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William Forsythe is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of various gangsters and tough guys in films such as Raising Arizona, Gotti, Once Upon a Time in America, Stone Cold, Out For Justice, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Dick Tracy, The Rock, American Me and The Devil's Rejects. He also played recurring characters in the series Boardwalk Empire, Justified, and John Doe.
Born
Tuesday, 07 June 1955
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Open | Captain Edgar J. Steadman | 2023 |
| Ida Red | Lawrence Twilley | 2021 |
| Roe v. Wade | Justice Potter Stewart | 2021 |
| God's Not Dead: We the People | Robert Benson / Senator Robert Benson | 2020 |
| A Perfect Plan | Grayson | 2020 |
| Gravesend | Santini Traffato | 2020 |
| I Am Fear | Marco | 2020 |
| Primitive | Caro Kann | 2020 |
| Run with the Hunted | Augustus | 2019 |
| Awake | Roger Bower | 2019 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Open | Captain Edgar J. Steadman | 2023 |
| Ida Red | Lawrence Twilley | 2021 |
| Roe v. Wade | Justice Potter Stewart | 2021 |
| God's Not Dead: We the People | Robert Benson / Senator Robert Benson | 2020 |
| A Perfect Plan | Grayson | 2020 |
| Gravesend | Santini Traffato | 2020 |
| I Am Fear | Marco | 2020 |
| Primitive | Caro Kann | 2020 |
| Run with the Hunted | Augustus | 2019 |
| Awake | Roger Bower | 2019 |
| Vault | Buddy Providence | 2019 |
| Cold Pursuit | Brock 'Wingman' Coxman / Brock | 2019 |
| Magnum P.I. | Harry Brown | 2018 |
| The Little Mermaid | 2018 | |
| The Networker | Charles Mangano | 2017 |
| Chicago Justice | David Zachariah | 2017 |
| Check Point | The Sheriff / Sheriff Thomas Hancock | 2017 |
| The Hollow | Big John Dawson | 2016 |
| The Bronx Bull | Jake LaMotta | 2016 |
| Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders | Oleg Antakov / Ripper of Riga | 2016 |
| The Midnight Man | Fairbanks | 2016 |
| The Making of the Mob | Self - Actor, The Untouchables / Self - Actor, Once Upon a Time in America | 2015 |
| Echoes of War | Randolph McCluskey | 2015 |
| Laugh Killer Laugh | Frank Stone | 2015 |
| Daredevil | Dutton | 2015 |
| The Man in the High Castle | J. Edgar Hoover | 2015 |
| Hidden in the Woods | Uncle Costello | 2014 |
| Road to Juarez | Doug Hermann | 2014 |
| Tom Holland's Twisted Tales | Mr. Smith (segment "To Hell With You") | 2014 |
| Twisted Tales | Mr. Smith | 2013 |
| The Ghost Club: Spirits Never Die | Stanley | 2013 |
| Infected | Dr. Dennehey / Dr. Edward Dennehey | 2012 |
| Celluloid Bloodbath: More Prevues from Hell | Himself / Self | 2012 |
| The Mob Doctor | Constantine Alexander | 2012 |
| L.A., I Hate You | Uncle Rip | 2012 |
| Loosies | Captain Tom Edwards | 2011 |
| Inkubus | Ret. Detective Gil Diamante | 2011 |
| Born to Ride | Jack Steele | 2011 |
| Underground Entertainment: The Movie | Bill | 2011 |
| Jesse | Vince the Godfather | 2011 |
| Slip & Fall | Jerry | 2011 |
| Hawaii Five-0 | Harry Brown | 2010 |
| Boardwalk Empire | Manny Horvitz | 2010 |
| The Rig | Jim Fleming | 2010 |
| Dear Mr. Gacy | John Wayne Gacy | 2010 |
| Justified | Michael | 2010 |
| Underbelly | Self | 2010 |
| The Nail: the Story of Joey Nardone | Massimo | 2009 |
| Happy in the Valley | Stewart | 2009 |
| Michael Lives: The Making of 'Halloween' | Himself / Self | 2008 |
| The Mentalist | Steve Rigsby | 2008 |
| iMurders | Professor Uberoth | 2008 |
| Stiletto | Alex | 2008 |
| Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | Sheriff Wydell / Ronnie White | 2007 |
| Final Approach | Silas Jansen | 2007 |
| Halloween | Ronnie White | 2007 |
| Hack! | Willy | 2007 |
| Jam | Ted | 2007 |
| Southern Gothic | Pitt | 2007 |
| 88 Minutes | Frank Parks | 2007 |
| Shark | Harry Russo | 2006 |
| Freedomland | Boyle | 2006 |
| Masters of Horror | Buster | 2005 |
| The Devil's Rejects | Sheriff Wydell / Sheriff John Quincy Wydel | 2005 |
| SharkMan | Tom Reed / Tom | 2005 |
| The L.A. Riot Spectacular | George Holliday | 2005 |
