
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 · Opus as Moretti
- 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 · Seneca as Seneca
- 2022 · Mindcage as The Artist
- 2022 · Savage Salvation as Peter
- 2022 · White Elephant as Glen Follett
- 2022 · Chariot as Dr. Karn
- 2022 · Shattered as Ronald
- 2021 · The Survivalist as Aaron Ramsey
- 2021 · Ten Year Old Tom as Mr. B (voice)
- 2021 · Rogue Hostage as Sam Nelson
- 2020 · Last Call as Dr. Felton
- 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 · Mile 22 as Bishop
- 2018 · Supercon as Sid Newberry
- 2017 · Bullet Head as Walker
- 2017 · Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda as Port (archive footage)
- 2017 · The Wilde Wedding as Laurence
- 2017 · I Love You, Daddy as Leslie Goodwin
- 2017 · About Love. Adults Only as лектор Эд
- 2017 · Unlocked as Bob Hunter
- 2016 · Deepwater Horizon as Donald Vidrine
- 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 · Casanova Variations as Giacomo
- 2014 · The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
- 2014 · Crossbones as Blackbeard
- 2014 · Noseland as Self
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2013 · RED 2 as Marvin Boggs
- 2013 · Siberian Education as Grandfather Kuzya
- 2013 · Warm Bodies as Colonel Grigio
- 2012 · Lines of Wellington as General Wellington
- 2012 · Side by Side as Self
- 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
- 2011 · Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Bruce Brazos
- 2010 · RED as Marvin Boggs
- 2010 · Secretariat as Lucien Laurin
- 2010 · Jonah Hex as Turnbull
- 2010 · Saturday Night as Self
- 2009 · La Traversée du désir as Self
- 2008 · Gardens of the Night as Michael
- 2008 · Changeling as Rev. Gustav Briegleb
- 2008 · Afterwards as Joseph Kay
- 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
- 2008 · The Great Buck Howard as Buck Howard
- 2007 · Beowulf as Unferth
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · Eragon as King Galbatorix
- 2006 · Art School Confidential as Professor Sandiford
- 2006 · Klimt as Gustav Klimt
- 2005 · De Wereld Draait Door as Self
- 2005 · Colour Me Kubrick as Alan Conway
- 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 · Johnny English as Pascal Sauvage
- 2002 · Adaptation. as John Malkovich (uncredited)
- 2002 · Napoleon as Charles de Talleyrand
- 2002 · Ripley's Game as Tom Ripley
- 2002 · Gero von Boehm begegnet... as Self
- 2001 · Knockaround Guys as Teddy Deserve
- 2001 · Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest
- 2001 · Hotel as Omar Jonnson
- 2000 · Les Misérables as Javert
- 2000 · Shadow of the Vampire as F. W. Murnau
- 2000 · RKO 281 as Herman Mankiewicz
- 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
- 1997 · Cannes Man as Self
- 1996 · The Portrait of a Lady as Gilbert Osmond
- 1996 · The Ogre as Abel
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1996 · Mulholland Falls as General Thomas Timms
- 1996 · Mary Reilly as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
- 1995 · Beyond the Clouds as The Director
- 1995 · The Convent as Michael
- 1994 · Zona+ as Próprio
- 1993 · Heart of Darkness as Kurtz
- 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 · Jennifer Eight as Agent St. Anne
- 1992 · Of Mice and Men as Lennie Small
- 1991 · Shadows and Fog as Clown
- 1991 · The Object of Beauty as Jake Bartholomew
- 1991 · Performance as Deeley
- 1991 · Queens Logic as Eliot
- 1990 · The Sheltering Sky as Port
- 1990 · Romy Award as Presenter
- 1988 · Dangerous Liaisons as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
- 1987 · Empire of the Sun as Basie
- 1986 · American Masters as Self
- 1985 · Eleni as Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
- 1985 · Death of a Salesman as Biff Loman
- 1984 · The Killing Fields as Al Rockoff
- 1984 · Places in the Heart as Mr. Will
- 1982 · American Playhouse as Lee
- 1982 · American Playhouse as Ben Stark
- 1981 · Wetten, dass..? as Self
- 1978 · A Wedding as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- Future · In the Hand of Dante as
- Future · The Yellow Tie as Sergiu Celibidache
- 2023 · Breaking Rachmaninoff as
- 2018 · Casanova Gene as
- 2017 · Just Call Me God as Satur Diman Cha
- 2016 · Psychogenic Fugue as All characters
- 2014 · Cesar Chavez as Bogdanovitch
- 2013 · Ecstasy as Vinny
- 2012 · Drunkboat as Mort
- 2012 · All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set as Self
- 2010 · The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer as Jack Unterweger
- 2009 · SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas as
- 2008 · Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies as Narrator
- 2006 · The Call as Exorcist
- 2003 · A Talking Picture as Comandante John Walesa
- 2002 · The Dancer Upstairs as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
- 2002 · Hideous Man as
- 2001 · Savage Souls as Monsieur Numance
- 2001 · I’m Going Home as John Crawford
- 1999 · Ladies Room as Roberto
- 1999 · Time Regained as Baron de Charlus
- 1991 · Old Times as
- Future · A Journey to Sundance as Self
- Future · Thelma as Walker Percy
- 1987 · The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun as Self
- Future · Wild Horse Nine as
- Future · Sacrifice as
- 2024 · Safe Sets - Dying to Work in the Film Industry as self
- 2018 · The Music Critic as The Narrator
- 2014 · Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer as
- 2014 · Le paradoxe de John Malkovich as Himself
- 2011 · 100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story as Self
- 2008 · Music at the Sea as Self
- 1997 · Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady as Self
- 1995 · To Make a Film Is to Be Alive as Self (uncredited)
- 1990 · Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter as Self
- 1989 · Decade as Self
- 1988 · Miles from Home as Barry Maxwell
- 1987 · Santabear's High Flying Adventure as Santa Claus (voice)
- 1987 · The Glass Menagerie as Tom Wingfield
- 1987 · Making Mr. Right as Jeff Peters / Ulysses
- 1986 · Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ as Self / Biff
- 1986 · Rocket to the Moon as Ben Stark
- 1984 · True West as Lee
- 1981 · American Dream as
- 1981 · Word of Honor as Gary
- 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