Biography
Eric Hamilton Stoltz (born September 30, 1961) is an American actor and director. He is known for playing sensitive misfits (Mask, Kicking and Screaming, The Waterdance, Killing Zoe). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for Mask.
Known For
Complete Filmography

BRATS
2024
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
In the 1980s, Andrew McCarthy was part of a young generation of actors who were set to take over Hollywood after a string of successful teen movies. H...

Flying Lessons
2023
Executive Producer
Two estranged adopted sisters are forced together by their mother's sudden death: Beatrice, an autistic Chinese high school senior who wants to learn ...

QT8: The First Eight
2019
as Self (archive footage)
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scanda...

Lucky Day
2019
as Voice of Authority (voice)
Red, a safe cracker who has just been released from prison, is trying to hold his family together as his past catches up with him in the form of Luc, ...

Her Smell
2019
as Howard Goodman
A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.

Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk
2017
Director
A young Jehovah's Witness believes the ultimate punishment will be inflicted upon him for typical teenage activity. His life is rather grim until infa...

Class Rank
2017
as Brilliant Young Nerd's Father
Two high school misfits join forces in an attempt to overtake the local school board. Guided by their families, they enter the perilous word of politi...

Class Rank
2017
Director
Two high school misfits join forces in an attempt to overtake the local school board. Guided by their families, they enter the perilous word of politi...

Back in Time
2015
as Original Marty McFly / Bill Conrad (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cast, crew and fans explore the 'Back to the Future' time-travel trilogy's resonance throughout our culture—30 years after Marty McFly went back in ti...

Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
2015
as Russ Peterson
A self-anointed 'renegade' male flight attendant must save the day when the airline he works for tries to eliminate flight attendants as a cost-cuttin...

5 to 7
2014
as Jonathan Galassi
A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours o...

Fort McCoy
2014
as Frank Stirn
Unable to serve in World War II because of a heart condition, a barber moves his family adjacent to a Wisconsin army base and prisoner-of-war camp to ...
Hello
2014
as Max
When Max (Eric Stoltz), urged on by "Risk Management," a self-help book for the hapless, decides to approach his fellow ferry-commuter Rory (Susanna T...

Fort McCoy
2014
Producer
Unable to serve in World War II because of a heart condition, a barber moves his family adjacent to a Wisconsin army base and prisoner-of-war camp to ...

John Hughes: Life Moves Pretty Fast
2012
as Self (archive footage)
A tribute to John Hughes, featuring an archive interview with him from 1986 and those that have worked with him, including Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruc...

Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
2011
as Guy in Zombie Movie
Third-grader Judy Moody sets out to have the most thrilling summer of her life.

Sparks
2009
as Joseph
In this deliciously tart adaptation of a short story by Elmore Leonard, a beautiful young widow’s hilltop mansion has just burned to the ground, and a...

Blank Slate
2008
as Sean Sullivan
An amnesiac, sentenced to Death Row for a murder she can't remember committing, is given a second chance at freedom by the FBI: recruited as part of t...

Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
2007
as Christian Missionary (voice)
A fascinating account of the presidency of Andrew Jackson, who was both one of America's great presidents and a borderline tyrant. The seventh preside...

The Lather Effect
2006
as Mickey
On the eve of selling her mother's house, a thirty-something housewife wakes up to a hangover surrounded by her best friends from high school...
The Making of Some Kind of Wonderful
2006
as Self
A 2006 featurette on the film 'Some Kind of Wonderful', with interviews with the main actors and with the director.

The Honeymooners
2005
as William Davis
Working class New York bus driver Ralph Kramden is always coming up with get-rich-quick schemes for him and his best friend, Ed Norton, who's always a...

Childstar
2004
as Fresno Burnbaum
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.

The Butterfly Effect
2004
as George Miller
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childh...

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
2003
Zachary Beaver, a sideshow attraction also known as the world's fattest boy, arrives in the sleepy town of Granger, Texas.

Happy Hour
2003
as Levine
Tulley, a once-promising literary star now biding his time as an advertising copy editor, moves from cynicism to acceptance as he secretly hopes to wr...

The Rules of Attraction
2002
as Mr. Lawson
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a...

Pulp Fiction: The Facts
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Behind the scenes of the legendary classic film by Quentin Tarantino.

Highball
2002
as Darien
A newly married couple tries to enhance their social life by throwing fabulous parties and inviting all their friends in Brooklyn to their home.

Woodrow Wilson
2002
as voice
A gifted orator, Woodrow Wilson was supremely confident before crowds, yet uneasy in small groups. An intellectual with inflexible moral principles, h...

The Simian Line
2001
as Sam Donovan
The Simian Line is an American improvisational film, released in 2001. When Katharine throws a party on Halloween, a psychic called Arnita predicts th...

Things Behind the Sun
2001
as Dan
A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secret...

Harvard Man
2001
as Teddy Carter
College has always been a time for experimentation, sexual, cultural and otherwise. "Harvard Man" plays out against a background of love, sex, basketb...

