
John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor. He has received several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Malkovich started his career as a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 1976. He moved to New York City, acting in a Steppenwolf production of the Sam Shepard play True West (1980). He made his Broadway debut as Biff in the revival of the Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman (1984). He directed the Harold Pinter play The Caretaker(1986) and acted in Lanford Wilson's Burn This(1987). Malkovich has received two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his performances in Places in the Heart (1984) and In the Line of Fire (1993). Other films include The Killing Fields (1984), Empire of the Sun (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Of Mice and Men (1992), Con Air (1997), Rounders (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999), Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Ripley's Game (2002), Johnny English (2003), Burn After Reading (2008), and Red (2010). He has also produced films such as Ghost World (2001), Juno (2007), and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012). For his work on television, he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for Death of a Salesman (1985). His other Emmy-nominated roles were for portraying Herman J. Mankiewicz in RKO 281 (1999) and Charles Talleyrand in Napoléon (2002). Other television roles include Crossbones (2014), Billions (2018–19), The New Pope (2020), and Space Force (2020–2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Malkovich, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Credits
- 2025 · The Fantastic Four: First Steps as
- 2025 · Lubach as
- 2025 · Opus as Alfred Moretti
- 2023 · Seneca as Seneca
- 2022 · Chariot as Dr. Karn
- 2021 · The Survivalist as Aaron Ramsey
- 2021 · A Journey to Sundance as Self
- 2020 · Last Call as Dr. Felton
- 2018 · Supercon as Sid Newberry
- 2017 · Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda as Port (archive footage)
- 2017 · The Wilde Wedding as Laurence
- 2017 · I Love You, Daddy as Leslie Goodwin
- 2014 · Casanova Variations as Giacomo
- 2014 · Cesar Chavez as Bogdanovitch
- 2013 · Siberian Education as Grandfather Kuzya
- 2010 · Saturday Night as Self
- 2009 · SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas as
- 2009 · La Traversée du désir as Self
- 2008 · Afterwards as Joseph Kay
- 2008 · The Great Buck Howard as Buck Howard
- 2006 · Klimt as Gustav Klimt
- 2005 · Colour Me Kubrick as Alan Conway
- 2002 · The Dancer Upstairs as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
- 2002 · Ripley's Game as Tom Ripley
- 2001 · Hotel as Omar Jonnson
- 2001 · I’m Going Home as John Crawford
- 2000 · Shadow of the Vampire as F. W. Murnau
- 2000 · RKO 281 as Herman Mankiewicz
- 1999 · Time Regained as Baron de Charlus
- 1997 · Cannes Man as Self
- 1997 · Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady as Self
- 1996 · The Ogre as Abel
- 1996 · Mary Reilly as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
- 1993 · Heart of Darkness as Kurtz
- 1992 · Jennifer Eight as Agent St. Anne
- 1991 · Shadows and Fog as Clown
- 1991 · The Object of Beauty as Jake Bartholomew
- 1991 · Queens Logic as Eliot
- 1990 · The Sheltering Sky as Port
- 1988 · Miles from Home as Barry Maxwell
- 1987 · The Glass Menagerie as Tom Wingfield
- 1987 · Making Mr. Right as Jeff Peters / Ulysses
- 1985 · Death of a Salesman as Biff Loman
- 1978 · A Wedding as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- Future · In the Hand of Dante as
- Future · Sacrifice as
- 2024 · Safe Sets - Dying to Work in the Film Industry as self
- 2024 · The Line as Beach Miller
- 2024 · Unsinkable as Chief Engineer Pollard
- 2024 · RIPLEY as Reeves Minot
- 2024 · The New Look as Lucien Lelong
- 2023 · Mr. Blake At Your Service! as Andrew Blake
- 2023 · Fool's Paradise as Ed Cote
- 2023 · One Ranger as Geddes
- 2023 · Breaking Rachmaninoff as
- 2022 · Mindcage as The Artist
- 2022 · Savage Salvation as Peter
- 2022 · White Elephant as Glen Follett
- 2022 · Shattered as Ronald
- 2021 · Ten Year Old Tom as Mr. B (voice)
- 2021 · Rogue Hostage as Sam Nelson
- 2020 · Valley of the Gods as Wes Tauros
- 2020 · Ava as Duke
- 2020 · Home Movie: The Princess Bride as The Impressive Clergyman
- 2020 · Space Force as Dr. Adrian Mallory
- 2020 · Arkansas as Bright
- 2020 · The New Pope as Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox
- 2019 · Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile as Judge Edward D. Cowart
- 2019 · Velvet Buzzsaw as Piers
- 2018 · The ABC Murders as Hercule Poirot
- 2018 · Bird Box as Douglas
- 2018 · The Music Critic as The Narrator
- 2018 · Mile 22 as Bishop
