Will Patton

Will Patton

1954-06-14 Charleston, South Carolina, USA 97 Credits

Biography

William Rankin Patton (born June 14, 1954) is an American actor and audiobook narrator. He starred as Colonel Dan Weaver in the TNT science fiction series Falling Skies. He also appeared in the films Remember the Titans, Armageddon, Gone in 60 Seconds and The Punisher. He appeared opposite Kevin Costner in two films: No Way Out (1987) and The Postman (1997). He won two Obie Awards for best actor in Sam Shepard's play Fool for Love and the Public Theater production of What Did He See?.

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Train Dreams

Train Dreams

2025

as Narrator

Acting

A story about Robert Grainier, a day laborer employed as a logger helping to expand the railways across America. Forced to spend prolonged periods of ...

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2

2024

as Owen Kittredge

7.6
Acting

Explore the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Spanning 15 years before, during, and followi...

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

2024

as Owen Kittredge

6.9
Acting

In 1859, families discover the lure of the Old West as they settle in territories from Wyoming to Kansas. Meanwhile, a gruff cowboy soon finds himself...

Janet Planet

Janet Planet

2024

as Wayne

6.1
Acting

In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother,...

Halloween Ends

Halloween Ends

2022

as Frank

6.1
Acting

Four years after the events of Halloween in 2018, Laurie has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man is ...

Halloween Kills

Halloween Kills

2021

as Officer Hawkins

6.4
Acting

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last enc...

Safe

Safe

2021

as Francis

5.0
Acting

On a winter night in Atlantic City, the manager of a defunct casino must reckon with his parental failures when his unruly son needs help out of an il...

The Forever Purge

The Forever Purge

2021

as Caleb Tucker

6.9
Acting

All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they c...

The Devil Below

The Devil Below

2021

as Schuttmann

4.5
Acting

A group of four amateur adventurers who specialize in exploring remote and forsaken places pay a visit to Shookum Hills, a town in the remote Appalach...

Minari

Minari

2021

as Paul

7.3
Acting

A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugg...

Sweet Thing

Sweet Thing

2020

as Adam

6.7
Acting

For Billie and Nico, life with their father is a roller-coaster ride of playfulness and unease. When he is in the grip of alcohol, tears flow and thei...

Blood on Her Name

Blood on Her Name

2020

as Richard

5.5
Acting

A woman's panicked decision to cover up an accidental killing spins out of control when her conscience demands she return the dead man's body to his f...

Hammer

Hammer

2019

as Stephen Davis

5.4
Acting

A father faces a personal crisis when he discovers his estranged son fleeing a botched drug deal. The two men embark on a violent odyssey that grapple...

Radioflash

Radioflash

2019

as Frank

5.1
Acting

When a nuclear strike causes an electromagnetic pulse that cuts off all power, water, and communication to the entire western United States, Reese fin...

Halloween

Halloween

2018

as Officer Hawkins

6.6
Acting

Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree ...

An Actor Prepares

An Actor Prepares

2018

as Wisdom

5.8
Acting

After suffering a heart attack, a world-famous and hard-drinking actor is forced to drive across country with his estranged son—who testified against ...

Boarding School

Boarding School

2018

as Dr. Sherman

6.4
Acting

When troubled 12-year-old Jacob Felsen is sent away to boarding school, he enters every kid’s worst nightmare: a creepy old mansion, deserted except f...

The Scent of Rain & Lightning

The Scent of Rain & Lightning

2018

as Senior

5.0
Acting

When a young woman learns her parents' killer has been released from jail, she is forced to revisit old wounds while discovering the destructive power...

Salvage

2018

Acting

An ex-cop living in rural Florida is drawn into an investigation involving a sunken treasure.

Megan Leavey

Megan Leavey

2017

as Jim

7.3
Acting

The true story of Marine Corporal Megan Leavey, who forms a powerful bond with an aggressive combat dog, Rex. While deployed in Iraq, the two complete...

American Honey

American Honey

2016

as Back Seat Cowboy

6.8
Acting

A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young l...

