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{{Short description|American actor (born 1936)}}
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'''Bruce MacLeish Dern''' (born June 4, 1936)
A member of the [[Actors Studio]], he rose to prominence during the [[New Hollywood]] era through roles in films such as ''[[The Trip (1967 film)|The Trip]]'' (1967), ''[[They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (film)|They Shoot Horses, Don't They?]]'' (1969), ''[[The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant]]'' (1971), and ''[[The Cowboys]]'' (1972). Other notable films include ''[[The Laughing Policeman (film)|The Laughing Policeman]]'' (1973), ''[[The Great Gatsby (1974 film)|The Great Gatsby]]'' (1974), ''[[Posse (1975 film)|Posse]]'' (1975), ''[[Family Plot]]'' (1976), ''[[Black Sunday (1977 film)|Black Sunday]]'' (1977), ''[[The Driver]]'' (1978), ''[[Tattoo (1981 film)|Tattoo]]'' (1981), ''[[That Championship Season (1982 film)|That Championship Season]]'' (1982), ''[[The 'Burbs]]'' (1989), ''[[Last Man Standing (1996 film)|Last Man Standing]]'' (1996), ''[[Monster (2003 film)|Monster]]'' (2003), ''[[Down in the Valley (film)|Down in the Valley]]'' (2005), ''[[Chappaquiddick (film)|Chappaquiddick]]'' (2017), and ''[[Emperor (2020 film)|Emperor]]'' (2020). He played Frank Harlow in the [[HBO]] series ''[[Big Love]]'' (2006–2011).
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==Early life==
Dern was born June 4, 1936, in [[Chicago]], the son of Jean (née MacLeish; 1908–1972) and John Dern (1903–1958), a utility chief and attorney.<ref name=memoir>{{Cite book |title=Bruce Dern: A Memoir |last1=Dern |first1=Bruce |last2=Fryer |first2=Christopher |last3=Crane |first3=Robert |isbn=978-0813147130 |date=November 18, 2014 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky}}{{
==Career==
[[File:Bruce Dern Cannes 2013.jpg|thumb|Dern at the [[2013 Cannes Film Festival]]]]{{BLP sources|date=March 2023}}
Dern studied at the [[Actors Studio]], alongside [[Elia Kazan]] and [[Lee Strasberg]]. He starred with [[Lyle Kessler]] in the Philadelphia premiere of [[Samuel Beckett]]'s ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'', and starred with [[Paul Newman]] and [[Geraldine Page]] in the original Broadway run of [[Tennessee Williams]]' ''[[Sweet Bird of Youth]]''.
In the 1960s, Dern played the sailor in a few flashbacks in ''[[Marnie (film)|Marnie]]'' and a murdered lover in ''[[Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte]]''. He played a murderous rustler in ''[[Hang 'Em High]]'', a gunfighter in ''[[Support Your Local Sheriff!]]'', and an impoverished farmer in the film adaptation of [[Horace McCoy]]'s novel ''[[They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (film)|They Shoot Horses, Don't They?]]''.
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In [[Mark Rydell]]'s western film ''[[The Cowboys]]'', he played a cattle thief who kills a rancher ([[John Wayne]]). Dern had a leading role in the ecological science-fiction film ''[[Silent Running]]'' and co-starred with [[Jack Nicholson]] in ''[[The King of Marvin Gardens]]''. Dern played Tom Buchanan in the film adaptation of [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]'s novel ''[[The Great Gatsby (1974 film)|The Great Gatsby]]'' (1974). In [[Kirk Douglas]]' [[Revisionist Western]] film ''[[Posse (1975 film)|Posse]]'', Dern played a train-robber who uses his wiles to turn the tables on his captor, an ambitious, politically minded [[United States Marshals Service|marshal]]. Dern starred in the beauty pageant satire film ''[[Smile (1975 film)|Smile]]'', and in [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s final film ''[[Family Plot]]''. He played a detective on the trail of a getaway driver ([[Ryan O'Neal]]) in the [[neo-noir]] film ''[[The Driver]]''. In [[John Frankenheimer]]'s thriller film ''[[Black Sunday (1977 film)|Black Sunday]]'', Dern played a vengeful Vietnam War veteran and [[Goodyear Blimp]] pilot who launches a massive terrorist attack at the [[Super Bowl]]. Dern played another Vietnam veteran and the disturbed husband of a perplexed woman ([[Jane Fonda]]) in [[Hal Ashby]]'s war film ''[[Coming Home (1978 film)|Coming Home]]'', and was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]].
