Biography
James Robert Rebhorn (September 1, 1948 – March 21, 2014) was an American character actor who appeared in over 100 films, television series, and plays. At the time of his death, he had recurring roles in the series White Collar and Homeland. He also appeared in films such as Scent of a Woman, The Game, Carlito's Way, Independence Day, My Cousin Vinny, and Meet the Parents.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Before I Sleep
2013
as Priest
Eugene Devlin, a once famous, now reclusive poet, searches through his past, looking for redemption and peace.
The Ordained
2013
as Stan Feingold
About the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated.

Sleepwalk with Me
2012
as Frank
A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is d...

The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012
as Joseph Crudstaff
A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all ...

The Perfect Wedding
2012
as Richard Fowler
Christmas is approaching, and Paul's adopted sister Alana is coming home for the holidays. This won't be just a regular family celebration, as she's r...

Real Steel
2011
as Marvin
Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After his robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up w...

The Sparrow and the Tigress
2010
A young actor steps into the shadows of a Coney Island underworld where past, present, reality and fantasy collide.

A Little Help
2010
as Dr. Bronstein
It's a movie for everyone whose life has been thrown off-course, out of whack, or simply not turned out the way they planned it. In other words, it's ...

The Box
2009
as Norm Cahill
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A...

Don McKay
2009
as Dr. Lance Pryce
Everything appears off-kilter when a man returns to his hometown after 25 years to visit his former lover.

The International
2009
as New York D.A.
An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading...

An American Affair
2008
as Lucian Carver
In the early 1960s, teenager Adam Stafford (Cameron Bright) becomes obsessed with his new neighbor, Catherine Caswell (Gretchen Mol), a divorcée and f...

Baby Mama
2008
as Judge
A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate...

Anamorph
2007
as Chief Lewellyn Brainard
A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing i...

Spinning Into Butter
2007
as President Winston Garvey
A hate crime on the campus of a New England college puts the school's dean (Parker) in a position where she has to examine her own feelings about race...

Candles on Bay Street
2006
as Farmer Frieden
DeeDee returns to her hometown with her 11 year old son, Trooper, 13 years after she ran off with her boyfriend. Her childhood best friend, Sam, is no...

Bernard and Doris
2006
as Waldo Taft
Tobacco heiress Doris Duke develops an unlikely friendship with her butler, Bernard Lafferty.

How to Eat Fried Worms
2006
as Boiler Head
During the first day of his new school year, a fifth grade boy squares off against a bully and winds up accepting a dare that could change the balance...

The Last Shot
2004
as Abe White
A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent worki...

Reversible Errors
2004
as Erno Erdai
A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.

Cold Mountain
2003
as Doctor
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 ...

Head of State
2003
as Senator Bill Arnot
When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, the Democratic party unexpectedly picks a Washington, D.C. alderman as ...

Stealing Bess
2003
as Dirk Bentley
Two English twins, who despise each other, start rival vacuum cleaner companies across the street from each other.

The Trade
2003
as John Torman
An up-and-coming trader must choose between the seduction of Wall Street and a return home to the woman and family he loves.

Far from Heaven
2002
as Dr. Bowman
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.

The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2002
as Belcher
The year is 2087, the setting is the moon. Pluto Nash, the high-flying successful owner of the hottest nightclub in the universe, finds himself in tro...

Last Ball
2001
as Mr. Corcoran
High school is over, and everybody in the small town just up the Hudson from New York City where Jim lives has made plans and moved on. Everybody exce...

Scotland, PA
2001
as Norm Duncan
Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who is much smarter. Pat believes she could...

Meet the Parents
2000
as Dr. Larry Banks
Greg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent...

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
2000
as President Signoff
Rocky and Bullwinkle have been living off the finances made from the reruns of their cartoon show. Boris and Natasha somehow manage to crossover into ...

The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999
as Herbert Greenleaf
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U...

Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
as Alvin Hooks
In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmael, a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep emot...

Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99
1999
as Stranger (segment "Bad Girl")
A collection of Madonna's favorite videos from 1993-1999. Contains the 14 videos: Bad Girl, Fever, Rain, Secret, Take A Bow, Bedtime Story, Human Natu...

All of It
1999
as Bill Holbeck
A hip, 25-year-old New York editor is about to return to her midwestern hometown, steeled for a visit with her larger-than-life über-mom, and steadfas...

A Bright Shining Lie
1998
as Ambassador
Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advi...

The Game
1997
as Jim Feingold
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his y...

My Fellow Americans
1996
as Charlie Reynolds
They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former Presidents of the United States. Framed in a scandal by the c...

Mistrial
1996
as Mayor Taylor
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
1996
as Albert Nimzicki
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it ...

If Lucy Fell
1996
as Simon Ackerman
Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor he's never...

Up Close & Personal
1996
as John Merino
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tap...

