David Strathairn: movies and TV shows
David Strathairn has 158 credits in the archive: 133 films and 25 TV series, from 1949 to 2026. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1949 – 2026 · busiest year: 2007 (8 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CIA | Sanford 'Sandy' Harrison | TV | 8.7 | 77 |
| 2026 | By Any Means | Film | 8.3 | 77 | |
| 2026 | Stages | Porter Gates | Film | — | 77 |
| 2026 | O Horizon | Warren | Film | — | 77 |
| 2025 | Zootopia 2 | Milton Lynxley (voice) | Film | 7.7 | 76 |
| 2025 | The Gettysburg Address | Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice) | Film | — | 76 |
| 2025 | The Luckiest Man in America | Bill | Film | 6.3 | 76 |
| 2025 | This Ordinary Thing | Self (voice) | Film | — | 76 |
| 2025 | A Little Prayer | Bill | Film | 5.4 | 76 |
| 2024 | A Man on the Inside | Dr. Benjamin Cole | TV | 7.4 | 75 |
| 2023 | Remember This | Jan Karski | Film | — | 74 |
| 2022 | Where the Crawdads Sing | Tom Milton | Film | 7.5 | 73 |
| 2021 | Nightmare Alley | Pete | Film | 6.9 | 72 |
| 2021 | Nomadland | Dave | Film | 7.2 | 72 |
| 2020 | Interrogation | Henry Fisher | TV | 6.8 | 71 |
| 2020 | The Oedipus Project | Messenger 1 | Film | 10.0 | 71 |
| 2020 | Walkaway Joe | Joe Haley | Film | 6.0 | 71 |
| 2019 | Godzilla: King of the Monsters | Admiral William Stenz | Film | 6.7 | 70 |
| 2019 | The Devil Has a Name | Fred Stern | Film | 5.3 | 70 |
| 2019 | Fast Color | Ellis | Film | 5.9 | 70 |
| 2019 | Them That Work | Self | Film | — | 70 |
| 2018 | McMafia | Semiyon Kleiman | TV | 7.3 | 69 |
| 2018 | My Dinner with Hervé | Marty Rothstein | Film | 6.3 | 69 |
| 2018 | An Interview with God | God | Film | 7.0 | 69 |
| 2018 | UFO | Franklin Ahls | Film | 6.9 | 69 |
| 2017 | Darkest Hour | President Roosevelt (voice) | Film | 7.4 | 68 |
| 2017 | November Criminals | Theo | Film | 5.3 | 68 |
| 2016 | Billions | Black Jack Foley | TV | 7.8 | 67 |
| 2016 | American Pastoral | Nathan Zuckerman | Film | 6.2 | 67 |
| 2016 | He Does Not Want Peace | Richard Englebright | Film | 8.0 | 67 |
| 2015 | The Expanse | Commander Klaes Ashford | TV | 8.1 | 66 |
| 2015 | The Expanse | Klaes Ashford | TV | 8.1 | 66 |
| 2015 | Z: The Beginning of Everything | Anthony Sayre | TV | 6.8 | 66 |
| 2015 | Louder Than Bombs | Richard Weissman | Film | 6.5 | 66 |
| 2015 | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Ty Burley | Film | 6.4 | 66 |
| 2015 | The Debt | Nathan | Film | 6.1 | 66 |
| 2014 | Godzilla | Admiral William Stenz | Film | 6.4 | 65 |
| 2014 | No God, No Master | William Flynn | Film | 5.9 | 65 |
| 2013 | The Blacklist | Peter Kotsiopulos | TV | 7.6 | 64 |
| 2013 | Love, Marilyn | Self | Film | 6.6 | 64 |
| 2013 | Lincoln@Gettysburg | Self - Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.4 | 64 |
| 2012 | The Bourne Legacy | Noah Vosen | Film | 6.3 | 63 |
| 2012 | Lincoln | William Seward | Film | 6.8 | 63 |
| 2012 | Hemingway & Gellhorn | John Dos Passos | Film | 6.1 | 63 |
| 2012 | Maladies | Delmar | Film | 5.3 | 63 |
| 2011 | Alphas | Lee Rosen | TV | 6.8 | 62 |
| 2010 | The Whistleblower | Peter Ward | Film | 6.7 | 61 |
| 2010 | Temple Grandin | Professor Carlock | Film | 7.9 | 61 |
| 2010 | The Tempest | King Alonso | Film | 5.3 | 61 |
| 2010 | Matadors | Roman Lodari | Film | 4.7 | 61 |
| 2010 | Howl | Ralph McIntosh | Film | 6.4 | 61 |
