Chris Cooper: movies and TV shows
Chris Cooper has 98 credits in the archive: 85 films and 13 TV series, from 1953 to 2025. Highest rated: American Beauty (8.0/10).
Career timeline
1953 – 2025 · busiest year: 1991 (6 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The History of Sound | Older Lionel | Film | 6.8 | 73 |
| 2025 | Everything's Going to Be Great | Walter | Film | 5.9 | 73 |
| 2025 | Unscripted Lives | Film | — | 73 | |
| 2023 | Boston Strangler | Jack Maclaine | Film | 6.6 | 71 |
| 2021 | With/In Volume 2 | (segment "Nuts") | Film | 4.0 | 69 |
| 2021 | With/In Volume 2 | Film | 4.0 | 69 | |
| 2020 | Irresistible | Jack Hastings | Film | 6.0 | 68 |
| 2019 | Little Women | Mr. Laurence | Film | 7.9 | 67 |
| 2019 | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Jerry Vogel | Film | 7.0 | 67 |
| 2019 | Henrietta Bulkowski | Danny Wilcox | Film | 6.1 | 67 |
| 2019 | It Takes a Lunatic | Self | Film | 5.3 | 67 |
| 2019 | Them That Work | Self | Film | — | 67 |
| 2018 | Homecoming | Leonard Geist | TV | 7.0 | 66 |
| 2018 | Intelligent Lives | Self | Film | — | 66 |
| 2018 | Intelligent Lives | Film | — | 66 | |
| 2017 | Cars 3 | Smokey (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 65 |
| 2016 | 11.22.63 | Al Templeton | TV | 7.8 | 64 |
| 2016 | Live by Night | Chief Irving Figgis | Film | 6.3 | 64 |
| 2016 | Demolition | Phil Eastwood | Film | 6.8 | 64 |
| 2016 | Coming Through the Rye | J.D. Salinger | Film | 6.2 | 64 |
| 2016 | Fastball | Clifford Blankenship (voice) | Film | 7.2 | 64 |
| 2014 | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Norman Osborn (uncredited) | Film | 6.5 | 62 |
| 2013 | August: Osage County | Charlie Aiken | Film | 6.9 | 61 |
| 2013 | Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy | Self - Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.6 | 61 |
| 2012 | The Company You Keep | Daniel Sloan | Film | 6.2 | 60 |
| 2012 | Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God | Gary (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 60 |
| 2011 | The Muppets | Tex Richman | Film | 6.7 | 59 |
| 2011 | Amigo | Col. Hardacre | Film | 4.9 | 59 |
| 2010 | The Town | Stephen MacRay | Film | 7.2 | 58 |
| 2010 | Remember Me | Neil Craig | Film | 7.1 | 58 |
| 2010 | The Company Men | Phil Woodward | Film | 6.5 | 58 |
| 2010 | The Tempest | Antonio | Film | 5.3 | 58 |
| 2010 | Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize | Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage) | Film | 3.8 | 58 |
| 2009 | Where the Wild Things Are | Douglas (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 57 |
| 2009 | The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | Himself (Narrator) | Film | 4.5 | 57 |
| 2008 | New York, I Love You | Alex | Film | 6.0 | 56 |
| 2008 | Extreme Movie | FBI Agent Mike (uncredited) | Film | 4.4 | 56 |
| 2008 | Married Life | Harry Allen | Film | 5.8 | 56 |
| 2008 | Walt Whitman | Walt Whitman (voice) | Film | 5.0 | 56 |
| 2007 | The Kingdom | Grant Sykes | Film | 6.7 | 55 |
| 2007 | Breach | Robert Hanssen | Film | 6.6 | 55 |
| 2006 | Primo Levi's Journey | Narrator (voice) (U.S. version) | Film | 5.9 | 54 |
| 2006 | Making Capote: Concept to Script | Self | Film | 6.5 | 54 |
| 2005 | Jarhead | Lt. Col. Kazinski | Film | 6.7 | 53 |
| 2005 | Syriana | Jimmy Pope | Film | 6.4 | 53 |