White Squall
1996
as Tyler
In 1960, a hardy group of prep school students boards an old-fashioned sailing ship. With Capt. Christopher Sheldon at the helm, the oceangoing voyage...

I Love Trouble
1994
as The Thin Man
Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett join forces to uncover a train wreck conspiracy.

Guarding Tess
1994
as Howard Shaeffer
Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle—the widow of a former U.S. President, and a close p...

8 Seconds
1994
as Clyde Frost
This film chronicles the life of Lane Frost, 1987 PRCA Bull Riding World Champion, his marriage and his friendships with Tuff Hedeman (three-time Worl...

Blank Check
1994
as Fred Waters
Bullied by his siblings and nagged by his parents, 11-year-old Preston is fed up with his family -- especially their frugality. But he gets his chance...

Carlito's Way
1993
as Norwalk
Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New Yor...

Skylark
1993
as William Wheaton
Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the chil...

Lorenzo's Oil
1992
as Ellard Muscatine
Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the...

Scent of a Woman
1992
as Mr. Trask
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for ...

Deadly Matrimony
1992
as Lloyd Butler
Alan Masters is a despicable businessman with his hands in organized crime. He marries Diane, a kind and gentle woman, and abuses and batters her vici...

Wind
1992
as George
In 1983, yacht sailor Will Parker leads an American crew financed by millionaire Morgan Weld to defeat during the America's Cup race against an Austra...

White Sands
1992
as FBI Agent Flynn
A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigat...

Basic Instinct
1992
as Dr. McElwaine
Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described...

My Cousin Vinny
1992
as George Wilbur
Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortuna...

Shadows and Fog
1991
as Vigilante
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

Dead and Alive: The Race for Gus Farace
1991
as Timothy Lanigan
Both sides of the law hunt Costabile 'Gus' Farace for slaying a federal drug agent in 1989 New York.

Regarding Henry
1991
as Dr. Sultan
Respected lawyer Henry Turner survives a convenience-store shooting only to find he has lost his memory, and has serious speech and mobility issues. A...

Plymouth
1991
as Ezra
The residents of a town displaced by an industrial accident agree to take over a failing mining base on the Moon as their new place to live and work. ...

Sarah, Plain and Tall
1991
as William Wheaton
Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone...

Desperate Hours
1990
as Prosecutor
An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.

A Town's Revenge
1989
as Dan Jensen
A teenager who tries to convince his town to farm without using pesticides finds many of the residents resistant to change.

Kojak: Ariana
1989
as Slusher
One of Kojak's old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York detective. Meanwhile, Kojak finds himself a brash y...

Our Town
1989
as Dr. Gibbs
This classic American play, performed on an almost-bare stage, is about the mundane but rather pleasant lives of the Gibbs family, the Webb family, an...

Heart of Midnight
1988
as Richard
A young woman who is getting back on her feet after a mental breakdown, Carol Rivers discovers that her late uncle has left her a rundown nightclub. C...

An Empire of Reason
1988
as Jesse Woodhull
Docudrama about the debate surrounding New York State's ratification of the United States Constitution. Historical figures wear modern dress and use f...

The House on Carroll Street
1988
as The Official
Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old l...

Kojak: The Price of Justice
1987
as Quibro
When the bodies of two young boys are discovered in the Harlem River, their mother is the obvious suspect, particularly with her scandalous past. But ...

Barbecue Death Squad From Hell
1986
Lydia Lunch and Penn & Teller jazz up the Jenkins' family picnic home movie, turning it into a backyard SOV slasher.

A Deadly Business
1986
as Corbett
The movie, and true story, is about how Harold began working for the garbage industry in New Jersey only to find out that it was run by the Mafia. Hav...

Rockabye
1986
as Arthur Reardon
A young woman, striking out on her own after having left her husband in California, has her young son snatched from her moments after getting off the ...

Cat's Eye
1985
as Drunk Businessman
Three short stories linked by a stray cat that roams from one tale to the next, in this creepy triptych that begins as Dick tries to quit smoking by a...

He's Fired, She's Hired
1984
as Man on Phone
Advertising executive, Alex Grier, is fired and is unable to find another position, being over-qualified. His wife, Annabelle, with no experience, is ...

Silkwood
1983
as Los Alamos Doctor
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possi...

Sessions
1983
as Harry
High-priced call girl Lee Churchill, is examining her life via therapy "sessions". Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and "straight" ma...

Soup for One
1982
as Lawyer
A neurotic young New Yorker believes he has found his perfect match and desperately tries to win her over.

Will: G. Gordon Liddy
1982
as Peter Maroulis
Based on the autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy who spent 54 months in prison following the Watergate scandal.

He Knows You're Alone
1980
as Prof. Carl Mason
A reluctant bride-to-be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a ha...

The Yum Yum Girls
1976
as Casting Director
A young woman goes to New York in order to work as model but in the big city she finds a world she did not expect.