Biography
An American actor, writer and director. He is known for his role in Napoleon Dynamite as Uncle Rico, and more recently "Lost" as Roger Linus, "Taken" as Casey, and "The Pretender" as Broots. From early roles like Lazlo Hollyfeld in "Real Genius" to the suspicious Greg Hunt in "White Lotus" his career spans across genres, showcasing his talent in both comedic and dramatic roles.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Solvent
2024
as Gunner S. Holbrook
While searching for Nazi documents in an Austrian farmhouse, a team of experts uncovers a hidden secret buried in its bowels. American expatriate Gunn...

Bits
2024
"Bits" follows a young woman in small town Montana who catches the attention of a serial killer on the hunt. When his pursuit ends abruptly, the young...

Only the Good Survive
2023
as Cult Leader
After a heist gone wrong and results in the deaths of all three of her friends, Brea finds herself in the custody of the small town sheriff, who may b...

Wish Upon a Unicorn
2020
as Bud
Two children discover that their mother is gone. The youngest of the pair, adventurer and upcomming singer, Long Johnson forces his older sister, Lily...

Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
2020
as Self
The final volume of Time Warp digs deep into what makes us laugh over and over again as we reveal the greatest cult comedies and campy classics of all...

3 Days with Dad
2019
as Tim
The last thing Eddie Mills wants to do is go home to deal with his dying Dad. But the Catholic guilt gnaws at him, and he returns home to his crazy fa...

Glass Jaw
2018
as Sam Austin
Glass Jaw is the redemption story of Travis Austin, a one time champion boxer who goes to prison and loses everything. After his release, he experienc...

All About the Money
2017
as Jon Waters
Two "down on their luck" buddies are convinced by a third to take a vacation. Only after landing in the third world country do they realize that they ...

The Axe Murders of Villisca
2017
as Greg
Three ghost-hunting high-schoolers visit the Moore House in Villisca, Iowa—the site of one of America’s most grisly unsolved mass murders. After their...

You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night
2016
as Himself
An extensive look at the making of Fright Night (1985) and Fright Night Part 2 (1988) featuring exclusive interviews with cast and crew members, rare ...

Operation Chromite
2016
as Hoyt Vandenberg
A squad of soldiers fight in the Korean War's crucial Battle of Incheon.

Operation Chromite
2016
as Gen Hoyt Vandenberg
A squad of soldiers fight in the Korean War's crucial Battle of Incheon.

Falsely Accused
2016
as Gus
When a young woman is falsely accused of murdering her brother, she must catch the real killer to prove her innocence. Along the way she encounters un...

Durant's Never Closes
2016
as Dizzy Dean
The story of Jack Durant, notorious restaurateur and ladies man whose connections to the mafia remain a mystery. Direced by Travis Mills.

Endgame
2015
as Principal Thomas
Since he was 5 yrs old, Jose's abuelita taught him to play chess like his grandfather who was a champion in Mexico. Now as part of the Brownsville sch...

Pass the Light
2015
as Franklin
Pass the Light tells the story of Steve Bellafiore, an 17 year old high school senior who decides to run for Congress in order to protect the faith th...

머니 게임 - 월스트리트
2015
as Billy
A broken down collegiate football hero gets a shot at stardom during the eleventh hour of LA's nihilistic sub-prime mortgage boom.

Taken 3
2014
as Mark Casey
Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a sa...

Bad Turn Worse
2014
as Sheriff Shep
Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-e...

The Last Survivors
2014
as Carson
In the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a 17-year-o...

Locker 13
2014
as Archie
The story of Skip, a young ex-convict who takes a position as a night janitor at an old-west theme park. His supervisor Archie, teaches him the ropes,...

Eternity: The Movie
2014
as Barry Goldfield, Jr.
Big Hair. Guyliner. Someone lamenting by crashing waves on a beach or to their reflection in a fountain. Yes, we're talking about the 80s! Todd and BJ...

Faults
2014
as Terry
Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the wor...

Skinwalker Ranch
2013
as Hoyt
In 2010 “Skinwalker Ranch” gained media attention after experiencing a wide range of unexplained phenomena. Reports ranged from UFO sightings to live...

Byron's Theme
2013
Meet Nick. Nick loves his dog, Byron. Nick is obsessive compulsive. He loses his tooth. He sleeps with his girlfriend's twin sister. He gets stranded ...

A True Story
2013
as Richard Simpkins
Mike and Matt own nothing and share everything, including their life's work, a screenplay, which seems to be their only escape from the harsh reality ...

Noobz
2013
as Greg Lipstein
Four friends hit the road to LA to compete in the Cyberbowl Video Game Championship, but will they be able to compete with the worst hangovers of thei...

Taken 2
2012
as Mark Casey
In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.

