Willem Dafoe
Actor
William James Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American film, stage, and voice actor, and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group. He has had roles in a wide range of films, including Streets of Fire, To Live and Die in L.A., Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, The English Patient, The Last Temptation of Christ, Mississippi Burning, Wild at Heart, The Boondock Saints, Inside Man, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Spider-Man, Shadow of the Vampire, The Aviator, American Psycho, Antichrist, and voice roles in Fantastic Mr. Fox and Finding Nemo.
Dafoe has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor three times. The first was for his role in Platoon (1986), the second time for his performance in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), and the third for The Florida Project (2017).
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The Lighthouse (2019)
As: Old
The story of an aging lighthouse keeper named Old who lives in early 20th-century Maine. Plot unknown.
Directed by: Robert Eggers
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Robert Pattinson
Tommaso (2019)
As: Tommaso
Playing opposite the director’s own wife and daughter, Willem Dafoe is a Ferrara-like American artist living in Rome in this improvised drama of doubt and disconnection, shot in self-reflective documentary style.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Abel Ferrara
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Cristina Chiriac | Anna Ferrara
Love, Antosha (2019)
As: Himself
A portrait of the extraordinary life and career of actor Anton Yelchin.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Garret Price
Stars: Anton Yelchin | Chris Pine | Jennifer Lawrence | John Cho | J.J. Abrams
The Last Thing He Wanted (2019)
As: Richard McMahon
A journalist quits her newspaper job and becomes an arms dealer for a covert government agency.
Directed by: Dee Rees
Stars: Anne Hathaway | Willem Dafoe | Toby Jones | Ben Affleck | Edi Gathegi
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
As: Vincent van Gogh
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Julian Schnabel
Stars: Rupert Friend | Willem Dafoe | Mads Mikkelsen | Mathieu Amalric | Oscar Isaac
Motherless Brooklyn (2018)
In the New York of the 1950s, private detective Lionel Essrog searches for the murderer of his mentor and friend Frank.
Directed by: Edward Norton
Stars: Edward Norton | Willem Dafoe | Bruce Willis | Ethan Suplee | Leslie Mann
Aquaman (2018)
As: Nuidis Vulko
Arthur Curry learns that he is the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, and must step forward to lead his people and to be a hero to the world.
Directed by: James Wan
Stars: Patrick Wilson | Nicole Kidman | Amber Heard | Jason Momoa | Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Manou the Swift (2018)
As: Manou's Father (voice)
The little swift Manou grows up believing he's a seagull. Learning to fly he finds out he never will be. Shocked, he runs away from home. He meets birds of his own species and finds out who he really is. When both seagulls and swifts face a dangerous threat, Manou becomes the hero of the day.
Directed by: Andrea Block | Christian Haas
Stars: Kate Winslet | Willem Dafoe
Mountain (2017)
As: Narrator
An epic cinematic and musical collaboration between Sherpa filmmaker Jennifer Peedom and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, that explores humankind's fascination with high places. Narrated by Willem Dafoe.
Runtime: 74 min.
