Bill Pullman

Born: 1953-12-17

William Pullman (born December 17, 1953) is an American actor. After graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree in theater, he was an adjunct professor at Montana State University before deciding to pursue acting. He made his film debut in Ruthless People (1986), and starred in Spaceballs (1987), The Accidental Tourist (1988), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), While You Were Sleeping (1995), Casper (1995), Independence Day (1996), Lost Highway (1997), and Lake Placid (1999). He has appeared frequently on television, usually in TV films. Starting in the 2000s he has also acted in miniseries and regular series, such as Torchwood (2011), starring roles in 1600 Penn (2012–13) and The Sinner (2017–2021). In 2021, he had a recurring role in the miniseries Halston.


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as Brian Plummer
Released: 2014-09-24

McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a...

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as President Thomas J. Whitmore
Released: 1996-06-25

Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's...

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as Brian Plummer
Released: 2018-07-19

Robert McCall, who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, embarks on a...

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Scary Movie 4

as Henry Hale
Released: 2006-04-12

Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find...

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Casper

as Dr. James Harvey
Released: 1995-05-26

Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James...

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as Walter
Released: 1993-06-24

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father...

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Independence Day: Resurgence

as President Whitmore
Released: 2016-06-22

We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth...

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The Grudge

as Peter Kirk
Released: 2004-10-22

An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one...

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The High Note

as Max
Released: 2020-06-10

Set in the dazzling world of the LA music scene comes the story of Grace Davis, a superstar...

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as Lone Starr
Released: 1987-06-24

When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's...

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Brokedown Palace

as Hank Greene
Released: 1999-08-13

Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In...

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While You Were Sleeping

as Jack Callaghan
Released: 1995-04-21

A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a...

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Lost Highway

as Fred Madison
Released: 1997-01-15

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder,...

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as Krueger
Released: 2015-08-19

Mike is an unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is...

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Mr. Jones

as Construction Site Foreman
Released: 1993-10-08

The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor...

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Lake Placid

as Jack Wells
Released: 1999-07-15

When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a...

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A League of Their Own

as Bob Hinson
Released: 1992-07-01

As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional...

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Wyatt Earp

as Ed Masterson
Released: 1994-06-24

From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing...

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Sommersby

as Orin Meecham
Released: 1993-02-05

Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm...

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The Last Seduction

as Clay Gregory
Released: 1994-05-26

A devious femme fatale steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she...

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Malice

as Andy Sarafian
Released: 1993-09-29

A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants,...

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as Captain Korso (voice)
Released: 2000-06-16

A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the...

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as Harry Dietzler
Released: 2019-11-22

A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths...

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The Serpent and the Rainbow

as Dennis Alan
Released: 1988-02-05

A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the...

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LBJ

as Ralph Yarborough
Released: 2017-11-03

The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White...

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Newsies

as Bryan Denton
Released: 1992-04-10

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York....

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Battle of the Sexes

as Jack Kramer
Released: 2017-09-22

The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ...

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Peacock

as Edmund French
Released: 2010-04-20

A train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's bank clerk.

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Cymbeline

as Sicilius Leonatus
Released: 2014-09-03

War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire.

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Ruthless People

as Earl James Mott
Released: 1986-06-26

A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation—without knowing that...

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Lucky Numbers

as Detective Pat Lakewood
Released: 2000-10-27

Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate...

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Brain Dead

as Dr. Rex Martin
Released: 1990-01-16

In a battle of man versus machine, Martin, a top neurosurgeon who's studying brain malfunctions...

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Singles

as Dr. Jeffrey Jamison
Released: 1992-09-18

A group of young adults in their twenties, who share an apartment in the city of Seattle, ponder...

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The Coldest Game

as Joshua Mansky
Released: 2019-11-08

Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and...

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The Killer Inside Me

as Billy Boy Walker
Released: 2010-02-19

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and...

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Nobel Son

as Det. Max Mariner
Released: 2007-04-28

Soon after his insufferably arrogant father wins the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Barkley...

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Walking Out

as Clyde
Released: 2017-01-21

A city teen travels to Montana to go hunting with his estranged father, only for the strained...

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The Unbelievers

as Self
Released: 2013-12-13

Scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss travel the globe promoting a scientific worldview...

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Surveillance

as Sam Hallaway
Released: 2008-02-08

An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom...

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Igby Goes Down

as Jason
Released: 2002-09-13

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of...

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Bottle Shock

as Jim Barrett
Released: 2008-09-05

Paris-based wine expert Steven Spurrier heads to California in search of cheap wine that he can...

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Zero Effect

as Daryl Zero
Released: 1998-01-30

Daryl Zero is a private investigator and—along with his assistant, Steve Arlo—he solves...

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Too Big to Fail

as Jamie Dimon
Released: 2011-11-25

An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who...

