RECENT CREDITS
Disgrace (FILM)  Sep. 18, 2009
Which Way Home (TV)  Aug. 24, 2009
Mutant Chronicles (FILM)  Apr. 24, 2009
The Great Buck Howard (FILM)  Mar. 20, 2009
Saturday Night Live (TV)  Dec. 6, 2008


HIGHLIGHTS
2008 Joined an ensemble cast for the Coen's brothers' "Burn After Reading"
2008 Cast as Reverend Briegleb in Clint Eastwood's "Changeling"
2007 Portrayed Alan Conway in "Colour Me Kubrick," the true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick
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All Credits

Film Name / TV Show Name (Episode Name)
Role
Category

Secretariat  2010 -Lucien Lauren
Actor
Film


Jonah Hex  2010 -Turnbull
Actor
Film


Love and Virtue   -Rodomonte
Actor
Film


Drunkboat   -Mort
Producer, Actor
Film


In Transit   -Cast
Actor
Film


Executive Producer
Film


Producer
Film


Actor
Film


Producer
Film


Actor
Film


Producer
Film


Actor
Film


Director, Producer
Film


Actor
Film


Producer, Actor
Film


Producer
Film


Producer
Film


Lost  
Director, Producer
Film


Actor
Film


Borgia   -Machiavelli
Actor
Film


Producer
Film


Disgrace  2009 -David Lurie
Actor
Film


Executive Producer
TV


Mutant Chronicles  2009 -Constantine
Actor
Film


The Great Buck Howard  2009 -Buck Howard
Actor, Song Performer
Film


Gardens of the Night  2008 -Michael
Actor
Film


Changeling  2008 -Reverend Gustav Briegleb
Actor
Film


Burn After Reading  2008 -Osborne Cox
Actor
Film


Juno  2007
Producer
Film


Beowulf  2007 -Unferth
Actor
Film


Klimt  2007 -Klimt
Actor
Film


Color Me Kubrick  2007 -Alan Conway
Actor
Film


Eragon  2006 -King Galbatorix
Actor
Film


Art School Confidential  2006 -Professor Sandiford
Producer, Actor
Film


The Libertine  2006 -King Charles II
Producer, Actor
Film


Kill the Poor  2006
Producer
Film


Actor
Film


A Talking Picture  2004 -Comandante John Walesa
Actor
Film


Producer
TV


Introducing Graham Norton  2004 -Guest (Interview Footage)
Actor
TV


Executive Producer
Film


Hotel  2003 -Omar Jonsson
Actor
Film


Johnny English  2003 -Pascal Sauvage
Actor
Film


Director, Producer
Film


Ripley's Game  2003 -Tom Ripley
Actor
Film


IPO  2003
Producer
Film


Knockaround Guys  2002 -Teddy Deserve
Actor
Film


Napoleon  2002 -Charles-Maurice Talleyrand-Perigord
Actor
TV


Savage Souls  2002 -Monsieur Numance
Actor
Film


Ghost World  2001
Producer
Film


Les Miserables  2001 -Javert
Actor
TV


I'm Going Home  2001 -John CrawfordThe Director
Actor
Film


Shadow of the Vampire  2000 -Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Actor
Film


Actor
TV


The Terrorist  2000
Director, Producer
Film


Beyond the Clouds  1999 -The Director
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Actor
TV