Unicorn City
2012
as Shadow Hawk
Voss entices local gamers to create a utopia to impress a potential employer, but paradise is disrupted when his nemesis lays claim to the city and Vo...

Five Time Champion
2012
as Melvin Glee
While the young scientist, Julius, steadfastly researches the asexual reproduction of worms, his natural curiosity leads him to discover some inconven...

Deep in the Heart
2012
as Dick Wallrath
An alcoholic man refocuses himself on putting kids through college via 4H and FFA scholarship donations. Guiding him is a spiritual figure he calls "T...

Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
2011
as Tom Sutter
For Robbing the Dead is a story of compassion - compassion toward those who may seem the least deserving of Christian love. It follows the story of He...

The Smell of Success
2011
as Early Dunchamp
When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr. Rose, the genius behind Rose's Manure Company, the livelihood of its loyal fleet of salesmen threatens to ...

Natural Selection
2011
as Peter
When a dutiful, albeit barren Christian housewife discovers that her devout husband has suffered a stroke at a sperm bank where he's been secretly don...
Pickin' and Grinnin'
2010
Director
Johnny and Milo love music, just not the corn dog jingles they've resorted to performing to make ends meet. Facing failure, they decide to travel cros...

Good Intentions
2010
as Sheriff Ernie
Meet Etta Milford. Loving Wife. Doting Mother. Armed Robber. Etta's husband constantly blows their money on make-shift inventions. When she decides to...

Crazy on the Outside
2010
as Edgar
A recently paroled ex-con who has trouble adjusting to the wacky normalcy of life outside of prison. He has spent the last three years behind bars aft...

Elsewhere
2009
as Mr. Tod
A teen girl disappears after trying to meet men online in order to escape her small town. Apparently, only her best friend worries enough to investiga...

Around June
2008
as Murry
A love story set in the shadow of the shipyards of San Francisco. A young woman living with her much adored uncle Henry and domineering, abusive fathe...

South of Heaven
2008
as Hood 1
A man returning from a tour of duty is mistaken for his brother by debt-collecting gangsters, while the brother goes on a killing and kidnapping spree...

Bar Starz
2008
as Ricky Fabulous
Straight-arrow Barry has moved 3000 miles away from lackluster Ohio to attend college in sunny SoCal, and his friend Douglas has come along for the ri...

Taken
2008
as Mark Casey
Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let K...

Frank
2007
as Colin York
A young urban family spends summers on an idyllic island. When an abandoned, mangy mutt wanders onto the property, the dad alerts Animal Control - but...

The Comebacks
2007
as Barber
Out-of-luck coach Lambeau Fields takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this lif...
Fathom
2007
A lone beachcomber, searching for treasure on a deserted beach, finds more than he bargained for.

September Dawn
2007
as John D. Lee
A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of settlers, traveling o...

American Pastime
2007
as Ed Tully
American Pastime tells a poignant story set against the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. Rounded up and uprooted from their eve...

The Astronaut Farmer
2007
as FBI Agent Killbourne
Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unli...

Car Babes
2006
as Gary
A coming of age story about the quirky lives of car salesman.

Stick It
2006
as Brice Graham
Haley is a naturally gifted athlete but, with her social behavior, the teen seems intent on squandering her abilities. After a final brush with the la...

The Sasquatch Gang
2006
as Chilcutt
Young fantasy and science fiction aficionado Gavin Gore and his friends stumble onto some huge footprints in the woods. A local cop, reporter, and a r...

Waterborne
2005
as Carlton
Heera Bhatti, an American-Sikh, runs a corner store in Los Angeles with the help of her son, Vikram, and Gulu. She does not approve of Vikram's Caucas...

Waterborne
2005
as Ritter
Heera Bhatti, an American-Sikh, runs a corner store in Los Angeles with the help of her son, Vikram, and Gulu. She does not approve of Vikram's Caucas...

Confessions of an Action Star
2005
as Donald Buckheim
A 'mockumentary' on the rise and fall of Chip and Dales dancer turned martial arts action star, Francis Allen Sledgewick, AKA Frank Sledge. When fame ...

Last Best Chance
2005
as Bernard Wheeler
Thriller about governments around the world racing to attempt to stop a terrorist organization from gaining loose nuclear weapons and supplies before ...

Napoleon Dynamite
2004
as Uncle Rico
A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with ...

The Rundown
2003
as Harvey
When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's ...

The Snow Walker
2003
as Pierce
A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a loc...

Northfork
2003
as Arnold
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town,...

The Big Empty
2003
as Elron
Struggling actor John Person agrees to drive a blue suitcase from Los Angeles to the small town of Baker, Calif., and hand it over to a mysterious cow...

The Beatnicks
2002
as B Cool
The Beat Nicks are musician Nick Nero and poet Nick Beat, a pair of self-styled truth-seekers who'd better find a gig or they'll be out on the street....