In [[Bob Brooks (film director)|Bob Brooks]]' [[erotic thriller]] film ''[[Tattoo (1981 film)|Tattoo]]'', Dern played an increasingly-deranged tattoo artist who imprisons a fashion model ([[Maud Adams]]). The film was dogged by controversy throughout its post-production and pre-release phase - the film's release was delayed by nearly a year - and for his lead performance, Dern
Over the next few decades, Dern played a Vietnam veteran and neighborhood survivalist in [[Joe Dante]]'s suburban satire ''[[The 'Burbs]]'', a local crime boss in Michael Ritchie's ''[[Diggstown]]'', a rival of [[Wild Bill Hickok]] in [[Walter Hill]]'s ''[[Wild Bill (1995 film)|Wild Bill]]'', and [[George Spahn]] in [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s ''[[Once Upon a Time in Hollywood]]''. Dern's autobiography, ''Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have: An Unrepentant Memoir'', was published in 2007.
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===Directors and craft===
In the course of his long and prolific career, Dern collaborated with film directors, including Walter Hill (''[[The Driver]]'', ''Wild Bill'' and ''[[Last Man Standing (1996 film)|Last Man Standing]]''), Joe Dante (''The 'Burbs'', ''[[Small Soldiers]]'' and ''[[The Hole (2009 film)|The Hole]]''), and Quentin Tarantino (''[[Django Unchained]]'', ''[[The Hateful Eight]]'' and ''Once Upon a Time in Hollywood''). In an interview for [[The A.V. Club]], Dern said: "I always say that I feel like I've worked for six geniuses in my career... And the six directors, not in any order, would be Mr. Kazan, Mr. Hitchcock, [[Douglas Trumbull]], Alexander Payne, Quentin Tarantino, and [[Francis Ford Coppola|Francis Coppola.]]"<ref>{{cite web|title=Bruce Dern traces his career progression from "fifth cowboy from the right" to American icon|url=https://www.avclub.com/bruce-dern-traces-his-career-progression-from-fifth-co-1820481651|work=The A.V. Club|date=November 21, 2017 |access-date=May 1, 2021}}</ref> In an interview with [[Josh Olson]] and Joe Dante for the [[podcast]] series ''The Movies That Made Me'', and while discussing his career, Dern cited the films of [[David Lean]] (specifically, ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'', ''[[Great Expectations (1946 film)|Great Expectations]]'' and ''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]''), as among the films that inspired him.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Movies That Made Me season 4 episode 11: Bruce Dern|url=https://trailersfromhell.com/podcast/bruce-dern/|work=Trailers from Hell|access-date=May 1, 2021}}</ref>When asked if he has ever contemplated retirement, Dern said: "If you think I'm gonna retire so [[James Caan|Jimmy fucking Caan]] can get another part from me, you're dead wrong. Because I'm gonna go till I'm 100. My goal is to do stuff with older characters that people never got the chance to do, because they never lived long enough... And because I don't have anything else I can do."<ref>{{cite web|title=Bruce Dern on meeting 'fragile' Marilyn Monroe and why he won't retire|url=https://nypost.com/2019/09/05/bruce-dern-on-meeting-fragile-marilyn-monroe-and-why-he-wont-retire/|work=New York Post|date=September 5, 2019 |access-date=May 1, 2021}}</ref>{{Unreliable source|date=August 2024|certain=y|reason=[[WP:NEWYORKPOST]]}}
==Personal life==
Dern was married to Marie Dawn Pierce from 1957 to 1959.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gordon |first1=Roger L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FFFyDwAAQBAJ |title=Supporting Actors in Motion Pictures |volume=2 |publisher=Dorrance Publishing |year=2018 |page=160 |isbn=978-1480958418 |access-date=February 10, 2020 }}</ref> He married [[Diane Ladd]] in 1960. Their first daughter, Diane Elizabeth Dern (born November 29, 1960), died from head injuries after falling into a swimming pool on May 18, 1962.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/diane-ladd/ |title=Diane Ladd |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=February 10, 2020 |quote=Diane died at just 18 months after she sustained a head injury from falling into a swimming pool. }}</ref> The couple's second daughter is actress [[Laura Dern]] (born February 10, 1967). After his divorce from Ladd, Dern married Andrea Beckett on October 20, 1969 in [[Carson City, Nevada]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2014/02/18/actor-nominated-for-oscar-married-in-carson-city-/5556775/|title=Actor nominated for Oscar married in Carson City|website=Reno Gazette Journal}}</ref>