| 30 Days in Hell: The Making of 'The Devil's Rejects' | Self - 'Sheriff Wydell' | 2005 |
| Larva | Jacob Long | 2005 |
| Entourage | Eddie Kapowski | 2004 |
| The Last Letter | Mr. Griffith | 2004 |
| The Librarians | Simon | 2003 |
| Las Vegas | Uncle Luke | 2003 |
| Wild Card | Stuart Dresden | 2003 |
| The Technical Writer | Joe | 2003 |
| Civility | Andrew LeBretian | 2002 |
| CSI: Miami | Captain Chris Sutter | 2002 |
| John Doe | Digger / (credit only) | 2002 |
| City by the Sea | Spyder | 2002 |
| Hard Cash | Bo Young | 2002 |
| Coastlines | Fred Vance | 2002 |
| UC: Undercover | Sonny Walker | 2001 |
| Camouflage | Alton Owens | 2001 |
| Blue Hill Avenue | Det. Torrance | 2001 |
| Sharkman | Tom | 2001 |
| G-Men from Hell | Dean Crept | 2000 |
| Mysterious Ways | Luther Skoals | 2000 |
| Luck of the Draw | Max Fenton | 2000 |
| Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo | Detective Chuck Fowler / Det. Chuck Fowler | 1999 |
| The Last Marshal | DeClerc | 1999 |
| Blue Streak | Detective Hardcastle | 1999 |
| Four Days | Milt | 1999 |
| 18 Shades of Dust | Tommy Cucci | 1999 |
| Paradise Lost | Mike Stark | 1999 |
| Row Your Boat | Gil Meadows | 1999 |
| Soundman | Frank Rosenfeld | 1999 |
| Dollar for the Dead | Dooley | 1998 |
| Hell's Kitchen | Lou / Lou Reilly | 1998 |
| Ambushed | Mike Organski | 1998 |
| The Pass | Charles Duprey | 1998 |
| Firestorm | Shaye / Randall Shaye | 1998 |
| First Time Felon | Sorley | 1997 |
| Dead Man's Gun | Harlan Riddle | 1997 |
| Big City Blues | Hudson | 1997 |
| Palookaville | Sid Dunleavy | 1996 |
| Gotti | Sammy Gravano | 1996 |
| The Rock | Ernest Paxton / Special Agent Ernest Paxton | 1996 |
| For Which He Stands | Johnny Rochetti | 1996 |
| The Substitute | Hollan | 1996 |
| Rule of Three | Mitch | 1996 |
| The Immortals | Tim James / Tim | 1995 |
| Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead | Franchise | 1995 |
| Virtuosity | William Cochran | 1995 |
| Beyond Desire | Ray Patterson | 1995 |
| Svengoolie | Self - Guest (2017 airing) | 1995 |
| Cybill | Bruce | 1995 |
| Thriller Zone | Marcus Deerfield (segment "The Final Hour") | 1995 |
| Direct Hit | John Hatch / Hatch | 1994 |
| A Kiss to Die For | Detective Mike Stoller | 1993 |
| The Untouchables | Al Capone | 1993 |
| Relentless 3 | Walter Hilderman | 1993 |
| Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story | Terry Harper | 1992 |
| The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag | Beaudeen | 1992 |
| HBO First Look | Self | 1992 |
| Cruel Doubt | Police Chief John Crone | 1992 |
| The Waterdance | Bloss | 1992 |
| American Me | JD / J.D. | 1992 |
| Stone Cold | Ice | 1991 |
| Out for Justice | Richie Madano | 1991 |
| Career Opportunities | Custodian | 1991 |
| Dick Tracy | Flattop | 1990 |
| Blind Faith | Ferlin L'Heureux | 1990 |
| Sons | Mikey / Mike | 1990 |
| Torrents of Spring | Prince Ippolito Polozov | 1989 |
| Dead Bang | Arthur Kressler | 1989 |
| Patty Hearst | Teko | 1988 |
| Baja Oklahoma | Tommy Earl Browner | 1988 |
| Weeds | Burt the Booster | 1987 |
| Extreme Prejudice | Sgt. Buck Atwater / Sgt Buck Atwater | 1987 |
| Raising Arizona | Evelle | 1987 |
| Savage Dawn | Pigiron | 1986 |
| The Lightship | Gene | 1985 |
| The Long Hot Summer | Isaac | 1985 |
| Command 5 | Hawk | 1985 |
| Cloak & Dagger | Morris | 1984 |
| Once Upon a Time in America | Cockeye / Philip 'Cockeye' Stein | 1984 |
| The Man Who Wasn't There | Pug Face Crusher | 1983 |
| Tales of the Gold Monkey | Kurt | 1982 |
| T.J. Hooker | Wounded Assailant | 1982 |
| Fame | Snake | 1982 |
| The Miracle of Kathy Miller | Mark | 1981 |
| Smokey Bites the Dust | Kenny | 1981 |
| King of the Mountain | Big Tom | 1981 |
| Hill Street Blues | Richard Brady | 1981 |
| Long Shot | Bille | 1978 |
| Coach | Audience Member | 1978 |
| CHiPs | Thrasher | 1977 |
Producer Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Check Point | 2017 |
| Jam | 2007 |
| The Last Letter | 2004 |
| Paradise Lost | 1999 |
| Big City Blues | 1997 |
| Beyond Desire | 1995 |