The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
2001
as Broots
Jarod takes a keen interest in an ancient symbol that may unlock secrets about his family. But Miss Parker is hot on Jarod's trail and about to make d...

Jackpot
2001
as Sunny Holiday / Glen Allen Johnson
Sunny Holiday, a middle-aged country singer with dreams of stardom, walks out on his wife and child and hits the road with his manager in a desperate ...

The Pretender 2001
2001
as Broots
Picking up where the television series left off, "The Pretender 2001" features even deeper explorations in the show's mythology, including a revealing...

Twin Falls Idaho
1999
as Lawyer Jay Harrison
Francis and Blake Falls are Siamese twins who live in a neat little room in a rundown hotel. While sharing some organs, Blake is always fit and Franci...

Twin Falls Idaho
1999
Associate Producer
Francis and Blake Falls are Siamese twins who live in a neat little room in a rundown hotel. While sharing some organs, Blake is always fit and Franci...

Men in Black
1997
as Van Driver
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and ...

Casualties
1997
as Bill Summers
A woman tormented by an abusive, sadistic husband desperately tries to find her way out of her predicament. She discovers that she may have found the ...

The Maze
1997
as Dr. Holmes
People are trapped in a solitary building of infinite corridors and rooms where there appears to be no exit yet perhaps it is all part of an experimen...

Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
1996
as Steve
The true story of the disappearance of Sarah Porter. With no help from the police, Sarah's parents are forced to act on their own to find her. They mu...

Get Shorty
1995
as Ronnie Wingate
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror fil...

Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
as Rob Sundheimer
A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexpected direction.

Four Eyes and Six-Guns
1992
Ernest Albright opens his eyeglass store in what he thinks is a thriving community, but soon discovers that his store is just a shabby shack in Tombst...

Fever
1991
as Bobby
Fresh out of prison, all Ray wants is to get back with Lacy, but she's in a stable relationship now with Elliott, a pacifist, and wants nothing to do ...

The Grifters
1990
as Drunk's Friend
A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own a...

Rainbow Drive
1990
as Azzolini
A Hollywood multiple murder is investigated by a homicide cop, despite high-placed efforts to cover up the crime.

Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog
1989
as Max (as Jonathan Gries)
A socially isolated and extremely shy Los Angeles painter finds his dream girl in the form of a struggling actress and finds himself at last finding t...

Kill Me Again
1989
as Alan Swayzie
After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hir...

Fright Night Part 2
1988
as Louie
After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandridge was a serial killer posing as a vampire. But w...

The Monster Squad
1987
as Desperate Man
Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerfu...

Number One with a Bullet
1987
as Bobby Sweet
Number One with a Bullet is a 1987 American police detective film directed by Jack Smight. A pair of detectives is assigned to investigate a murder, a...

Running Scared
1986
as Det. Tony Montoya
Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed them in t...

TerrorVision
1986
as OD
Stanley Putterman installs a state-of-the-art satellite dish in his backyard, soon unleashing a strange monster that leaps off the screen and needs to...

Real Genius
1985
as Lazlo Hollyfeld
When teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn that the military wants to use it as a weapon, they d...
High School U.S.A.
1984
as Leo Bandini
Principal of Excelsior High School deals with a rivalry between student groups and his own interest in the new counselor.

High School U.S.A.
1983
as Dirty Curt
Set in a senior high school class, J.J. pursues the girlfriend of a rival from a higher clique which culminates in a race at the end of the movie betw...

September Gun
1983
as Brian Brian
Ben Sunday, a long-in-tooth gunfighter forms an uneasy alliance with a Catholic nun. The single-minded sister wants to erect a sanctuary for a group o...

Joysticks
1983
as King Vidiot
A successful businessman attempts to shut down a video arcade he believes is harmful to the mental health of children.

Swap Meet
1979
as Doug
The plot: Roy is jealous of Sigi, who attracts Nancy's attention, and has two clumsy guys demolish Sigi's father's T-Burn classic. For the repair of t...

More American Graffiti
1979
as Ron
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.

Sunnyside
1979
as Wild Child
Nick Martin, a young street tough, has a change of heart and attempts to stop the gang violence in his neighborhood.

The Chicken Chronicles
1977
as Tom
A late-1960s teen (Steve Guttenberg) working in a chicken-takeout stand cannot get his mind off his dream-girl (Lisa Reeves).

Helter Skelter
1976
as William Garretson
The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family".

Will Penny
1967
as Horace
Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters....

The Knife Thrower
N/A
as Lew Schätze
A man must overcome his demons in order to save his brother who has been falsely convicted of a crime in a foreign land and sentenced to death.

Carolina Caroline
N/A
A young woman who skips her small town — in search of her estranged mother — alongside a charismatic con man on the run from the law. The duo leave a ...