Being John Malkovich  1999 -John Horatio Malkovich
Actor
Film


Riddle of the Desert Mummies  1999 -Narration
Narrator
TV


Time Regained  1999 -Baron de Charlus
Actor
Film


The Ogre  1998 -Abel Tiffauges
Actor
Film


Rounders  1998 -Teddy KGB
Actor
Film


The Man in the Iron Mask  1998 -Athos
Actor
Film


Con Air  1997 -Cyrus the Virus
Actor
Film


Cannes Man  1997
Actor
Film


The Portrait of A Lady  1996 -Gilbert Osmond
Actor
Film


Mulholland Falls  1996 -Timms
Actor
Film


Mary Reilly  1996 -Dr Henry Jekyll/Mr Jack Hyde
Actor
Film


The Convent  1995 -Professor Michael Padovic
Actor
Film


Chicago on Stage  1995 -Himself
Actor
TV


Heart of Darkness  1994 -Kurtz
Actor
TV


Voice
Film


In the Line of Fire  1993 -Mitch Leary
Actor
Film


Old Times  1993 -Deeley
Actor
TV


Jennifer Eight  1992 -St Anne
Actor
Film


Of Mice and Men  1992 -Lennie
Actor
Film


Shadows and Fog  1992 -Clown
Actor
Film


The Object of Beauty  1991 -Jake
Actor
Film


Queens Logic  1991 -Eliot
Actor
Film


Actor
TV


The Sheltering Sky  1990 -Port Moresby
Actor
Film


Red, Hot & Blue  1990 -Host
Actor
TV


Decade  1989
Actor
TV


Executive Producer
Film


Dangerous Liaisons  1988 -Vicomte De Valmont
Actor
Film


Miles From Home  1988 -Barry Maxwell
Actor
Film


The Glass Menagerie  1987 -Tom Wingfield
Actor
Film


Making Mr. Right  1987 -Jeff Peters, Ulysses
Actor, Actor
Film


Empire of the Sun  1987 -Basie
Actor
Film


Rocket to the Moon  1986 -Ben Stark
Actor
TV


Eleni  1985 -Nicholas Gage
Actor
Film


Death of a Salesman  1985 -Biff
Actor
TV


Actor
TV


Places in the Heart  1984 -Mr. Will
Actor
Film


The Killing Fields  1984 -Al Rockoff
Actor
Film


Actor
TV


Word of Honor  1981 -Gary
Actor
TV


Host
TV
Expand


Afterwards   -Garrett Goodrich
Actor
Film


Ladies Room   -Roberto
Actor
Film


RKO 281   -Herman "Mank" Mankiewicz
Actor
Film




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Highlights

2008 Joined an ensemble cast for the Coen's brothers' "Burn After Reading"
2008 Cast as Reverend Briegleb in Clint Eastwood's "Changeling"
2007 Portrayed Alan Conway in "Colour Me Kubrick," the true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick
2007 Portrayed Austrian artist Gustav Klimt in Raoul Ruiz's "Klimt"
2007 Portrayed Unferth in Robert Zemeckis' big-budget film version of "Beowulf"
2006 Cast in Terry Zwigoff's adaptation of Daniel Clowes' comic story "Art School Confidential"
2006 Cast as King Galbatorix, a powerful Dragon Rider in "Eragon" a fantasy/adventure movie based on the novel of the same name
2004 Starred as Comandante John Walesa in Manoel de Oliveira's "Um Filme Falado/A Talking Picture"
2003 Co-starred in the comedy feature "Johnny English"
2003 Had featured role in the A&E miniseries "Napoleon"; received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
2002 Made feature directorial debut with "Dancer Upstairs," a police thriller based on a novel by Nicholas Shakespeare
2001 Served as one of the producers of "Ghost World"
2000 Portrayed film director F W Murnau in "Shadow of the Vampire," a fictionalized account of Murnau's filming of "Nosferatu," based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula"; screened at Cannes
2000 Acted opposite Gerard Depardieu in a French televison adaptation of "Les Miserables"; English language version aired in USA on Fox Family Channel in 2001
1999 Played John Malkovich, a fictionalized version of himself, in the witty and picaresque "Being John Malkovich"
1999 Played Herman J Mankiewicz in HBO's "RKO 281," detailing the clash between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over the production and release of "Citizen Kane"
1999 Staged "Hysteria" at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater Company
1998 Formed Mr. Mudd, a production company, with producers Lianne Halfon and Russell Smith
1998 Offered an over-the-top performance as a Russian mobster in "Rounders," scripted by David Levien and Brian Koppelman
1997 Reveled in his scene-chewing role of Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom in "Con Air"
1996 Portrayed the profligate seducer Gilbert Osmond in "The Portrait of a Lady," adapted from the novel by Henry James
1994 Appeared as the sinister Kurtz in TNT movie presentation of "Heart of Darkness," directed by Nicolas Roeg
1994 Adapted and directed the Steppenwolf production of Don DeLillo's "Libra," starring Laurie Metcalf and Alexis Arquette
1993 Formed Smith-Malkovich Productions with Russell Smith
1993 Received second Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination as demented assassin Mitch Leary in "In the Line of Fire"
1992 Played Lennie to Sinise's George in remake of "Of Mice and Men," directed by Sinise; had first essayed the role in a Steppenwolf stage production many years earlier
1991 Returned to the New York stage as the bombastic war veteran of Shepard's "States of Shock"
1990 Teamed with director Bernardo Bertolucci for the vivdly atmospheric (but torturously slow) "The Sheltering Sky"
1988 Debut as executive producer of the film "The Accidental Tourist" (did not act in movie)
1988 Offered an intriguing turn as the treacherous French aristocrat Valmont in "Dangerous Liaisons," helmed by Stephen Frears; his on-set romance with co-star Michelle Pfieffer led to end of his marriage
1987 Starred opposite Joan Allen in the Broadway production of "Burn This"
1987 Played dual roles of a nerdy scientist and a lookalike android in Susan Seidelman's "Making Mr. Right"
1985 Reprised stage role of Biff in CBS TV adaptation of "Death of a Salesman," starring Hoffman; received Emmy Award
1985 First starring role in a feature as journalist Nicholas Gage in Peter Yates' "Eleni"
1985 Broadway directing debut, "Arms and the Man"; later assumed leading role, replacing Kevin Kline; production also featured then-wife Glenne Headly
1984 Broadway debut, "Death of a Salesman," playing Biff to Dustin Hoffman's Willy Loman
1984 Starred in TV adaptation of "True West" (aired on PBS' "American Playhouse")
1984 Made film debut as photojournalist in "The Killing Fields"
1984 Earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his turn as a misnthropic blind man in Robert Benton's "Places in the Heart"
1982 Off-Broadway debut in Steppenwolf production of "True West," directed by Sinise (who also co-starred)
1981 TV-movie debut, "Word of Honor" (CBS)
1978 - 1979 Appeared in production of Sam Shepard's "Curse of the Starving Class" at Chicago's Goodman Theatre
1976 Joined Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre (founded by Gary Sinise in 1974), working on more than 50 of their productions during the years
Stage directing debut, "The Rear Column," at the North Light Repertory Theatre, Evanston, Illinois
Directed and designed sound for the revival of Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead" at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and subsequently off-Broadway


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