Directed by: Jennifer Peedom
Stars: Willem Dafoe
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
As: Gerhard Hardman / Cyrus Hardman
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Penélope Cruz | Johnny Depp | Kenneth Branagh | Judi Dench
The Florida Project (2017)
As: Bobby Hicks
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Sean Baker
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Bria Vinaite | Brooklynn Prince | Valeria Cotto | Christopher Rivera
Death Note (2017)
As: Ryuk (voice)
A young man comes to possess a supernatural notebook, the Death Note, that grants him the power to kill any person simply by writing down their name on the pages. He then decides to use the notebook to kill criminals and change the world, but an enigmatic detective attempts to track him down and end his reign of terror.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Adam Wingard
Stars: Shea Whigham | Willem Dafoe | Nat Wolff | Margaret Qualley | Lakeith Stanfield
What Happened to Monday (2017)
As: Terrence Settman
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Tommy Wirkola
Stars: Marwan Kenzari | Willem Dafoe | Glenn Close | Christian Rubeck | Noomi Rapace
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait (2017)
As: Himself
A chronicle of the personal life and public career of the celebrated artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Pappi Corsicato
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Bono | Emmanuelle Seigner | Al Pacino | Julian Schnabel
The Great Wall (2016)
As: Ballard
European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Zhang Yimou
Stars: Matt Damon | Willem Dafoe | Andy Lau | Pedro Pascal | Jing Tian
Dog Eat Dog (2016)
As: Mad Dog
Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men who are all out of prison and now have the task of adapting themselves to civilian life.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Stars: Nicolas Cage | Omar J. Dorsey | Willem Dafoe | Louisa Krause | Christopher Matthew Cook
The Headhunter's Calling (2016)
As: Ed Blackridge
Dane Jensen is a driven, Chicago-based headhunter, working at a cut-throat job placement firm. When Dane's boss announces his retirement, he pits Dane against Lynn Vogel, Dane's equally driven but polar-opposite rival at the firm, in a battle for control over the company.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Mark Williams
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Alfred Molina | Gerard Butler | Gretchen Mol | Alison Brie
Finding Dory (2016)
As: Gill (voice)
Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
Stars: Diane Keaton | Ed O'Neill | Albert Brooks | Ellen DeGeneres | Hayden Rolence
Nelson Algren Live (2016)
As: Role1 / Frankie Machine / Role2 / Blackie Cavanaugh
A performance of some of Nelson Algren's greatest and least known works, performed live at the Steppenwolf theatre in Algren's hometown, Chicago.
Runtime: 77 min.
Directed by: Oscar Bucher
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Barry Gifford | Don DeLillo | Russell Banks | Kathy Scambiatterra
My Hindu Friend (2015)
As: Diego Fairman
Diego is a film director very close to death, surrounded by people who are having trouble dealing with his current tempestuous mood. Chances are he won't survive, but if he does, that means he needs to relearn how to live. live.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Hector Babenco
Stars: Selton Mello | Willem Dafoe | Reynaldo Gianecchini | Maria Fernanda Cândido | Bárbara Paz
John Wick (2014)
As: Marcus
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Chad Stahelski | David Leitch
Stars: Keanu Reeves | Willem Dafoe | Alfie Allen | Ian McShane | Michael Nyqvist
Bad Country (2014)
As: Bud Carter
When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Chris Brinker
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Matt Dillon | Amy Smart | Neal McDonough | Chris Marquette
Pasolini (2014)
As: Pier Paolo Pasolini
We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo. Over the course of the action, Pasolini’s life and his art (represented by scenes from his films, his novel-in-progress Petrolio, and his projected ...
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Abel Ferrara
Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio | Willem Dafoe | Maria de Medeiros | Ninetto Davoli | Giada Colagrande
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
As: Tommy Brue
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Anton Corbijn
Stars: Robin Wright | Willem Dafoe | Rachel McAdams | Daniel Brühl | Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
As: Peter van Houten
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Josh Boone
Stars: Laura Dern | Sam Trammell | Shailene Woodley | Nat Wolff | Ansel Elgort
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
As: J.G. Jopling
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Stars: Ralph Fiennes | Mathieu Amalric | Adrien Brody | F. Murray Abraham | Tony Revolori
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
As: L
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Lars von Trier
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Stellan Skarsgård | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Shia LaBeouf | Stacy Martin
Out of the Furnace (2013)
As: John Petty
Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Scott Cooper
Stars: Christian Bale | Zoe Saldana | Willem Dafoe | Woody Harrelson | Sam Shepard
Love's Routine (2013)
As: Barry
LOVE’S ROUTINE is a dark comedy about a discordant elderly couple, who ultimately prove that love is greater than flesh and blood.
Runtime: 9 min.
Directed by: Shirlyn Wong
Stars: Willem Dafoe
The Smile Man (2013)
As: Willem
THE SMILE MAN focuses on a gentleman dealing with the consequences of a car accident, which has left him with a spinal injury that means he has a permanent smile on his face.
Runtime: 9 min.
