Philip Baker Hall
Philip Baker Hall (September 10, 1931 – June 12, 2022) was an American actor. Although known primarily as a prolific character actor, he starred in leading roles on films, such as Secret Honor, Hard Eight and Duck. Other films in supporting roles including Say Anything..., Boogie Nights, The Truman Show, Magnolia, The Contender, Zodiac and Argo. Description above from the Wikipedia article Philip Baker Hall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to...
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The Truman Show
as Network ExecutiveTruman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts...
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Five years after they defeated Gozer, the Ghostbusters are out of business. When Dana begins to...
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Bruce Almighty
as Jack BaylorBruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high...
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When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI...
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After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling...
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An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning...
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Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real...
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Zodiac
as Sherwood MorrillA cartoonist teams up with an ace reporter and a law enforcement officer to track down an...
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Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming,...
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When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor...
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Argo
as CIA Director Stansfield Turner (uncredited)As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a...
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Playing It Cool
as GranddadA young man meets and instantly falls in love with an engaged woman.
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The Amityville Horror
as Father CallawayIn 1974, a family of six was brutally murdered. A year later, George and Kathy Lutz and their...
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Air Force One
as U.S. Attorney General WardWhen Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary...
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The Sum of All Fears
as Defense Secretary BeckerWhen the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds...
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Dogville
as Tom Edison Sr.A mysterious woman named Grace hides in a small mountain town from criminals who pursue her. The...
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Say Anything...
as IRS BossLloyd, an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school...
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The Insider
as Don HewittA research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a...
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Fired Up!
as Coach ByrnesPopular high schoolers and best friends Shawn and Nick decide to ditch football camp for...
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A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who embezzled $15 million of mob money. He is...
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50/50
as AlanInspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer...
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Coma
as Doctor (uncredited)A young female doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy...
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Psycho
as Sheriff ChambersA young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.
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Mr. Popper's Penguins
as FranklinJim Carrey stars as Tom Popper, a successful businessman who’s clueless when it comes to the...
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All Good Things
as Malvern BumpNewly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story...
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The Shaggy Dog
as Lance StrictlandThe tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the...
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Eye for an Eye
as Sidney HughesIt's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands...
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The Matador
as Mr. RandyThe life of Danny Wright, a salesman forever on the road, veers into dangerous and surreal...
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Hard Eight
as SydneyA stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
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Rules of Engagement
as Gen. H. Lawrence HodgesA Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators...
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An Innocent Man
as Judge Kenneth LavetJimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an...
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Zabriskie Point
as Diner Owner (uncredited)Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los...
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People Like Us
as Ike RaffertyAfter flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling...
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Bad Words
as Dr. BowmanForty-year-old misanthrope, Guy Trilby (Jason Bateman), enters the National Golden Quill...
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In Good Company
as Eugene KalbDan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a...
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Lost Souls
as Father JamesA young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form....
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The Last Word
as EdwardA retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own...
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The Contender
as Oscar BillingsThe vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret...
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Clear History
as McKenzieNathan Flomm, in order to avoid the humiliation of having missed out on a hugely successful...
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The Lodger
as Captain SmithFollows a seasoned detective on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering...
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Kiss of Death
as Big Junior BrownJimmy Kilmartin is an ex-con trying to stay clean and raise a family. When his cousin Ronnie...
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Path to War
as Everett DirksenA powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's...
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Live Wire
as Senator ThymeDanny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an...
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Judas Kiss
as Pobby MalaveroThe shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom...
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Buddy
as MinisterAn eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.
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The Zodiac
as Frank PerkinsAn elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s,...
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Three O'Clock High
as Detective MulvahillNerdy high schooler Jerry Mitchell is assigned to write an article for the school paper about...
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Cradle Will Rock
as Gray MathersA true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and...
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Nothing in Common
as Colonial Airlines Executive (uncredited)On his way up the corporate ladder, David Basner confronts his greatest challenge: his father.
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Sour Grapes
as Mr. BellThe bond between cousins is tested when one wins a fortune with the other's money at Atlantic City.
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The TV Set
as Vernon MaxwellAs a writer named Mike struggles to shepherd his semi-autobiographical sitcom into development,...
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You Kill Me
as Roman KrzeminskiWhile drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who...
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Bending The Rules
as Herb GoldDetective Nick Blades is a New Orleans cop on trial for corruption. Assistant District Attorney...
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The Bastard
as ShopkeeperPhillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to...