The November Man

The November Man

2014

as Perry Weinstein

6.1
Acting

An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high le...

Abigail Harm

Abigail Harm

2013

as The Visitor/Narrator

4.0
Acting

Abigail Harm is a woman living in a fictionalized New York City, who, after being granted a wish by a strange visitor, asks for love and learns of a c...

The Girl

The Girl

2012

as Tommy

6.1
Acting

A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.

Meek's Cutoff

Meek's Cutoff

2011

as Soloman Tetherow

6.5
Acting

A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

Knucklehead

Knucklehead

2010

as Vic Sullivan

5.6
Acting

A fight promoter deeply in debt to his crooked rival and desperate for a new fighter catches a break when a 450 pound church handyman who has spent hi...

Princess Kaiulani

Princess Kaiulani

2010

as Sanford B. Dole

5.7
Acting

Ka'iulani, a 19th-century Hawaiian princess, is raised in England but determined to maintain her people's independence from aggressive American busine...

Brooklyn's Finest

Brooklyn's Finest

2010

as Lt. Bill Hobarts

6.3
Acting

Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty...

The Fourth Kind

The Fourth Kind

2009

as Sheriff August

6.3
Acting

Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappeara...

The Canyon

The Canyon

2009

as Henry

5.6
Acting

A survival story about a honeymooning couple who get lost in the wide expanse of the Grand Canyon.

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

2009

as John Wilkes Booth (Voice)

4.5
Acting

Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in ...

Wendy and Lucy

Wendy and Lucy

2008

as Mechanic

6.9
Acting

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

2008

as Old Man Dobyne

5.2
Acting

Tells the story of Fisher Willow, the disliked 1920s Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a p...

American Violet

American Violet

2008

as Sam Conroy

6.7
Acting

A young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and accused of a crime she didn't commit, Dee goes against the...

Lucky Days

Lucky Days

2008

as J.C.

Acting

Virginia embarks on a quest for freedom during the last explosive weekend of Coney Island's renowned amusement park. After the reappearance of her chi...

Dog Days of Summer

Dog Days of Summer

2007

as Eli Cottonmouth

4.7
Acting

A mysterious drifter lures two boys into uncovering the secrets of a sleepy southern town.

A Mighty Heart

A Mighty Heart

2007

as Randall Bennett

6.4
Acting

Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.

Code Name: The Cleaner

Code Name: The Cleaner

2007

as Riley

5.2
Acting

Cedric the Entertainer plays Jake, a seemingly regular guy who has no idea who he is after being hit over the head by mysterious assailants. When he f...

The List

The List

2007

as Harriston

3.5
Acting

A sudden death tied to a list from the past leads to unimaginable evil. Fresh out of law school and full of hope for the future, Renny Jacobson is stu...

Road House 2: Last Call

Road House 2: Last Call

2006

as Nate Tanner

5.4
Acting

Shane Tanner, the son of a legendary cooler named Dalton, learns that his uncle Nate got beat up by a group of men because he doesn't want to sell his...

Family Sins

Family Sins

2005

as Philip Rothman

6.1
Acting

Based on the true story of the Burt family who seemed normal, upstanding members of the community but were actually deeply embedded in crime. The matr...

The Last Ride

The Last Ride

2004

as Aaron Purnell

4.3
Acting

After thirty years in prison, ex-con Ronnie recruits his grandson to exact revenge on Darryl, the cop who put him behind bars. Standing in their way i...

The Punisher

The Punisher

2004

as Quentin Glass

6.4
Acting

When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length t...

The Rough South of Larry Brown

2002

Acting

The life and works of Oxford, Miss. fireman-turned-writer Larry Brown are examined in a unique documentary format that incorporates narrative film ada...

The Mothman Prophecies

The Mothman Prophecies

2002

as Gordon Smallwood

6.2
Acting

Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose reside...

Remember the Titans

Remember the Titans

2000

as Coach Bill Yoast

7.6
Acting

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

Trixie

Trixie

2000

as W. 'Red' Rafferty

4.9
Acting

Passed over at work and numbed after she witnesses a colleague's murder, security guard Trixie Zurbo takes a relatively easy job at a lakefront casino...