==Filmography==
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| ''[[The Artist's Wife]]''<ref>{{
| Richard Smythson
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| Papa Joe
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| Rock
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| ''[[Route 66 (TV series)|Route 66]]''
| Albert
| Season 1 Episode 4: "The Man on the Monkey Board"
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| rowspan="8" | 1961
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Naked City (TV series)|Naked City]]''
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| Season 2 Episode 10: "Bullets Cost Too Much"
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| Hollis
| Season 2 Episode 20: "The Fault in Our Stars" (uncredited)
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| ''[[Sea Hunt]]''
| FBI Agent John Furillo
| Season 4 Episode 37: "Crime at Sea"
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| ''[[Surfside 6]]''
| Johnny Page
| Season 2 Episode 4: "Daphne, Girl Detective"
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| ''[[Thriller (American TV series)|Thriller]]''
| Johnny Norton
| Season 2 Episode 13: "The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk"
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| ''[[Ben Casey]]''
| Billy Harris
| Season 1 Episode 12: "A Dark Night for Billy Harris"
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| ''[[The Detectives (1959 TV series)|The Detectives]]''
| Jud Treadwell
| Season 3 Episode 12: "Act of God"
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| ''[[Cain's Hundred]]''
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| Season 1 Episode 1: "Crime and Commitment: Part 1"
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| 1962
| ''[[Cain's Hundred]]''
| Eddie Light
| Season 1 Episode 29: "The Left Side of Canada"
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| 1962
| ''[[The Dick Powell Show]]''
| Deering
| Season 1 Episode 19: "Squadron"
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| 1962–1963
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| rowspan="5" | 1963
| ''[[The Dick Powell Show]]''
| Hank Fairbrother
| Season 2 Episode 29: "The Old Man and the City"
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| ''[[Kraft Suspense Theatre]]''
| Maynard
| Season 1 Episode 9: "The Hunt"
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| ''[[The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|The Outer Limits]]''
| Ben Garth
| Season 1 Episode 14: "[[The Zanti Misfits]]"
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| ''[[Wagon Train]]''
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| Season 7 Episode 9: "The Eli Bancroft Story"
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| ''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]''
| Deputy Martin
| Season 1 Episode 3: "The Other Side of the Mountain"
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| rowspan="9" | 1964
| rowspan="2" | ''[[The Virginian (TV series)|The Virginian]]''
| Pell
| Season 2 Episode 20: "First to Thine Own Self"
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| Lee Darrow
| Season 3 Episode 14: "The Payment"
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| ''[[Wagon Train]]''
| Jud Fisher
| Season 8 Episode 8: "Those Who Stay Behind"
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| ''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]''
| Charley
| Season 1 Episode 17: "Come Watch Me Die"
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| ''[[77 Sunset Strip]]''
| Ralph Wheeler
| Season 6 Episode 15: "Lovers' Lane"
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| ''[[The Greatest Show on Earth (TV series)|The Greatest Show on Earth]]''
