Bill Pullman

Bill Pullman

1953-12-17 Hornell, New York, USA 106 Credits

Biography

William Pullman (born December 17, 1953) is an American actor. After graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree in theatre, he was an adjunct professor at Montana State University before deciding to pursue acting. Pullman made his film debut in Ruthless People (1986), and starred in Spaceballs (1987), The Accidental Tourist and The Serpent and the Rainbow (both 1988), Newsies (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Wyatt Earp (1994), While You Were Sleeping (1995), Independence Day (1996), Lost ...

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American Horses

American Horses

2022

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

American horses are icons. Mustang. Appaloosa. Morgan. Quarter Horse. Each breed has a unique story to tell, and each story is a deep part of the Amer...

Yellowstone

Yellowstone

2020

as (voice)

8.8
Acting

This documentary is in fact the theatrically released episode of 'Epic Yellowstone: Return of the Predators'. For decades, Yellowstone National Park's...

The High Note

The High Note

2020

as Max

7.0
Acting

Set in the dazzling world of the LA music scene comes the story of Grace Davis, a superstar whose talent, and ego, have reached unbelievable heights. ...

Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero

2019

as Self

7.6
Acting

This piece examines real-life Rob Bilott’s sacrifices to take down a powerful corporation and how a single individual can impact an entire community. ...

Dark Waters

Dark Waters

2019

as Harry Dietzler

7.5
Acting

A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the pr...

The Coldest Game

The Coldest Game

2019

as Joshua Mansky

6.2
Acting

Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a danger...

National Theatre Live: All My Sons

National Theatre Live: All My Sons

2019

as Joe Keller

8.5
Acting

America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and estab...

Trouble

Trouble

2018

as Ben

5.2
Acting

A feuding brother and sister entangle the fate of an old friend.

The Equalizer 2

The Equalizer 2

2018

as Brian Plummer

6.8
Acting

Robert McCall, who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, embarks on a relentless, globe-trotting quest for vengeance when his...

The Ballad of Lefty Brown

The Ballad of Lefty Brown

2017

as Lefty Brown

6.2
Acting

Aging sidekick Lefty Brown has ridden with Eddie Johnson his entire life. But when a rustler kills Eddie, Lefty is forced from his partner’s shadow an...

LBJ

LBJ

2017

as Ralph Yarborough

6.4
Acting

The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.

Battle of the Sexes

Battle of the Sexes

2017

as Jack Kramer

6.8
Acting

The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

A Thousand Junkies

A Thousand Junkies

2017

as Bill Pullman

7.2
Acting

Things grow more and more desperate, and ridiculous, as three heroin addicts drive all over Los Angeles in search of what they need.

Walking Out

Walking Out

2017

as Clyde

5.9
Acting

A city teen travels to Montana to go hunting with his estranged father, only for the strained trip to become a battle for survival when they encounter...

The War of 1996: A United World News Special

The War of 1996: A United World News Special

2016

as President Whitmore

Acting

A faux news documentary about the 20 years that have passed between the first and second "Independence Day" movies.

Brother Nature

Brother Nature

2016

as Jerry Turley

5.1
Acting

Roger, a straight-laced politician has big plans to propose to his dream girl at her family's lake house. But everything goes awry when he meets his p...

Independence Day: Resurgence

Independence Day: Resurgence

2016

as President Whitmore

5.3
Acting

We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protec...

Another Day: The Making of 'Independence Day: Resurgence'

Another Day: The Making of 'Independence Day: Resurgence'

2016

as Self

Acting

Interviews about the making of the film and behind the scenes footage

American Ultra

American Ultra

2015

as Krueger

6.1
Acting

Mike is an unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is ...

Parables of War

Parables of War

2015

as Self

Acting

Three men, one an actor, one a dancer and the other a soldier, are all casualties of war in some way. The men explore the relationships between art an...

The Equalizer

The Equalizer

2014

as Brian Plummer

7.3
Acting

McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl u...

Cymbeline

Cymbeline

2014

as Sicilius Leonatus

3.9
Acting

War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire.

May in the Summer

May in the Summer

2014

as Edward

5.9
Acting

A bride-to-be is forced to reevaluate her life when she reunites with her family in Jordan and finds herself confronted with the aftermath of her pare...

Red Sky

Red Sky

2014

as John Webster

4.4
Acting

Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a WMD. Masters must navigate a fractured friendship, a love triangle,...

