David Strathairn
January 26, 1949 (76 years old) in San Francisco, California, USA
An American film and television actor, best known for his portrayal of journalist Edward R. Murrow in the feature film "Good Night, and Good Luck", for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · The Gettysburg Address as Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice)
- 2020 · Walkaway Joe as Joe Haley
- 2019 · Fast Color as Ellis
- 2015 · The Debt as Nathan
- 2014 · No God, No Master as William Flynn
- 2012 · Maladies as Delmar
- 2009 · The People Speak as Self
- 2008 · The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer as J. Robert Oppenheimer
- 2007 · Trumbo as Self
- 2007 · Steel Toes as Danny Dunkelman
- 2006 · Heavens Fall as Judge James Horton
- 2005 · Missing in America as Henry R. Hocknell Jr.
- 2003 · The Making of ‘Sneakers’ as Self
- 2003 · Blue Car as Auster
- 2002 · Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story as Jack Hoschouer
- 2002 · Lathe of Heaven as Mannie
- 1999 · A Map of the World as Howard Goodwin
- 1999 · Limbo as Joe Gastineau
- 1998 · With Friends Like These as Armand Minetti
- 1998 · Evidence of Blood as Jackson Kinley
- 1997 · Song of Hiawatha as Marcel
- 1997 · In the Gloaming as Martin
- 1996 · Beyond the Call as Russel Gates
- 1993 · Lost in Yonkers as Johnny
- 1993 · The American Clock as Young Arthur Huntington
- 1992 · Passion Fish as Rennie
- 1991 · City of Hope as Asteroid
- 1991 · Without Warning: The James Brady Story as Dr. Arthur Kobrine
- 1990 · Judgment as Father Frank Aubert
- 1990 · Heat Wave as Bill Thomas
- 1989 · Day One as J. Robert Oppenheimer
- 1988 · Call Me as Sam
- 1988 · Stars & Bars as Charlie
- 1988 · Dominick and Eugene as Martin Chernak
- 1987 · Broken Vows as Stuart Chase
- 1983 · Lovesick as Marvin Zuckerman
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Carl Linstrum
- Future · Last Meals as
- 2024 · The Luckiest Man in America as Bill Carruthers
- 2023 · A Little Prayer as Bill
- 2023 · Remember This as Jan Karski
- 2022 · Where the Crawdads Sing as Tom Milton
- 2021 · Nightmare Alley as Pete
- 2021 · Nomadland as Dave
- 2020 · The Oedipus Project as Messenger 1
- 2020 · Interrogation as Henry Fisher
- 2019 · Them That Work as Self
- 2019 · The Devil Has a Name as Fred Stern
- 2019 · Godzilla: King of the Monsters as Admiral William Stenz
- 2018 · My Dinner with Hervé as Marty Rothstein
- 2018 · UFO as Franklin Ahls
- 2018 · An Interview with God as God
- 2018 · McMafia as Semiyon Kleiman
- 2017 · Darkest Hour as President Roosevelt (voice)
- 2017 · November Criminals as Theo
- 2016 · American Pastoral as Nathan Zuckerman
- 2016 · He Does Not Want Peace as Richard Englebright
- 2015 · The Expanse as Commander Klaes Ashford
- 2015 · The Expanse as Klaes Ashford
- 2015 · Z: The Beginning of Everything as Anthony Sayre
- 2015 · Louder Than Bombs as Richard Weissman
- 2015 · The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel as Ty Burley
- 2014 · Godzilla as Admiral William Stenz
- 2013 · Lincoln@Gettysburg as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · The Blacklist as Peter Kotsiopulos
- 2013 · Love, Marilyn as Self
- 2012 · Lincoln as William Seward
- 2012 · Hemingway & Gellhorn as John Dos Passos
- 2012 · The Bourne Legacy as Noah Vosen