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Mrs. Harris
as Arthur SchulteBased on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a...
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Roswell
as Roswell GeneralBased on the book "UFO Crash at Roswell" by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, Roswell follows the...
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Showing Up
as SelfAn unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable...
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How I Got Into College
as Dean PattersonThe simple story of two young Michigan high school students, Jessica, Class President, Local...
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Without Warning
as Dr. Kurt LowdenA television program is interupted by a news network announcing that three meteors have hit the...
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The Man with Bogart's Face
as Dr. InmanIn this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so...
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Stormy Weathers
as Dr. ComdenShepherd is the detective hired by an aristocratic Italian to locate a relative and thereby...
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Person to Person
as JimmyFollows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected...
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Wonderful World
as The ManBen Singer is a failed children's folk singer, a career proofreader, a less-than-extraordinary...
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Blue Desert
as JoeAfter surviving rape, comic-book artist Lisa Roberts is moving from New York City to small town...
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The Last Survivors
as uncreditedWhen a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded...
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Let the Devil Wear Black
as Sol HirschA man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been...
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Mayday at 40,000 Feet
as ReporterThe co-pilot and engineer of a passenger jet struggle to keep the plane airborne after a marshal...
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Duck
as Arthur PrattAn aging widower and a duck encounter helpful and hostile characters as they search for a place...
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Altman
as SelfRobert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema...
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Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
as Aristotle OnassisTold in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a...
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Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
as Sam GochenourAuthentic drama of United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago. The DC-10 crashed during...
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Samurai
as Prof. OwensLee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and...
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The Hostage Heart
as Dr. Harvey FeesWhen billionaire industrialist goes into a hospital for a heart operation, some people who claim...
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Terror Out of the Sky
as StarrettTV sequel to "The Savage Bees" featuring more rampaging insects. This time a marching band and a...
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Witness to the Mob
as Toddo AurelloSammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder,...
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Die, Mommie, Die!
as Sol SussmanAngela Arden is washed up, has-been singing star who is trapped in a hateful marriage to film...
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Tempting Fate
as Dr. BardwellA man who is still mourning the death of the woman he loves, meets a man who says he created a...
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The Chicago 8
as Judge Julius HoffmanBased on actual court transcripts of 8 anti-war protesters on trial for conspiring to cause...
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A Gentleman's Game
as Charlie LoganA drama revolving around characters whose lives are transformed one summer at an exclusive East...
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The Spirit
as SevrinA legally dead police detective decides to battle crime as a masked superhero.
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Hit Me
as Lenny IshA bellhop living with his mentally impaired brother becomes involved with an unbalanced woman...
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A House on a Hill
as Harry MayfieldA once-successful architect (Philip Baker Hall) has become a grumpy loner, but a young couple...
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Secret Honor
as Richard Milhous NixonIn his New Jersey study, Richard Nixon retraces the missteps of his political career, attempting...
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Cigarettes & Coffee
as SydneyCigarettes & Coffee tells the story of five people's lives all interconnected through a $20...
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Dog Eat Dog
as Old ManWhen Oliver becomes obsessed with a dog at the pound, he finds himself in a desperate rivalry...
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This House Possessed
as ClerkA sinister force permeating a secluded mountain estate convinces the nurse/companion of rock...
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Who Is Julia?
as Dean MayA strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly...
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The Little Death
as Detective SnyderA photographer obsessed with a wealthy man's beautiful wife kills her jealous husband in...
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Goddess of Love
as Detective CharlesThe god Zeus sends Venus, the goddess of love, to Earth to find her own true love.
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Kill Me If You Can
as PhillipsThe story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row...
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Games Mother Never Taught You
as Lester GreeneHard-working career wife Laura becomes the first female executive in an all-male office and is...
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Implicated
as Mr. SawyerIn this offbeat thriller, Ann is a young woman trying to put her life back together after she...
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A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
as Judge BlumenfeldTracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets...
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That Moment: Magnolia Diary
as SelfA very in-depth documentary that follows the very over-worked director Paul Thomas Anderson...
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The Night the Bridge Fell Down
as Warren MeechA group of random individuals get stranded on a bridge that begins collapsing at both ends. Not...
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Incident at Dark River
as Dr. Leo ManusWhen Tim McFall's young daughter dies as the result of toxic waste dumped in the local river, he...
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M.A.N.T.I.S.
as 'Smitty'A brilliant, wheelchair-bound scientist invents a form of exo-skeleton called the Mechanically...