Jesus' Son

Jesus' Son

2000

as John Smith

6.3
Acting

A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.

Gone in Sixty Seconds

Gone in Sixty Seconds

2000

as Atley Jackson

6.4
Acting

Upon learning that he has to come out of retirement to steal 50 cars in one night to save his brother Kip's life, former car thief Randall "Memphis" R...

Entrapment

Entrapment

1999

as Hector Cruz

6.2
Acting

Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.

Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions

1999

as Moe The Truck Driver

5.1
Acting

A millionaire car salesman who runs the biggest dealership in Midland City, Dwayne Hoover is a celebrity, loved and trusted by everyone. Then one day,...

I Woke Up Early the Day I Died

I Woke Up Early the Day I Died

1998

as Preacher

5.1
Acting

A mental patient escapes from the looney bin in drag, robs a bank, and goes on the lam!

Armageddon

Armageddon

1998

as Chick

6.8
Acting

When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate ...

All Revved Up

All Revved Up

1998

as Sean

5.8
Acting

A lovely school teacher finds herself the victim of a scam artist - a garage owner who delights in ripping off his customers. Soon, she has two eager ...

The Postman

The Postman

1997

as Bethlehem

6.3
Acting

In 2013, there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the United States. Into this ...

This World, Then the Fireworks

This World, Then the Fireworks

1997

as Lt. Morgan

5.1
Acting

In 1950s, two incestuous lovers, a depraved suave journalist and his equally depraved prostitute sister, plan to get rich through seduction and murder...

Inventing the Abbotts

Inventing the Abbotts

1997

as Lloyd Abbott

6.3
Acting

In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, love...

The Spitfire Grill

The Spitfire Grill

1996

as Nahum Goddard

6.5
Acting

Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, ...

Fled

Fled

1996

as Gibson

5.6
Acting

During a routine prison work detail, convict Piper is chained to Dodge, a cyberhacker, when gunfire breaks out. Apparently, the attack is related to s...

Copycat

Copycat

1995

as Nicoletti

6.5
Acting

An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

Tollbooth

1994

as Dash

4.7
Acting

A young woman’s dreams of love are trapped in an empty life of broken promises and futile hopes, as she desperately awaits the return of her long-miss...

The Puppet Masters

The Puppet Masters

1994

as Dr. Lawrence Graves

5.8
Acting

The Earth is invaded by alien parasites—AKA 'slugs'—that ride on people's backs and control their minds.

Judicial Consent

Judicial Consent

1994

as Alan Warwick

5.9
Acting

Judge Gwen Warwick becomes involved in the murder trial she has been assigned. Her marriage is on the rocks and the murder victim is an old friend, wh...

The Client

The Client

1994

as Sergeant Hardy

6.7
Acting

A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a ...

Natural Causes

Natural Causes

1994

as Michael Murphy

5.0
Acting

An American links her mothers death in Bankok to a plot involving Vietnamese refugees.

The Paint Job

The Paint Job

1993

as Wesley

4.2
Acting

The peaceful existence of a suburban backwater is disrupted when Wesley, a troubled housepainter falls for Margaret, the sensitive wife of his boss, W...

Romeo Is Bleeding

Romeo Is Bleeding

1993

as Martie

6.3
Acting

A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.

Taking the Heat

Taking the Heat

1993

as Hadley

4.8
Acting

When Michael Norell witnesses a murder, he doesn't want to testify but he is forced to by the police. A cop is ordered to bring him to the court, but ...

Midnight Edition

Midnight Edition

1993

as Jack Travers

5.0
Acting

After interviewing a convicted killer, a reporter becomes obsessed with his mesmerizing subject. When his life is threatened, he comes to his senses, ...

Lincoln and the War Within

Lincoln and the War Within

1992

Acting

First few weeks of Lincoln's presidency where crucial for the direction the country would take. He had to bridge the gap between the victorious North ...