Directed by: Anton Lanshakov
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Camille Guaty | Damien D. Smith | Alexana Thomas
Saving Norman (2013)
As: Lionel Pembrooke
Saving Norman tells the story of a hypochondriac ex-ping pong player who missed the biggest tournament of his career because of a cold. Now years later he lives a hermetic existence with his parrot Norman. But, when Norman seems to be suffering from a case of bird narcolepsy he calls in pet psychic Belinda who soon realizes that in order to help Norman, she'll first have to help his owner.
Runtime: 9 min.
Directed by: Hanneke Schutte
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Anthony Holiday | Charles Kim | Nikki DeLoach
Odd Thomas (2013)
As: Wyatt Porter
In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Stephen Sommers
Stars: Anton Yelchin | Willem Dafoe | Nico Tortorella | Addison Timlin | Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Tomorrow You're Gone (2013)
As: The Buddha
Charlie Rankin, recently released from prison, seeks vengeance for his jail-house mentor William "The Buddha" Pettigrew. Along the way, he meets the ethereal, yet streetwise, Florence Jane. They embark on a unlikely road trip, careening towards an unlikely redemption and uncertain resolution.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: David Jacobson
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Stephen Dorff | Michelle Monaghan | Tara Buck | Kerry Rossall
4:44 Last Day on Earth (2012)
As: Cisco
A look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an end.
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Abel Ferrara
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Paul Hipp | Natasha Lyonne | Shanyn Leigh | Pat Kiernan
John Carter (2012)
As: Tars Tarkas
John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Taylor Kitsch | Thomas Haden Church | Lynn Collins | Samantha Morton
The Hunter (2011)
As: Martin David
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Daniel Nettheim
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Frances O'Connor | Sam Neill | Jacek Koman | Callan Mulvey
Miral (2010)
As: Eddie
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Julian Schnabel
Stars: Hiam Abbass | Vanessa Redgrave | Willem Dafoe | Freida Pinto | Uri Gavriel
Una donna - A Woman (2010)
As: Max Oliver
A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dead wife begins to consume her.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Giada Colagrande
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Jess Weixler | Michele Venitucci | Stefania Rocca | Mariela Franganillo
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
As: Rat (voice)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Stars: Willem Dafoe | George Clooney | Bill Murray | Jason Schwartzman | Meryl Streep
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)
As: Gavner Purl
Darren Shan is a regular teenage kid. He and his friend Steve find out about a Freak Show coming to town and work hard at trying to find tickets. They do, and together they go to "Cirque du Freak" where they see many strange acts including a wolf-man and a bearded lady
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Paul Weitz
Stars: John C. Reilly | Josh Hutcherson | Chris Massoglia | Patrick Fugit | Salma Hayek
Daybreakers (2009)
As: Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save humankind.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Michael Spierig | Peter Spierig
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Isabel Lucas | Ethan Hawke | Claudia Karvan | Sam Neill
Farewell (2009)
As: Feeney
Engaging, emotional and riveting, FAREWELL is an intricate and highly intelligent thriller pulled from the pages of history— about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Ronald Reagan called this piece of history - largely unknown until now - “one of the most important espionage cases of the 20th century.” FAREWELL begins in 1981, after the Soviet ...
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Christian Carion
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Niels Arestrup | Fred Ward | Guillaume Canet | Emir Kusturica
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
As: Detective Hank Havenhurst
Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Stars: Brad Dourif | Willem Dafoe | Chloë Sevigny | Michael Shannon | Michael Peña
Antichrist (2009)
As: He
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Lars von Trier
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
The Dust of Time (2008)
As: A
A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and claims the absoluteness of love. At the same time the film is a long journey into the vast history and the events of the last fifty years that left their mark ...
