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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Complete Filmography

American Horses
2022
as Narrator (voice)
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
2020
as (voice)
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
2020
as Max
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
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
2019
as Harry Dietzler
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
2019
as Joshua Mansky
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
2019
as Joe Keller
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
2018
as Ben
A feuding brother and sister entangle the fate of an old friend.

The Equalizer 2
2018
as Brian Plummer
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
2017
as Lefty Brown
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
2017
as Ralph Yarborough
The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.

Battle of the Sexes
2017
as Jack Kramer
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
2017
as Bill Pullman
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
2017
as Clyde
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
2016
as President Whitmore
A faux news documentary about the 20 years that have passed between the first and second "Independence Day" movies.

Brother Nature
2016
as Jerry Turley
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
2016
as President Whitmore
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'
2016
as Self
Interviews about the making of the film and behind the scenes footage

American Ultra
2015
as Krueger
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
2015
as Self
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
2014
as Brian Plummer
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
2014
as Sicilius Leonatus
War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire.

May in the Summer
2014
as Edward
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
2014
as John Webster
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
2013
as Self
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
2013
as Self (archive footage)
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
2012
as Narrator (voice)
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
2012
as Self
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
2012
as Lenny
Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dump...

Innocent
2011
as Rusty Sabich
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
2011
as Jamie Dimon
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
2011
as Kent
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
2010
as William
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
2010
as Edmund French
A minor train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's reclusive bank clerk.

The Killer Inside Me
2010
as Billy Boy Walker
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
2009
Thanks
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
2008
as Jim Barrett
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
2008
as William J. Frick
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
2008
as Sam Hallaway
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
2008
as Peter Lichten
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
2007
as Det. Max Mariner
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
2007
as Dave
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
2006
as Henry Hale
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
2006
as Morgan Banner
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
2005
as Self
The cast and crew of Spaceballs looks back at the making of the movie.

John Candy: Comic Spirit
2005
as Self
A tribute to the late John Candy from the cast of Spaceballs.

Dear Wendy
2005
as Krugsby
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
2004
as Peter Kirk
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
2004
as Gary Dolan
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
2003
as Rick O'Lette
"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
2002
as Jason
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
2002
as The Ticket Clerk
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
2002
as Conor Gallagher
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
2000
as Detective Pat Lakewood
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
2000
as Parking Fascist
The lives of two unambitious duplex neighbors, divorced father, hot-tempered, blues-obsessed documentarian Roper and wealthy golf-playing wastrel Andy...

Titan A.E.
2000
as Korso (voice)
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
2000
as Callum Crane
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
Excavations in Egypt's Valley of the Golden Mummies reveal a king's untouched tomb.

The Virginian
2000
as The Virginian
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
2000
Director
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
1999
as Harry Howe / Ernie Halliday
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
1999
as Hank Greene
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
1999
as Jack Wells
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
1998
as Daryl Zero
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!
1997
as George Bailey
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
1997
as Self
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
1997
as Mike
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
1997
as Fred Madison
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transfo...

Mistrial
1996
as Steve Donohue
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
1996
as Self
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'
1996
as Self
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
1996
as President Thomas J. Whitmore
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
1996
as Whitman Crawford
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
1995
as Dr. James Harvey
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
1995
as Jack Callaghan
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
1994
as Ed Masterson
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
1994
as Clay Gregory
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
1994
as Peter
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
1993
as Construction Site Foreman
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
1993
as Andy Sarafian
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
1993
as Walter
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
1993
as Orin Meecham
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
1992
as Dr. Jeffrey Jamison
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
1992
as Nick Symonds
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
1992
as Bob Hinson
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
1992
as Duke
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
1992
as Bryan Denton
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
1992
as York Daley
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
1991
as Paul Kessler
A man returns to his hometown and a series of dark secrets are revealed.

Going Under
1991
as Biff Banner
An American submarine races to get a nuclear weapon before a Russian submarine.

Blood Drips Heavily on Newsie Square
1991
as Self
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
1990
as Bob
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
1990
as Nicholas Meany
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
1990
as Dr. Rex Martin
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
1989
as Buck
Three criminals run into complications when they attempt to smuggle emeralds across the Mexican border.

Home Fires Burning
1989
as Lt. Henry Tibbettes
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
1988
as Julian Hedge
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
1988
as Crow Black
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
1988
as Dennis Alan
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
1987
as Lone Starr
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
1986
as Earl James Mott
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
N/A
as Ross
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
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
N/A
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
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
N/A
as Lone Starr
Described as "a non-prequel non-reboot sequel part two but with reboot elements franchise expansion film". Plot TBA.