Biography
Paul Guilfoyle is an American stage and screen actor, best known for playing Captain Jim Brass on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". He graduated from Yale University in 1977 with a major in economics and studied at the Actor's Studio in New York City. He is often mistakenly referred to as the son of character actor Paul Guilfoyle but they are not related.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Any Day Now
2025
as Marty
Steve Baker is a night watchman who's in his early 20's but his life is already getting away from him. His band is falling apart, he owes a ton of mon...

What We Find on the Road
2024
as Billy
On TJ's 18th birthday, a stranger delivers him a key from his father, last seen as he was hauled off to prison eight years earlier. With the key is an...

Arthur the King
2024
as Charlie Light
Over the course of ten days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light and a scrappy street dog companion ...

The Man from Rome
2022
as Monsignor Spada
A computer hacker penetrates Vatican security and sends an urgent anonymous plea to the pope. Handsome Father Quart, of the church's Institute of Exte...

The Good House
2022
as Henry Barlow
Hildy Good, a wry New England realtor and descendant of the Salem witches who loves her wine and loves her secrets. Her compartmentalized life starts ...

Don't Look Up
2021
as General Themes
Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.

William
2019
as President Clayborn
Two cutting-edge scientists give 'birth' to a Neanderthal—the first to walk the earth for some 35,000 years—in order to attempt to answer these questi...

Turnover
2019
as Peter
Café owner Peter, leaves his disgruntled manager Henry, to take care of business, and he instead hires a crew of misfits. Peter returns to an unrecogn...

Pandemic
2016
as Doctor Greer
After a virus of epic proportions overwhelms the planet—with more infected than uninfected—humanity is losing its grip on survival and its only hope i...

Spotlight
2015
as Peter Conley
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking ...

CSI: Immortality
2015
as Jim Brass
An explosion inside a casino brings Catherine Willows back to Las Vegas to investigate. And when the crime is tied to Lady Heather, Gil Grissom is bro...

That Guy... Who Was in That Thing
2012
as Self
Documentary about sixteen actors who detail their ups and downs as they struggle to forge careers in Hollywood. They've played cops, lawyers, bosses, ...

American Violet
2008
as Judge Belmont
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...

Tempesta
2004
as Taddeo Rossi
An American art appraiser, Patrick Donovan, is sent to Venice to evaluate three paintings belonging to the famous Galleria dell'Accademia.

Coyote Waits
2003
as Jay Kennedy, FBI
A Navajo shaman is the prime suspect in a murder case in this drama from PBS. But as Officer Jim Chee investigates the case he discovers some unusual ...

Live from Baghdad
2002
as Ed Turner
A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winni...

Session 9
2001
as Bill Griggs
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.

Company Man
2000
as Officer Hickle
In the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then sen...

A Question of Faith
2000
as Francis
A man at a monastery realizes he is a woman.

Entropy
1999
as Andy
Entropy is a semi-autobiographical film which tells the story of a young director struggling to make a film for a despotic studio while his life falls...

Anywhere but Here
1999
as George Franklin
Single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high...

Random Hearts
1999
as Dick Montoya
After losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs cop and a congresswoman find each other's keys in each other's loved ones' possession...

In Dreams
1999
as Detective Jack Kay
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.

Exiled
1998
as Detective Sammy Kurtz
NYPD Detective Mike Logan, who was reassigned to Staten Island after punching a corrupt politician, takes on a grisly murder case. When the investigat...

One Tough Cop
1998
as Frankie 'Hot' Salvino
A detective tries to remain loyal to his partner, and his best friend - a mobster.

The Negotiator
1998
as Nathan Roenick (uncredited)
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elabo...

Primary Colors
1998
as Howard Ferguson
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to ...

Peppermills
1998
The theft of her 257 treasured peppermills leads a woman to reminisce about her past encounters.

Amistad
1997
as Attorney
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are th...

L.A. Confidential
1997
as Mickey Cohen
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of...

Air Force One
1997
as Lloyd Shepherd
When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossibl...

Cafe Society
1997
as Anthony Liebler
New York 1952. Mickey Jelke inherits a big sum of money and spends his nights in Manhattan, painting the city red. Night after night, he can be found ...

Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
1997
as Lou Napoli
The incredible story of the events leading up to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York and the capture of the terrorists.

Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
as McGovern
A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.

Ransom
1996
as Wallace
When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.

Extreme Measures
1996
as Dr. Jeffrey Manko
Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency roo...

Manny & Lo
1996
as Country House Owner
A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.

Striptease
1996
as Malcolm Moldovsky
Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must confront the ...