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: Theo Angelopoulos
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Irène Jacob | Bruno Ganz | Michel Piccoli | Christiane Paul
Adam Resurrected (2008)
As: Commandat Klein
Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer- cabaret impresario, magician, musician-loved by all until he finds himself in a concentration camp, confronted by Commandant Klein. Adam survives the camp by becoming the Klein's "dog", entertaining him while his wife and daughter are sent off to die. "Adam Resurrected" is the story of a man who once was a dog who meets a dog who once was a boy.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Stars: Derek Jacobi | Willem Dafoe | Jeff Goldblum | Ayelet Zurer | Hana Laslo
Fireflies in the Garden (2008)
As: Charles Waechter
The semi-autobiographical story centers on the complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart when faced by an unexpected tragedy.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Dennis Lee
Stars: Carrie-Anne Moss | Willem Dafoe | Emily Watson | Julia Roberts | Ryan Reynolds
Anamorph (2007)
As: Stan Aubray
A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Henry Miller
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Peter Stormare | Scott Speedman | James Rebhorn | Clea DuVall
The Procedure (2007)
Cristopher is under a lot of stress at work and decides to undergo a surgical procedure that makes you listen to your favorite song all the time.
Runtime: 4 min.
Directed by: Adam McKay
Stars: Will Ferrell | Willem Dafoe | Andy Richter | Ana Gasteyer
Go Go Tales (2007)
As: Ray Ruby
A financial struggle between owners of a go-go club threatens its future.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Abel Ferrara
Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio | Bob Hoskins | Willem Dafoe | Matthew Modine | Asia Argento
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
As: Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains – including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock and also gets caught up in a love triangle.
Runtime: 139 min.
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Stars: Topher Grace | James Franco | Thomas Haden Church | Tobey Maguire | Kirsten Dunst
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
As: Carson Clay
Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers France, bicycling and true love, among other things.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Steve Bendelack
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Rowan Atkinson | Emma de Caunes | Steve Pemberton | Max Baldry
The Walker (2007)
As: Larry Lockner
An escort who caters to Washington D.C.'s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas | Ned Beatty | Moritz Bleibtreu | Woody Harrelson | Lauren Bacall
Tales from Earthsea (2006)
As: Cob (English Voice)
Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that people are beginning to see dragons, which shouldn't enter the world of humans. Due to all these bizarre events, Ged, a wandering wizard, is investigating the cause. During his journey, he meets Prince Arren, a young distraught teenage boy. While Arren may look ...
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Goro Miyazaki
Stars: Teruyuki Kagawa | Bunta Sugawara | Aoi Teshima | Yūko Tanaka | Junichi Okada
Paris, je t'aime (2006)
As: Le cow-boy (Place des Victoires)
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Isabel Coixet | Wes Craven | Sylvain Chomet | Gurinder Chadha | Frédéric Auburtin | Olivier Assayas | Alfonso Cuarón | Gérard Depardieu | Christopher Doyle | Richard LaGravenese | Vincenzo Natali | Alexander Payne | Walter Salles | Oliver Schmitz | Nobuhiro Suwa | Daniela Thomas | Tom Tykwer | Gus Van Sant | Ethan Coen | Joel Coen | Bruno Podalydès
Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal | Natalie Portman | Willem Dafoe | Steve Buscemi | Axel Kiener
Inside Man (2006)
As: Captain Darius
Bank robber Dalton Russell enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors and takes hostages, working methodically and without haste. Detective Frazier is assigned to negotiate, but his mind is occupied with the corruption charges he is facing. With an army of police surrounding the bank, the thief, the cop and a high-profile 'fixer' enter high-stakes negotiations.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Spike Lee
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Denzel Washington | Christopher Plummer | Clive Owen | Jodie Foster
American Dreamz (2006)
As: Chief of Staff
The new season of "American Dreamz," the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country's attention, as the competition looks to be between a young Midwestern gal (Moore) and a showtunes-loving young man from Orange County (Golzari). Recently awakened President Staton (Quaid) even wants in on the craze, as he signs up for the potential explosive season finale.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Paul Weitz
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Mandy Moore | Hugh Grant | Dennis Quaid | Chris Klein
Ripley Under Ground (2005)
As: Neil Murchison
After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend's name alive in order to exploit his legacy and reap millions in the process.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Roger Spottiswoode
Stars: Barry Pepper | Jacinda Barrett | Willem Dafoe | Tom Wilkinson | Alan Cumming
The Black Widow (2005)
As: Leslie
A young Italian woman inherits from her deceased lover an enigmatic modern house in the New York country side, and goes to see it for the first time. When she arrives she meets the caretaker of the house.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Giada Colagrande
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Seymour Cassel | Bari Hyman | Giada Colagrande | Spenser Carrion Leigh
Manderlay (2005)
As: Grace's Father
In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially slavery is illegal and Grace stands up against the owners of the farm. She stays with some gangsters in Manderlay and tries to influence the situation. But when harvest time comes Grace sees the social and economic reality of Manderlay.
