Bruce Dern
Biography
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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Saturday Night Live
1975
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
King of the Hill
1997
Bonanza
1959
Bonanza
1959
CSI: NY
2004
Wagon Train
1957
Wagon Train
1957
The Fugitive
1963
The Fugitive
1963
Filmography
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self · 1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
· 1962
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host · 1975
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self · 2003
King of the Hill
as Randy Strickland (voice) · 1997
Bonanza
as Cully Maco · 1959
Bonanza
as Bayliss · 1959
CSI: NY
as Vet · 2004
Wagon Train
as Wilkins · 1957
Wagon Train
as Jud Fisher · 1957
The Fugitive
as Hank · 1963
The Fugitive
as Cody · 1963
The Fugitive
as Hutch · 1963
The Fugitive
as Charley · 1963
The Fugitive
as Deputy Martin · 1963
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Roy Bullock · 1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Jesse · 1962
Midi Première
as Self · 1975
The Virginian
as Pell · 1962
The Virginian
as Lee Darrow · 1962
The Virginian
as Bert Kramer · 1962
Naked City
as Nicky · 1958
Ben Casey
as Billy Harris · 1961
Rawhide
as Ed Rankin · 1959
The F.B.I.
as Pfc. Byron Landy · 1965
The F.B.I.
as Virgil Roy Phipps · 1965
Goliath
as Frank Zax · 2016
Route 66
as Albert · 1960
Big Love
as Frank Harlow · 2006
Film '72
as Self · 1971
The Big Valley
as Follet · 1965
The Big Valley
as Dixon · 1965
The Big Valley
as Clovis · 1965
The Big Valley
as Gabe Skeels · 1965
The Big Valley
as John Weaver · 1965
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
as George Spahn · 2019
Run for Your Life
as Alex Ryder · 1965
Django Unchained
as Old Man Carrucan · 2012
Gunsmoke
as Doyle Phleger · 1955
Gunsmoke
as Judd Print · 1955
Gunsmoke
as Lou Stone · 1955
Gunsmoke
as Guerin · 1955
The High Chaparral
as Wade · 1967
The Outer Limits
as Ben Garth · 1963
The Detectives
as Jud Treadwell · 1959
Thriller
as Johnny Norton · 1960
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Maynard · 1963
Surfside 6
as Johnny Page · 1960
Mr. Mercedes
as John Rothstein · 2017
Sea Hunt
as FBI Agent John Furillo · 1958
Branded
as Les - Wolfer Who Kidnaps Squaw · 1965
Palm Royale
as Skeet · 2024
12 O'Clock High
as TSgt. Frank Jones · 1964
12 O'Clock High
as Lt. Michaels · 1964
12 O'Clock High
as Lt. Danton · 1964
Black Monday
as Rod "The Jammer" Jaminski · 2019
Laredo
as Joe Durkee · 1965
The Hateful Eight
as General Sandy Smithers · 2015
Land of the Giants
as Thorg · 1968
Lancer
as Lucas Thatcher · 1968
Lancer
as Tom Nevill · 1968
Stoney Burke
as E.J. Stocker · 1962
Then Came Bronson
as Bucky O'Neill · 1969
Cain's Hundred
as Joe Krajac · 1961
Cain's Hundred
as Eddie Light · 1961
The Loner
as Lud Grant · 1965
The Greatest Show on Earth
as Vernon · 1963
The 'Burbs
as Lt. Mark Rumsfield · 1989
Small Soldiers
as Link Static (voice) · 1998
Monster
as Thomas · 2003
The Haunting
as Mr. Dudley · 1999
The Peanut Butter Falcon
as Carl · 2019
Hang 'em High
as Miller · 1968
Down Periscope
as Rear Admiral Yancy Graham · 1996
The Immortal
as Luther Seacombe · 1970
Last Man Standing
as Sheriff Ed Galt · 1996
White Boy Rick
as Grandpa Roman Wershe · 2018
The Glass House
as Alvin Begleiter · 2001
Old Dads
as Richie Jacobs · 2023
The Great Gatsby
as Tom Buchanan · 1974
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
as Deputy Sheriff (uncredited) · 1973
QT8: The First Eight
as Self · 2019
Mulholland Falls
as The Chief · 1996
All the Pretty Horses
as Judge · 2000
The Hateful Eight
as General Sanford Smithers · 2019
The Driver
as The Detective · 1978
Nebraska
as Woody Grant · 2013
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
as James Bates · 1969
The Astronaut Farmer
as Hal · 2007
The Hole
as Creepy Carl · 2009
Silent Running
as Freeman Lowell · 1972
Space
as Stanley Mott · 1985
Bad Men Must Bleed
as George Wells · 2026
Family Plot
as George Lumley · 1976
E! True Hollywood Story
as Self · 1996
The War Wagon
as Hammond · 1967
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
as Narrator · 2007
Freaks
as Mr. Snowcone · 2019
The Cowboys
as Long Hair · 1972
Marnie
as Sailor · 1964
Support Your Local Sheriff!