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The Accidental Tourist

as Julian Hedge
Released: 1988-12-23

After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life....

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Lola Versus

as Lenny
Released: 2012-04-24

Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a...

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Phoebe in Wonderland

as Peter Lichten
Released: 2008-02-07

The fantastical tale of a little girl who won't - or can't - follow the rules. Confounded by her...

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Alien Autopsy

as Morgan Banner
Released: 2006-04-07

Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having...

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Tiger Cruise

as Gary Dolan
Released: 2004-08-06

On its last leg homeward, from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to San Diego, the USS Constellation hosts a...

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The Ballad of Lefty Brown

as Lefty Brown
Released: 2017-12-15

Aging sidekick Lefty Brown has ridden with Eddie Johnson his entire life. But when a rustler...

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The Guilty

as Callum Crane
Released: 2000-06-01

Callum Crane, a lawyer and would-be federal judge, jeopardizes his chances at a judgeship by...

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Dear Wendy

as Krugsby
Released: 2005-02-04

In a blue-collar American town, a group of teens bands together to form the Dandies, a gang of...

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Brother Nature

as Jerry Turley
Released: 2016-09-09

Roger, a straight-laced politician has big plans to propose to his dream girl at her family's...

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You Kill Me

as Dave
Released: 2007-02-09

While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who...

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Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion

as Self
Released: 1996-06-30

A "mockumentary" of the alien invasion during Independence Day. Barry Nolan hosts the programme,...

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Mistrial

as Steve Donohue
Released: 1996-11-02

When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of...

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Sibling Rivalry

as Nicholas Meany
Released: 1990-10-26

Marjorie Turner is suffocating. Her younger sister Jeanine has no ambition, and her 8 year...

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Yellowstone

as (voice)
Released: 2020-07-30

This documentary is in fact the theatrically released episode of 'Epic Yellowstone: Return of...

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The Virginian

as The Virginian
Released: 2000-01-09

A cowboy finds himself betrayed by his best friend and must choose between bringing him to...

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Rio Sex Comedy

as William
Released: 2010-09-16

A group of strangers from different countries end up on Rio's beaches. Seeking self-fulfillment,...

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May in the Summer

as Edward
Released: 2014-05-07

A bride-to-be is forced to reevaluate her life when she reunites with her family in Jordan and...

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29 Palms

as The Ticket Clerk
Released: 2002-07-29

When a bag filled with money goes missing from a casino, the Hitman (Chris O'Donnell) must...

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Red Sky

as John Webster
Released: 2014-03-12

Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a WMD. Masters...

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The End of Violence

as Mike
Released: 1997-09-12

Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action...

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Innocent

as Rusty Sabich
Released: 2011-11-29

Judge Rusty Sabich is charged with the murder of his wife, a situation that comes 20 years after...

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Bringing Up Bobby

as Kent
Released: 2011-11-25

Bringing Up Bobby is the story of a European con-artist and her son Bobby, who find themselves...

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The Favor

as Peter
Released: 1994-04-29

On the eve of her high school reunion, bored housewife Kathy convinces her single best friend...

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Bright Angel

as Bob
Released: 1990-11-01

In Montana, naive teenager George longs to escape from his broken home before his dysfunctional...

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Going Under

as Biff Banner
Released: 1991-08-23

An American submarine races to get a nuclear weapon before a Russian submarine.

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Mr. Wrong

as Whitman Crawford
Released: 1996-02-16

A single and lonely woman finds the seemingly perfect man to date, but soon regrets it when his...

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Rocket Gibraltar

as Crow Black
Released: 1988-09-02

A man's family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their...

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National Theatre Live: All My Sons

as Joe Keller
Released: 2019-05-14

America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success...

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Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

as Self
Released: 1997-10-14

An in-depth look at artist/filmmaker David Lynch's movies, paintings, drawings, photographs, and...

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Another Day: The Making of 'Independence Day: Resurgence'

as Self
Released: 2016-06-18

Interviews about the making of the film and behind the scenes footage

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Liebestraum

as Paul Kessler
Released: 1991-09-13

A man returns to his hometown and a series of dark secrets are revealed.

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Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2013-05-20

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live...

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Crazy in Love

as Nick Symonds
Released: 1992-08-10

Three generations of women live on a small island off the coast of Washington state with their...

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Ignition

as Conor Gallagher
Released: 2002-01-17

A web of intrigue and conspiracy lies beneath the euphoria as the U.S. is about to put a man on...

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The Fruit Hunters

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2012-11-23

The Fruit Hunters explores the little known subculture and history of rare fruit hunters who...

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Spy Games

as Harry Howe / Ernie Halliday
Released: 1999-09-10

A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene...

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Trouble

as Ben
Released: 2018-12-20

A feuding brother and sister entangle the fate of an old friend.

