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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).
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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November 4th, 2026 | Wild Horse Nine | Chris | TBD | |
May 5th, 2023 | One Ranger | Geddes | 6.1 | |
February 20th, 2023 | Seneca | Seneca | 5 | |
November 4th, 2017 | Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA | Port (archive footage) | 7.4 | |
June 18th, 2010 | Jonah Hex | Turnbull | 5 | |
October 24th, 2008 | Changeling | Rev. Gustav Briegleb | 7.6 | |
October 1st, 2008 | Afterwards | Joseph Kay | 5.5 | |
September 6th, 2008 | Disgrace | David Lurie | 6.2 | |
September 5th, 2008 | Burn After Reading | Osborne Cox | 6.7 | |
August 7th, 2008 | Mutant Chronicles | Constantine | 5.3 | |
March 4th, 2008 | In Tranzit | Pavlov | 5.5 | |
November 5th, 2007 | Beowulf | Unferth | 5.9 | |
December 14th, 2006 | Eragon | King Galbatorix | 5.1 | |
May 5th, 2006 | Art School Confidential | Professor Sandiford | 6.1 | |
October 6th, 2005 | Colour Me Kubrick | Alan Conway | 5.7 | |
April 28th, 2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Humma Kavula | 6.7 | |
September 16th, 2004 | The Libertine | Charles II | 5.9 | |
March 14th, 2003 | Johnny English | Pascal Sauvage | 6.3 | |
September 2nd, 2002 | Ripley's Game | Tom Ripley | 6.4 | |
November 30th, 2001 | Knockaround Guys | Teddy Deserve | 6 | |
August 30th, 2000 | Shadow of the Vampire | F. W. Murnau | 6.7 | |
October 29th, 1999 | Being John Malkovich | John Horatio Malkovich | 7.4 | |
October 27th, 1999 | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Charles VII | 6.4 | |
September 11th, 1998 | Rounders | Teddy KGB | 7 | |
March 12th, 1998 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Athos | 6.6 | |
June 5th, 1997 | Con Air | Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom | 6.8 | |
April 26th, 1996 | Mulholland Falls | General Thomas Timms | 6 | |
February 23rd, 1996 | Mary Reilly | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde | 5.8 | |
October 27th, 1995 | Beyond the Clouds | The Director | 6.2 | |
October 1st, 1993 | Heart of Darkness | Kurtz | 5.8 | |
July 8th, 1993 | In the Line of Fire | Mitch Leary | 7 | |
November 6th, 1992 | Jennifer Eight | Agent St. Anne | 6.1 | |
September 16th, 1992 | Of Mice and Men | Lennie Small | 7.3 | |
October 25th, 1990 | The Sheltering Sky | Port | 6.5 | |
December 21st, 1988 | Dangerous Liaisons | Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont | 7.2 | |
December 9th, 1987 | Empire of the Sun | Basie | 7.5 | |
April 3rd, 1987 | Making Mr. Right | Jeff Peters / Ulysses | 5.2 | |
August 16th, 1985 | Death of a Salesman | Biff Loman | 6.9 | |
November 23rd, 1984 | The Killing Fields | Al Rockoff | 7.5 | |
September 11th, 1984 | Places in the Heart | Mr. Will | 7.2 | |
TBD | Lost and Found in Paris | Wim Waldemar | 1 | |
September 3rd, 2026 | Sacrifice | Gunnar | TBD | |
April 27th, 2026 | Being Related to John Malkovich | Self | TBD | |
November 14th, 2025 | The Yellow Tie | Sergiu Celibidache | 8.5 | |
September 3rd, 2025 | In the Hand of Dante | Joe Black | 4.5 | |
July 13th, 2025 | The Life of Mirrors | TBD | TBD | |
March 13th, 2025 | Opus | Alfred Moretti | 5.8 | |
October 19th, 2024 | Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry | self | TBD | |