Runtime: 139 min.
Directed by: Lars von Trier
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Danny Glover | Bryce Dallas Howard | Michaël Abiteboul | Isaach De Bankolé
Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal (2005)
As: Himself
Documentary created by Matthew Gray Gubler during, and about, his time on the set of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. (Released in 2005)
Runtime: 15 min.
Directed by: Matthew Gray Gubler
Stars: Cate Blanchett | Willem Dafoe | Matthew Gray Gubler | Wes Anderson | Waris Ahluwalia
Jiminy Glick In Lalawood (2005)
As: Himself
"La La Wood" follows the legacy of Jiminy Glick, first introduced on "The Martin Short Show," who went on to get (non)-critical acclaim for his talk show "Primetime Glick," where Mr. Glick interviewed countless celebrities (which usually ended in verbally--sometimes physically--insulting/assaulting them). Now comes "La La Wood"--Jiminy Glick's home. This is his story (sort of).
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Vadim Jean
Stars: Linda Cardellini | John Michael Higgins | Martin Short | Elizabeth Perkins | Jan Hooks
xXx: State of the Union (2005)
As: Gen. George Octavius Deckert
Ice Cube stars as Darius Stone, a thrill-seeking troublemaker whose criminal record and extreme sports obsession make him the perfect candidate to be the newest XXX agent. He must save the U.S. government from a deadly conspiracy led by five-star general and Secretary of Defense George Deckert (played by Willem Dafoe).
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Lee Tamahori
Stars: Ice Cube | Willem Dafoe | Samuel L. Jackson | Scott Speedman | Peter Strauss
The Aviator (2004)
As: Roland Sweet
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Runtime: 170 min.
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio | Cate Blanchett | John C. Reilly | Kate Beckinsale | Alec Baldwin
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)
As: Klaus Daimler
Wes Anderson’s incisive quirky comedy build up stars complex characters like in ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ with Bill Murray on in the leading role. An ocean adventure documentary film maker Zissou is put in all imaginable life situations and a tough life crisis as he attempts to make a new film about capturing the creature that caused him pain.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Stars: Cate Blanchett | Owen Wilson | Willem Dafoe | Bill Murray | Anjelica Huston
Control (2004)
As: Dr. Michael Copeland
Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new chemical treatment used to modify behavior.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Tim Hunter
Stars: Michelle Rodriguez | Willem Dafoe | Ray Liotta | Stephen Rea | Kathleen Robertson
The Clearing (2004)
As: Arnold Mack
When affluent executive, Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a forest, Wayne’s wife is forced to reckon with the FBI agents as they negotiate with the kidnapper.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Pieter Jan Brugge
Stars: Matt Craven | Helen Mirren | Willem Dafoe | Robert Redford | Alessandro Nivola
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
As: Norman Osborn
Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still can't act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, a girl he's loved since childhood.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Stars: Alfred Molina | Rosemary Harris | James Franco | Tobey Maguire | Kirsten Dunst
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
As: Barillo
Hitman "El Mariachi" becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Robert Rodriguez
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Antonio Banderas | Eva Mendes | Johnny Depp | Salma Hayek
The Reckoning (2003)
As: Martin
In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they Arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman bing sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover a mystery.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Paul McGuigan
Stars: Brian Cox | Tom Hardy | Willem Dafoe | Simon McBurney | Paul Bettany
Finding Nemo (2003)
As: Gill (voice)
Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Brad Garrett | Albert Brooks | Ellen DeGeneres | Alexander Gould
Rockets Redglare! (2003)
As: Himself
Documentary on Rockets Redglare (aka Michael Morra), a colorful figure on the New York City art scene up until his death in 2001. In his life, Redglare was the bodyguard/drug dealer to Sid Vicious and Jean Michel Basquiat, a stand-up comedian (he toured with Steve Buscemi), and an actor in over 30 films, including "Stranger Than Paradise", "Down by Law", and "Mystery Train". Redglare died ...
