Actor
William Devane
Biography

William Joseph Devane (born September 5, 1937) is an American film, television and theater actor, known for his role as Greg Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing and as James Heller on the Fox serial drama 24, the role he reprised in Live Another Day. He is also known for his supporting roles in films such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Family Plot), Marathon Man, Rolling Thunder and Space Cowboys. Devane began his acting career with the New York Shakespeare Festival where he performed ...

Known For
Acting
2015 -- Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise | Dr. Dix
2015 -- Truth | Gen. Hodges (voice) (uncredited)
2014 -- Interstellar | Williams
2014 -- Bad Turn Worse | Big Red
2014 -- 50 to 1 | Leonard Doc Blach
2012 -- The Dark Knight Rises | President
2012 -- Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt | Dr. Dix
2012 -- Leprechaun's Revenge | Pop O'Hara
2011 -- Good Morning, Killer | Everett Morgan Gray
2011 -- Flag of My Father | Jake
2011 -- Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost | Dr. Dix
2010 -- The Kane Files: Life of Trial | Thompson
2010 -- Jesse Stone: No Remorse | Dr. Dix
2010 -- The River Why | Dutch Hines
2009 -- The Fall | judge Stanley Seeban
2009 -- Jesse Stone: Thin Ice | Dr. Dix
2009 -- The Least Among You | Alan Beckett
2009 -- The Dealership | Frank Carson
2008 -- Stargate: Continuum | President Henry Hayes
2007 -- Jesse Stone: Sea Change | Dr. Dix
2006 -- Payback: Straight Up | Fred Carter
2006 -- Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise | Dr. Dix
2004 -- Deceit | Grove McCarthy
2003 -- Monte Walsh | Cal Brennan
2002 -- A Christmas Visitor | George Boyajian
2002 -- Threat of Exposure | Col. Weldon
2002 -- The Badge | The Judge
2001 -- Race to Space | Roger Thornhill
2001 -- Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story | Tom Kincaid
2001 -- Plotting 'Family Plot' | Self
2000 -- Poor White Trash | Ron Lake
2000 -- Hollow Man | Dr. Kramer
2000 -- Space Cowboys | Eugene Davis
2000 -- The Man Who Used to Be Me | Older Sam Ryan
1999 -- Payback | Carter
1997 -- Doomsday Rock | Dr. Karl Sorenson
1997 -- The Absolute Truth | Sen. Emmett Hunter
1997 -- Exception to the Rule | Lawrence Kellerman
1996 -- Forgotten Sins | Dr. Richard Ofshe
1995 -- Freefall: Flight 174 | Capt. Bob Pearson
1995 -- Night Watch | Nick Caldwell
1995 -- Virus | Dr. Harbuck
1994 -- Lady in Waiting | Lt. Barrett
1994 -- For the Love of Nancy | Tom
1993 -- Rubdown | Harry Orwitz
1993 -- Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story | Daniel 'Dan' Fields
1992 -- The President's Child | Elliot McSwain
1992 -- Obsessed | Ed Bledsoe
1992 -- Ancient Secrets of the Bible | Host & Narrator
1991 -- Nightmare in Columbia County | Sheriff Jim Metts
1990 -- Murder C.O.D. | Alex Brandt
1990 -- Vital Signs | Dr. Chatham
1990 -- Chips, the War Dog | Col. Charnley
1989 -- The Preppie Murder | Jack Litman
1987 -- Timestalkers | Scott McKenzie
1984 -- With Intent to Kill | Aaron Charney
1983 -- Testament | Tom Wetherly
1983 -- Hadley's Rebellion | Coach Ball
1983 -- Jane Doe | William Quinn
1981 -- The Other Victim | Harry Langford
1981 -- Red Flag: The Ultimate Game | Maj. Phil Clark
1981 -- Honky Tonk Freeway | Mayor Kirby T. Calo
1979 -- Yanks | John
1979 -- The Dark | Roy Warner, aka Steve Dupree
1977 -- Rolling Thunder | Major Charles Rane
1977 -- The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training | Mike Leak
1977 -- Red Alert | Frank Brolen
1976 -- Marathon Man | Janeway
1976 -- Family Plot | Arthur Adamson
1975 -- Fear on Trial | John Henry Faulk
1975 -- Report to the Commissioner | Asst. D.A. Jackson
1974 -- The Missiles of October | President John F. Kennedy
1974 -- Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita |
1973 -- The Bait | Earl Stokey
1973 -- Crime Club | Kilburn
1972 -- The Irish Whiskey Rebellion | LT. Ashley
1971 -- Lady Liberty | Jock Fenner
1971 -- My Old Man's Place | Jimmy Pilgrim
1971 -- McCabe & Mrs. Miller | The Lawyer
1971 -- The 300-Year Weekend | Tom
1971 -- The Pursuit of Happiness | Pilot
1967 -- In the Country |
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