
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).
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Bad Men Must Bleed as George Wells
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
2024Palm Royale as Skeet
2024The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman as Himself
2024Accidental Texan as Scheermeyer
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
2021Hands That Bind as Hank
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
2019Black Monday as Rod "The Jammer" Jaminski
2018Lez Bomb as Grandpa
2018Trumbull Land as Self (archive footage)
2018American Dresser as King
2018White Boy Rick as Grandpa Roman Wershe
2018Warning Shot as Calvin
2018Chappaquiddick as Joseph Kennedy
2018Nostalgia as Ronnie Ashemore
2017Our Souls at Night as Dorlan
2017Mr. Mercedes as John Rothstein
2017Hickok as Doc Rivers O'Roark
2017The Lears as Davenport Lear
2017Class Rank as Oswald Flannigan
2017American Violence as Richard Morton
2016Goliath as Frank Zax
2016The Cowboy as Self
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
2010BBStory: An American Film Renaissance as Self
2010America Lost and Found: The BBS Story as Self
2010Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom 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 Cake Eaters as Easy
2007The Astronaut Farmer as Hal
2006The Hard Easy as Gene
2006Believe in Me as Ellis Brawley
2006Walker Payne as Chester
2006Big Love as Frank Harlow
2005Down in the Valley as Charlie
2005Madison as Harry Volpi
2004CSI: NY as Vet
2003Monster as Thomas
2003Masked and Anonymous as Editor
2003Hard Ground as Sheriff Hutch Hutchinson
2003A Decade Under the Influence as Self
2003Real Time with Bill Maher 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
1998Small Soldiers as Link Static (voice)
1998Perfect Prey as Capt. Swaggert
1997Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western as Self
1997Comfort, Texas
1997King of the Hill as Randy Strickland (voice)
1996Last Man Standing as Sheriff Ed Galt
1996E! True Hollywood Story as Self
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
1987Roses Are for the Rich as Douglas Osborne
1986On the Edge as Wes Holman
1985Toughlove as Rob Charters
1985Space as Stanley Mott
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
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975Smile as Big Bob
1975Posse as Jack Strawhorn
1975Midi Première as Self
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
1970The Immortal as Luther Seacombe
1970Rebel Rousers as J.J. Weston
1970Bloody Mama as Kevin Dirkman
1969They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as James Bates
1969Then Came Bronson as Bucky O'Neill
1969The Cycle Savages as Keeg
1969Number One as Richie Fowler
1969Castle Keep as Lt. Billy Byron Bix
1969Support Your Local Sheriff! as Joe Danby
1968Lancer as Lucas Thatcher
1968Lancer as Tom Nevill
1968Land of the Giants as Thorg
1968Hang 'em High as Miller
1968Psych-Out as Steve Davis
1967Will Penny as Rafe Quint
1967Waterhole #3 as Deputy
1967The High Chaparral as Wade
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
1965The F.B.I. as Pfc. Byron Landy
1965The F.B.I. as Virgil Roy Phipps
1965The Loner as Lud Grant
1965Laredo as Joe Durkee
1965The Big Valley as Follet
1965The Big Valley as Dixon
1965The Big Valley as Clovis
1965The Big Valley as Gabe Skeels
1965The Big Valley as John Weaver
1965Run for Your Life as Alex Ryder
1965Branded as Les - Wolfer Who Kidnaps Squaw
1964Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte as John Mayhew
196412 O'Clock High as TSgt. Frank Jones
196412 O'Clock High as Lt. Michaels
196412 O'Clock High as Lt. Danton
1964Marnie as Sailor
1963Kraft Suspense Theatre as Maynard
1963The Fugitive as Hank
1963The Fugitive as Cody
1963The Fugitive as Hutch
1963The Fugitive as Charley
1963The Fugitive as Deputy Martin
1963The Greatest Show on Earth as Vernon
1963The Outer Limits as Ben Garth
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962Stoney Burke as E.J. Stocker
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Roy Bullock
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Jesse
1962The Virginian as Pell
1962The Virginian as Lee Darrow
1962The Virginian as Bert Kramer
1961Ben Casey as Billy Harris
1961Cain's Hundred as Joe Krajac
1961Cain's Hundred as Eddie Light
1961The Crimebusters as Joe Krajac
1960Route 66 as Albert
1960Surfside 6 as Johnny Page
1960Thriller as Johnny Norton
1960Wild River as Jack Roper
1959The Detectives as Jud Treadwell
1959Bonanza as Cully Maco
1959Bonanza as Bayliss
1959Rawhide as Ed Rankin
1958Naked City as Nicky
1958Sea Hunt as FBI Agent John Furillo
1957Wagon Train as Wilkins
1957Wagon Train as Jud Fisher
1955Gunsmoke as Doyle Phleger
1955Gunsmoke as Judd Print
1955Gunsmoke as Lou Stone
1955Gunsmoke as Guerin
—All Day Happy Dance as Gramps
—Crimes of Passion II
—Northbound as Arthur
—Robot Dracula as Van Sellsing
—CATnip
—Welcome Back Lounge as Gideon







