Biography
Ethan Suplee (born May 25, 1976) is an American film and television actor best known for his roles as Seth Ryan in American History X, Louie Lastik in Remember the Titans, Frankie in Boy Meets World, Randy Hickey in My Name Is Earl, Thumper in The Butterfly Effect, Dewey in Unstoppable, and his roles in Kevin Smith films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ethan Suplee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Complete Filmography

Let's Start a Cult
2024
as Cody Harper
Having missed out on his cult's long awaited ritual suicide, an obnoxious loser teams up with his bogus ex-messiah to rebuild their doomsday commune. ...

Blood for Dust
2024
as Slim
Reckless Ricky makes serious money dealing illegal weapons throughout the tri-state area and loves to flaunt it. Traveling salesman Cliff, covers the ...

Manodrome
2023
as Dad Leo
Ralphie is an Uber driver and aspiring bodybuilder who is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult and loses his grip on reality when his represse...

God Is a Bullet
2023
as Gutter
Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits ...

Babylon
2022
as Wilson
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity dur...

Clerks III
2022
as Auditioner
After narrowly surviving a massive heart attack, Randal enlists his old friend Dante to help him make a movie immortalizing their youthful days at the...

Dog
2022
as Noah
An army ranger and his dog embark on a road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway to attend a friend's funeral.

Gossamer Folds
2020
as Jimbo
Gossamer Folds is a story about finding family and acceptance where you least expect it. Set in 1986, ten-year-old Tate is uprooted and unwillingly mo...

The Hunt
2020
as Gary
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruth...

Motherless Brooklyn
2019
as Gilbert Coney
New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed ...

Deepwater Horizon
2016
as Jason Anderson
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

The Trust
2016
as Detective
A pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault.

Tooken
2015
as Buddy #2
Spoof of the "Taken" franchise. An ex-CIA agent who is now a mall security guard discovers that things are being taken from him. He must team up with ...

True Story
2015
as Pat Frato
A drama centered on the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outsi...

Walk of Shame
2014
as Officer Dave
A reporter's dream of becoming a news anchor is compromised after a one-night stand leaves her stranded in downtown L.A. without a phone, car, ID or m...

The Wolf of Wall Street
2013
as Toby Welch
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infi...

Breakout
2013
as Kenny Baxter
A pair of criminals try to track down the kids who witnessed them commit a murder in the woods.

Rise of the Zombies
2012
as Marshall
When zombies overrun San Francisco, a desperate group survives by locking themselves inside Alcatraz Prison. When the undead breach the island, our he...
Paper Cuts
2012
as Steven

Grow Up Already
2011
as Bunky
After being dumped by his girlfriend Winnie, Andy Mott is determined to win her back -- the only problem is, he's got a LOT of growing up to do.

I'm Having a Difficult Time Killing My Parents
2011
as Andrew
It's not that T.J. doesn't love his parents, it's just that he's trying to kill them. Thirty-two, unemployed, and derailed somewhere on the path to ad...

Unstoppable
2010
as Dewey
When a massive, unmanned locomotive roars out of control, the threat is more ominous than just a derailment. The train is laden with toxic chemicals, ...

The Dry Land
2010
as Jack
A U.S. soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life and family he left in Texas.

Brothers
2009
as Sweeney
When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to ...

Fanboys
2009
as Harry Knowles
In 1999, Star Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of The Phantom Menace...

Struck
2008
as Cupidon
On his way to work one day, Joel is impaled through the chest by a three-foot arrow. But it doesn’t harm him. And it won’t come out. So Joel has to le...

Creating the Characters
2008
as Self
A featurette about the making of the show, ‘My Name is Earl’, featured on the Season 3 Home Release.

Cutlass
2007
as Bruce
When Robin's daughter Lacy wants to buy an expensive guitar, Robin reminisces about the days when she was a teenager, asking her dad for her first car...

Mr. Woodcock
2007
as Nedderman
Taken aback by his mother's wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher, a m...

The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006
as Jangle
Thoroughly disgruntled, Santa opts to take a year off from delivering presents, until a young man helps him rediscover the meaning of the holidays.

The Fountain
2006
as Manny
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence...

Clerks II
2006
as Teen #2
A calamity at Dante and Randall's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional Disney-McDonald's-sty...

Art School Confidential
2006
as Vince
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really ...

Erection of an Epic - The Making of Mallrats
2005
as Himself
The outrageous insider's look at the creation of a cult classic.

Neo Ned
2005
as Orderly Johnny
Like most kids, Ned idolized his father and dreamed of following in his footsteps. Unfortunately, his father was a two-bit crook who spent most of his...

Without a Paddle
2004
as Elwood
Three friends, whose lives have been drifting apart, reunite for the funeral of a fourth childhood friend. When looking through their childhood belong...

The Butterfly Effect
2004
as Thumper
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...

Cold Mountain
2003
as Pangle
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts ...

Don's Plum
2002
as Big Bum
A group of Los Angeles teenagers meets daily at their local diner hangout to discuss their latest misadventures and miserable lives.

The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest
2002
as Curtis 'Tiny' Reese
Andy, a successful marketing guy quits his job, gets a new job at a research facility, makes a powerful enemy who makes him volunteer for a nearly imp...

Vulgar
2002
as Frankie Fanelli
Vulgar is about a man who is a children's clown but has not been getting much luck lately. He lives in a cheap apartment which he can't even afford. B...

John Q
2002
as Guard Max Conlin
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because ...

Evolution
2001
as Deke
A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the ...

Blow
2001
as Tuna
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family....

Remember the Titans
2000
as Louie Lastik
After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different ...

Road Trip
2000
as Ed
After an Ithaca College student films his one-night stand with a beautiful sorority girl, he discovers one of his friends has accidentally mailed the ...

Takedown
2000
as Dan Bradley
Kevin Mitnick is quite possibly the best hacker in the world. Hunting for more and more information, seeking more and more cyber-trophies every day, h...

Bad Trip
1999
as Joshua Schatzberg
In this off-the-wall road comedy, John (Ethan Suplee) and Sam (Kevin Connolly) are a pair of close friends who are in need of a vacation, so they hit ...

Dogma
1999
as Norman (voice)
An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to...

Desert Blue
1999
as Cale
An academic obsessed with roadside attractions and his tv-star daughter stop at a small desert town to see the world's largest ice cream cone, where, ...

Dante's View
1998
as Mason
Sam, a young blonde from the wrong side of the tracks robs a sports memorabilia store with a friend who gets shot. She flees with the loot, some very ...

American History X
1998
as Seth
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we le...

A Better Place
1997
as Large Rude Student
A high school outcast new to town becomes friends with a violent loner still haunted by the death of his parents.

Chasing Amy
1997
as Fan
Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything is going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but...

Don't Look Back
1996
as Gary
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...

Drawing Flies
1996
as Ethan
Donner and his roomates are out of money and about to get evicted from their home. So as a diversion from their situation, he invites them to his fath...

Mallrats
1995
as Willam
Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall. Eventually, they decide to try and win back their significant others...
Dolly
N/A
Macy, a young woman abducted by a deranged, monster-like figure who wants to raise her as their child.
Pearl
N/A
A young musician, Pearl is stuck in an abusive relationship until she meets Eli, a bank robber on the run, who links up with her as he looks to evade ...