Biography
Judd Seymore Hirsch (born March 15, 1935) is an American actor. He is known for playing Alex Rieger on the television comedy series Taxi (1978–1983), John Lacey on the NBC series Dear John (1988–1992), and Alan Eppes on the CBS series Numb3rs (2005–2010). He is also well known for his career in theatre and for his roles in films such as Ordinary People (1980), Running on Empty (1988), Independence Day (1996), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), Uncut Gems (2019) and The...
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Complete Filmography

The Best You Can
2025
as Walter Rand
Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advanci...

The Best You Can
2025
Executive Producer
Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advanci...
Fantasy Life
2025
After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic attack and stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist's three granddaughters. The...

Rally Caps
2024
as Herb
A young baseball player has his dreams of pitching for a Little League travel team derailed by a devastating injury on the field.

Showing Up
2023
as Bill
In the days leading up to a possibly career-changing exhibition, a sculptor navigates her relationships with family, friends, and colleagues.

The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
2023
as Self
A fascinating behind-the-scenes special about Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans."

iMordecai
2023
as Mordecai Samel
Mordecai Samel is a Holocaust survivor. He grew up in a different time and does not fully understand youth and modern life. His son gives him an iPhon...

The Fabelmans
2022
as Uncle Boris
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shatte...

Hollywood Stargirl
2022
as Mr. Mitchell
When Stargirl's mother is hired as the costume designer on a movie, they relocate to L.A., where Stargirl quickly becomes involved with an eclectic as...

Burning at Both Ends
2021
as Bertrand
The movie follows a group of resistance radio broadcasters in Nazi-occupied France as they evade capture alongside a Jewish family.

A Deadly Legend
2020
as Carl Turner
Joan Huntar, a real estate developer, buys an old summer camp. However, the property has a dark history of supernatural worship and human sacrifice. A...

Uncut Gems
2019
as Gooey
A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of...

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2017
as L.J. Shapiro
An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
2017
as Self
Offbeat documentarian Chris Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the persona of idiosyncratic comedian Andy Kaufman on th...

Summer Camp Island
2017
as Shark / Monster Under the Bed (voice)
Oscar has to accept that his totally normal sleepover with Hedgehog isn't going to be totally normal. Short created as part of Cartoon Network's Shor...

Independence Day: Resurgence
2016
as Julius Levinson
We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protec...

Another Day: The Making of 'Independence Day: Resurgence'
2016
as Self
Interviews about the making of the film and behind the scenes footage
Resurgence: It's Early Albuquerque
2016
as Julius Levinson
Ted Dudley, early morning talk TV Show Host featuring the Book "How I Saved the World" by Julius Levinson

Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
2016
as Self
The stars of America's greatest comedies - like Cheers, Friends, Taxi and The Big Bang Theory - get together for one night only to honor Director Jame...

Altered Minds
2014
as Dr. Nathaniel Shellner
A family reunion goes awry when the oldest son makes the accusation that his dying father, a famed psychiatrist who also did work for the CIA, adopted...

Sharknado 2: The Second One
2014
as Ben
A freak weather system turns its deadly fury on New York City, unleashing a Sharknado on the population and its most cherished, iconic sites - and onl...

Silent Witness
2011
as Saul Rubin
Prominent defense attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend an old friend, a teacher accused of murdering one of his students. The case re-...

The Muppets
2011
as Judd Hirsch
When Kermit the Frog and the Muppets learn that their beloved theater is slated for demolition, a sympathetic human, Gary, and his puppet brother, Wal...

Tower Heist
2011
as Mr. Simon
A luxury condo manager leads a staff of workers to seek payback on the Wall Street swindler who defrauded them. With only days until the billionaire g...

This Must Be the Place
2011
as Mordecai Midler
A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.

Polish Bar
2010
as Uncle Sol
Reuben is a young, middle-class Jew who is fed up with the family jewelry business. He looks for respect by trying to prove himself as a Hip Hop DJ an...

Brother's Shadow
2006
as Leo Groden
Jake Groden is the black sheep of his family. Ankle deep in fish guts, he serves out his parole in Alaska. Then, after a decade of self-imposed exile,...

Zeyda and the Hitman
2004
as Gideon Schub

A Beautiful Mind
2001
as Helinger
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician, ...

Man on the Moon
1999
as Self (uncredited)
The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.