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Islander
as PopperAfter a tragic accident at sea, Eben Cole loses his family, friends and stature in his island...
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The Last Reunion
as Mike SillsSeveral members of a platoon of American soldiers not only kill a Japanese general, but also...
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Love-In '72
as Father ReisA man must decide whether to flee the U.S. draft and go to Canada or stay or go fight for his...
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Dear Chickens
as EmilWhen a stubborn old man and a fretful teenaged girl are forced to share a hospital room, an...
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A Buck's Worth
as uncreditedGun in hand, a homeless man requests a dollar.
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Psych
as Irving ParkerThanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a...
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Monk
as Salvatore LucarelliAdrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using...
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BoJack Horseman
as Hank Hippopopalous (voice)Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the 90s - 20 years later. BoJack Horseman was the star of...
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Falcon Crest
as uncreditedFalcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for...
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M*A*S*H
as uncreditedThe 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little...
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Without a Trace
as Noah RidderThe series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm
as Dr. MorrisonThe off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe...
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Modern Family
as Walt KleezakThe Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an...
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The West Wing
as Senator Matt HuntThe West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells...
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Boston Legal
as Ernie DellAlan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston...
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3rd Rock from the Sun
as President Dewey3rd Rock from the Sun is an American sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2001 on NBC. The show is...
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Quincy, M.E.
as uncreditedQuincy, M.E. is an American television series from Universal Studios pert in several of the...
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Quincy, M.E.
as Dep. DA Marty ShellQuincy, M.E. is an American television series from Universal Studios pert in several of the...
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Family Ties
as Dr. HarrisonFormer 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex,...
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L.A. Law
as Tom BakerL.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from...
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T. J. Hooker
as uncreditedSergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who...
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Big Love
as Ned JohanssenThe story of Bill Henrickson and his life in suburban Salt Lake City, balancing the needs of his...
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Seinfeld
as Lt. Joe BookmanA stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in...
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Miami Vice
as uncreditedThe story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking...
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Everwood
as Dr. Donald DouglasAfter the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and...
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The John Larroquette Show
as Mr. FrankThe John Larroquette Show is an American television sitcom .The show was a vehicle for John...
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Hardcastle and McCormick
as uncreditedHardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell...
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Matlock
as uncreditedMatlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of...
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True Jackson, VP
as Mr. JenkinsA 15-year-old fashionista lands the opportunity of a lifetime when the CEO of Mad Style hires...
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Chicago Hope
as uncreditedChicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran...
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The Newsroom
as Bryce DelancyA behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on...
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The Practice
as Judge Joseph VinocourA provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their...
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Emergency!
as Dr. ScottThe crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and...
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Childrens Hospital
as Dr. Joseph MengeleA hospital isn't a place for lazy people. It's a place for smart people who take care of people...
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Millennium
as Group ElderA retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground...
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Room 104
as CharlieAn anthology series set in a single hotel room, where every guest who comes to stay reveals a...
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Messiah
as Zelman KatzA wary CIA officer investigates a charismatic man who sparks a spiritual movement and stirs...
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Cagney & Lacey
as uncreditedMary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing...
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Good Times
as uncreditedGood Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1,...
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Second Chance
as Jimmy Pritchard (75 years old)A disgraced, 75-year-old ex-sheriff, whose life ends at the hands of corrupt cops, is brought...
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Night Visions
as Dennis BrascomHorror anthology series, with each episode comprising two half-hour stories dealing with themes...
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Madman of the People
as KentMadman of the People is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from 1994 to 1995. It was scheduled...
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Life's Work
as uncreditedLife's Work is an American situation comedy series that aired from September 1996 to June 1997...
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The Loop
as Russ McDonaldThe Loop is an American sitcom that ran from March 15, 2006 to July 1, 2007 on Fox. The show...
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Pasadena
as George Reese GreeleyLily McAllister has lived a charmed life as part of the most powerful family in the upscale...
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Hardball
as Beanball McGeeHardball is an American baseball sitcom that aired on the Fox Network on Sunday nights from...
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Ruth & Erica
as HarryA woman struggles with her mother's reluctance to make the life changes necessary in light of...
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Baby Blues
as uncreditedAn animated television series based on the Baby Blues comic strip.
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Michael Hayes
as William VaughnMichael Hayes is a TV series that ran on CBS from 1997 to 1998. It stars David Caruso and Ruben...
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