However, his reputation comes under fire when he is fired fo...

Off Ramp
2023
as Virile
Trey and Silas, a couple of lovable, degenerate Juggalos must sojourn through America’s hellish underbelly to The Gathering of the Juggalos, the one p...

Bingo Hell
2021
as Mario
In the barrio of Oak Springs lives a strong and stubborn group of elderly friends who refuse to be gentrified. Their leader, Lupita, keeps them togeth...

Hillbilly Elegy
2020
as Mr. Selby
An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.

Walkaway Joe
2020
as Merle
A young boy named Dallas goes on a search for his pool-hustling father after he abandons their family. Dallas is determined to bring his father home w...

The Long Shadow
2020
as Doc
A young female Sheriff's Deputy in rural Louisiana takes on her town's old money establishment when the woman she loves - an attorney fighting to stop...

The Quarry
2020
as Judge
A man on the run from his own sins, finds himself in a small border town in Texas, impersonating a reverend. The town are quickly drawn to the man's u...

Toto
2018
as Actor
The career of an embittered former horror star who longs for his glory days comes gruesomely full circle.

Hover
2018
as Farm Intruder
In a near future when environmental havoc is causing food shortages and compelling the government to protect its organized crop system by deploying se...

The Domestics
2018
as Old Man
A young husband and wife must fight to return home in a post-apocalyptic mid-western landscape ravaged by gangs.

Camera Obscura
2017
as Bernard
A photojournalist suffering from PTSD returns home from Iraq and finds himself struggling to keep his sanity and family intact.

The King of New Orleans
2017
as Larry Shirt
Larry Shirt is a taxi driver whose passengers are the city's hustlers, tourists, socialites, musicians, housekeepers, weirdos and reporters. Bobby Coh...

Loving
2016
as Judge Bazile
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led ...
Like Son
2016
as Wiley
A local Sheriff decides to right the wrongs in the small town prior to his demise, unbeknownst to him, the Deputy, his son is hot on his heels in purs...

Free State of Jones
2016
as Quitman
In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than figh...

Smothered
2016
as Asshole
Five horror icons ditch an unprofitable autograph signing convention to earn some extra cash haunting an RV park, but find themselves being haunted in...

Midnight Special
2016
as Elden
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.

Fantastic Four
2015
as War Room Soldier (uncredited)
Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team mu...

Hot Pursuit
2015
as Wayne
Straight-arrow policewoman Cooper is excited and thrilled about her next assignment. Her task is to escort Daniella Riva, a wisecracking Colombian bea...

The Best of Me
2014
as Dr. Pundt
A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

Black or White
2014
as Eldridge
A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.

Kristy
2014
as Clerk
When a college girl who is alone on campus over the Thanksgiving break is targeted by a group of outcasts, she must conquer her deepest fears to outwi...

King of Herrings
2014
as Gat
An offbeat look at four Crescent City layabouts, who dream big in a 'small change' world of cards, women and endless cups of coffee. Their passionate ...

King of Herrings
2014
Producer
An offbeat look at four Crescent City layabouts, who dream big in a 'small change' world of cards, women and endless cups of coffee. Their passionate ...

Barefoot
2014
as Mr. Phelpmitter
The "black sheep" son of a wealthy family meets a young psychiatric patient who's been raised in isolation her entire life. He takes the naive young w...

This Is the End
2013
as Cannibal #1
While attending a party at James Franco's house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and many other celebrities are faced with the apocalypse.

Days of Reckoning: The Making of Universal Soldier 4
2013
as Self
Feature length candid look into the making of the film "Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning."

Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
2012
as Dr. Su
After his wife and daughter are murdered in a home invasion, a widower named John now finds himself up against an army of Universal Soldiers in relent...

Looper
2012
as Apt Super
In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send th...

Alien Tornado
2012
as Armstrong
Aliens attack Earth with deadly electrical tornadoes, and it’s up to a farmer, his smart high-school daughter and a tornado blogger to thwart the horr...

Battleship
2012
as NASA Director
When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Ha...

The Courier
2012
as San Fran Tanna
A shady FBI agent recruits a courier to deliver a mysterious package to a vengeful master criminal who has recently resurfaced with a diabolical plan.

Carjacked
2011
as Customer
A single mom and her child are carjacked by a bank robber who has no intention of letting them go.

Creature
2011
as Jimmy
An ex-Navy seal, his girlfriend and their friends head out on a road trip to New Orleans. The group decides to stop at a roadside convenience store ow...

Seeking Justice
2011
as Gas Attendant
After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.
Apocalypse 2012: The World After Time Ends
2011
as Cannibal
Apocalypse 2012: The World After Time Ends is a documentary that revives humanity's ancient spiritual past with Native American spiritualists, secular...