Out of the Cold
1999
as Leon Axelrod
An American entertainer and an Estonian woman are torn apart by hate and prejudice.

Rocky Marciano
1999
as Al Weill
Step into the ring with one of America's greatest legends...and stand a couple of rounds with greatness! "Pulling no punches" (LA Daily News), Jon Fav...

Color of Justice
1997
as Sam Lind
Four young black men kill a white woman. Now the D.A. is very cautious how to pursue this case because it might start a riot. And adding fuel to the f...

The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996
as Self (archive footage)
We take a look at various fields of development for the motion picture, Independence Day (1996). Jeff Goldblum is our guide through 'Area ID4' (a rip-...

Independence Day
1996
as Julius Levinson
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it ...
Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
1996
as Quote Reader
Explores sexuality and censorship over a hundred years of motion pictures.

The 1964 World's Fair
1996
as Narrator
Relive the dazzle, wonder and fun of The 1964 World's Fair, an extraordinary documentary that takes a fresh look at the sights and sounds of this once...

Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger
1995
An urgent plea to protect creatures from man's insensitivity and greed. The program offers clear explanations of why the survival of sea turtles, hump...

Betrayal of Trust
1994
as Jules Masserman
A woman has been to a psychiatrist for years for drug and alcohol addiction, and whose treatment includes being injected with a drug that knocks her o...

Coney Island
1991
as (voice)
Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of New York real estate was internationally famous. ...

She Said No
1990
as Martin Knapek
A successful career woman is raped by a prominent lawyer. However, when she takes the case to court, it results in a hung jury. When the DA's office d...

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
1988
as Capt. David Matthews
Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.

Running on Empty
1988
as Arthur Pope
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effo...
Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer
1986
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Anectdotal portrait of the famed author.

Brotherly Love
1985
as Ben Ryder / Harry Ryder
A businessman is stalked by his murderous twin brother, who has just been released from a mental hospital.

First Steps
1985
as Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky
Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life. One day she hears about new resear...

Lights
1984
as Narrator
Lights reminds us to stand up for what we believe! This Chanukah story is told through animation & gripping narration by Judd Hirsch Also features the...

Teachers
1984
as Roger Rubell
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still canno...

The Goodbye People
1984
as Arthur Korman
An elderly man is determined to reopen the Coney Island boardwalk hot dog stand he closed twenty-two years earlier for renovation, despite the fact he...

Without a Trace
1983
as Al Menetti
English professor Susan Selky lives alone in a Brooklyn apartment with her young son, Alex. When Alex fails to return home from school one afternoon, ...

I Love Liberty
1982
as Self
An all-star variety special saluting America.

Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City ...

Ordinary People
1980
as Dr. Berger
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the e...

Marriage Is Alive and Well
1980
as Herb Rollie
A talented wedding photographer, at a crossroads with his own marriage, reflects on tales of past clients and the hope, adversity and romance that hol...

The Halloween That Almost Wasn't
1979
as Count Dracula
Upset by rumors that Halloween may end, Dracula calls his mild-mannered monsters together and delivers an ultimatum - either regain their frightening ...

Sooner or Later
1979
as Bob Walters
Thirteen-year-old Jessie is in love with Michael, a 17-year-old guitar instructor and aspiring musician. When she finally captures his interest, she l...

King of the Gypsies
1978
as Groffo
Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and hi...

The Keegans
1976
as Lt. Marco Ciardi
A professional football player is accused of murdering the man who attacked his sister. His brother, an investigate reporter, sets out to prove his br...

The Legend of Valentino
1975
as Jack Auerbach
An embellished dramatization of the career and personal life of actor Rudolph Valentino, widely regarded as the screen's first male sex symbol.

Fear on Trial
1975
as Saul
The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Faulk sued the organization that was ...

The Law
1974
as Murray Stone
An examination of the workings of a big city's legal system as seen through the eyes of people involved in a sensational murder trial.

Serpico
1973
as Cop (uncredited)
New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Jump
1971
as Man (uncredited)
A Southern stock-car driver puts his rising career in the hands of a race promoter.
The December Cross
N/A
Maya and Yosef build a friendship that will warm up the hearts of townspeople with lessons, when border agents intercept a coyote smuggling of a group...
Stay Forte
N/A
Tells the incredible true story of Alon Shamiriz, Yotam Haim and Samer Tallaka, three Israelis taken hostage by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack in sout...