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William Atherton Knight is an American actor, best known for portraying Richard Thornburg in Die Hard and its sequel and Walter Peck in Ghostbusters.
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire | Mayor Walter Peck | 2024 |
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters | Self | 2020 |
The Holiday Movies That Made Us | Self - Actor 'Walter Peck' / Self - Actor 'Richard Thornburg' | 2019 |
Bad Company | 2018 | |
Spielberg | Clovis | 2017 |
Clinical | Terry / Terry Drummond | 2017 |
Ghostheads | Self | 2016 |
Behind Closed Doors | Self | 2016 |
Jinn | Father Westhoff | 2014 |
Getting Back to Zero | 2013 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire | Mayor Walter Peck | 2024 |
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters | Self | 2020 |
The Holiday Movies That Made Us | Self - Actor 'Walter Peck' / Self - Actor 'Richard Thornburg' | 2019 |
Bad Company | 2018 | |
Spielberg | Clovis | 2017 |
Clinical | Terry / Terry Drummond | 2017 |
Ghostheads | Self | 2016 |
Behind Closed Doors | Self | 2016 |
Jinn | Father Westhoff | 2014 |
Getting Back to Zero | 2013 | |
Defiance | Viceroy Berto Mercado | 2013 |
Decoding Die Hard | Self | 2013 |
The Citizen | Winston | 2012 |
The Unknown | Jim Larson | 2012 |
Jersey Shore Shark Attack | Dolan | 2012 |
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie | Earle Swinter | 2012 |
Workaholics | Thor Holmvik | 2011 |
The Kane Files: Life of Trial | Daniel Morgan | 2010 |
The Glades | Big Jack Hasker | 2010 |
Castle | Dr. Ari Weiss | 2009 |
Childrens Hospital | Levon Bainter | 2008 |
Ghouls | Stefan | 2008 |
Black Crescent Moon | Jo Dexton | 2008 |
Aces 'N' Eights | Howard | 2008 |
Life | Mickey Rayborn | 2007 |
The Girl Next Door | Adult David Moran | 2007 |
Kush | King | 2007 |
Totally Baked | Mr. Lyle Funonion (Segment "FunOnion Boardroom") | 2007 |
Towards Darkness | John | 2007 |
Headspace | Dr. Ira Gold | 2005 |
Into the Sun | CIA Agent Block / Agent Block | 2005 |
Numb3rs | Warren Pierce | 2005 |
Gone But Not Forgotten | Senator Raymond Colby / Sen. Ray Colby | 2005 |
Boston Legal | A.D.A. Howard Zale | 2004 |
Desperate Housewives | Dr. Barr | 2004 |
Lost | Principal Donald Reynolds | 2004 |
Who's Your Daddy? | Duncan Mack | 2004 |
The Last Samurai | Winchester Rep | 2003 |
Monk | Commander Nathan Whitaker | 2002 |
Justice League | Dr. Destiny / John Dee | 2001 |
Race to Space | Ralph Stanton | 2001 |
Night Visions | William Price (segment "Hate Puppet") | 2001 |
Burning Down the House | Arthur Kranston | 2001 |
Bread and Roses | Self - Party Guest | 2000 |
The Crow: Salvation | Nathan Randall | 2000 |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Ned Bogden | 1999 |
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | Darryl Zanuck | 1999 |
Michael Kael contre la World News Company | James Denit | 1998 |
Mad City | Dohlen | 1997 |
Executive Power | President John Fields / President Fields | 1997 |
Hoodlum | Thomas Dewey / Thomas E. Dewey | 1997 |
Stargate SG-1 | Emissary Varta | 1997 |
The Practice | D.A. Keith Pratt | 1997 |
Raven Hawk | Philip Thorne | 1996 |
Nash Bridges | Dr. Linus Mills | 1996 |
Bio-Dome | Dr. Noah Faulkner | 1996 |
Broken Trust | Roemer / Neil Roemer | 1995 |
A Night to Die for | Himself | 1995 |
Virus | Dr. Reginald Holloway | 1995 |
The Outer Limits | Franklin Murdoch | 1995 |
Frank & Jesse | Allan Pinkerton | 1994 |
Saints and Sinners | Terence / Detective | 1994 |
The Pelican Brief | Bob Gminski | 1993 |
HBO First Look | Self - Richard Thornberg | 1992 |
Chrome Soldiers | Sheriff Blackwell | 1992 |
Diagnosis Murder: Diagnosis of Murder | Eric Walker | 1992 |
Oscar | Overton | 1991 |
Grim Prairie Tales | Arthur | 1990 |
Law & Order | Don Snyder / Dan Jensen | 1990 |
Die Hard 2 | Thornberg / Richard Thornburg | 1990 |
Buried Alive | Cortland 'Cort' van Owen / Cortland "Cort" van Owen | 1990 |
Max Monroe | Sloane | 1990 |
Tales from the Crypt | Malcolm Mayflower | 1989 |
Intrigue | Doggett | 1988 |
Die Hard | Richard Thornburg / Thornburg | 1988 |
The Law and Harry McGraw | Gene Bellows | 1987 |
No Mercy | Allan Deveneux | 1986 |
A Fight for Jenny | Michael Rosen | 1986 |
The Twilight Zone | Mr. Dundee (segment "Night of the Meek") / Brian Wolfe (segment "The Card") | 1985 |
The Equalizer | Martin 'Alpha' Loeber / Gideon | 1985 |
Real Genius | Professor Jerry Hathaway / Professor Hathaway | 1985 |
Murder, She Wrote | Prosecutor Andy Henley / Larry Holleran / Greg Dalton | 1984 |
Ghostbusters | Walter Peck | 1984 |
Tomorrow's Child | Jim Spence | 1982 |
The House of Mirth | Lawrence Selden | 1981 |
Centennial | Jim Lloyd | 1978 |
Looking for Mr. Goodbar | James | 1977 |
Independence | Benjamin Rush | 1976 |
The Hindenburg | Karl Boerth / Boerth | 1975 |
The Day of the Locust | Tod Hackett / Tod | 1975 |
The Sugarland Express | Clovis / Clovis Michael Poplin | 1974 |
Class of '44 | Fraternity President | 1973 |
The New Centurions | Johnson | 1972 |