
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 · Sacrifice as
- 2025 · In the Hand of Dante as Joe Black
- 2023 · Mr. Blake at Your Service! as Andrew Blake
- 2023 · Fool's Paradise as Ed Cote
- 2023 · Seneca as Seneca
- 2022 · Chariot as Dr. Karn
- 2021 · The Survivalist as Aaron Ramsey
- 2020 · Last Call as Dr. Felton
- 2020 · Valley of the Gods as Wes Tauros
- 2019 · Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Supercon as Sid Newberry
- 2017 · Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda as Port (archive footage)
- 2017 · The Wilde Wedding as Laurence
- 2014 · Casanova Variations as Giacomo
- 2014 · The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
- 2014 · Noseland as Self
- 2014 · Cesar Chavez as Bogdanovitch
- 2013 · Siberian Education as Grandfather Kuzya
- 2012 · Lines of Wellington as General Wellington
- 2012 · Side by Side as Self
- 2008 · Afterwards as Joseph Kay
- 2008 · Disgrace as David Lurie
- 2008 · In Tranzit as Pavlov
- 2008 · The Great Buck Howard as Buck Howard
- 2006 · Klimt as Gustav Klimt
- 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
- 2002 · The Dancer Upstairs as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
- 2001 · Hotel as Omar Jonnson
- 2001 · Savage Souls as Monsieur Numance
- 2000 · RKO 281 as Herman Mankiewicz
- 1999 · Ladies Room as Roberto
- 1999 · Time Regained as Baron de Charlus
- 1997 · Cannes Man as Self
- 1996 · The Ogre as Abel
- 1994 · Zona+ as Próprio
- 1993 · Heart of Darkness as Kurtz
- 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 · Making Mr. Right as Jeff Peters / Ulysses
- 1985 · Eleni as Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
- Future · Thelma as Walker Percy
- Future · Wild Horse Nine as
- 2025 · The Life of Mirrors as
- 2025 · Lubach as
- 2025 · Opus as Alfred Moretti
- 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 · 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
- 2021 · A Journey to Sundance as Self
- 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 · 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 · I Love You, Daddy as Leslie Goodwin
- 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 · Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer as
- 2014 · Crossbones as Blackbeard
- 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 · 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
- 2010 · Saturday Night as Self
- 2009 · SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas as (archive footage)
- 2009 · La Traversée du désir as Self
- 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 · Burn After Reading as Osborne Cox
- 2008 · Mutant Chronicles as Constantine
- 2008 · Projectorparishilton as
- 2007 · Beowulf as Unferth
- 2007 · Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place as
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · Eragon as King Galbatorix
- 2006 · On n'est pas couché as Self - Guest
- 2006 · Art School Confidential as Professor Sandiford
- 2006 · The Call as Exorcist
- 2005 · De Wereld Draait Door 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 · Ripley's Game as Tom Ripley
- 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 · I’m Going Home as John Crawford
- 2000 · Les Misérables as Javert
- 2000 · Shadow of the Vampire as F. W. Murnau
- 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 · Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady as Self
- 1996 · The Portrait of a Lady as Gilbert Osmond
- 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
- 1995 · To Make a Film Is to Be Alive as Self (uncredited)
- 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
- 1992 · Annie Lennox: Totally Diva as
- 1991 · Shadows and Fog as Clown
- 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)
- 1987 · The Glass Menagerie as Tom Wingfield
- 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 · Death of a Salesman as Biff Loman
- 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 · American Dream as
- 1981 · Wetten, dass..? as Self
- 1981 · Word of Honor as Gary
- 1978 · A Wedding as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- Future · Lost and Found in Paris 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