Biography
Donald Warren "D.W." Moffett (born October 26, 1954) is an American film, stage, and television actor. Moffett began his career in stage productions in Chicago before starring in the original New York City production of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart in 1985. He subsequently starred in a Broadway production of The Boys of Winter the same year. He made his feature film debut in Bob Rafelson's thriller Black Widow (1987) before portraying a serial killer in the thriller Lisa (1990). Moffett had ...
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Complete Filmography

One Battle After Another
2025
When their evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years, a band of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own.

Alarum
2025
as Ronald Burbridge
Two married spies caught in the crosshairs of an international intelligence network will stop at nothing to obtain a critical asset. Joe and Lara are ...

May December
2023
as Tom Atherton
Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do resea...

Crime Story
2021
as Congressman Billings
When ex-mob boss Ben Myers is targeted in a home robbery, he goes on a deadly rampage of vengeance. But with his family caught in the crosshairs, Myer...

The Glorias
2020
as Stan
An equal rights crusader, journalist and activist: Gloria Steinem embodies these and more. From her role in the revolutionary women's rights movement ...

Against the Clock
2019
as Douglas
After a CIA Agent is seriously injured during a mission, his wife, a former CIA operative, becomes determined to find out what happened - a truth the ...

Holiday Hostage
2018
Director
It’s Thanksgiving night and all Abby and David want to do is quickly eat their turkey and ditch their overbearing “still has their umbilical cords” Je...

The Year of Spectacular Men
2018
as Teacher
In the year after graduating college, Izzy struggles to navigate the seemingly incessant failures of adulthood, the reality of a substandard dating po...

Picture Paris
2012
as Randy Larson
When her son leaves for college, ordinary mom plans the romantic trip of a lifetime to France with her husband. But Paris doesn't turn out to be quite...

The Sitter
2011
as Dr. Pedulla
Noah, is not your typical entertain-the-kids-no-matter-how-boring-it-is kind of sitter. He's reluctant to take a sitting gig; he'd rather, well, be do...

The Smell of Success
2011
as Agent Chestnut
When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr. Rose, the genius behind Rose's Manure Company, the livelihood of its loyal fleet of salesmen threatens to ...

Operating Instructions
2009
as Brandon Zisk
A sergeant that came back from Iraq traumatized, find out the difficult about working on General hospital in San Diego.

Black Crescent Moon
2008
as Jack Wagner
A small town sheriff who's investigating a murder at the local diner ends up finding more than he bargained for in the town and in himself.

Visioneers
2008
as Jeffers
Visioneer George Washington Winsterhammerman lives a comfortable but monotonous life in this slightly futuristic black comedy. When people start explo...

Special Ed
2006
as Sonny
Dr. David Edwards is a cancer specialist, and his life is his work. His only friend is Lou Rosen, 73. Lou is also David's patient, but at his age, cha...

Tennis Anyone?
2006
as Courtney Conte
Two mid level Hollywood losers attempt to find redemption, revenge and meaning in their lives through celebrity tennis tournaments.

Riding the Bus with My Sister
2005
as Rick
A woman spends time with her developmental disabled sister after the death of their father.

Twisted
2004
as Ray Porter
Recently promoted and transferred to the homicide division, Inspector Jessica Shepard feels pressure to prove herself -- and what better way than by s...

Thirteen
2003
as Travis
When average 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, Tracy's world is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world ...

An Unexpected Love
2003
as Jack Mayer
An unhappily married housewife and mother of two children seperates from her husband and gets a new job where she develops a mutual attraction to her ...

Kill Me Later
2001
as Mathew Richmond
Her goldfish dead, her lover exposed as a rat, Shawn Holloway leaves her bank post and goes to the roof intent on suicide. Before she can leap, she's ...

Traffic
2000
as Jeff Sheridan
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Poli...

Molly
1999
as Mark Cottrell
Molly McKay is a profoundly autistic twenty-something woman who has lived in an institution from a young age following her parents' death in a car acc...

A Song from the Heart
1999
as Gregory Pavan
This poignant love story stars Amy Grant as a beautiful, blind concert cellist who falls for a famous, self-centered pianist but doesn't realize that ...

Perfect Prey
1998
as Detective Jimmy Cerullo
A former Texas Ranger is recruited by a Houston police captain to assist a homicide detective in the search for an elusive serial killer who collects ...

The Secret She Carried
1996
as Mitch Hayward
Ellen, a happily married young teacher is raped and beaten by a man who threatens her and her husband if she goes to the police. She is admitted to th...
Joe's Wedding
1996
as Joe McCarthy
Joe loves to rock and be wild, but the time has come for him to settle down. He is to marry a conservative daughter of a well-to-do man. On his weddin...

Stealing Beauty
1996
as Richard
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy vi...

The Little Death
1996
as Paul Hannon
A photographer obsessed with a wealthy man's beautiful wife kills her jealous husband in self-defense. The deceased man's down-and-out musician son so...

Rough Magic
1995
as Cliff Wyatt
In the 1950s, a pretty magician's apprentice travels to Mexico to escape her boyfriend, a wealthy politician, and to find a Mayan shaman who will teac...

Star Struck
1994
as Colton
A farm boy (Kirk Cameron) travels to Hollywood to rekindle a romance with a childhood sweetheart (Chelsea Noble), who's now an actress on the road to ...

A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story
1994
as Smitty
The story of Hazel Brannon Smith, a Southern newspaper publisher who risked the loss of everything she loved by defying the bigotry of her neighbors i...

The Counterfeit Contessa
1994
as Dawson Everett
Gina Nardino, a young saleswoman at the food counter of a posh department store, falls hard for a society stud, and, through a series of accidents, im...

Sad Inheritance
1993
as Gabriel
After filling her life with addictions, Christina (Susan Dey) is left with a dead-end job, a deadbeat boyfriend and a bad rapport with her mother (Pip...

Falling Down
1993
as Detective Lydecker
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

In the Deep Woods
1992
as Frank McCarry
A friend of Joanna has been killed by a serial killers who leaves the bodies in the woods. A strange guy who says is a private detective: Joanna begin...

Miss Beatty's Children
1992
as Alan Chandler
An idealistic English school teacher comes to Trippuvur to work with Mabel Forster, a strong-willed missionary, devoted to saving young girls from bei...
LifeStories: Steve Burdick
1990
as Steve Burdick
Steve Burdick is closeted television anchorman whose lover dies of an AIDS-related illness. Steve decides to come out and then tells his story about ...

Fine Things
1990
as Bernie Fine
Bernard Fine's career leaves little time for romance, so fate takes over. When Bernie befriends a little girl, he meets - and falls for - her single ...

Pacific Heights
1990
as Bill
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.

Lisa
1990
as Richard
A teenage girl becomes infatuated with a stranger who is, unbeknownst to her, a serial killer.

Dream Breakers
1989
as Mark O'Connor
A movie about a Chicago family -- a building contractor and his two sons who have opposing ideologies. One brother works for a power-hungry builder wi...

The Misfit Brigade
1987
as Capt. Von Barring
War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners.

Black Widow
1987
as Michael
Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But sin...

An Early Frost
1985
as Peter Hilton
Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mother, Katherine, father, Nick, and grandmother Bea...
There There
N/A
Identical twin brothers, separated for 40 years, live unaware of each other until fate intervenes, forcing them to confront a long-hidden truth. For t...