| 2010 | Area 51 Declassified | Himself - Narrator | Film | 8.0 | 61 |
| 2010 | Inside Area 51's Secrets | Narrator | Film | — | 61 |
| 2009 | The Uninvited | Steven | Film | 6.5 | 60 |
| 2009 | The People Speak | Self | Film | 7.2 | 60 |
| 2009 | Cold Souls | Dr. Flintstein | Film | 6.0 | 60 |
| 2008 | The Spiderwick Chronicles | Arthur Spiderwick | Film | 6.7 | 59 |
| 2008 | Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential' | Self | Film | 5.0 | 59 |
| 2008 | Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential' | Self | Film | 8.0 | 59 |
| 2008 | The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer | Film | 6.2 | 59 |
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | Noah Vosen | Film | 7.4 | 58 |
| 2007 | Fracture | Joe Lobruto | Film | 7.3 | 58 |
| 2007 | My Blueberry Nights | Arnie | Film | 6.4 | 58 |
| 2007 | Racing Daylight | Henry / Harry | Film | 3.3 | 58 |
| 2007 | Trumbo | Self | Film | 6.7 | 58 |
| 2007 | Steel Toes | Danny Dunkelman | Film | 5.2 | 58 |
| 2007 | The Supreme Court | Narrator | Film | — | 58 |
| 2007 | Matters of Life and Death | Mr. Jennings | Film | 9.0 | 58 |
| 2006 | We Are Marshall | President Dedmon | Film | 6.9 | 57 |
| 2006 | The Notorious Bettie Page | Estes Kefauver | Film | 6.3 | 57 |
| 2006 | The Sensation of Sight | Finn | Film | 8.0 | 57 |
| 2006 | The Sensation of Sight | Film | 8.0 | 57 | |
| 2006 | The Shovel | Paul Mullin | Film | 6.0 | 57 |
| 2006 | Heavens Fall | Judge James Horton | Film | 7.0 | 57 |
| 2006 | The Human Behavior Experiments | Narrator | Film | 7.5 | 57 |
| 2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck. | Edward R. Murrow | Film | 7.1 | 56 |
| 2005 | Missing in America | Henry R. Hocknell Jr. | Film | 5.7 | 56 |
| 2005 | Willa Cather: The Road Is All | Narrator | Film | 10.0 | 56 |
| 2004 | House | Nash | TV | 8.6 | 55 |
| 2004 | Twisted | Dr. Melvin Frank | Film | 5.6 | 55 |
| 2004 | Paradise | Reverend Bobby Paradise | Film | 4.1 | 55 |
| 2003 | The Making of ‘Sneakers’ | Self | Film | 7.5 | 54 |
| 2003 | Blue Car | Auster | Film | 6.2 | 54 |
| 2002 | Monk | Patrick Kloster | TV | 8.0 | 53 |
| 2002 | Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story | Jack Hoschouer | TV | — | 53 |
| 2002 | Lathe of Heaven | Mannie | Film | 6.0 | 53 |
| 2002 | Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story | Jack Hoschouer | Film | 4.8 | 53 |
| 2002 | Speakeasy | Bruce Hickman | Film | 4.4 | 53 |
| 2001 | Big Apple | Will Preecher | TV | 8.0 | 52 |
| 2001 | The Victim | Mark Zingerline | Film | 9.0 | 52 |
| 2001 | Relative Evil | Dr. Charlie | Film | 5.6 | 52 |
| 2000 | The Miracle Worker | Captain Keller | Film | 7.2 | 51 |
| 2000 | Harrison's Flowers | Harrison Lloyd | Film | 6.5 | 51 |
| 2000 | Freedom Song | Peter Crowley | Film | 5.7 | 51 |
| 2000 | A Good Baby | Truman Lester | Film | 6.5 | 51 |
| 1999 | The Sopranos | Robert Wegler | TV | 8.7 | 50 |
| 1999 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Theseus | Film | 6.4 | 50 |
| 1999 | Limbo | Joe Gastineau | Film | 6.6 | 50 |
| 1999 | The Giraffe | Charles Kaminski | Film | 5.3 | 50 |
| 1999 | A Map of the World | Howard Goodwin | Film | 6.0 | 50 |
| 1998 | Simon Birch | Reverend Russell | Film | 6.8 | 49 |
| 1998 | Bad Manners | Wes Westlund | Film | 4.8 | 49 |
| 1998 | With Friends Like These | Armand Minetti | Film | 6.5 | 49 |