October 18th, 2024 | The Line | Beach Miller | 5.6 | |
November 1st, 2023 | Mr. Blake at Your Service! | Andrew Blake | 6.4 | |
May 12th, 2023 | Fool's Paradise | Ed Cote | 4.6 | |
April 1st, 2023 | Breaking Rachmaninoff | TBD | TBD | |
January 1st, 2023 | A Journey to Sundance | Self | TBD | |
December 16th, 2022 | Mindcage | The Artist | 5.9 | |
December 2nd, 2022 | Savage Salvation | Peter | 6.1 | |
June 3rd, 2022 | White Elephant | Glen Follett | 5.8 | |
April 15th, 2022 | Chariot | Dr. Karn | 4.6 | |
January 14th, 2022 | Shattered | Ronald | 5.7 | |
December 2nd, 2021 | The Survivalist | Aaron Ramsey | 4.4 | |
June 11th, 2021 | Rogue Hostage | Sam Nelson | 5.6 | |
November 25th, 2020 | Last Call | Dr. Felton | 4.1 | |
September 17th, 2020 | Valley of the Gods | Wes Tauros | 5.3 | |
July 2nd, 2020 | Ava | Duke | 5.8 | |
May 5th, 2020 | Arkansas | Bright | 5.8 | |
May 2nd, 2019 | Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile | Judge Edward D. Cowart | 7 | |
February 1st, 2019 | Velvet Buzzsaw | Piers | 5.4 | |
December 13th, 2018 | Bird Box | Douglas | 6.8 | |
December 10th, 2018 | The Music Critic | The Narrator | 4.5 | |
August 16th, 2018 | Mile 22 | Bishop | 6.2 | |
April 27th, 2018 | Supercon | Sid Newberry | 4.5 | |
February 17th, 2018 | Casanova Gene | TBD | 1 | |
December 7th, 2017 | Bullet Head | Walker | 5 | |
September 15th, 2017 | The Wilde Wedding | Laurence | 5.1 | |
September 9th, 2017 | I Love You, Daddy | Leslie Goodwin | 5.7 | |
September 1st, 2017 | About Love. Adults Only | Ed | 5.5 | |
April 30th, 2017 | Just Call Me God | Satur Diman Cha | 6 | |
April 27th, 2017 | Unlocked | Bob Hunter | 6.3 | |
September 28th, 2016 | Deepwater Horizon | Donald Vidrine | 6.9 | |
September 27th, 2016 | Psychogenic Fugue | All characters | 8 | |
February 6th, 2016 | Zoolander 2 | Chazz Spencer | 4.9 | |
November 22nd, 2014 | Penguins of Madagascar | Dave (voice) | 6.5 | |
October 4th, 2014 | Cut Bank | Sheriff Vogel | 5.8 | |
August 21st, 2014 | Casanova Variations | Giacomo | 5.3 | |
July 22nd, 2014 | The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover | Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice) | 6.3 | |
June 23rd, 2014 | Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer | TBD | 8 | |
May 8th, 2014 | Noseland | Self | 5 | |
March 28th, 2014 | Cesar Chavez | Bogdanovitch | 6.2 | |
March 2nd, 2014 | Le paradoxe de John Malkovich | Himself | TBD | |
July 18th, 2013 | RED 2 | Marvin Boggs | 6.5 | |
June 30th, 2013 | Ecstasy | Vinny | 7 | |
February 27th, 2013 | Siberian Education | Grandfather Kuzya | 6.8 | |
January 31st, 2013 | Warm Bodies | Colonel Grigio | 6.5 | |
October 4th, 2012 | Lines of Wellington | General Wellington | 5.7 | |
August 19th, 2012 | Side by Side | Self | 7.2 | |
July 13th, 2012 | Drunkboat | Mort | 4.7 | |
May 15th, 2012 | All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set | Self | TBD | |
June 28th, 2011 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Bruce Brazos | 6.2 | |
June 1st, 2011 | Butterflies | Man | TBD | |
March 13th, 2011 | 100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story | Self | 9 | |
October 13th, 2010 | RED | Marvin Boggs | 6.7 | |
August 20th, 2010 | Secretariat | Lucien Laurin | 7.4 | |
June 8th, 2010 | The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer | Jack Unterweger | 4 | |