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Luis Fernandez de la Reguera
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Steve Buscemi | Matt Dillon | Jim Jarmusch | Rockets Redglare
Auto Focus (2002)
As: John Carpenter
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama reveals how Crane's double life takes its toll on him and his family, and ...
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Maria Bello | Greg Kinnear | Rita Wilson | Ron Leibman
Spider-Man (2002)
As: Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider, nerdy high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Stars: Willem Dafoe | James Franco | Tobey Maguire | Kirsten Dunst | Cliff Robertson
Pavilion of Women (2001)
As: Father Andre
With World War 2 looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while dealing with the most important ideal of all: love and its meaning in society.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Yim Ho
Stars: Willem Dafoe | John Cho | Yi Ding | Yan Luo | Shek Sau
Edges of the Lord (2001)
As: Priest
A 12-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Yurek Bogayevicz
Stars: Haley Joel Osment | Willem Dafoe | Olaf Lubaszenko | Liam Hess | Richard Banel
Animal Factory (2000)
As: Earl Copen
Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug dealer, he faces a five-year jail sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Physically frail and unaccustomed to his rough surroundings, Ron is primed to fall victim to sexual predators and bullying guards – that is, until he's befriended by Earl, a veteran inmate ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Steve Buscemi
Stars: Mark Boone Junior | Danny Trejo | Willem Dafoe | Seymour Cassel | Edward Furlong
Bullfighter (2000)
As: Father Ramirez
Jack is a wanderer whose aimless roaming leads him to a number of interesting locations and into the company of many interesting people, and despite his fascination with bullfighting he leads a largely peaceful existence. When a crime boss' daughter is accidentally gored to death, Jack is implicated in the unfortunate event and singled out for termination by a seemingly unending army of lethal hitmen. As ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Rune Bendixen
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Jared Harris | Assumpta Serna | Michelle Forbes | Olivier Martinez
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
As: Max Schreck
Director F.W. Murnau (John Malkovich) makes a Faustian pact with a vampire (Willem Dafoe) to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: E. Elias Merhige
Stars: Catherine McCormack | Willem Dafoe | Cary Elwes | John Malkovich | Udo Kier
American Psycho (2000)
As: Detective Donald Kimball
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Mary Harron
Stars: Christian Bale | Jared Leto | Willem Dafoe | Samantha Mathis | Josh Lucas
eXistenZ (1999)
As: Gas
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Stars: Ian Holm | Willem Dafoe | Jude Law | Don McKellar | Jennifer Jason Leigh
The Boondock Saints (1999)
As: Paul Smecker
With a God-inspired moral obligation to act against evil, twin brothers Conner and Murphy set out to rid Boston of criminals. However, rather than working within the system, these Irish Americans decide to take swift retribution into their own hands.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Troy Duffy
Stars: Norman Reedus | Willem Dafoe | Sean Patrick Flanery | David Ferry | David Della Rocco
Affliction (1998)
As: Rolfe Whitehouse
A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in his slowly disintegrating mentally.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Nick Nolte | James Coburn | Sissy Spacek | Brigid Tierney
Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy who's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Paul Auster
Stars: Mira Sorvino | Kevin Corrigan | Harvey Keitel | Richard Edson | Don Byron
New Rose Hotel (1998)
As: X
A corporate raider and his henchman use a chanteuse to lure a scientific genius away from his employer and family.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Abel Ferrara
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Asia Argento | Christopher Walken | Annabella Sciorra | Gretchen Mol
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
As: John Geiger
Sandra Bullock and Jason Patric star as a young couple whose dream cruise turns to terror when a lunatic computer genius (Willem Dafoe) sets a new course for destruction.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Jan de Bont
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Jason Patric | Temuera Morrison | Sandra Bullock | Mike Hagerty
Victory (1996)
As: Axel Heyst
Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, Heyst becomes entranced with a member of the hotel's all-female orchestra.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Mark Peploe
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Irène Jacob | Rufus Sewell | Jean Yanne | Sam Neill
The English Patient (1996)
As: David Caravaggio
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
Runtime: 162 min.
