Bruce Dern
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 4 June 1936 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936) is an American actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home (1978) and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Nebraska (2013). His other major film appearances include Silent Running (1972), The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), The Cowboys (1972), Posse (1975), Family Plot (1976), Black Sunday (1977), Tattoo (1981), Monster (2003), The Hateful Eight (2015), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Bruce Dern, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Acting 179
- 2026CATnip
- 2026All Day Happy Dance as Gramps
- 2026Northbound as Arthur
- 2026Borderland as Cowboy
- 2026Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern
- 2026Robot Dracula as Van Sellsing
- 2026The Way Things Seem to Be as Self
- 2026Bad Men Must Bleed as George Wells
- 2026Crimes of Passion II
- 2025Welcome Back Lounge as Gideon
- 2025Fractured as Papa Joe
- 2025Bhuthan: The World’s Happiest Man
- 2025Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch as Mike Cassidy
- 2024The Devil’s Trap as Mr. Cohen
- 2024Bloodline Killer as Dr. Lucien
- 2024Accidental Texan as Scheermeyer
- 2023Hands That Bind as Hank
- 2023Old Dads as Richie Jacobs
- 2023Buck Alamo or (A Phantasmagorical Ballad) as Death
- 2023Butch vs. Sundance as Mike Cassidy
- 2023Hunting Games as Henry
- 2023The Weapon as Doris
- 2022Death in Texas as Reynolds
- 2022The Most Dangerous Game as Whitney Tyler
- 2022Mid-Century as Emil Larson
- 2022The Hater as Frank
- 2022Hellblazers as Bill Unger
- 2021Last Shoot Out as Blair Callahan
- 2021Christmas vs The Walters as Cliff Walters
- 2021The Gateway as Marcus
- 2021Overrun as Arkadi Dubkova
- 2021Last Call as Coach Finnegan
- 2020I Am Burt Reynolds as Self - Interviewee
- 2020The Artist's Wife as Richard Smythson
- 2020Emperor as Levi Coffin
- 2020Ravage as Mallincrkordt
- 2019Badland as Reginald Cooke
- 2019QT8: The First Eight as Self
- 2019Inherit the Viper as Clay Carter
- 2019Freaks as Mr. Snowcone
- 2019The Peanut Butter Falcon as Carl
- 2019Remember Me as Claude
- 2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood as George Spahn
- 2019Nation's Fire as PopPop
- 2019The Mustang as Myles
- 2018Lez Bomb as Grandpa
- 2018Trumbull Land as Self (archive footage)
- 2018American Dresser as King
- 2018Warning Shot as Calvin
- 2018White Boy Rick as Grandpa Roman Wershe
- 2018Chappaquiddick as Joseph Kennedy
- 2018Nostalgia as Ronnie Ashemore
- 2017Our Souls at Night as Dorlan
- 2017Hickok as Doc Rivers O'Roark
- 2017The Lears as Davenport Lear
- 2017Class Rank as Oswald Flannigan
- 2017American Violence as Richard Morton
- 2015The Hateful Eight as General Sandy Smithers
- 2015The Millionaires' Unit as Narrator (voice)
- 2015Northern Borders as Austin Kittredge Sr.