My Horrible Year!
2001
as Uncle Charlie
A teenage girl plots to keep her parents' marriage together, erroneously thinking they're considering divorce.

My Horrible Year!
2001
Director
A teenage girl plots to keep her parents' marriage together, erroneously thinking they're considering divorce.

Hollywood Palms
2000
as Himself
Set entirely in the Hollywood Palms apartment building and its yard, this movie looks at how people there live, and the intertwining stories of the re...

The Last Dance
2000
as Todd Cope
A retired school teacher is reminded of her past after she befriends with one of her former students, Todd Cope.

The House of Mirth
2000
as Lawrence Selden
In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her fri...

One Kill
2000
as Capt. Wallker Randall
A divorced female marine officer with two small children begins an affair with a senior officer.

Common Ground
2000
as Johnny Burroughs
This movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy", a woman joins the Navy during the 1950's an...

Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1999
This documentary is featured on the Collector's Edition, High School Reunion Edition, and Awesome Special Edition DVDs for 'Fast Times at Ridgemont Hi...

Hercules: Zero to Hero
1999
as Theseus (voice) (archive sound)
After defeating Hades for good, Hercules marries Meg and revisits his teenage years. In particular, it shows an adolescent Hercules's enrollment and t...

A Murder of Crows
1999
as Thurman Parks III
In the wake of a career-ending scandal, disgraced lawyer Lawson Russell moves to Key West, where he befriends aging novelist Christopher Marlowe. Afte...

Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge
1999
as Prosecutor Robert Laurino
In 1989, a group of well-known high school athletes in Glen Ridge, New Jersey were accused of the gang rape of a teen girl. When the town rallies to p...

The Passion of Ayn Rand
1999
as Nathaniel Branden
Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.

Hi-Life
1998
as Jimmy
Jimmy needs $900 to clear a gambling debt but a series of lies leads to Ray trying to raise the cash from friends who owe him money.

Mr. Jealousy
1998
as Lester Grimm, aka Vince
After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriend...

Mr. Jealousy
1998
Executive Producer
After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriend...

Blackout Effect
1998
as John Dantley
There has been a mid-air collision involving a passenger jet and a cargo flight, killing everyone aboard the two planes. The NTSB investigator in char...

Pitch
1997
as Self
A Canadian documentary featuring two young filmmakers attending the Toronto Film Festival to pitch a film concept to various celebrities. Their film i...

Anaconda
1997
as Dr. Steven Cale
A 'National Geographic' film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest — and deadlie...

Keys to Tulsa
1997
as Richter Boudreau
Richter Boudreau is on a bad streak: Languishing in the shadow of his celebrity mother, he loses his job as a film critic for the town paper, and now ...

The Rocking Horse Winner
1997
as Uncle Joe
A gambler comes to live with his sister and discovers his young nephew can predict the winner of horse races by riding on his rocking horse.

Jerry Maguire
1996
as Ethan Valhere
Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plu...

Grace of My Heart
1996
as Howard Cazsatt
Philadelphia teenager Edna Buxton wins a talent contest during the early rock 'n' roll era, changes her name to Denise Waverly and moves to New York C...

2 Days in the Valley
1996
as Wes Taylor
In a sleepy bedroom community of LA's San Fernando Valley, the murder of a professional athlete by two hit men sets into motion a chain of events that...

Inside
1996
as Marty
A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the que...

Don't Look Back
1996
as Jesse
Los Angeles heroin addict Jesse endangers the lives of his childhood friends after he discovers a briefcase full of money from a drug deal gone bad, a...

Kicking and Screaming
1995
as Chet
After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding inste...

The Prophecy
1995
as Simon
The angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and only a former priest and a little girl can stop hi...

Fluke
1995
as Jeff Newman
Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and reincarnates as a dog. Remembering some of his previous being, he returns to his wife and son t...

Rob Roy
1995
as Alan MacDonald
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy ...

Little Women
1994
as John Brooke
With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a c...

Sleep with Me
1994
as Joseph
Six different writers wrote a scene each of this romantic comedy featuring the marriage and turbulent relationship of Joseph and Sarah, with Joseph's ...

Sleep with Me
1994
Producer
Six different writers wrote a scene each of this romantic comedy featuring the marriage and turbulent relationship of Joseph and Sarah, with Joseph's ...

Pulp Fiction
1994
as Lance
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime cape...

Roommates
1994
as Bill Thomas
The story of a macho straight and a well-educated gay man who have to share an apartment at a half-way house for aids-patients. Slowly they become fri...

Naked in New York
1993
as Jake Briggs
Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, and to whom you can turn to for help while fa...

Killing Zoe
1993
as Zed
Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the...

Bodies, Rest & Motion
1993
as Sid
Rebelling against his dreary life in a small Arizona town, salesman Nick abandons his girlfriend, Beth, and strikes out onto the highway in search of....