The Unbelievers

The Unbelievers

2013

as Self

6.5
Acting

Scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss travel the globe promoting a scientific worldview and the rational questioning of religious belief.

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

2013

as Self (archive footage)

8.2
Acting

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live television — with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows — ...

The Fruit Hunters

The Fruit Hunters

2012

as Narrator (voice)

6.7
Acting

The Fruit Hunters explores the little known subculture and history of rare fruit hunters who travel the globe in an obsessive search for the exotic, i...

Kingdom Come

Kingdom Come

2012

as Self

6.2
Acting

The documentary, Kingdom Come follows a first-time director (Daniel Gillies) as he tries to raise a million dollars to finance his first film, Broken ...

Lola Versus

Lola Versus

2012

as Lenny

5.0
Acting

Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dump...

Innocent

Innocent

2011

as Rusty Sabich

5.6
Acting

Judge Rusty Sabich is charged with the murder of his wife, a situation that comes 20 years after he was cleared in the death of his mistress. During t...

Too Big to Fail

Too Big to Fail

2011

as Jamie Dimon

7.0
Acting

An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a f...

Bringing Up Bobby

Bringing Up Bobby

2011

as Kent

4.9
Acting

Bringing Up Bobby is the story of a European con-artist and her son Bobby, who find themselves in Oklahoma in an effort to escape her past and build a...

Rio Sex Comedy

Rio Sex Comedy

2010

as William

4.6
Acting

A group of strangers from different countries end up on Rio's beaches. Seeking self-fulfillment, they look for answers to existential questions. Yet i...

Peacock

Peacock

2010

as Edmund French

6.1
Acting

A minor train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's reclusive bank clerk.

The Killer Inside Me

The Killer Inside Me

2010

as Billy Boy Walker

5.8
Acting

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little...

The Cove

The Cove

2009

Thanks

7.9

The Cove tells the amazing true story of how an elite team of individuals, films makers and free divers embarked on a covert mission to penetrate the ...

Bottle Shock

Bottle Shock

2008

as Jim Barrett

6.3
Acting

Paris-based wine expert Steven Spurrier heads to California in search of cheap wine that he can use for a blind taste test in the French capital. Stum...

Your Name Here

Your Name Here

2008

as William J. Frick

3.3
Acting

The lines between reality and perception blur in this comic journey into the life and mind (literally!) of one of sci-fi's most brilliant authors. Par...

Surveillance

Surveillance

2008

as Sam Hallaway

6.0
Acting

An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.

Phoebe in Wonderland

Phoebe in Wonderland

2008

as Peter Lichten

7.2
Acting

The fantastical tale of a little girl who won't - or can't - follow the rules. Confounded by her clashes with the rule-obsessed world around her, Phoe...

Nobel Son

Nobel Son

2007

as Det. Max Mariner

6.1
Acting

Soon after his insufferably arrogant father wins the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Barkley Michaelson is kidnapped by Thaddeus James, a young genius who ...

You Kill Me

You Kill Me

2007

as Dave

6.1
Acting

While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return ...

Scary Movie 4

Scary Movie 4

2006

as Henry Hale

5.5
Acting

Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are i...

Alien Autopsy

Alien Autopsy

2006

as Morgan Banner

5.6
Acting

Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.

Spaceballs: The Documentary

Spaceballs: The Documentary

2005

as Self

Acting

The cast and crew of Spaceballs looks back at the making of the movie.

John Candy: Comic Spirit

John Candy: Comic Spirit

2005

as Self

6.0
Acting

A tribute to the late John Candy from the cast of Spaceballs.

Dear Wendy

Dear Wendy

2005

as Krugsby

5.8
Acting

In a blue-collar American town, a group of teens bands together to form the Dandies, a gang of gunslingers led by Dick Dandelion. Following a code of ...

The Grudge

The Grudge

2004

as Peter Kirk

5.9
Acting

An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claimin...

Tiger Cruise

Tiger Cruise

2004

as Gary Dolan

5.9
Acting

On its last leg homeward, from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to San Diego, the USS Constellation hosts a jolly "tiger cruise" for US Navy, Marines and USNAF re...

Rick

Rick

2003

as Rick O'Lette

4.9
Acting

"Rigoletto" retold at Christmas time in Manhattan's corporate world. Rick, an executive at Image, is a jerk to a woman applying for a job. That evenin...

Igby Goes Down

Igby Goes Down

2002

as Jason

6.6
Acting

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophre...