Heaven's Prisoners
1996
as Det. Magelli
A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. But a bizarre plane crash d...

Celtic Pride
1996
as Kevin O'Grady
Two over-loyal Celtic fans kidnap their opponent's star player in order to guarantee their team the championship.

Rosamunde Pilcher: September
1996
as Conrad
Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in the Scottish Highlands are attending, with all the...

A Couch in New York
1996
as Dennis
Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with Beatrice ...

Virgin Mary
1995
as Miodrag Dobrovic
In 1981 in Medjugorje (BA), a group of kids claim that Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hill. The local priest believes them and spreads the word. Re...

Little Odessa
1994
as Boris Volkoff
Long separated from his family, hitman Joshua returns to Brighton Beach for a contract killing for the Russian Mafia. His abusive father, Arkady, bann...

Quiz Show
1994
as Lishman
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-...

Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
1994
as Paul Mantz
In 1928, Amelia Earhart gains fame by undertaking a transatlantic flight as a passenger. In 1937, she and her navigator Fred Noonan undertake her long...

Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
as Head Chef
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his k...

Naked in New York
1993
as Roman
Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, and to whom you can turn to for help while fa...

Mother's Boys
1993
as Mark Kaplan
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fall...

The Night We Never Met
1993
as Sparrow's Nest Salesman
Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his...

Class of '61
1993
as General Beauregard
Three West Point 1861 generation cadets and friends go on opposite sides after the breakout of The Civil War, with tragic consequences. A subplot invo...
Anna Lee: Headcase
1993
as Dr. Frank
A bright, pretty and determined young lady named Anna Lee quits the police department in search of adventure, and joins a small and somewhat stuffy de...

Hoffa
1992
as Ted Harmon
A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles w...

Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
1992
as Commander Steve McCall - US Coast Guard
The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.

Those Secrets
1992
as Leonard
A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.

Final Analysis
1992
as Mike O'Brien
A psychiatrist becomes romantically involved with the sister of one of his patients, but the influence of her controlling gangster husband threatens t...

Notorious
1992
as Norman Prescott
After Alicia Velorus' father is convicted as a communist spy, CIA asks her to prove her loyalty by getting close to her father's friend, who's a suspe...

Unnatural Pursuits
1992
as Larry Leitz
An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.

Darrow
1991
as Bert Franklin
The life and career of Clarence Darrow, the noted American lawyer and civil libertarian.

The Great Pretender
1991
as Martin Brinkman
A newspaper reporter, who has just won a trial against his newspaper which had fired him, suffers dangerous reprisals at his work.

True Colors
1991
as John Laury
Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.

Curiosity Kills
1990
as Ortley
An apartment block janitor stumbles upon a deadly secret after one of the residents seemingly commits suicide and a mysterious new tenant arrives.

Cadillac Man
1990
as Little Jack Turgeon
Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe h...

The Local Stigmatic
1990
as Ray
Two symbiotic sociopaths play obscurely deviant mind games with each other while engaging in perversely brutal acts of violence against victims appare...

Kojak : Error Fatal
1989
as Hood
Investigating the murder of a writer responsible for a Mob exposed, Kojak discovers that the dead man's wife is an old flame.

Dealers
1989
as Lee Peters
The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leadin...

Big Time
1989
as Ted
Triangle drama in a media setting.

Internal Affairs
1988
as The Watcher
A skilled police detective in a case involving the strange, sadistic murder of a young prostitute who has been killed in exactly the same fashion as a...

The Serpent and the Rainbow
1988
as Andrew Cassedy
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...

Wall Street
1987
as Stone Livingston
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthles...

3 Men and a Baby
1987
as Vince
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.

Beverly Hills Cop II
1987
as Nikos Thomopolis
Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sg...

Billy Galvin
1986
Conflict arises between a steelworker and his son. The father wants the boy to have a chance to make more of himself than he did, but the son wants to...

Howard the Duck
1986
as Lieutenant Welker
A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, fr...

Roanoak
1986
The story chronicles the first recorded meeting in the late 16th Century between British explorers-settlers and Native Americans in what is now North ...

The Dark End of the Street
1981
as Cop
Boston, Massachusetts. A young black man falls off the roof of a housing project and dies. When the authorities suspect foul play, witnesses Donna and...
The Mothership
N/A
as Dr. Francis Singer
One year after her husband mysteriously disappears, Sara Morse discovers a strange, extraterrestrial object underneath their home. Sara and her kids e...
Over Your Dead Body
N/A
A dysfunctional couple head to a remote cabin to “reconnect”, but each has secret intentions to kill the other.