as Joe Danby · 1969
Our Souls at Night
as Dorlan · 2017
Down in the Valley
as Charlie · 2005
Ravage
as Mallincrkordt · 2020
Bloodline Killer
as Dr. Lucien · 2024
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
as John Mayhew · 1964
The Twist
as William · 1976
The Mustang
as Myles · 2019
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
as Johnny May · 1967
The Weapon
as Doris · 2023
Wild Bill
as Will Plummer · 1995
Badland
as Reginald Cooke · 2019
Tough Love
as Rob Charters · 1985
Cut Bank
as Georgie Wits · 2014
Will Penny
as Rafe Quint · 1967
Remember Me
as Claude · 2019
Diggstown
as John Gillon · 1992
Hunting Games
as Henry · 2023
Roses Are for the Rich
as Douglas Osborne · 1987
The Cowboy
as Self · 2016
Twixt
as Sheriff Bobby LaGrange · 2011
The Most Dangerous Game
as Whitney Tyler · 2022
Coming Home
as Capt. Bob Hyde · 1978
Mid-Century
as Emil Larson · 2022
Inherit the Viper
as Clay Carter · 2019
After Dark, My Sweet
as Garrett "Uncle Bud" Stoker · 1990
Chappaquiddick
as Joseph Kennedy · 2018
The Devil’s Trap
as Mr. Cohen · 2024
Choose
as Dr. Ronald Pendleton · 2011
Smile
as Big Bob · 1975
Corman's World
as Self - Actor · 2011
Last Call
as Coach Finnegan · 2021
Posse
as Jack Strawhorn · 1975
The Gateway
as Marcus · 2021
Black Sunday
as Lander · 1977
Masked and Anonymous
as Editor · 2003
Class Rank
as Oswald Flannigan · 2017
The Big Town
as M. Edwards · 1987
Tattoo
as Karl Kinsky · 1981
The Cake Eaters
as Easy · 2007
Last Shoot Out
as Blair Callahan · 2021
The Trip
as John · 1967
The Wild Angels
as Joe 'Loser' Kearns · 1966
The King of Marvin Gardens
as Jason Staebler · 1972
Bloody Mama
as Kevin Dirkman · 1970
Castle Keep
as Lt. Billy Byron Bix · 1969
Accidental Texan
as Scheermeyer · 2024
Coffin Baby
as Vance Henrickson · 2013
Death in Texas
as Reynolds · 2022
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self · 2003
American Violence
as Richard Morton · 2017
Wild River
as Jack Roper · 1960
The Laughing Policeman
as Insp. Leo Larsen SFPD · 1973
Borderland
as Cowboy · 2017
The Way Things Seem to Be
as Self · 2026
Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern
· 2026
Dead Man's Revenge
as Payton McCay · 1994
I Am Burt Reynolds
as Self - Interviewee · 2020
Pete's Christmas
as Grandpa · 2013
It's Nothing Personal
as Billy Archer · 1993
Northern Borders
as Austin Kittredge Sr. · 2015
Waterhole #3
as Deputy · 1967
Emperor
as Levi Coffin · 2020
Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch
as Mike Cassidy · 2025
World Gone Wild
as Ethan · 1987
American Dresser
as King · 2018
Inside Out
as Vic Small · 2011
Fractured
as Papa Joe · 2025
Hellblazers
as Bill Unger · 2022
Psych-Out
as Steve Davis · 1968
A Mother's Prayer
as John Walker · 1995
Lez Bomb
as Grandpa · 2018
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
as Self · 2003
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
as Grayson Potchuck · 1976
The Hater
as Frank · 2022
Uncle Tom's Cabin
as Augustine St. Claire · 1987
That Championship Season
as George Sitkowski · 1982
Hickok
as Doc Rivers O'Roark · 2017