| 1998 | The Climb | Earl Himes | Film | 7.1 | 49 |
| 1998 | Evidence of Blood | Jackson Kinley | Film | 6.6 | 49 |
| 1997 | L.A. Confidential | Pierce Patchett | Film | 7.8 | 48 |
| 1997 | In the Gloaming | Martin | Film | 6.0 | 48 |
| 1997 | Song of Hiawatha | Marcel | Film | 5.8 | 48 |
| 1996 | Mother Night | Bernard B. O'Hare | Film | 6.7 | 47 |
| 1996 | Beyond the Call | Russel Gates | Film | 6.5 | 47 |
| 1995 | Dolores Claiborne | Joe St. George | Film | 7.3 | 46 |
| 1995 | Home for the Holidays | Russell Terziak | Film | 6.3 | 46 |
| 1995 | Losing Isaiah | Charles Lewin | Film | 6.5 | 46 |
| 1994 | The River Wild | Tom Hartman | Film | 6.5 | 45 |
| 1994 | April One | John McCowan | Film | 9.0 | 45 |
| 1993 | The Firm | Ray McDeere | Film | 6.7 | 44 |
| 1993 | A Dangerous Woman | Getso | Film | 5.5 | 44 |
| 1993 | The American Clock | Young Arthur Huntington | Film | 5.7 | 44 |
| 1993 | Lost in Yonkers | Johnny | Film | 6.3 | 44 |
| 1992 | Sneakers | Whistler | Film | 6.9 | 43 |
| 1992 | A League of Their Own | Ira Lowenstein | Film | 7.2 | 43 |
| 1992 | Passion Fish | Rennie | Film | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1992 | Bob Roberts | Mack Laflin | Film | 6.5 | 43 |
| 1992 | Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even | Keith | Film | 6.1 | 43 |
| 1992 | O Pioneers! | Carl Linstrum | Film | 6.2 | 43 |
| 1991 | City of Hope | Asteroid | Film | 6.6 | 42 |
| 1991 | Without Warning: The James Brady Story | Dr. Arthur Kobrine | Film | 7.0 | 42 |
| 1990 | Memphis Belle | Craig Harriman | Film | 6.8 | 41 |
| 1990 | Judgment | Father Frank Aubert | Film | 5.5 | 41 |
| 1990 | Heat Wave | Bill Thomas | Film | 6.8 | 41 |
| 1989 | Day One | J. Robert Oppenheimer | Film | 6.2 | 40 |
| 1989 | The Feud | The Stranger | Film | 5.2 | 40 |
| 1988 | Call Me | Sam | Film | 4.8 | 39 |
| 1988 | Eight Men Out | Eddie Cicotte | Film | 6.8 | 39 |
| 1988 | Stars & Bars | Charlie | Film | 4.4 | 39 |
| 1988 | Dominick and Eugene | Martin Chernak | Film | 6.9 | 39 |
| 1987 | Wiseguy | TV | 6.6 | 38 | |
| 1987 | The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd | Moss Goodman | TV | 6.8 | 38 |
| 1987 | Matewan | Police Chief Sid Hatfield | Film | 7.4 | 38 |
| 1987 | Broken Vows | Stuart Chase | Film | 4.8 | 38 |
| 1986 | At Close Range | Tony Pine | Film | 6.8 | 37 |
| 1985 | The Equalizer | Phillip Borchek | TV | 7.1 | 36 |
| 1985 | Spenser: For Hire | TV | 6.9 | 36 | |
| 1985 | When Nature Calls | Weejun | Film | 4.8 | 36 |
| 1984 | Miami Vice | Marty Lang | TV | 7.4 | 35 |
| 1984 | Iceman | Dr. Singe | Film | 6.2 | 35 |
| 1984 | The Brother from Another Planet | Man In Black | Film | 6.7 | 35 |
| 1983 | Silkwood | Wesley | Film | 6.9 | 34 |
| 1983 | Lovesick | Marvin Zuckerman | Film | 5.7 | 34 |
| 1983 | Enormous Changes at the Last Minute | Jerry | Film | 4.6 | 34 |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Carl Linstrum | TV | 6.6 | 33 |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | The Stranger | TV | 6.6 | 33 |
| 1980 | Return of the Secaucus Seven | Ron | Film | 6.5 | 31 |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self | TV | 7.0 | 4 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Carl Linstrum | TV | 8.8 | 2 |
| 1949 | The Emmy Awards | Self | TV | 7.9 | 0 |
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