Bill Pullman 1953 71
Bill Pullman 1953 71
William Pullman (born December 17, 1953) is an American actor. After graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree in theater, he was an adjunct professor at Montana State University before deciding to pursue acting. He made his film debut in Ruthless People (1986), and starred in Spaceballs (1987), The Accidental Tourist (1988), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), While You Were Sleeping (1995), Casper (1995), Independence Day (1996), Lost Highway (1997), and Lake Placid (1999). He has appeared frequently on television, usually in TV films. Starting in the 2000s he has also acted in miniseries and regular series, such as Torchwood (2011), starring roles in 1600 Penn (2012–13) and The Sinner (2017–2021). In 2021, he had a recurring role in the miniseries Halston.
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2025 Killing Faith as Ross
2025 Everybody Digs Bill Evans as Harry
2023 Lynch/Oz as Fred Madison (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022 American Horses as Narrator (voice)
2020 Yellowstone as (voice)
2020 The High Note as Max
2019 Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero as Self
2019 Dark Waters as Harry Dietzler
2019 The Coldest Game as Joshua Mansky
2019 National Theatre Live: All My Sons as Joe Keller
2018 Trouble as Ben
2018 The Equalizer 2 as Brian Plummer
2017 The Ballad of Lefty Brown as Lefty Brown
2017 LBJ as Ralph Yarborough
2017 Battle of the Sexes as Jack Kramer
2017 A Thousand Junkies as Bill Pullman
2017 Walking Out as Clyde
2016 The War of 1996: A United World News Special as President Whitmore
2016 Brother Nature as Jerry Turley
2016 Independence Day: Resurgence as President Whitmore
2016 Another Day: The Making of 'Independence Day: Resurgence' as Self
2015 American Ultra as Krueger
2015 Parables of War as Self
2014 The Equalizer as Brian Plummer
2014 Cymbeline as Sicilius Leonatus
2014 May in the Summer as Edward
2014 Red Sky as John Webster
2013 The Unbelievers as Self
2013 Mel Brooks: Make a Noise as Self (archive footage)
2012 The Fruit Hunters as Narrator (voice)
2012 Kingdom Come as Self
2012 Lola Versus as Lenny
2011 Innocent as Rusty Sabich
2011 Too Big to Fail as Jamie Dimon
2011 Bringing Up Bobby as Kent
2010 Rio Sex Comedy as William
2010 Peacock as Edmund French
2010 The Killer Inside Me as Billy Boy Walker
2009 The Cove Thanks
2008 Bottle Shock as Jim Barrett
2008 Your Name Here as William J. Frick
2008 Surveillance as Sam Hallaway
2008 Phoebe in Wonderland as Peter Lichten
2007 Nobel Son as Det. Max Mariner
2007 You Kill Me as Dave
2006 Scary Movie 4 as Henry Hale
2006 Alien Autopsy as Morgan Banner
2005 John Candy: Comic Spirit as Self
2005 Dear Wendy as Krugsby
2004 The Grudge as Peter Kirk
2004 Tiger Cruise as Gary Dolan
2003 Rick as Rick O'Lette
2002 Igby Goes Down as Jason
2002 29 Palms as The Ticket Clerk
2002 Ignition as Conor Gallagher
2000 Lucky Numbers as Detective Pat Lakewood
2000 A Man Is Mostly Water as Parking Fascist
2000 Titan A.E. as Captain Korso (voice)
2000 The Guilty as Callum Crane
2000 Opening the Tombs of the Golden Mummies: Live
2000 The Virginian as The Virginian Director
1999 Spy Games as Harry Howe / Ernie Halliday
1999 Brokedown Palace as Hank Greene
1999 Lake Placid as Jack Wells
1998 Zero Effect as Daryl Zero
1997 Merry Christmas, George Bailey! as George Bailey
1997 Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch as Self
1997 The End of Violence as Mike
1997 Lost Highway as Fred Madison
1996 Mistrial as Steve Donohue
1996 Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion as Self
1996 The Making of 'Independence Day' as Self
1996 Independence Day as President Thomas J. Whitmore
1996 Mr. Wrong as Whitman Crawford
1995 Casper as Dr. James Harvey
1995 While You Were Sleeping as Jack Callaghan
1994 Wyatt Earp as Ed Masterson
1994 The Last Seduction as Clay Gregory
1994 The Favor as Peter
1993 Mr. Jones as Construction Site Foreman
1993 Malice as Andy Sarafian
1993 Sleepless in Seattle as Walter
1993 Sommersby as Orin Meecham
1992 Singles as Dr. Jeffrey Jamison
1992 Crazy in Love as Nick Symonds
1992 A League of Their Own as Bob Hinson
1992 Phone as Duke
1992 Newsies as Bryan Denton
1992 Nervous Ticks as York Daley
1991 Liebestraum as Paul Kessler
1991 Going Under as Biff Banner
1991 Blood Drips Heavily on Newsie Square as Self
1990 Bright Angel as Bob
1990 Sibling Rivalry as Nicholas Meany
1990 Brain Dead as Dr. Rex Martin
1989 Cold Feet as Buck
1989 Home Fires Burning as Lt. Henry Tibbettes
1988 The Accidental Tourist as Julian Hedge
1988 Rocket Gibraltar as Crow Black
1988 The Serpent and the Rainbow as Dennis Alan
1987 Spaceballs as Lone Starr
1986 Ruthless People as Earl James Mott