Dan Hedaya

Dan Hedaya

1940-07-24 Brooklyn, New York, USA 92 Credits

Biography

Dan Hedaya (born July 24, 1940) is an American actor. While a student at Tufts University, he began performing at the campus theater. He often plays sleazy villains or uptight, wisecracking individuals; two of his best-known roles are as a cuckolded husband in the Coen brothers' crime thriller Blood Simple, and the scheming Nick Tortelli on the sitcom Cheers.

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Influenced

Influenced

2025

Acting

Renowed influencer Dzanielle navigates fake friends among the black card-swiping, Ozempic-sharting, workout-addicted Upper East Siders. In her comedic...

Slapface

Slapface

2022

as Sheriff John Thurston

6.0
Acting

A boy deals with the loss of his mother by creating a relationship with a dangerous monster.

The God Committee

The God Committee

2021

as Emmett Granger

6.6
Acting

Medicine, money and morality clash when a hospital's Heart Transplant Selection Committee has only minutes to decide which of three patients on the tr...

Funny Face

Funny Face

2021

as Benj

4.7
Acting

In a Brooklyn threatened by disfigurement from greedy urban developers, two young people meet in a late-night bodega. Their unexpected bond takes on a...

The Big Take

The Big Take

2018

as Frank Maniscalpo

4.9
Acting

A reclusive movie star hires a private detective after he's anonymously blackmailed. Things turn violent when an aspiring writer is fingered for the c...

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

2016

as Red

7.3
Acting

In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of ...

Black Dog, Red Dog

Black Dog, Red Dog

2015

as Norman

7.5
Acting

Follows the life of Stephen Dobyns as he deals with life, women, and his move from journalism to poetry.

The Humbling

The Humbling

2014

as Asa

5.1
Acting

Following a breakdown and suicide attempt, an aging actor becomes involved with a much younger woman but soon finds that it's difficult to keep pace w...

Clutter

Clutter

2013

as Walter Bickford

6.0
Acting

Charlie Bradford, an aspiring filmmaker in his 30s, is doing the best he can to distance himself from the chaos of his childhood home. But his eccentr...

The Normals

The Normals

2012

as Ragnar

5.3
Acting

With a debt collector hot on his trail, Harvard graduate Billy Schine enrolls in a clinical drug trial to make a quick buck. Carted out of New York Ci...

Too Big to Fail

Too Big to Fail

2011

as Congressman Barney Frank

7.0
Acting

An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a f...

The Extra Man

The Extra Man

2010

as Aresh

5.8
Acting

A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.

The Warrior Class

The Warrior Class

2007

as Rand

4.0
Acting

Rookie lawyer Alec Brno has just been assigned the case of his career: exposing a billion-dollar oil scam led by a ruthless mafia boss. When he reluct...

Strangers with Candy

Strangers with Candy

2006

as Guy Blank

5.6
Acting

A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a 46 year old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her l...

The Good Student

The Good Student

2006

as Gabe

4.6
Acting

When Ally, a popular teen and local celebrity goes missing, her small suburban town erupts in panic.

Pizza My Heart

Pizza My Heart

2005

as Vinnie Montebello

6.1
Acting

Another modern spin-off of Romeo & Juliet, this time about two families who each run rivaling pizza restaurants in New Jersey.

Robots

Robots

2005

as Mr. Gunk (voice)

6.5
Acting

Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Bigweld Industries. Now...

American Cousins

American Cousins

2003

as Settimo

5.3
Acting

Two American mafiosi, Gino and Settimo, take refuge in the Glasgow cafe owned by their Scottish/Italian cousin, but he isn't the tough guy they'd expe...

New Suit

New Suit

2003

as Muster Hansau

5.8
Acting

A once-idealistic writer inadvertently ignites a feeding frenzy in Hollywood with the mention of a mysterious new screenplay and its illusive author.

Swimfan

Swimfan

2002

as Coach Simkins

5.3
Acting

Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and he's on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship. Ben's rock-so...

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'

2002

as Jeff Rabin (photo)

7.0
Acting

Documentary that includes interviews with Singer as well as the rest of the cast - mainly Spacey. There is no "plot" or "promotional" elements to this...

Quicksand

Quicksand

2002

as General Stewart

5.2
Acting

Randi Stewart is a sergeant on a marine base where her father is the commanding officer. She is being treated by the new base psychiatrist, Bill Turne...

Down

Down

2001

as Lt. McBain

5.1
Acting

After the elevators at a New York City skyscraper begin inexplicably malfunctioning, putting its passengers at risk, mechanic Mark Newman and reporter...

Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Drive

2001

as Vincenzo Castigliane

7.8
Acting

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two s...

The Crew

The Crew

2000

as Mike 'The Brick' Donatelli

5.5
Acting

Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.

