Actor
David Strathairn
Biography

An American film and television actor, best known for his portrayal of journalist Edward R. Murrow in the feature film "Good Night, and Good Luck", for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. ...

Known For
Acting
2025 -- The Gettysburg Address | Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice)
2024 -- The Luckiest Man in America | Bill Carruthers
2023 -- A Little Prayer | Bill
2023 -- Remember This | Jan Karski
2022 -- Where the Crawdads Sing | Tom Milton
2021 -- Nightmare Alley | Pete
2021 -- Nomadland | Dave
2020 -- The Oedipus Project | Messenger 1
2020 -- Walkaway Joe | Joe Haley
2019 -- Them That Work | Self
2019 -- The Devil Has a Name | Fred Stern
2019 -- Godzilla: King of the Monsters | Admiral William Stenz
2019 -- Fast Color | Ellis
2018 -- My Dinner with Hervé | Marty Rothstein
2018 -- UFO | Franklin Ahls
2018 -- An Interview with God | God
2017 -- Darkest Hour | President Roosevelt (voice)
2017 -- November Criminals | Theo
2016 -- American Pastoral | Nathan Zuckerman
2016 -- He Does Not Want Peace | Richard Englebright
2015 -- Louder Than Bombs | Richard Weissman
2015 -- The Debt | Nathan
2015 -- The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Ty Burley
2014 -- Godzilla | Admiral William Stenz
2014 -- No God, No Master | William Flynn
2013 -- Lincoln@Gettysburg | Narrator (voice)
2013 -- Love, Marilyn | Self
2012 -- Lincoln | William Seward
2012 -- Hemingway & Gellhorn | John Dos Passos
2012 -- The Bourne Legacy | Noah Vosen
2012 -- Maladies | Delmar
2010 -- The Whistleblower | Peter Ward
2010 -- The Tempest | King Alonso
2010 -- Howl | Ralph McIntosh
2010 -- Inside Area 51's Secrets | Narrator
2010 -- Area 51 Declassified | Himself - Narrator
2010 -- Temple Grandin | Professor Carlock
2010 -- Matadors | Roman Lodari
2009 -- The People Speak | Self
2009 -- Cold Souls | Dr. Flintstein
2009 -- The Uninvited | Steven
2008 -- Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential' | Self
2008 -- Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential' | Self
2008 -- The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer
2008 -- The Spiderwick Chronicles | Arthur Spiderwick
2007 -- My Blueberry Nights | Arnie
2007 -- Trumbo | Self
2007 -- Matters of Life and Death | Mr. Jennings
2007 -- The Bourne Ultimatum | Noah Vosen
2007 -- Racing Daylight | Henry / Harry
2007 -- Steel Toes | Danny Dunkelman
2007 -- Fracture | Joe Lobruto
2007 -- The Supreme Court | Narrator
2006 -- We Are Marshall | President Dedmon
2006 -- The Sensation of Sight | Finn
2006 -- Heavens Fall | Judge James Horton
2006 -- The Human Behavior Experiments | Narrator
2006 -- The Shovel | Paul Mullin
2005 -- Good Night, and Good Luck. | Edward R. Murrow
2005 -- The Notorious Bettie Page | Estes Kefauver
2005 -- Willa Cather: The Road Is All | Narrator
2005 -- Missing in America | Henry R. Hocknell Jr.
2004 -- Los Angeles Plays Itself | Pierce Patchett in L.A. Confidential (archive footage)
2004 -- Twisted | Dr. Melvin Frank
2004 -- Paradise | Reverend Bobby Paradise
2003 -- The Making of ‘Sneakers’ | Self
2003 -- Blue Car | Auster
2002 -- Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story | Jack Hoschouer
2002 -- Lathe of Heaven | Mannie
2002 -- Speakeasy | Bruce Hickman
2001 -- Relative Evil | Dr. Charlie
2001 -- The Victim | Mark Zingerline
2000 -- A Good Baby | Truman Lester
2000 -- The Miracle Worker | Captain Keller
2000 -- Harrison's Flowers | Harrison Lloyd
2000 -- Freedom Song | Peter Crowley
1999 -- A Map of the World | Howard Goodwin
1999 -- Limbo | Joe Gastineau
1999 -- A Midsummer Night's Dream | Theseus
1998 -- Bad Manners | Wes Westlund
1998 -- The Giraffe | Charles Kaminski
1998 -- Simon Birch | Rev. Russell
1998 -- With Friends Like These... | Armand Minetti
1998 -- Evidence of Blood | Jackson Kinley
1998 -- The Climb | Earl Himes
1997 -- L.A. Confidential | Pierce Patchett
1997 -- Song of Hiawatha | Marcel
1997 -- In the Gloaming | Martin
1996 -- Mother Night | Bernard B. O'Hare
1996 -- Beyond the Call | Russel Gates
1995 -- Home for the Holidays | Russell Terziak
1995 -- Dolores Claiborne | Joe St. George
1995 -- Losing Isaiah | Charles Lewin
1994 -- The River Wild | Tom Hartman
1994 -- April One | John McCowan
1993 -- A Dangerous Woman | Getso
1993 -- The Firm | Ray McDeere
1993 -- Lost in Yonkers | Johnny
1993 -- The American Clock | Young Arthur Huntington
1992 -- Passion Fish | Rennie
1992 -- Sneakers | Whistler
1992 -- Bob Roberts | Mack Laflin
1992 -- A League of Their Own | Ira Lowenstein
1992 -- Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even | Keith
1992 -- O Pioneers! | Carl Linstrum
1991 -- City of Hope | Asteroid
1991 -- Without Warning: The James Brady Story | Dr. Arthur Kobrine
1990 -- Judgment | Father Frank Aubert
1990 -- Memphis Belle | Craig Harriman
1990 -- Heat Wave | Bill Thomas
1989 -- The Feud | The Stranger
1989 -- Day One | J. Robert Oppenheimer
1988 -- Eight Men Out | Eddie Cicotte
1988 -- Call Me | Sam
1988 -- Dominick and Eugene | Martin Chernak
1988 -- Stars & Bars | Charlie
1987 -- Matewan | Police Chief Sid Hatfield
1987 -- Broken Vows | Stuart Chase
1986 -- At Close Range | Tony Pine
1985 -- When Nature Calls | Weejun
1984 -- The Brother from Another Planet | Man In Black
1984 -- Iceman | Dr. Singe
1983 -- Silkwood | Wesley
1983 -- Lovesick | Marvin Zuckerman
1983 -- Enormous Changes at the Last Minute | Jerry
1980 -- Return of the Secaucus Seven | Ron
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