Biography
Željko Ivanek is a Slovenian-American actor. Known for his work in film, television, and theatre, he is the recipient of a Primetime Emmy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Drama Desk Award, as well as three Tony Award nominations. Ivanek's film credits include Courage Under Fire (1996), Donnie Brasco (1997), Hannibal, Black Hawk Down (both 2001), Unfaithful (2002), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), The Bourne Legacy, Argo, Seven Psychopaths (all 2012), and T...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Last Duel
2021
as Le Coq
King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.

The Courier
2020
as CIA Boss
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017
as Cedric Connolly
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her...

X-Men: Apocalypse
2016
as Pentagon Scientist
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.

Seven Psychopaths
2012
as Paolo
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved...

Argo
2012
as Robert Pender
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter ...

That Guy... Who Was in That Thing
2012
as Self
Documentary about sixteen actors who detail their ups and downs as they struggle to forge careers in Hollywood. They've played cops, lawyers, bosses, ...

The Words
2012
as Joseph Cutler
The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. The...

The Bourne Legacy
2012
as Dr. Donald Foite
New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.

Tower Heist
2011
as Director Mazin
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...

In Bruges
2008
as Canadian Guy
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previ...

Live Free or Die Hard
2007
as Asst. Deputy Director Molina
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists i...

The Hoax
2006
as Ralph Graves
In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1...

Manderlay
2005
as Dr. Hector
In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is illegal...

The Manchurian Candidate
2004
as Vaughn Utly
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow s...

Dogville Confessions
2004
as Self
A documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's fascinating drama Dogville starring amongst others Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Stellan Skarsgård, B...

The Reagans
2003
as Michael Deaver
The miniseries featured James Brolin as Ronald Reagan and Judy Davis as Nancy Reagan, and covers the period in time from 1949 when Reagan was still in...

Dogville
2003
as Ben
When beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters, and...

Unfaithful
2002
as Detective Dean
Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, ...

Black Hawk Down
2001
as LTC Gary Harrell
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and ...

Hannibal
2001
as Dr. Cordell Doemling
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again wh...

Dancer in the Dark
2000
as District Attorney
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder a...

Homicide: The Movie
2000
as Ed Danvers
Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, c...

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
2000
as Thomas Mann Randolph
Epic television miniseries exploring the complicated relationship of Thomas Jefferson and slave Sally Hemings, who conducted a 38 year love affair, sp...

Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
as Dr. Whitman
In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmael, a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep emot...

Dash and Lilly
1999
as Mel Berman
Biographical look at the bombastic love affair that writers Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman shared in 1940 and 50's Hollywood. Refusing to marry,...

A Civil Action
1998
as Bill Crowley
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...

Ellen Foster
1998
as Educational Psychologist
After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to f...

The Rat Pack
1998
as Bobby Kennedy
After a brief flash-forward to Frank Sinatra as an old man, saying "I miss my guys," the movie's main narrative begins during high points in the solo ...
Nowhere to Go
1998
as Principal Jack Walker
A rebellious teen threatened with expulsion from school is offered an alternative: an experimental program in which she would counsel troubled childre...

Julian Po
1997
Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he's up to no good. After bothering him for a while, he blurts out ...

Donnie Brasco
1997
as Tim Curley
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

The Associate
1996
as SEC Agent Thompkins
Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior inve...

Infinity
1996
as Bill Price
Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
After Jimmy
1996
as Dr. Darren Walters
This is a story of Jimmy, a high school senior, who is struggling with his school life, family pressures, future choices. When it becomes too much, Ji...

Courage Under Fire
1996
as Banacek
A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female cho...

White Squall
1996
as Sanders
In 1960, a hardy group of prep school students boards an old-fashioned sailing ship. With Capt. Christopher Sheldon at the helm, the oceangoing voyage...

Truman
1995
as Eddie Jacobsen
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision...
My Brother's Keeper
1995
as Dr. Hill
A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.

School Ties
1992
as Mr. Cleary
When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from...

Our Sons
1991
as Donald Barnes
When James admits to his mother that he is gay it strains her liberal attitude. A San Diego businesswoman, Audrey believes she is a modern, open-minde...

Aftermath: A Test of Love
1991
as Matt
Based on a true story, an adoring wife and mother is taken hostage during a robbery and brutally murdered.

Artificial Paradise
1990
as Willy
Los Angeles in 1935. Fritz Lang receives in his hotel apartment the young film amateur Willy, who wants to prepare an interview with him. At a certain...

Rachel River
1988
as Momo
A divorced mother pursues her career as a radio personality in rural Minnesota.

Echoes in the Darkness
1987
as Vince Valaitis
Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Townshi...

All My Sons
1987
as George Deever
Two families, related by friendship and love, face up to the consequences of greed and avarice in the post-war years. Love and death play equal roles ...

Mass Appeal
1984
as Mark Dolson
A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.

Alice in Wonderland
1983
as March Hare
From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a whimsical retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic.

The Sender
1982
as John Doe #83
A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.

Tex
1982
as Hitchhiker
After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.

The Soldier
1982
as Bombmaker / Faux-Cleaning Lady
Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.