29 Palms

29 Palms

2002

as The Ticket Clerk

4.8
Acting

When a bag filled with money goes missing from a casino, the Hitman (Chris O'Donnell) must retrieve it. While he tracks the stash down, the bag change...

Ignition

Ignition

2002

as Conor Gallagher

4.2
Acting

A web of intrigue and conspiracy lies beneath the euphoria as the U.S. is about to put a man on the moon for the first time in over thirty years

Lucky Numbers

Lucky Numbers

2000

as Detective Pat Lakewood

5.2
Acting

Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the...

A Man Is Mostly Water

A Man Is Mostly Water

2000

as Parking Fascist

2.0
Acting

The lives of two unambitious duplex neighbors, divorced father, hot-tempered, blues-obsessed documentarian Roper and wealthy golf-playing wastrel Andy...

Titan A.E.

Titan A.E.

2000

as Korso (voice)

6.6
Acting

A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human race, while an alien species called the Drej are ben...

The Guilty

The Guilty

2000

as Callum Crane

5.7
Acting

Callum Crane, a lawyer and would-be federal judge, jeopardizes his chances at a judgeship by forcing himself on his secretary. He then worsens the sit...

Opening the Tombs of the Golden Mummies: Live

2000

Acting

Excavations in Egypt's Valley of the Golden Mummies reveal a king's untouched tomb.

The Virginian

The Virginian

2000

as The Virginian

4.9
Acting

A cowboy finds himself betrayed by his best friend and must choose between bringing him to justice and alienating the pretty schoolteacher he is in lo...

The Virginian

The Virginian

2000

Director

4.9
Directing

A cowboy finds himself betrayed by his best friend and must choose between bringing him to justice and alienating the pretty schoolteacher he is in lo...

Spy Games

Spy Games

1999

as Harry Howe / Ernie Halliday

4.4
Acting

A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) fighting to save the world, their lives and secret...

Brokedown Palace

Brokedown Palace

1999

as Hank Greene

6.4
Acting

Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man, who calls hi...

Lake Placid

Lake Placid

1999

as Jack Wells

5.9
Acting

When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix...

Zero Effect

Zero Effect

1998

as Daryl Zero

6.2
Acting

Daryl Zero is a private investigator and—along with his assistant, Steve Arlo—he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Although Daryl's a master inves...

Merry Christmas, George Bailey!

Merry Christmas, George Bailey!

1997

as George Bailey

5.0
Acting

Performance of the 1947 Lux Radio version of "It's a Wonderful Life", taped live in the historic Pasadena Playhouse as a benefit for the Pediatric AID...

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

1997

as Self

7.0
Acting

An in-depth look at artist/filmmaker David Lynch's movies, paintings, drawings, photographs, and various other works of art. Features interview footag...

The End of Violence

The End of Violence

1997

as Mike

5.3
Acting

In Hollywood, the lives of a successful film producer, his wife, a police detective and a surveillance agent intersect after a botched abduction.

Lost Highway

Lost Highway

1997

as Fred Madison

7.5
Acting

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transfo...

Mistrial

Mistrial

1996

as Steve Donohue

5.0
Acting

When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, t...

Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion

Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion

1996

as Self

6.4
Acting

A "mockumentary" of the alien invasion during Independence Day. Barry Nolan hosts the programme, the first 9 minutes of which are a spoof news report ...

The Making of 'Independence Day'

The Making of 'Independence Day'

1996

as Self

5.9
Acting

We take a look at various fields of development for the motion picture, Independence Day (1996). Jeff Goldblum is our guide through 'Area ID4' (a rip-...

Independence Day

Independence Day

1996

as President Thomas J. Whitmore

6.9
Acting

Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it ...

Mr. Wrong

Mr. Wrong

1996

as Whitman Crawford

3.9
Acting

A single and lonely woman finds the seemingly perfect man to date, but soon regrets it when his deranged and possessive other personality emerges and ...

Casper

Casper

1995

as Dr. James Harvey

6.3
Acting

Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow ...

While You Were Sleeping

While You Were Sleeping

1995

as Jack Callaghan

7.0
Acting

A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancé...

Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp

1994

as Ed Masterson

6.8
Acting

From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matters more than family and the law. Joined by his bro...

The Last Seduction

The Last Seduction

1994

as Clay Gregory

6.8
Acting

A devious femme fatale steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.

The Favor

The Favor

1994

as Peter

5.0
Acting

On the eve of her high school reunion, bored housewife Kathy convinces her single best friend Emily to seduce an old flame Tom, so she can get all the...