- 2011 · Alphas as Lee Rosen
- 2010 · The Whistleblower as Peter Ward
- 2010 · The Tempest as King Alonso
- 2010 · Howl as Ralph McIntosh
- 2010 · Inside Area 51's Secrets as Narrator
- 2010 · Area 51 Declassified as Himself - Narrator
- 2010 · Temple Grandin as Professor Carlock
- 2010 · Matadors as Roman Lodari
- 2009 · Cold Souls as Dr. Flintstein
- 2009 · The Uninvited as Steven
- 2008 · Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential' as Self
- 2008 · Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential' as Self
- 2008 · The Spiderwick Chronicles as Arthur Spiderwick
- 2007 · My Blueberry Nights as Arnie
- 2007 · Matters of Life and Death as Mr. Jennings
- 2007 · The Bourne Ultimatum as Noah Vosen
- 2007 · Racing Daylight as Henry / Harry
- 2007 · Fracture as Joe Lobruto
- 2007 · The Supreme Court as Narrator
- 2006 · We Are Marshall as President Dedmon
- 2006 · The Sensation of Sight as Finn
- 2006 · The Human Behavior Experiments as Narrator
- 2006 · The Shovel as Paul Mullin
- 2005 · Good Night, and Good Luck. as Edward R. Murrow
- 2005 · The Notorious Bettie Page as Estes Kefauver
- 2005 · Willa Cather: The Road Is All as Narrator
- 2004 · House as Nash
- 2004 · Los Angeles Plays Itself as Pierce Patchett in L.A. Confidential (archive footage)
- 2004 · Twisted as Dr. Melvin Frank
- 2004 · Paradise as Reverend Bobby Paradise
- 2002 · Monk as Patrick Kloster
- 2002 · Speakeasy as Bruce Hickman
- 2001 · Relative Evil as Dr. Charlie
- 2001 · The Victim as Mark Zingerline
- 2000 · A Good Baby as Truman Lester
- 2000 · The Miracle Worker as Captain Keller
- 2000 · Harrison's Flowers as Harrison Lloyd
- 2000 · Freedom Song as Peter Crowley
- 1999 · A Midsummer Night's Dream as Theseus
- 1999 · The Sopranos as Robert Wegler
- 1998 · Bad Manners as Wes Westlund
- 1998 · The Giraffe as Charles Kaminski
- 1998 · Simon Birch as Rev. Russell
- 1998 · The Climb as Earl Himes
- 1997 · L.A. Confidential as Pierce Patchett
- 1996 · Mother Night as Bernard B. O'Hare
- 1995 · Home for the Holidays as Russell Terziak
- 1995 · Dolores Claiborne as Joe St. George
- 1995 · Losing Isaiah as Charles Lewin
- 1994 · The River Wild as Tom Hartman
- 1994 · April One as John McCowan
- 1993 · A Dangerous Woman as Getso
- 1993 · The Firm as Ray McDeere
- 1992 · Sneakers as Whistler
- 1992 · Bob Roberts as Mack Laflin
- 1992 · A League of Their Own as Ira Lowenstein
- 1992 · Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even as Keith
- 1992 · O Pioneers! as Carl Linstrum
- 1990 · Memphis Belle as Craig Harriman
- 1989 · The Feud as The Stranger
- 1988 · Eight Men Out as Eddie Cicotte
- 1987 · Wiseguy as
- 1987 · Matewan as Police Chief Sid Hatfield
- 1987 · The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd as Moss Goodman
- 1986 · At Close Range as Tony Pine
- 1985 · Spenser: For Hire as
- 1985 · The Equalizer as Phillip Borchek
- 1983 · Enormous Changes at the Last Minute as Jerry
- Future · O Horizon as Warren
- 1985 · When Nature Calls as Weejun
- 1984 · Miami Vice as
- 1984 · The Brother from Another Planet as Man In Black
- 1984 · Iceman as Dr. Singe
- 1983 · Silkwood as Wesley
- 1980 · Return of the Secaucus Seven as Ron
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1949 · The Emmy Awards as Self
- Future · Them That Work as