Directed by: Anthony Minghella
Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas | Willem Dafoe | Ralph Fiennes | Juliette Binoche | Naveen Andrews
Basquiat (1996)
As: The Electrician
Director Julian Schnabel illustrates the portrait of his friend, the first African-American pop artist Jean-Michel Basquiat who unfortunately died at a young age and just as he was beginning to make a name for himself in the art world. Alongside the biography of Basquiat are the artists and the art scene from early 1980’s New York.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Julian Schnabel
Stars: Gary Oldman | David Bowie | Dennis Hopper | Jeffrey Wright | Benicio del Toro
The Night and the Moment (1995)
As: Lo scrittore
The Night and the Moment is a 1995 erotic drama. A writer (Dafoe) is invited to the house of a noblewoman (Olin) who adores free-thinkers. He attempts to seduce her but she insists that he tell her of his past love exploits. While doing so, he takes her through his time in prison where he was unknowingly incarcerated in the cell beside hers.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Anna Maria Tatò
Stars: Miranda Richardson | Willem Dafoe | Lena Olin | Jean-Claude Carrière | Carole Richert
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
As: John Clark
CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
Runtime: 141 min.
Directed by: Phillip Noyce
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Harrison Ford | Henry Czerny | Anne Archer | Joaquim de Almeida
Tom & Viv (1994)
As: Tom Eliot
The story of the marriage of the poet TS Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaeological and emotional problems and his growing fame.
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: Brian Gilbert
Stars: Miranda Richardson | Willem Dafoe | Rosemary Harris | Geoffrey Bayldon | Tim Dutton
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
As: Emit Flesti
The film opens with the angel Cassiel (Otto Sander) standing on the statue of the Angel of Victory overlooking post-Cold War Berlin. Growing ever more despondent over his fate as a mere observer of human life, rather than a vital part of it, Cassiel dreams of "crossing over" to the human world.And he does, as Karl Engel, a man who perhaps knows too much, perhaps like in many of Hitchcock's films, ...
Runtime: 144 min.
Directed by: Wim Wenders
Stars: Bruno Ganz | Peter Falk | Nastassja Kinski | Solveig Dommartin | Otto Sander
Body of Evidence (1993)
As: Frank Dulaney
Sizzingly sexy Madonna leads a star-filled cast in this erotic thriller as a woman accused of killing a wealthy, elderly man through her insatiable sexual prowess.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Uli Edel
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Jürgen Prochnow | Julianne Moore | Anne Archer | Madonna
Light Sleeper (1992)
As: John LeTour
A drug dealer with upscale clientele is having moral problems going about his daily deliveries. A reformed addict, he has never gotten over the wife that left him, and the couple that use him for deliveries worry about his mental well-being and his effectiveness at his job. Meanwhile someone is killing women in apparently drug-related incidents.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Dana Delany | Susan Sarandon | David Clennon | Mary Beth Hurt
White Sands (1992)
As: Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal
A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Mickey Rourke | Samuel L. Jackson | M. Emmet Walsh | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Flight of the Intruder (1991)
As: Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole
U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding officer, Cmdr. Frank Camparelli, to re-engage them, this disillusioned pair decide to take the war effort into their own hands with an explosive battle plan that could ...
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: John Milius
Stars: Tom Sizemore | Willem Dafoe | Danny Glover | Brad Johnson | Rosanna Arquette
Wild at Heart (1990)
As: Bobby Peru
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: David Lynch
Stars: Nicolas Cage | Willem Dafoe | Crispin Glover | J.E. Freeman | Laura Dern
Cry-Baby (1990)
As: Hateful Guard at Maryland Training School for Boys
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: John Waters
Stars: Johnny Depp | Amy Locane | Traci Lords | Susan Tyrrell | Polly Bergen
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
As: Charlie
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Runtime: 145 min.