Nostalgia
as Ronnie Ashemore · 2018
All Day Happy Dance
as Gramps
The Artist's Wife
as Richard Smythson · 2020
The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman
as Himself · 2024
Hard Ground
as Sheriff Hutch Hutchinson · 2003
Carolina Skeletons
as Junior Stoker · 1991
Believe in Me
as Ellis Brawley · 2006
The Lightkeepers
as Bennie · 2009
1969
as Cliff Denny · 1988
Thumb Tripping
as Smitty · 1972
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
as Self · 2001
The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant
as Roger · 1971
'Silent Running': A Discussion With Bruce Dern 'Lowell Freeman'
as Self · 2002
Number One
as Richie Fowler · 1969
American Cowslip
as Cliff · 2009
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
as George Putnam · 1994
Butch vs. Sundance
as Mike Cassidy · 2023
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
as Deputy Doyle Pickett · 1971
Hard Time: The Premonition
as Winston · 1999
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
as Self · 1997
The Hard Easy
as Gene · 2006
Warning Shot
as Calvin · 2018
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
as Self · 2010
Christmas vs The Walters
as Cliff Walters · 2021
Milwaukee, Minnesota
as Sean McNally · 2003
Roses Are for the Rich
as Douglas Osborne · 1987
The Cycle Savages
as Keeg · 1969
Bhuthan: The World’s Happiest Man
· 2025
The Making of 'Rebecca'
as Self · 2008
The Horror Show
as (archive footage) · 1979
Overrun
as Arkadi Dubkova · 2021
Robot Dracula
as Van Sellsing · 2026
Perfect Prey
as Capt. Swaggert · 1998
Plotting 'Family Plot'
as Self · 2001
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
as Self · 2010
Into the Badlands
as T.L. Barston · 1991
If... Dog... Rabbit
as McGurdy · 1999
Afterthoughts
as Self · 2002
Rebel Rousers
as J.J. Weston · 1970
Trumbull Land
as Self (archive footage) · 2018
Madison
as Harry Volpi · 2005
Miller's Tale
as Self · 2011
Drive, He Said
as Coach Bullion · 1971
On the Edge
as Wes Holman · 1986
The Making of Silent Running
as Self · 1972
Swamp Devil
as Howard Blaime · 2008
Buck Alamo or (A Phantasmagorical Ballad)
as Death · 2023
The Golden Boys
as Capt. Perez Ryder · 2008
Walker Payne
as Chester · 2006
Mrs. Munck
as Patrick Leary · 1995
The Cowboys: Together Again
as Himself · 2007
Northbound
as Arthur · 2026
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
as Scout Ed Higgins · 1990
Trim
as Dale · 2010
Trenchcoat in Paradise
as John Hollander · 1989
The Lears
as Davenport Lear · 2017
Harry Tracy, Desperado
as Harry Tracy · 1982
Nation's Fire
as PopPop · 2019
'Silent Running' By Director Douglas Trumbull
as Self (achive footage) · 2002
Fighting for Freedom
as Christian Dobbe · 2013
Middle Age Crazy
as Bobby Lee · 1980
Gallegher Goes West
as Turk · 1966
Welcome Back Lounge
as Gideon
Hitting the Cycle
as James · 2012
Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom
as Self · 2010
Comfort, Texas
· 1997
The Crimebusters
as Joe Krajac · 1961
CATnip
Hands That Bind
as Hank · 2023
Crimes of Passion II
The Millionaires' Unit
as Narrator (voice) · 2015