| Vernon
| Season 1 Episode 22: "The Last of the Strongmen"
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| rowspan="2" | ''[[The Alfred Hitchcock Hour]]''
| Roy Bullock
| Season 2 Episode 15: "Night Caller"
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| Jesse
| Season 3 Episode 6: "Lonely Place"
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| rowspan="4" | ''[[12 O'Clock High (TV series)|12 O'Clock High]]''
| Lieutenant Michaels
| Season 1 Episode 1: "Golden Boy Had Nine Black Sheep"
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| rowspan="13" | 1965
| Lieutenant Danton
| Season 1 Episode 18: "The Lorelei"
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| Lieutenant Michaels
| Season 1 Episode 27: "The Mission"
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| Technical Sergeant Frank Jones
| Season 2 Episode 13: "The Jones Boys"
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| ''[[The Virginian (TV series)|The Virginian]]''
| Bert Kramer
| Season 4 Episode 3: "A Little Learning"
|-
| ''[[Wagon Train]]''
| Wilkins
| Season 8 Episode 24: "The Indian Girl Story"
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| rowspan="2" | ''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]''
| Cody
| Season 2 Episode 21: "Corner of Hell"
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| Hank
| Season 3 Episode 13: "The Good Guys and the Bad Guys"
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| ''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]''
| Ed Rankin
| Season 8 Episode 4: "Walk into Terror"
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| ''[[Laredo (TV series)|Laredo]]''
| Joe Durkee
| Season 1 Episode 4: "Rendezvous at Arillo"
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| ''[[A Man Called Shenandoah]]''
| Bobby Ballantine
| Season 1 Episode 7: "The Verdict"
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| ''[[The F.B.I. (TV series)|The F.B.I.]]''
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| Season 1 Episode 14: "Pound of Flesh"
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| rowspan="3" | ''[[Gunsmoke]]''
| Doyle Phleger
| Season 11 Episode 4: "Ten Little Indians"
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| Judd Print
| Season 11 Episode 11: "South Wind"
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| rowspan="9" | 1966
| Lou Stone
| Season 12 Episode 3: "The Jailer"
|-
| ''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]''
| Hutch
| Season 4 Episode 12: "The Devil's Disciples"
|-
| ''[[Branded (TV series)|Branded]]''
| Les
| Season 2 Episode 17: "The Wolfers"
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| ''[[The Loner (TV series)|The Loner]]''
| Lud Grant
| Season 1 Episode 26: "To Hang a Dead Man"
|-
| ''[[Disney anthology television series|Disneyland]]''
| Turk
| Season 13 Episode 8: "Gallegher Goes West: Crusading Reporter"
|-
| ''[[Run for Your Life (TV series)|Run for Your Life]]''
| Alex Ryder
| Season 2 Episode 9: "The Treasure Seekers"
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| rowspan="4" | ''[[The Big Valley]]''
| Jack Follet
| Season 1 Episode 20: "Under a Dark Star"
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| Harry Dixon
| Season 1 Episode 26: "By Force and Violence"
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| Clovis
| Season 2 Episode 1: "The Lost Treasure"
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| rowspan="2" | 1967
| Gabe Skeels
| Season 3 Episode 12: "Four Days to Furnace Hill"
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| ''[[Run for Your Life (TV series)|Run for Your Life]]''
| Alex Ryder
| Season 3 Episode 5: "Trip to the Far Side"<br>Season 3 Episode 7: "At the End of the Rainbow There's Another Rainbow"
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| rowspan="4" | 1968
| ''[[Lancer (TV series)|Lancer]]''
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| Season 1 Episode 6: "Julie"
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| ''[[The Big Valley]]''
| John Weaver
| Season 4 Episode 11: "The Prize"
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| ''[[The F.B.I. (TV series)|The F.B.I.]]''