| 2005 | Capote | Alvin Dewey | Film | 7.0 | 53 |
| 2004 | The Bourne Supremacy | Alexander Conklin (uncredited) | Film | 7.3 | 52 |
| 2004 | Silver City | Dickie Pilager | Film | 6.1 | 52 |
| 2004 | The Making of 'Seabiscuit' | Self | Film | 8.0 | 52 |
| 2003 | Seabiscuit | Tom Smith | Film | 7.1 | 51 |
| 2003 | My House in Umbria | Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith | Film | 6.1 | 51 |
| 2003 | Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend | Self | Film | — | 51 |
| 2003 | 'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend | Self | Film | — | 51 |
| 2002 | The Bourne Identity | Alexander Conklin | Film | 7.5 | 50 |
| 2002 | Interstate 60 | Bob Cody | Film | 7.4 | 50 |
| 2002 | Adaptation. | John Laroche | Film | 7.3 | 50 |
| 2000 | The Patriot | Col. Harry Burwell | Film | 7.2 | 48 |
| 2000 | Me, Myself & Irene | Lieutenant Gerke | Film | 6.6 | 48 |
| 2000 | American Beauty: Look Closer... | Self | Film | 7.8 | 48 |
| 1999 | American Beauty | Colonel Fitts | Film | 8.0 | 47 |
| 1999 | October Sky | John Hickam | Film | 7.7 | 47 |
| 1999 | The 24 Hour Woman | Ron Hacksby | Film | 5.8 | 47 |
| 1999 | Teen Choice Awards | Self | TV | 9.1 | 47 |
| 1998 | Great Expectations | Joe | Film | 6.6 | 46 |
| 1998 | The Horse Whisperer | Frank Booker | Film | 6.9 | 46 |
| 1997 | Alone | Gus Jr. | Film | 6.7 | 45 |
| 1997 | Breast Men | Dr. William Larson | Film | 5.2 | 45 |
| 1996 | A Time to Kill | Dwayne Looney | Film | 7.4 | 44 |
| 1996 | Boys | Mr. John Baker | Film | 5.4 | 44 |
| 1996 | Lone Star | Sam Deeds | Film | 7.0 | 44 |
| 1996 | The Deliverance of Elaine | Charlie Skyler | Film | 4.6 | 44 |
| 1995 | Pharaoh's Army | Captain John Hull Abston | Film | 6.4 | 43 |
| 1995 | Money Train | Torch | Film | 5.9 | 43 |
| 1994 | One More Mountain | Jack Reed | Film | 6.0 | 42 |
| 1993 | This Boy's Life | Roy | Film | 7.1 | 41 |
| 1993 | Return to Lonesome Dove | July Johnson | TV | 7.0 | 41 |
| 1992 | Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life | Anthony Blessing | Film | 5.0 | 40 |
| 1992 | Bed of Lies | Price Daniel, Jr. | Film | 6.0 | 40 |
| 1991 | Thousand Pieces of Gold | Charlie | Film | 6.9 | 39 |
| 1991 | To the Moon, Alice | Frank Wiliker | Film | 7.0 | 39 |
| 1991 | Guilty by Suspicion | Larry Nolan | Film | 6.5 | 39 |
| 1991 | In Broad Daylight | Jack Wilson | Film | 6.1 | 39 |
| 1991 | City of Hope | Riggs | Film | 6.6 | 39 |
| 1991 | Darrow | Eugene Debs | Film | 5.4 | 39 |
| 1990 | Law & Order | Defense Attorney Roy Payne | TV | 7.3 | 38 |
| 1990 | A Little Piece of Sunshine | Ernie Favaro | Film | 8.0 | 38 |
| 1989 | Lonesome Dove | July Johnson | TV | 7.9 | 37 |
| 1988 | American Experience | Narrator (voice) | TV | 6.5 | 36 |
| 1987 | Matewan | Joe Kenehan | Film | 7.4 | 35 |
| 1985 | The Equalizer | Michael | TV | 7.1 | 33 |
| 1984 | Miami Vice | Jimmy Yagovitch | TV | 7.4 | 32 |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Louis Halladay | TV | 6.6 | 30 |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Charlie Bemis | TV | 6.6 | 30 |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Eugene Debs | TV | 6.6 | 30 |
| 1982 | Bad Timing | Eddie | Film | — | 30 |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self | TV | 7.0 | 1 |
| I Passed This Way | Film | — | — | ||
| Light on Broken Glass | Jay | Film | — | — |