- 2018 · Casanova Gene as
- 2017 · Bullet Head as Walker
- 2017 · About Love. Adults Only as лектор Эд
- 2017 · Just Call Me God as Satur Diman Cha
- 2017 · Unlocked as Bob Hunter
- 2016 · Deepwater Horizon as Donald Vidrine
- 2016 · Psychogenic Fugue as All characters
- 2016 · Zoolander 2 as Chazz Spencer
- 2016 · Billions as Grigor Andolov
- 2014 · Penguins of Madagascar as Dave (voice)
- 2014 · Cut Bank as Sheriff Vogel
- 2014 · The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
- 2014 · Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer as
- 2014 · Crossbones as Blackbeard
- 2014 · Noseland as Self
- 2014 · Le paradoxe de John Malkovich as Himself
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2013 · RED 2 as Marvin Boggs
- 2013 · Ecstasy as Vinny
- 2013 · Warm Bodies as Colonel Grigio
- 2012 · Lines of Wellington as General Wellington
- 2012 · Side by Side as Self
- 2012 · Drunkboat as Mort
- 2012 · All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set as Self
- 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
- 2011 · Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Bruce Brazos
- 2011 · 100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story as Self
- 2010 · RED as Marvin Boggs
- 2010 · Secretariat as Lucien Laurin
- 2010 · Jonah Hex as Turnbull
- 2010 · The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer as Jack Unterweger
- 2008 · Gardens of the Night as Michael
- 2008 · Changeling as Rev. Gustav Briegleb
- 2008 · Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies as Narrator
- 2008 · Music at the Sea as Self
- 2008 · Disgrace as David Lurie
- 2008 · Burn After Reading as Osborne Cox
- 2008 · Mutant Chronicles as Constantine
- 2008 · Projectorparishilton as
- 2008 · In Tranzit as Pavlov
- 2007 · Beowulf as Unferth
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · Eragon as King Galbatorix
- 2006 · Art School Confidential as Professor Sandiford
- 2006 · The Call as Exorcist
- 2005 · De Wereld Draait Door as Self
- 2005 · Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
- 2005 · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Humma Kavula
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2004 · The Libertine as Charles II
- 2003 · A Talking Picture as Comandante John Walesa
- 2003 · Johnny English as Pascal Sauvage
- 2002 · Adaptation. as John Malkovich (uncredited)
- 2002 · Napoleon as Charles de Talleyrand
- 2002 · Hideous Man as
- 2002 · Gero von Boehm begegnet... as Self
- 2001 · Knockaround Guys as Teddy Deserve
- 2001 · Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest
- 2001 · Savage Souls as Monsieur Numance
- 2000 · Les Misérables as Javert
- 1999 · Ladies Room as Roberto
- 1999 · Being John Malkovich as John Horatio Malkovich
- 1999 · The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc as Charles VII
- 1998 · Rounders as Teddy KGB
- 1998 · The Man in the Iron Mask as Athos
- 1997 · Con Air as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
- 1996 · The Portrait of a Lady as Gilbert Osmond
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1996 · Mulholland Falls as General Thomas Timms
- 1995 · Beyond the Clouds as The Director
- 1995 · The Convent as Michael
- 1995 · To Make a Film Is to Be Alive as Self (uncredited)
- 1994 · Zona+ as Próprio
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1993 · In the Line of Fire as Mitch Leary
- 1993 · Alive as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
- 1992 · Of Mice and Men as Lennie Small
- 1992 · Annie Lennox: Totally Diva as
- 1991 · Old Times as
- 1991 · Performance as Deeley
- 1990 · Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter as Self
- 1990 · Romy Award as Presenter
- 1989 · Decade as Self
- 1988 · Dangerous Liaisons as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
- 1987 · The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun as Self
- 1987 · Empire of the Sun as Basie
- 1987 · Santabear's High Flying Adventure as Santa Claus (voice)
- 1986 · American Masters as Self
- 1986 · Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ as Self / Biff
- 1986 · Rocket to the Moon as Ben Stark
- 1985 · Eleni as Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
- 1984 · The Killing Fields as Al Rockoff
- 1984 · Places in the Heart as Mr. Will
- 1984 · True West as Lee
- 1982 · American Playhouse as Lee
- 1982 · American Playhouse as Ben Stark
- 1981 · Wetten, dass..? as Self
- 1981 · Word of Honor as Gary
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- Future · Thelma as Walker Percy
- Future · Wild Horse Nine as
- 1981 · American Dream as
- Future · The Yellow Tie as Sergiu Celibidache
- Future · A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf as Unferth
- Future · A Winter's Journey as Leiermann
- Future · Lost and Found in Paris as