Bruce Dern
Acting • Born 1936-06-04
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.
Filmography
244 credits
Monster
Movie • 2003
Thomas
Marnie
Movie • 1964
Sailor
The Driver
Movie • 1978
The Detective
The Glass House
Movie • 2001
Alvin Begleiter
The Devil’s Trap
Movie • 2024
Mr. Cohen
Will Penny
Movie • 1967
Rafe Quint
Silent Running
Movie • 1972
Freeman Lowell
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Movie • 1964
John Mayhew
Christmas vs The Walters
Movie • 2021
Cliff Walters
The Weapon
Movie • 2023
Doris
Mulholland Falls
Movie • 1996
The Chief
Hang 'em High
Movie • 1968
Miller
The Great Gatsby
Movie • 1974
Tom Buchanan
The Astronaut Farmer
Movie • 2007
Hal
Small Soldiers
Movie • 1998
Link Static (voice)
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Movie • 1969
Joe Danby
Family Plot
Movie • 1976
George Lumley
The Haunting
Movie • 1999
Mr. Dudley
Down in the Valley
Movie • 2005
Charlie
Bloody Mama
Movie • 1970
Kevin Dirkman
Last Shoot Out
Movie • 2021
Blair Callahan
The Trip
Movie • 1967
John
Masked and Anonymous
Movie • 2003
Editor
Coming Home
Movie • 1978
Capt. Bob Hyde
The 'Burbs
Movie • 1989
Lt. Mark Rumsfield
On the Edge
Movie • 1986
Wes Holman
After Dark, My Sweet
Movie • 1990
Garrett "Uncle Bud" Stoker
Down Periscope
Movie • 1996
Rear Admiral Yancy Graham
Last Man Standing
Movie • 1996
Sheriff Ed Galt
The War Wagon
Movie • 1967
Hammond
The Horror Show
Movie • 1979
(archive footage)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Movie • 1969
James Bates
Hard Ground
Movie • 2003
Sheriff Hutch Hutchinson
Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch
Movie • 2025
Mike Cassidy
The Laughing Policeman
Movie • 1973
Insp. Leo Larsen SFPD
Smile
Movie • 1975
Big Bob
Robot Dracula
Movie
Van Sellsing
Rebel Rousers
Movie • 1970
J.J. Weston
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Movie • 1976
Grayson Potchuck
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Movie • 1967
Johnny May
The Wild Angels
Movie • 1966
Joe 'Loser' Kearns
The Golden Boys
Movie • 2008
Capt. Perez Ryder
The Cowboys
Movie • 1972
Long Hair
World Gone Wild
Movie • 1987
Ethan
Psych-Out
Movie • 1968
Steve Davis
The Cake Eaters
Movie • 2007
Easy
Mid-Century
Movie • 2022
Emil Larson
Accidental Texan
Movie • 2024
Scheermeyer
Castle Keep
Movie • 1969
Lt. Billy Byron Bix
The Hole
Movie • 2009
Creepy Carl
Posse
Movie • 1975
Jack Strawhorn
Milwaukee, Minnesota
Movie • 2003
Sean McNally
Hunting Games
Movie • 2023
Henry
Wild Bill
Movie • 1995
Will Plummer
Believe in Me
Movie • 2006
Ellis Brawley
1969
Movie • 1988
Cliff Denny
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Movie • 1997
Self
The Lightkeepers
Movie • 2009
Bennie
The Cycle Savages
Movie • 1969
Keeg
Tattoo
Movie • 1981
Karl Kinsky
Diggstown
Movie • 1992
John Gillon
Black Sunday
Movie • 1977
Lander
Coffin Baby
Movie • 2013
Vance Henrickson
The King of Marvin Gardens
Movie • 1972
Jason Staebler
Wild River
Movie • 1960
Jack Roper
Inside Out
Movie • 2011
Vic Small
Hellblazers
Movie • 2022
Bill Unger
Waterhole #3
Movie • 1967
Deputy
Swamp Devil
Movie • 2008
Howard Blaime
Thumb Tripping
Movie • 1972
Smitty
All the Pretty Horses
Movie • 2000
Judge
Drive, He Said
Movie • 1971
Coach Bullion
Middle Age Crazy
Movie • 1980
Bobby Lee
Twixt
Movie • 2011
Sheriff Bobby LaGrange
The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant
Movie • 1971
Roger
Butch vs. Sundance
Movie • 2023
Mike Cassidy
The Twist
Movie • 1976
William
Number One
Movie • 1969
Richie Fowler
The Hater
Movie • 2022
Frank
Harry Tracy, Desperado
Movie • 1982
Harry Tracy
Miller's Tale
Movie • 2011
Self
Nebraska
Movie • 2013
Woody Grant
Carolina Skeletons
Movie • 1991
Junior Stoker
That Championship Season
Movie • 1982