Shaft

Shaft

2000

as Jack Roselli

6.0
Acting

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail...

The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave

The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave

2000

as Gil Ruston

4.1
Acting

Super Dave Osborne, our accident-prone stuntman hero, comes out of a self-imposed retirement to raise money for his new girlfriend's son's heart opera...

The Hurricane

The Hurricane

1999

as Della Pesca

7.4
Acting

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

Dick

Dick

1999

as President Richard M. Nixon

5.9
Acting

Two high school girls wander off during a class trip to the White House and meet President Richard Nixon. They become the official dog walkers for Nix...

Locked in Silence

Locked in Silence

1999

as Dr. Rosenstock

5.7
Acting

A story of a young boy who becomes an elective mute after witnessing what he believes to be the killing by his older brother of a teenage boy. The you...

Mulholland Dr.

Mulholland Dr.

1999

as Vincenzo Castigliane

7.8
Acting
A Civil Action

A Civil Action

1998

as John Riley

6.5
Acting

Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obses...

A Night at the Roxbury

A Night at the Roxbury

1998

as Kamehl Butabi

6.6
Acting

Despite being well into adulthood, brothers Doug and Steve Butabi still live at home and work in the flower shop owned by their dad. They exist only t...

The Second Civil War

The Second Civil War

1997

as Mel Burgess

6.1
Acting

When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the sta...

Alien Resurrection

Alien Resurrection

1997

as General Perez

6.2
Acting

Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises...

A Life Less Ordinary

A Life Less Ordinary

1997

as Gabriel

6.1
Acting

A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a sp...

In & Out

In & Out

1997

as Military Attorney

6.5
Acting

A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.

The Garden of Redemption

The Garden of Redemption

1997

as Capt. Zito

Acting

A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman operati...

Marvin's Room

Marvin's Room

1996

as Robert "Bob" Carter

6.7
Acting

A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.

Daylight

Daylight

1996

as Frank Kraft

6.1
Acting

A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosi...

Ransom

Ransom

1996

as Jackie Brown

6.7
Acting

When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.

The First Wives Club

The First Wives Club

1996

as Morton Cushman

6.7
Acting

After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the tr...

Freeway

Freeway

1996

as Detective Wallace

6.4
Acting

Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride b...

Nixon

Nixon

1995

as Trini Cardoza

6.9
Acting

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spa...

Red Wind

Red Wind

1995

as Detective Copernik

Acting

In 1940s, sympathetic African American L.A. shamus Philip Marlowe helps a dame in trouble whose lovers are offing each other over a possibly fake pear...

Fair Game

Fair Game

1995

as Walter Hollenbach (uncredited)

5.1
Acting

Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her

To Die For

To Die For

1995

as Joe Maretto

6.6
Acting

Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she make...

The Usual Suspects

The Usual Suspects

1995

as Jeff Rabin

8.2
Acting

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also res...

Clueless

Clueless

1995

as Mel Horowitz

7.3
Acting

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first ...

Search and Destroy

Search and Destroy

1995

as Tailor

4.8
Acting

A self-help guru's televised teachings inspire a down-and-out businessman to pursue his dream of making a movie.

Because Mommy Works

Because Mommy Works

1994

as Judge (uncredited)

5.0
Acting

Since her divorce nurse Abbey lives alone with her 6 years old son Willie. Her ex-husband Ted may have Willie every second weekend. But when Ted marri...

Midnight Run for Your Life

Midnight Run for Your Life

1994

as Eddie Moscone

4.6
Acting

When an accused murderer flees to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, bounty hunter Jack Walsh is hired to bring her back, unaware that the police, a hitman and a...

Maverick

Maverick

1994

as Twitchy, Riverboat Poker Player

6.9
Acting

Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game b...

Midnight Runaround

Midnight Runaround

1994

as Eddie Moscone

6.6
Acting

Bounty hunter Jack Walsh heads for a small rural community in Oklahoma to bring back a young bail jumper, only to discover that the entire town has un...

Another Midnight Run

Another Midnight Run

1994

as Eddie Moscone

6.5
Acting

Jack Walsh tries to track down two of the top con-artists around. But they know every trick in the book and Jack has trouble bringing them back to LA ...

Mr. Wonderful

Mr. Wonderful

1993

as Harvey

5.7
Acting

Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfil a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some of his friends, but first he must find his ex-wif...

For Love or Money

For Love or Money

1993

as Gene Salvatore

6.2
Acting

New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With ...

Based on an Untrue Story

Based on an Untrue Story

1993

as Caprawolski

4.2
Acting

Perfume creator Satin Chau is about to reveal her new designer scent, 'Puppy,' when she is cruelly struck down by a rare condition called anosmia, whi...

Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's

Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's

1993

as Private Investigator

Acting

Newswoman Fay Sommerfield takes a morally outraged look at excessive violence, bad language and sacrilege that pass for entertainment in the early 90s...