- 2014Cut Bank as Georgie Wits
- 2013Pete's Christmas as Grandpa
- 2013Fighting for Freedom as Christian Dobbe
- 2013Nebraska as Woody Grant
- 2013Coffin Baby as Vance Henrickson
- 2012Django Unchained as Old Man Carrucan
- 2012Hitting the Cycle as James
- 2011Corman's World as Self - Actor
- 2011Inside Out as Vic Small
- 2011Twixt as Sheriff Bobby LaGrange
- 2011Miller's Tale as Self
- 2011Choose as Dr. Ronald Pendleton
- 2010America Lost and Found: The BBS Story as Self
- 2010Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom as Self
- 2010BBStory: An American Film Renaissance as Self
- 2010Trim as Dale
- 2009The Lightkeepers as Bennie
- 2009The Hole as Creepy Carl
- 2009American Cowslip as Cliff
- 2008The Golden Boys as Capt. Perez Ryder
- 2008The Making of 'Rebecca' as Self
- 2008Swamp Devil as Howard Blaime
- 2007The Death and Life of Bobby Z as Narrator
- 2007The Cowboys: Together Again as Himself
- 2007The Cake Eaters as Easy
- 2007The Astronaut Farmer as Hal
- 2006The Hard Easy as Gene
- 2006Believe in Me as Ellis Brawley
- 2006Walker Payne as Chester
- 2005Down in the Valley as Charlie
- 2005Madison as Harry Volpi
- 2003Monster as Thomas
- 2003Masked and Anonymous as Editor
- 2003Hard Ground as Sheriff Hutch Hutchinson
- 2003A Decade Under the Influence as Self
- 2003Milwaukee, Minnesota as Sean McNally
- 2003Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King as Self
- 2002'Silent Running' By Director Douglas Trumbull as Self (achive footage)
- 2002'Silent Running': A Discussion With Bruce Dern 'Lowell Freeman' as Self
- 2002Afterthoughts as Self
- 2001The Glass House as Alvin Begleiter
- 2001It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures as Self
- 2001Plotting 'Family Plot' as Self
- 2000All the Pretty Horses as Judge
- 1999If... Dog... Rabbit as McGurdy
- 1999The Haunting as Mr. Dudley
- 1999Hard Time: The Premonition as Winston
- 1998Perfect Prey as Capt. Swaggert
- 1998Small Soldiers as Link Static (voice)
- 1997Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western as Self
- 1997Comfort, Texas
- 1996Last Man Standing as Sheriff Ed Galt
- 1996Mulholland Falls as The Chief
- 1996Down Periscope as Rear Admiral Yancy Graham
- 1995Wild Bill as Will Plummer
- 1995A Mother's Prayer as John Walker
- 1995Mrs. Munck as Patrick Leary
- 1994Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight as George Putnam
- 1994Dead Man's Revenge as Payton McCay
- 1993It's Nothing Personal as Billy Archer
- 1992Diggstown as John Gillon
- 1991Carolina Skeletons as Junior Stoker
- 1991Into the Badlands as T.L. Barston
- 1990The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson as Scout Ed Higgins
- 1990After Dark, My Sweet as Garrett "Uncle Bud" Stoker
- 1989Trenchcoat in Paradise as John Hollander
- 1989The 'Burbs as Lt. Mark Rumsfield
- 19881969 as Cliff Denny
- 1987World Gone Wild as Ethan
- 1987The Big Town as M. Edwards
- 1987Uncle Tom's Cabin as Augustine St. Claire
- 1987Roses Are for the Rich as Douglas Osborne
- 1986On the Edge as Wes Holman
- 1985Tough Love as Rob Charters
- 1982That Championship Season as George Sitkowski
- 1982Harry Tracy, Desperado as Harry Tracy
- 1981Tattoo as Karl Kinsky
- 1980Middle Age Crazy as Bobby Lee
- 1979The Horror Show as (archive footage)
- 1978The Driver as The Detective
- 1978Coming Home as Capt. Bob Hyde
- 1977Black Sunday as Lander
- 1976Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood as Grayson Potchuck
- 1976The Twist as William
- 1976Family Plot as George Lumley
- 1975Smile as Big Bob
- 1975Posse as Jack Strawhorn
- 1974The Great Gatsby as Tom Buchanan
- 1973The Laughing Policeman as Insp. Leo Larsen SFPD
- 1973Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
- 1972The King of Marvin Gardens as Jason Staebler
- 1972Thumb Tripping as Smitty
- 1972Silent Running as Freeman Lowell
- 1972The Cowboys as Long Hair
- 1972The Making of Silent Running as Self
- 1971Drive, He Said as Coach Bullion
- 1971The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant as Roger
- 1971Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster? as Deputy Doyle Pickett
- 1970Rebel Rousers as J.J. Weston
- 1970Bloody Mama as Kevin Dirkman
- 1969They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as James Bates
- 1969The Cycle Savages as Keeg
- 1969Number One as Richie Fowler
- 1969Castle Keep as Lt. Billy Byron Bix
- 1969Support Your Local Sheriff! as Joe Danby
- 1968Hang 'em High as Miller
- 1968Psych-Out as Steve Davis
- 1967Will Penny as Rafe Quint
- 1967Waterhole #3 as Deputy
- 1967The Trip as John
- 1967The St. Valentine's Day Massacre as Johnny May
- 1967The War Wagon as Hammond
- 1966Gallegher Goes West as Turk
- 1966The Wild Angels as Joe 'Loser' Kearns
- 1964Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte as John Mayhew
- 1964Marnie as Sailor
- 1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self · 2 episodes
- 1961The Crimebusters as Joe Krajac
- 1960Wild River as Jack Roper
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