George Sitkowski
The Crimebusters
Movie • 1961
Joe Krajac
Into the Badlands
Movie • 1991
T.L. Barston
Toughlove
Movie • 1985
Rob Charters
Dead Man's Revenge
Movie • 1994
Payton McCay
If... Dog... Rabbit
Movie • 1999
McGurdy
Hitting the Cycle
Movie • 2012
James
It's Nothing Personal
Movie • 1993
Billy Archer
Pete's Christmas
Movie • 2013
Grandpa
Perfect Prey
Movie • 1998
Capt. Swaggert
Old Dads
Movie • 2023
Richie Jacobs
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
Movie • 1994
George Putnam
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Movie • 2001
Self
The Most Dangerous Game
Movie • 2022
Whitney Tyler
Fighting for Freedom
Movie • 2013
Christian Dobbe
Cut Bank
Movie • 2014
Georgie Wits
Roses Are for the Rich
Movie • 1987
Douglas Osborne
Choose
Movie • 2011
Dr. Ronald Pendleton
Bad Men Must Bleed
Movie • 2026
George Wells
The Big Town
Movie • 1987
M. Edwards
Welcome Back Lounge
Movie
Gideon
Mrs. Munck
Movie • 1995
Patrick Leary
Bhuthan – The World’s Happiest Man
Movie • 2025
Northern Borders
Movie • 2015
Austin Kittredge Sr.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Movie • 1987
Augustine St. Claire
A Mother's Prayer
Movie • 1995
John Walker
'Silent Running' By Director Douglas Trumbull
Movie • 2002
Self (achive footage)
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Movie • 2003
Self
Hard Time: The Premonition
Movie • 1999
Winston
The Hard Easy
Movie • 2006
Gene
The Hateful Eight
Movie • 2015
General Sandy Smithers
Bloodline Killer
Movie • 2024
Dr. Lucien
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
Movie • 1990
Scout Ed Higgins
The Making of Silent Running
Movie • 1972
Self
Django Unchained
Movie • 2012
Old Man Carrucan
Class Rank
Movie • 2017
Oswald Flannigan
Comfort, Texas
Movie • 1997
Plotting 'Family Plot'
Movie • 2001
Self
Trim
Movie • 2010
Dale
Northbound
Movie
Arthur
Chappaquiddick
Movie • 2018
Joseph Kennedy
Our Souls at Night
Movie • 2017
Dorlan
Madison
Movie • 2005
Harry Volpi
Walker Payne
Movie • 2006
Chester
American Violence
Movie • 2017
Richard Morton
Nostalgia
Movie • 2018
Ronnie Ashemore
White Boy Rick
Movie • 2018
Grandpa Roman Wershe
The Lears
Movie • 2017
Davenport Lear
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Movie • 1973
Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
Corman's World
Movie • 2011
Self - Actor
Hickok
Movie • 2017
Doc Rivers O'Roark
Warning Shot
Movie • 2018
Calvin
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Movie • 2019
Carl
The Mustang
Movie • 2019
Myles
The Millionaires' Unit
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
Freaks
Movie • 2019
Mr. Snowcone
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Movie • 2019
George Spahn
Lez Bomb
Movie • 2018
Grandpa
American Dresser
Movie • 2018
King
Trenchcoat in Paradise
Movie • 1989
John Hollander
Remember Me
Movie • 2019
Claude
The Making of 'Rebecca'
Movie • 2008
Self
Hands That Bind
Movie • 2021
Hank
Trumbull Land
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom
Movie • 2010
Self
Crimes of Passion II
Movie
The Artist's Wife
Movie • 2020
Richard Smythson
Ravage
Movie • 2020
Mallincrkordt
Badland
Movie • 2019
Reginald Cooke
Inherit the Viper
Movie • 2019
Clay Carter
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
Movie • 2010
Self
Gallegher Goes West
Movie • 1966
Turk
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
Movie • 2010
Self
American Cowslip
Movie • 2009
Cliff
Nation's Fire
Movie • 2019
PopPop
Emperor
Movie • 2020
Levi Coffin
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
Movie • 1971
Deputy Doyle Pickett
A Decade Under the Influence
Movie • 2003
Self
The Gateway
Movie • 2021
Marcus
Buck Alamo or (A Phantasmagorical Ballad)
Movie • 2023
Death
Last Call