A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story

A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story

1992

as Frank Maxwell

6.9
Acting

A teenage mother is forced to give up her baby for adoption and, 19 years later, when she tries to contact her son, she learns that he died, under que...

In the Deep Woods

In the Deep Woods

1992

as Eric Gaines

5.6
Acting

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...

In the Soup

In the Soup

1992

as Skippy

6.6
Acting

An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.

Cold Heaven

Cold Heaven

1992

as Father Niles

4.6
Acting

An adulterous woman's faith in God is tested when her husband dies and miraculously comes back to life.

Deadly Desire

Deadly Desire

1991

as Giles Menteer

1.0
Acting

A security guard is enticed to scam a businessman for his insurance money by the man's attractive wife. The trouble begins when he discovers that the ...

The Rapture

The Rapture

1991

as Deputy Foster

5.9
Acting

A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have ima...

Dillinger

Dillinger

1991

as Melvin Purvis

4.7
Acting

Crime drama based on the real-life story of US gangster John Dillinger, who was hunted by the FBI after a string of armed bank robberies during the Gr...

Bright Angel

Bright Angel

1990

as Woody (uncredited)

4.8
Acting

In Montana, naive teenager George longs to escape from his broken home before his dysfunctional parents push him over the edge. When George meets pret...

A Shock to the System

A Shock to the System

1990

as Lt. Laker

6.4
Acting

Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has suffered through mounting bills and a nagging wife w...

Everybody Wins

Everybody Wins

1990

as Jerry

3.9
Acting

A seemingly good Samaritan hires a private detective to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers dee...

Nasty Boys, Part 2: Lone Justice

Nasty Boys, Part 2: Lone Justice

1990

5.5
Acting
Signs of Life

Signs of Life

1989

as Owen's Father

4.2
Acting

The closing of a small shipbuilder in New England places stresses on the people involved.

Wildfire

Wildfire

1988

as Mike

4.0
Acting

Since they met the first time in boarding school as little kids, it was obvious that the orphans Kay and Dave would become a couple. But at sixteen, D...

Stars & Bars

Stars & Bars

1988

as Duane Gage

4.4
Acting

A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.

No Way Out

No Way Out

1987

as Scott Pritchard

6.9
Acting

Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretar...

A Gathering of Old Men

A Gathering of Old Men

1987

as Lou Dimes

6.0
Acting

A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men takes a ...

Belizaire the Cajun

Belizaire the Cajun

1986

as Matthew Perry

4.8
Acting

In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who don't see eye to eye with local racists who wish ...

After Hours

After Hours

1985

as Horst

7.5
Acting

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.

Desperately Seeking Susan

Desperately Seeking Susan

1985

as Wayne Nolan

6.1
Acting

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken ...

Variety

Variety

1985

as Mark

5.4
Acting

A repressed young woman becomes obsessed with pornography and the mysterious rich patrons of the Times Square porn theater where she works selling tic...

Chinese Boxes

Chinese Boxes

1984

as Marsh

6.0
Acting

An American in West Berlin finds himself caught up in murder and intrigue after his associate is killed and a diplomat's daughter is found dead in his...

The Beniker Gang

The Beniker Gang

1984

as Forest Ranger

5.8
Acting

When his younger friends go up for adoption, threatening their extended family, an orphaned teen helps them discourage potential parents.

Silkwood

Silkwood

1983

as Joe

7.0
Acting

The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possi...

King Blank

King Blank

1983

as Bar Customer

5.0
Acting

Set in a motel room at NYC's Kennedy Airport, the film treats two days in the life of a deadbeat couple, an obsessive husband lost in a web of psychot...

Kent State

Kent State

1981

as Peter

6.0
Acting

Dramatization of the four days of events leading up to the historic tragedy at Kent State University in May 1970, during the confrontation between Nat...

Minus Zero

Minus Zero

1979

as Schreiber

Acting

A psycho noir where stalkers, terrorists and government agents collide.

You Can't Win

You Can't Win

N/A

as Foot and a Half George

Acting

A drama set in the 1920s hobo underworld and centered on the unusual friendship between an adventurer and a young prostitute alongside Black's life on...