Mr. Jones

Mr. Jones

1993

as Construction Site Foreman

5.8
Acting

The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr. Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his t...

Malice

Malice

1993

as Andy Sarafian

6.3
Acting

A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same af...

Sleepless in Seattle

Sleepless in Seattle

1993

as Walter

6.7
Acting

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Talking about his father’s loneliness s...

Sommersby

Sommersby

1993

as Orin Meecham

6.3
Acting

Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By al...

Singles

Singles

1992

as Dr. Jeffrey Jamison

6.4
Acting

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.

Crazy in Love

Crazy in Love

1992

as Nick Symonds

4.4
Acting

Three generations of women live on a small island off the coast of Washington state with their men with whom they have no end of problems.

A League of Their Own

A League of Their Own

1992

as Bob Hinson

7.2
Acting

As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded ...

Phone

Phone

1992

as Duke

8.0
Acting

One late Saturday night In Los Angeles a phone call embroils two couples in an uncanny stalking match over a mutual object of desire, a rare bacon and...

Newsies

Newsies

1992

as Bryan Denton

6.8
Acting

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze ...

Nervous Ticks

Nervous Ticks

1992

as York Daley

4.0
Acting

A comedy about a man (Bill Pullman), who is on the run after his mistress (Julie Brown) confesses to her husband (Peter Boyle) that the two of them ha...

Liebestraum

Liebestraum

1991

as Paul Kessler

5.4
Acting

A man returns to his hometown and a series of dark secrets are revealed.

Going Under

Going Under

1991

as Biff Banner

3.7
Acting

An American submarine races to get a nuclear weapon before a Russian submarine.

Blood Drips Heavily on Newsie Square

Blood Drips Heavily on Newsie Square

1991

as Self

8.2
Acting

Washed up actor Don Knotts shows up on the back lot of Universal Studios in Hollywood, California in hopes of landing a role in the new Disney movie, ...

Bright Angel

Bright Angel

1990

as Bob

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...

Sibling Rivalry

Sibling Rivalry

1990

as Nicholas Meany

5.1
Acting

Marjorie Turner is suffocating in her marriage and day to day life. An extramarital affair with a stranger seems to be the answer until her paramour h...

Brain Dead

Brain Dead

1990

as Dr. Rex Martin

5.7
Acting

In a battle of man versus machine, Martin, a top neurosurgeon who's studying brain malfunctions that cause mental illness, delves deep into his own mi...

Cold Feet

Cold Feet

1989

as Buck

4.0
Acting

Three criminals run into complications when they attempt to smuggle emeralds across the Mexican border.

Home Fires Burning

Home Fires Burning

1989

as Lt. Henry Tibbettes

6.4
Acting

When a WW2 veteran comes back home, he realizes how the war affected Americans by seeing the changes in his wife, family, and best friend.

The Accidental Tourist

The Accidental Tourist

1988

as Julian Hedge

6.2
Acting

After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife is having similar problems. They separate, ...

Rocket Gibraltar

Rocket Gibraltar

1988

as Crow Black

5.9
Acting

A man's family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children, he and his children don't exactly connect. Howev...

The Serpent and the Rainbow

The Serpent and the Rainbow

1988

as Dennis Alan

6.4
Acting

A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his...

Spaceballs

Spaceballs

1987

as Lone Starr

6.8
Acting

When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless side...

Ruthless People

Ruthless People

1986

as Earl James Mott

6.6
Acting

Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a duo of kidnappers who want $500,000 ransom in exc...

Killing Faith

Killing Faith

N/A

as Ross

Acting

In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her mysterious Caucasian daughter on a five-day journ...

Everybody Digs Bill Evans

N/A

as Harry

Acting

June 1961, NYC: legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans has found his musical voice and created the perfect trio, including bass player Scott LaFaro, said t...

Famous

Famous

N/A

Acting

Lance Dunkquist has one asset that’s about to change his life—he has the face of a movie star. And not just any movie star—Lance is the spitting image...

A Bridge Between

N/A

as Bobby Verdun

Acting

Anthony Hodges is a young basketball player recovering from a devastating car accident that leaves him physically injured and mentally shaken. As Anth...

Spaceballs 2

Spaceballs 2

N/A

as Lone Starr

Acting

Described as "a non-prequel non-reboot sequel part two but with reboot elements franchise expansion film". Plot TBA.