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Stars: Raymond J. Barry | Tom Cruise | Kyra Sedgwick | Holly Marie Combs | Caroline Kava
Triumph of the Spirit (1989)
As: Salamo Arouch
Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and brother were also held as insurance that he would continue to fight.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Robert M. Young
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Edward James Olmos | Robert Loggia | Hartmut Becker
Mississippi Burning (1988)
As: Agent Alan Ward
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his, former Sheriff, partner.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Alan Parker
Stars: R. Lee Ermey | Brad Dourif | Willem Dafoe | Gene Hackman | Frances McDormand
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
As: Jesus
Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt. As he is put to death on the cross, Jesus is tempted by visions of an ordinary ...
Runtime: 164 min.
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Harry Dean Stanton | Harvey Keitel | Barbara Hershey | David Bowie
Off Limits (1988)
As: Buck McGriff
McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S. military policemen on duty in war-time Saigon. However, their job becomes even harder when they start investigating the serial killings of local prostitutes. Their prime suspect is high ranking U.S. Army officer which brings their lives in danger.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Christopher Crowe
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Scott Glenn | Fred Ward | Gregory Hines | Amanda Pays
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987)
As: Elephant grass (voice)
Feature-length documentary film featuring real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive footage of the war and news coverage thereof augment the first-person "narrative" by men and women who were in the war, some of whom did not survive it. Written by Jim Beaver
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Bill Couturié
Stars: Tom Berenger | Ellen Burstyn | Josh Cruze | J. Kenneth Campbell | Richard Chaves
Platoon (1986)
As: Sgt. Elias
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Stars: Tom Berenger | Keith David | Forest Whitaker | Willem Dafoe | Francesco Quinn
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
As: Eric 'Rick' Masters
A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: William Friedkin
Stars: Willem Dafoe | John Pankow | John Turturro | William Petersen | Debra Feuer
Roadhouse 66 (1985)
As: Johnny Harte
Beckman driving a '55 Thunderbird on Route 66 hooks up with Johnny after hoodlum Hoot and his gang shoot his car. Continuous conflicts between Hoot and Beckman make Beckman and Johnny determant to teach him a lesson.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: John Mark Robinson
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Kate Vernon | Judge Reinhold | Stephen Elliott | Kaaren Lee
Streets of Fire (1984)
As: Raven Shaddock
Raven Shaddock and his gang of merciless biker friends kidnap rock singer Ellen Aim. Ellen's former lover, soldier-for-hire Tom Cody, happens to be passing through town on a visit. In an attempt to save his star act, Ellen's manager hires Tom to rescue her. Along with a former soldier, they battle through dangerous cityscapes, determined to get Ellen back.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Walter Hill
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Amy Madigan | Diane Lane | Rick Moranis | Michael Paré
New York Nights (1984)
As: Boyfriend
Starring Corinne Alphen, Willem Dafoe and George Ayer. Nine New Yorkersnine successful lives all intertwined in a treacherous tale of passion, a game of seduction. The only rule; anything goes.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Simon Nuchtern
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Corinne Wahl | Lisa Peluso | George Ayer | Gordon Press
The Hunger (1983)
As: 2nd Phone Booth Youth
Miriam and John are an elegant couple with a dark secret: they are vampires. Feeding on human blood, Miriam has lived for over 2000 years. She gave her lover the gift of eternal life and together they hunt. But John begins aging rapidly, he seeks the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts. Miriam is immediately drawn to Sarah, desiring her as her next immortal companion...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Tony Scott
Stars: Susan Sarandon | Catherine Deneuve | David Bowie | Beth Ehlers | Cliff DeYoung
The Loveless (1981)
As: Vance
Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow | Monty Montgomery
Stars: Willem Dafoe | J. Don Ferguson | Marin Kanter | Robert Gordon
The French Dispatch ()
A love letter to journalists set at an outpost of an American newspaper in post-war 20th-century Paris that centers on three storylines.
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Stars: Léa Seydoux | Bill Murray | Tilda Swinton | Frances McDormand | Timothée Chalamet