David Strathairn

ActorProducer Jan 26 (age 77) San Francisco, California, USA 1949–2026 (77 year career)

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Biography

David Russell Strathairn (born January 26, 1949) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of journalist Edward R. Murrow in the feature film Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He also starred in L.A. Confidential (1997), Godzilla (2014), and the Bourne franchise (2007–2012). Strathairn appeared in supporting roles in many notable films such as A League of Their Own (1992), Sneakers (1992), The Firm (1993), The River Wild (1995), Lincoln …

Known For

Film

L.A. Confidential

Pierce Patchett

Film

The Bourne Ultimatum

Noah Vosen

Film

Darkest Hour

President Roosevelt (voice)

Film

Fracture

Joe Lobruto

Film

Zootopia 2

Milton Lynxley (voice)

Film

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Admiral William Stenz

Film

Nomadland

Dave

Film

Godzilla

Admiral William Stenz

Filmography

Acting (153)

Movies (134)

By Any Means

2026 Upcoming

Sep 17

Stages

2026

as Porter Gates

Zootopia 2

2025

as Milton Lynxley (voice)

7.6

The Luckiest Man in America

2025

as Bill

6.3

The Gettysburg Address

2025

as Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice)

A Little Prayer

2025

as Bill

5.0

O Horizon

2025

as Warren

This Ordinary Thing

2025

as Self (voice)

Remember This

2023

as Jan Karski

Where the Crawdads Sing

as Tom Milton

Nightmare Alley

as Pete

Nomadland

as Dave

The Oedipus Project

as Messenger 1

Walkaway Joe

as Joe Haley

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

2019

as Admiral William Stenz

The Devil Has a Name

as Fred Stern

Fast Color

as Ellis

Them That Work

as Self

An Interview with God

as God

My Dinner with Hervé

as Marty Rothstein

UFO

as Franklin Ahls

Darkest Hour

as President Roosevelt (voice)

November Criminals

as Theo

American Pastoral

as Nathan Zuckerman

He Does Not Want Peace

2016

as Richard Englebright

8.0

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

as Ty Burley

Louder Than Bombs

as Richard Weissman

The Debt

as Nathan

Godzilla

as Admiral William Stenz

6.4

Clementine

2014

as Henry

No God, No Master

as William Flynn

Love, Marilyn

as Self

Lincoln@Gettysburg

as Narrator (voice)

The Bourne Legacy

as Noah Vosen

Lincoln

as William Seward

Hemingway & Gellhorn

as John Dos Passos

Maladies

as Delmar

The Whistleblower

as Peter Ward

Temple Grandin

as Professor Carlock

Howl

as Ralph McIntosh

Inside Area 51's Secrets

2010

as Narrator

Matadors

as Roman Lodari

The Tempest

as King Alonso

Area 51 Declassified

as Himself - Narrator

The Uninvited

as Steven

Cold Souls

as Dr. Flintstein

The People Speak

as Self

The Spiderwick Chronicles

2008

as Arthur Spiderwick

6.7

Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'

2008

as Self

8.0

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

2008

as J. Robert Oppenheimer

5.9

Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential'

as Self

The Bourne Ultimatum

as Noah Vosen

Fracture

as Joe Lobruto

My Blueberry Nights

as Arnie

Racing Daylight

as Henry / Harry

Trumbo

as Self

The Supreme Court

as Narrator

Steel Toes

2007

as Danny Dunkelman

5.2

Matters of Life and Death

as Mr. Jennings

We Are Marshall

as President Dedmon

The Notorious Bettie Page

2006

as Estes Kefauver

6.3

Heavens Fall

2006

as Judge James Horton

6.9

The Shovel

2006

as Paul Mullin

The Human Behavior Experiments

2006

as Narrator

7.5

The Sensation of Sight

2006

as Finn

7.0

Good Night, and Good Luck.

2005

as Edward R. Murrow

7.1

Willa Cather: The Road Is All

2005

as Narrator

Missing in America

2005

as Henry R. Hocknell Jr.

Twisted

as Dr. Melvin Frank

Paradise

as Reverend Bobby Paradise

3.3

Los Angeles Plays Itself

2004

as Pierce Patchett in L.A. Confidential (archive footage)

7.6

Blue Car

2003

as Auster

6.1

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

2003

as Self

5.0

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

as Jack Hoschouer

Speakeasy

as Bruce Hickman

Lathe of Heaven

as Mannie

Relative Evil

as Dr. Charlie

The Victim

as Mark Zingerline

The Miracle Worker

as Captain Keller

Harrison's Flowers

as Harrison Lloyd

A Good Baby

as Truman Lester

Freedom Song

as Peter Crowley

A Midsummer Night's Dream

as Theseus

Limbo

as Joe Gastineau

A Map of the World

as Howard Goodwin

Simon Birch

as Rev. Russell

With Friends Like These

as Armand Minetti

The Climb

as Earl Himes

Evidence of Blood

as Jackson Kinley

The Giraffe

as Charles Kaminski

Bad Manners

as Wes Westlund

L.A. Confidential

as Pierce Patchett

In the Gloaming

as Martin

Song of Hiawatha

as Marcel

Mother Night

as Bernard B. O'Hare

Beyond the Call

as Russel Gates

Dolores Claiborne

as Joe St. George

Home for the Holidays

as Russell Terziak

Losing Isaiah

as Charles Lewin

The River Wild

as Tom Hartman

April One

as John McCowan

The Firm

as Ray McDeere

A Dangerous Woman

as Getso

The American Clock

as Young Arthur Huntington

Lost in Yonkers

as Johnny

Sneakers

as Whistler

A League of Their Own

as Ira Lowenstein

Bob Roberts

as Mack Laflin

O Pioneers!

as Carl Linstrum

Passion Fish

as Rennie

Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even

as Keith

City of Hope

as Asteroid

Without Warning: The James Brady Story

1991

as Dr. Arthur Kobrine

Memphis Belle

as Craig Harriman

Heat Wave

as Bill Thomas

Judgment

as Father Frank Aubert

The Feud

as The Stranger

Day One

as J. Robert Oppenheimer

Call Me

as Sam

Eight Men Out

as Eddie Cicotte

Dominick and Eugene

as Martin Chernak

Stars & Bars

as Charlie

Matewan

as Police Chief Sid Hatfield

Broken Vows

as Stuart Chase

At Close Range

as Tony Pine

When Nature Calls

as Weejun

Iceman

as Dr. Singe

The Brother from Another Planet

as Man In Black

Silkwood

as Wesley

Lovesick

as Marvin Zuckerman

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

1983

as Jerry

3.8

Return of the Secaucus Seven

1980

as Ron

6.5

The Bard

Babies

Television (19)

A Man on the Inside

as Dr. Benjamin Cole

Interrogation

as Henry Fisher

McMafia

as Semiyon Kleiman

Billions

as Black Jack Foley

The Expanse

as Commander Klaes Ashford

8.1

Z: The Beginning of Everything

as Anthony Sayre

The Blacklist

as Peter Kotsiopulos

Alphas

as Lee Rosen

House

as Nash

Monk

as Patrick Kloster

The Sopranos

as Robert Wegler

Wiseguy

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

as Moss Goodman

The Equalizer

as Phillip Borchek

Spenser: For Hire

Miami Vice

as Marty Lang

The Oscars

as Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Carl Linstrum

The Emmy Awards

as Self

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

The Sensation of Sight

2006

Producer

7.0