Bodies, Rest & Motion
1993
Producer
Rebelling against his dreary life in a small Arizona town, salesman Nick abandons his girlfriend, Beth, and strikes out onto the highway in search of....

Foreign Affairs
1993
as Fred Turner
Two couples find love and comfort in London. A reserved, but lonely aging American female college professor meats a self-confident, married, but disil...

The Heart of Justice
1992
as David Leader
David Leader investigates a seemingly senseless murder, and in the course of it is drawn into the labyrinth of a sinisterly unique wealthy family...

Singles
1992
as The Mime
A group of young adults in their twenties, who share an apartment in the city of Seattle, ponder on love and face all the challenges of adulthood.

The Waterdance
1992
as Joel Garcia
Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist bik...

A Woman at War
1991
as Franz Bueller
Helene Moskiewicz, a young Jewish woman living in pre-World War II Belgium, is forced to suffer through German occupation by watching her parents arre...

Money
1991
as Franck Cimballi
A young man whose father's fortune was stolen by his closest friends sets out to get revenge in this odyssey through the world's major financial cente...

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1991
as Reader
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers is a 1991 American short documentary film directed by Bill Couturié. It shows footage from World War I, World...

Memphis Belle
1990
as Danny Daly
The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bomb...

Sensibility and Sense
1990
as Younger Edward
Three friends who bonded over their radical beliefs in the 1930s reunite after becoming estranged over a book one of them wrote.

The Rachel Papers
1989
as Cafe Patron (uncredited)
Poised to attend Oxford University, 19-year-old Charles Highway decides it's high time to have a romantic encounter with an older woman. With the help...

Say Anything...
1989
as Vahlere
Lloyd, an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school beauty and straight-A student. He surprises just about ev...

Our Town
1989
as George Gibbs
This classic American play, performed on an almost-bare stage, is about the mundane but rather pleasant lives of the Gibbs family, the Webb family, an...

The Fly II
1989
as Martin Brundle
Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chr...

Haunted Summer
1988
as Percy Shelley
Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley (née Godwin) and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates i...

Manifesto
1988
as Christopher
In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small...

Greasy Lake
1988
A short film from a collection of four Greasy Lake is a part of the Discovery Program: Four Short Stories (Ray's Male Heterosexual Dancehall/Greasy La...

Sister, Sister
1987
as Matt Rutledge
Sisters Charlotte and Lucy Bonnard live together in the gloomy Louisiana family mansion that they’ve turned into a boarding house. But when a mysterio...

Lionheart
1987
as Robert Nerra
A young knight sets out to join King Richards crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves ...

Some Kind of Wonderful
1987
as Keith Nelson
Keith Nelson, an artsy high school outcast, tries to land a date with popular girl Amanda Jones with some help from his tomboy best friend, Watts. How...

Code Name: Emerald
1985
as Andy Wheeler
In preparation for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi occupied territory, the 'overlords' were the few Allied agents who knew the details...

Mask
1985
as Rocky Dennis
A boy with a massive facial skull deformity and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

The New Kids
1985
as Mark Warfield
A brother and his young sister come to a small town to find out a local gang terrorizes the population.

The Wild Life
1984
as Bill Conrad
Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his crazy self, and Anita with her older man David.
Things Are Looking Up
1984
as Neil 'Trout' Troutman
A group of high-school students deal with everyday life while attending JFK High School in Ventura, California.

Running Hot
1984
as Danny Hicks
A teen convicted of murdering his father escapes from authorities and heads for Arizona with a prostitute.

Surf II: The End of the Trilogy
1984
as Chuck
Evil Nerd Menlo wants to get revenge on some surfers by selling a bad batch of soda called Buzz Cola which turns people into mutant zombies. Its up to...
Killing Time
1984
as Stop N Start Manager
Released as the third part of a video called 'Stephen King's Nightshift Collection'. A cartoonist has trouble getting his stories sold. As he goes off...

A Killer in the Family
1983
as Ricky Tison
Three teenage boys break their father out of prison only to discover that he is a murderous sociopath. Based on a true story.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1982
as Stoner Bud
Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high school students growing up in Southern California. S...

Paper Dolls
1982
as Steve
Pilot for the TV series introduces the mothers of teenage fashion models who market their daughters for a powerful agent.

The Violation of Sarah McDavid
1981
as Pete Brady
Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after schoo...

The Seekers
1979
as 1st Boy
This follow-up to "The Bastard" and "The Rebels" continues the account of Philip Kent's life and career from his emigration to colonial Massachusetts ...

The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
1978
as Steve Benson
A comedy-drama about a New York couple who decides to dump the hassle of the big city, pack up the kids and move to what they think is the easy life o...

Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
N/A
as Self (archive footage)
Explores Caton-Jones' rise from his humble roots in the working class mining village of Broxburn, West Lothian to the dizzy heights of Hollywood, wher...
Original Sound
N/A
as Jake Colburn
A down on his luck aspiring musician gets his big break at the big time when an up and coming singer agrees to collaborate with him after she is caugh...