Movie • 2021
Coach Finnegan
I Am Burt Reynolds
Movie • 2020
Self - Interviewee
Death in Texas
Movie • 2022
Reynolds
Afterthoughts
Movie • 2002
Self
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
Movie • 2007
Narrator
QT8: The First Eight
Movie • 2019
Self
Fractured
Movie • 2025
Papa Joe
Overrun
Movie • 2021
Arkadi Dubkova
'Silent Running': A Discussion With Bruce Dern 'Lowell Freeman'
Movie • 2002
Self
CATnip
Movie
All Day Happy Dance
Movie
Gramps
The Cowboys: Together Again
Movie • 2007
Himself
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Joe Krajac
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV • 1963
Maynard
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Pfc. Byron Landy
King of the Hill
TV • 1997
Randy Strickland (voice)
CSI: NY
TV • 2004
Vet
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
Self
Land of the Giants
TV • 1968
Thorg
Naked City
TV • 1958
Nicky
Surfside 6
TV • 1960
Johnny Page
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Doyle Phleger
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Hank
Big Love
TV • 2006
Frank Harlow
Sea Hunt
TV • 1958
FBI Agent John Furillo
Laredo
TV • 1965
Joe Durkee
The Greatest Show on Earth
TV • 1963
Vernon
The Immortal
TV • 1970
Luther Seacombe
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Ed Rankin
Run for Your Life
TV • 1965
Alex Ryder
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Cody
The High Chaparral
TV • 1967
Wade
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Pell
Lancer
TV • 1968
Lucas Thatcher
Thriller
TV • 1960
Johnny Norton
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Hutch
The Big Valley
TV • 1965
Follet
Then Came Bronson
TV • 1969
Bucky O'Neill
The Loner
TV • 1965
Lud Grant
Branded
TV • 1965
Les - Wolfer Who Kidnaps Squaw
Ben Casey
TV • 1961
Billy Harris
The Detectives
TV • 1959
Jud Treadwell
Stoney Burke
TV • 1962
E.J. Stocker
The Outer Limits
TV • 1963
Ben Garth
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Charley
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Deputy Martin
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Cully Maco
Goliath
TV • 2016
Frank Zax
Space
TV • 1985
Stanley Mott
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Route 66
TV • 1960
Albert
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Eddie Light
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Virgil Roy Phipps
The Big Valley
TV • 1965
Dixon
The Big Valley
TV • 1965
Clovis
The Big Valley
TV • 1965
Gabe Skeels
The Big Valley
TV • 1965
John Weaver
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Lee Darrow
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Bert Kramer
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Judd Print
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Lou Stone
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Guerin
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Bayliss
Lancer
TV • 1968
Tom Nevill
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Wilkins
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
12 O'Clock High
TV • 1964
TSgt. Frank Jones
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman
TV • 2024
Himself
Palm Royale
TV • 2024
Skeet
Mr. Mercedes
TV • 2017
John Rothstein
Midi Première
TV • 1975
Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
TV • 2003
Self
Black Monday
TV • 2019
Rod "The Jammer" Jaminski
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Jud Fisher
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Roy Bullock
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Jesse
12 O'Clock High
TV • 1964
Lt. Michaels
12 O'Clock High
TV • 1964
Lt. Danton
The Cowboy
TV • 2016
Self
Roses Are for the Rich
TV • 1987
Douglas Osborne