Battle: Los Angeles
2011
as Psychiatrist
When once distant UFOs become a terrifying threat and an alien invasion force begins attacking Earths major costal and riverside cities, a U.S Marine ...

The Mortician
2011
as Officier Laurel
Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new emp...

Ticking Clock
2011
as Jax
A reporter stumbles upon the journal of a murderer with plans to butcher specific girls, and he begins to investigates on his own, and finding that ev...

Welcome to the Rileys
2010
as Ed
Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orl...

Cool Dog
2010
as Reuben Ledger
Jimmy lives in the tranquil town of Eagle Rock, Louisiana, with his father, stepmother and his best friend Rainy, a German Shepherd. When Jimmy's fath...

Jonah Hex
2010
as Turnbull's Guard
Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unle...

I Love You Phillip Morris
2010
as Judge
Steven Russell leads a seemingly average life – an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force...

Taking Chances
2009
as Samuel Many Bulls
When he discovers that an Indian casino is about to be built over the town's historic battlefield, Chase Revere, the self-appointed protector of a sma...

Wolvesbayne
2009
as Dracula
A supernatural thriller that follows Russel Bayne who quickly finds himself in the middle of a supernatural war between vampires, werewolves, and huma...

Nora Roberts' Midnight Bayou
2009
as Realtor
The new owner of a supposedly haunted New Orleans plantation manor uncovers a shocking secret that has been hidden for over 100 years.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
2009
as Gary Spota
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 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008
as Doctor at Benjamin's Birth
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years...

Warbirds
2008
as Colonel W.R. Hamilton
In the midst of World War 2, a OSS officer leads a group of female pilots on a mission to deliver a secret weapon, only to crash land on an island in ...

The Reaping
2007
as Jim Wakeman
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking r...

The Mist
2007
as Myron
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store wi...

Déjà Vu
2006
as Ferry Official
Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the sce...

The Last Time
2006
as J.D.
Ted Ryker is the top salesman in the New York office of a business machine company; the corporate stock lives by quarterly sales numbers, the competit...

Lethal Seduction
2005
as Mitchel Harding
Miranda Wells is an attorney with a sideline in immigration fraud and murder. Miranda's assistant, Carla, is unaware of her criminal activities. Rick ...

Searching for David's Heart
2004
as Mr. Casey
After Her brother David is killed in a car accident, Darcy begins a journey to find the recipient of her brother's heart in the hopes of finding a pie...

Pop Rocks
2004
as Izzy
A former heavy-metal star (Gary Cole) tries to keep his past a secret from his family and friends while he rehearses for a reunion concert.

A Love Song for Bobby Long
2004
as Junior
A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.

Infidelity
2004
as Dr. Conway
A married family therapist cheats on her husband with a younger man and becomes trapped in her double life, unable to say anything and risk hurting ei...

Runaway Jury
2003
as Shamburg
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, w...

Solaris
2002
Grip
A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.

Sonny
2002
as Mr. Penn
New Orleans, 1981. Sonny Phillips, just discharged from the Army, returns home. The only life he's known is as a gigolo, working for his mother, but h...

Ocean's Eleven
2001
as Eye-in-the-Sky Technician #2
Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of spec...

Ocean's Eleven
2001
Grip
Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of spec...

Tempted
2001
as Blades Man
A wealthy man married to a beautiful younger woman puts her fidelity to the test.

Tempted
2001
Electrician
A wealthy man married to a beautiful younger woman puts her fidelity to the test.

Traffic
2000
as John
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Poli...

Out of Sight
1998
Grip
Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the ri...

The Newton Boys
1998
as William Fahy
The four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. One day, the eldest, Willis, realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers ...

Schizopolis
1997
as Elmo Oxygen
A man works for the unpleasant guru of a Scientology-like movement.

Gray's Anatomy
1996
Casting, Electrician
The film documents, in an often dramatic and humorous fashion, Gray's investigations into alternative medicine for an eye condition (Macular pucker) h...

A Very Brady Sequel
1996
Grip
A man claiming to be Carol Brady's long-lost first husband, Roy Martin, shows up at the suburban Brady residence one evening. An impostor, the man is ...

The Underneath
1995
as Satellite Dish Installer
A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his e...

King of the Hill
1993
as Front Desk Clerk
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a h...

King of the Hill
1993
Grip
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a h...

Kafka
1991
as The Laughing Man
Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all...

Kafka
1991
Electrician
Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all...

Reservoir Dogs
1991
as Joe Cabot
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.

Convicts
1991
Electrician
In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll, the crusty o...

sex, lies, and videotape
1989
Best Boy Grip
Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. W...

Winston
1987
as David
Follows deception and alienation in an intimate relationship.

God Hospital
N/A
as Dove
A young woman with a black tooth seeks out a religious healer in a last-ditch effort to salvage her mouth decay.