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John Candy: Comic Spirit

as Self
Released: 2005-05-03

A tribute to the late John Candy from the cast of Spaceballs.

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Home Fires Burning

as Lt. Henry Tibbettes
Released: 1989-01-29

When a WW2 veteran comes back home, he realizes how the war affected Americans by seeing the...

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A Thousand Junkies

as Bill Pullman
Released: 2017-07-24

Things grow more and more desperate, and ridiculous, as three heroin addicts drive all over Los...

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Killing Faith

as Ross
Released:

In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and...

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Rick

as Rick O'Lette
Released: 2003-09-06

"Rigoletto" retold at Christmas time in Manhattan's corporate world. Rick, an executive at...

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Kingdom Come

as Self
Released: 2012-04-28

The documentary, Kingdom Come follows a first-time director (Daniel Gillies) as he tries to...

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A Man Is Mostly Water

as Parking Fascist
Released: 2000-10-12

The lives of two unambitious duplex neighbors, divorced father, hot-tempered, blues-obsessed...

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Nervous Ticks

as York Daley
Released: 1992-03-01

A comedy about a man (Bill Pullman), who is on the run after his mistress (Julie Brown)...

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The Making of 'Independence Day'

as Self
Released: 1996-06-29

We take a look at various fields of development for the motion picture, Independence Day (1996)....

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Blood Drips Heavily on Newsie Square

as Self
Released: 1991-01-01

Washed up actor Don Knotts shows up on the back lot of Universal Studios in Hollywood,...

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Your Name Here

as William J. Frick
Released: 2008-06-13

The lines between reality and perception blur in this comic journey into the life and mind...

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Cold Feet

as Buck
Released: 1989-05-19

Three criminals run into complications when they attempt to smuggle emeralds across the Mexican...

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Merry Christmas, George Bailey!

as George Bailey
Released: 1997-12-25

Performance of the 1947 Lux Radio version of "It's a Wonderful Life", taped live in the historic...

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American Horses

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2022-02-23

American horses are icons. Mustang. Appaloosa. Morgan. Quarter Horse. Each breed has a unique...

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Phone

as Duke
Released: 1992-05-12

One late Saturday night In Los Angeles a phone call embroils two couples in an uncanny stalking...

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Parables of War

as Self
Released: 2015-04-26

Three men, one an actor, one a dancer and the other a soldier, are all casualties of war in some...

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The War of 1996: A United World News Special

as President Whitmore
Released: 2016-10-18

A faux news documentary about the 20 years that have passed between the first and second...

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Kurt Moss
First aired: 1999-09-20

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In...

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LIVE with Kelly and Mark

as uncredited
First aired: 1988-09-05

A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind...

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Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host
First aired: 1975-10-11

A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The...

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The Graham Norton Show

as Self - Guest
First aired: 2007-02-22

Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on...

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The Sinner

as Harry Ambrose
First aired: 2017-08-02

In a small New York town, a haunted detective hunts for answers about perplexing crimes while...

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Nature

as Narrator (voice)
First aired: 1982-10-10

Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the...

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Cagney & Lacey

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-03-25

Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing...

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Torchwood

as Oswald Danes
First aired: 2006-10-22

The exploits a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the...

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Fallen Angels

as Rich Thurber
First aired: 1993-08-01

A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and...

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Skavlan

as Self - Guest
First aired: 2009-01-16

Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik...

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Night Visions

as Major Ben Darnell
First aired: 2001-07-12

Horror anthology series, with each episode comprising two half-hour stories dealing with themes...

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Revelations

as Dr. Richard Massey
First aired: 2005-04-13

Set just before the start of Armageddon, the series will follow two central characters, a...

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The Tracey Ullman Show

as Sheldon Moss
First aired: 1987-04-05

The Tracey Ullman Show is an American television variety show, hosted by British-born comedian...

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1600 Penn

as President Dale Gilchrist
First aired: 2012-12-17

1600 Penn is an American single camera television comedy series about a dysfunctional family...

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Halston

as David Mahoney
First aired: 2021-05-14

His name built an empire. His style defined an era. American fashion designer Halston skyrockets...

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Cursed Films

as Self
First aired: 2020-04-02

A documentary series exploring the myths and legends behind some of Hollywood’s notoriously...

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The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn

as Self
First aired: 1999-03-30

Craig Kilborn hosted this zany talk show, which followed David Letterman's show, from 1999 until...

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The Rosie O'Donnell Show

as Self
First aired: 1996-06-10

The Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by...

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Epic Yellowstone

as Narrator (voice)
First aired: 2019-03-10

Bill Pullman introduces and narrates this four-part documentary on the world's first national...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Henry Tibbetts
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Murdaugh Murders: The Movie

as Alex Murdaugh
First aired: 2023-10-14

South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh becomes the prime suspect in the double homicide of his...

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