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Searching for Bobby Fischer

1993

as Tournament Director

7.1
Acting

A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

Rookie of the Year

Rookie of the Year

1993

as Larry 'Fish' Fisher

6.2
Acting

12-year-old Henry Rowengartner, whose late father was a minor league baseball player, grew up dreaming of playing baseball, despite his physical short...

Benny & Joon

Benny & Joon

1993

as Thomas

7.0
Acting

A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

Boiling Point

Boiling Point

1993

as Brady

5.0
Acting

Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Th...

Four Eyes and Six-Guns

Four Eyes and Six-Guns

1992

2.5
Acting

Ernest Albright opens his eyeglass store in what he thinks is a thriving community, but soon discovers that his store is just a shabby shack in Tombst...

The Addams Family

The Addams Family

1991

as Tully Alford

7.1
Acting

When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely h...

The Whereabouts of Jenny

1991

as Vinnie

6.0
Acting

Jimmy O'Meara loves his daughter more than anything in the world. But when his ex-wife gets involved with a man who's involved with criminals, his wor...

Tune in Tomorrow...

Tune in Tomorrow...

1990

as Robert Quince

5.3
Acting

Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt Julia,...

Pacific Heights

Pacific Heights

1990

as Loan Officer

6.3
Acting

A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.

Joe Versus the Volcano

Joe Versus the Volcano

1990

as Frank Waturi

5.8
Acting

Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is th...

Double Your Pleasure

Double Your Pleasure

1989

as John

6.1
Acting

A television movie about an FBI agent (Jackée) who breaks her leg while trying to capture drug runners, and her identical twin sister (also portrayed ...

A Smoky Mountain Christmas

A Smoky Mountain Christmas

1986

as Harry

5.8
Acting

A country-western singer on a trip through the Tennessee mountains runs into a reclusive backwoodsman — and a witch.

That Secret Sunday

That Secret Sunday

1986

5.7
Acting

A police cover-up of the murder of two young women at a wild party is complicated by the possible faking of a story by an overzealous young reporter s...

Courage

Courage

1986

as John Fosh

5.7
Acting

A mother in Queens, New York, outraged when she discovers that her son is a drug addict, becomes an undercover agent for the DEA to clean up the drug ...

Slow Burn

Slow Burn

1986

as Simon Fleischer

5.0
Acting

Jacob Asch is hired by Gerald McMurty to find his ex-wife Laine and their son in Palm Springs. Jacob finds Laine and a teenager named Donnie who may o...

Running Scared

Running Scared

1986

as Captain Logan

6.1
Acting

Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed them in t...

Wise Guys

Wise Guys

1986

as Anthony Castelo

5.4
Acting

Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to A...

Commando

Commando

1985

as Arius

6.7
Acting

John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young da...

Tightrope

Tightrope

1984

as Det. Molinari

6.2
Acting

Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the ...

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

1984

as John Gomez

6.0
Acting

Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.

The Dollmaker

The Dollmaker

1984

as Skyros

7.5
Acting

During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory job in bustling Detroit. Reluctantly accompanying...

Blood Simple

Blood Simple

1984

as Julian Marty

7.2
Acting

The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings,...

Reckless

Reckless

1984

as Peter Daniels

5.8
Acting

Teenager Johnny Rourke is reckless. Born on the wrong side of the tracks, he breaks the law and girls' hearts with equal cool. Cheerleader Tracey Pres...

The Hunger

The Hunger

1983

as Lieutenant Allegrezza

6.7
Acting

Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he ...

Endangered Species

Endangered Species

1982

as Peck

4.9
Acting

A retired New York cop on vacation in America's West is drawn into a sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

1982

as Dr. Klein

6.0
Acting

An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium.

True Confessions

True Confessions

1981

as Howard Terkel

6.1
Acting

A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

Night of the Juggler

Night of the Juggler

1980

as Sgt. Otis Barnes

5.9
Acting

An ex New York cop is desperate to find his kidnapped daughter.

Death Penalty

Death Penalty

1980

as Detective Ralph Corso

Acting

A strong-willed psychologist tries to rehabilitate a member of a Pittsburgh street gang who has been found guilty of the murder of two other teenagers...

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

1979

as Alex Heller

5.9
Acting

Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging princ...

The Last Tenant

The Last Tenant

1978

as Gabe

Acting

Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which particula...

The Prince of Central Park

1977

as Hot Dog Vendor

4.5
Acting

A lonely widow who frequents Central Park becomes emotionally involved with two orphaned youngsters who have built an oasis for themselves there after...

The Passover Plot

The Passover Plot

1976

as Yaacov

3.8
Acting

Yeshua of Nazareth carefully plans his own crucifixion — and subsequent resurrection — to strengthen his political position against the Roman occupati...