| Virgil Roy Phipps
| Season 4 Episode 7: "The Nightmare"
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| ''[[Bonanza]]''
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| Season 9 Episode 15: "The Trackers"
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| rowspan="3" | 1969
| ''[[Lancer (TV series)|Lancer]]''
| Tom Nevill
| Season 2 Episode 9: "A Person Unknown"
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| ''[[Gunsmoke]]''
| Guerin
| Season 14 Episode 21: "The Long Night"
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| ''[[Then Came Bronson]]''
| Bucky O'Neill
| Season 1 Episode 6: "Amid Splinters of the Thunderbolt"
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| rowspan="4" | 1970
| ''[[Bonanza]]''
| Bayliss
| Season 11 Episode 23: "The Gold Mine"
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| ''[[Land of the Giants]]''
| Thorg
| Season 2 Episode 24: "Wild Journey"
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| ''[[The High Chaparral]]''
| Wade
| Season 4 Episode 3: "Only the Bad Come to Sonora"
|-
| ''[[The Immortal (1970 TV series)|The Immortal]]''
| Luther Seacombe
| Season 1 Episode 13: "To the Gods Alone"
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| rowspan="2" | 1985
| ''[[Space (miniseries)|Space]]''
| Stanley Mott
| 5 episodes: "Part I", "Part II", "Part III", "Part IV", "Part V"
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| ''[[Toughlove]]''
| Rob Charters
| rowspan="13" | Television film
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| rowspan="2" | 1987
| ''[[Roses Are for the Rich]]''
| Douglas Osborne
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| ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987 film)|Uncle Tom's Cabin]]''
| Augustine St. Claire
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| 1989
| ''[[Trenchcoat in Paradise]]''
| John Hollander
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| 1990
| ''[[The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson]]''
| Scout Ed Higgins
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| rowspan="2" | 1991
| ''[[Into the Badlands (film)|Into the Badlands]]''
| T.L. Barston
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| ''Carolina Skeletons''
| Junior Stoker
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| 1993
| ''It's Nothing Personal''
| Billy Archer
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| rowspan="2" | 1994
| ''Dead Man's Revenge''
| Payton McCay
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| ''[[Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight]]''
| George Putnam
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| rowspan="2" | 1995
| ''[[A Mother's Prayer]]''
| John Walker
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| ''[[Mrs. Munck]]''
| Patrick Leary
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| 1999
| ''Hard Time: The Premonition''
| Winston
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| rowspan="2" | 2003
| ''[[King of the Hill]]''
| Randy Strickland (voice)
| Season 7 Episode 11: "Boxing Luanne"
|-
| ''[[Hard Ground]]''
| Nate Hutchinson
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| ''[[CSI: NY]]''
| Vet
| Season 4 Episode 6: "[[CSI: NY season 4#ep77|Boo]]"
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| 2013
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| rowspan="2" | 2019
| ''[[Black Monday (TV series)|Black Monday]]''
| Rod "The Jammer" Jaminski
| Season 1 Episode 5: "243"<br>Season 1 Episode 10: "0"
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| ''[[Mr. Mercedes (TV series)|Mr. Mercedes]]''
| John Rothstein
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| ''[[Palm Royale]]''
| Skeet
| [[Miniseries]]<br>Season 1 Episode 4: "Maxine Rolls the Dice"<br>Season 1 Episode 5: "Maxine Shakes the Tree"<br>Season 1 Episode 6: "Maxine Takes a Step"
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| ''[[3D Realms|Shadow Stalkers]]''
| The Director
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| 2020
| ''MegaRace: DeathMatch''
| Rabies
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