May 2nd, 2010 | Saturday Night | Self | 7.9 | |
December 17th, 2009 | SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas | (archive footage) | 7.4 | |
March 16th, 2009 | La Traversée du désir | Self | 5.7 | |
December 21st, 2008 | Finding the Burn | Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage) | TBD | |
December 21st, 2008 | Welcome Back, George | Self | TBD | |
November 21st, 2008 | Gardens of the Night | Michael | 6.2 | |
October 1st, 2008 | Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies | Narrator | 6.5 | |
September 28th, 2008 | Music at the Sea | Self | TBD | |
January 18th, 2008 | The Great Buck Howard | Buck Howard | 6 | |
April 1st, 2007 | Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place | TBD | TBD | |
March 3rd, 2006 | Klimt | Gustav Klimt | 5.2 | |
September 5th, 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' | Self | TBD | |
August 31st, 2003 | A Talking Picture | Comandante John Walesa | 6.7 | |
December 6th, 2002 | Adaptation. | John Malkovich (uncredited) | 7.3 | |
September 20th, 2002 | The Dancer Upstairs | Abimael Guzman (uncredited) | 6.1 | |
August 1st, 2002 | Hideous Man | Narrator | 4 | |
September 12th, 2001 | Hotel | Omar Jonnson | 3.4 | |
May 20th, 2001 | Savage Souls | Monsieur Numance | 4.9 | |
May 13th, 2001 | I’m Going Home | John Crawford | 6.8 | |
November 30th, 1999 | Ladies Room | Roberto | 4 | |
November 20th, 1999 | RKO 281 | Herman Mankiewicz | 6.5 | |
May 19th, 1999 | Time Regained | Baron de Charlus | 6.3 | |
January 1st, 1997 | Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady | Self | 7.5 | |
October 17th, 1996 | The Portrait of a Lady | Gilbert Osmond | 6 | |
September 12th, 1996 | The Ogre | Abel | 6.4 | |
June 3rd, 1996 | Cannes Man | Self | 5.5 | |
September 6th, 1995 | The Convent | Michael | 5.3 | |
September 2nd, 1995 | To Make a Film Is to Be Alive | Self (uncredited) | 7 | |
January 15th, 1993 | Alive | Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited) | 6.9 | |
April 6th, 1992 | Annie Lennox: Totally Diva | TBD | 9.5 | |
December 5th, 1991 | Shadows and Fog | Clown | 6.7 | |
October 26th, 1991 | Old Times | TBD | 4.6 | |
April 12th, 1991 | The Object of Beauty | Jake Bartholomew | 5.3 | |
February 1st, 1991 | Queens Logic | Eliot | 5.8 | |
December 9th, 1989 | Decade | Self | 8.5 | |
December 30th, 1987 | The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun | Self | 6.4 | |
TBD | A Winter's Journey | Leiermann | TBD | |
December 1st, 1990 | Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter | Self | TBD | |
September 16th, 1988 | Miles from Home | Barry Maxwell | 5.4 | |
December 1st, 1987 | Santabear's High Flying Adventure | Santa Claus (voice) | 8 | |
May 27th, 1987 | The Glass Menagerie | Tom Wingfield | 6.3 | |
June 23rd, 1986 | Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ | Self / Biff | TBD | |
May 5th, 1986 | Rocket to the Moon | Ben Stark | 10 | |
November 1st, 1985 | Eleni | Nicholas 'Nick' Gage | 6 | |
February 1st, 1984 | True West | Lee | 8.3 | |
February 15th, 1983 | Say Goodnight, Gracie | Steve | 10 | |
April 26th, 1981 | American Dream | TBD | 9 | |
January 6th, 1981 | Word of Honor | Gary | 7.5 | |
August 29th, 1978 | A Wedding | Wedding Guest (uncredited) | 6.3 | |
TBD | A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf | Unferth | TBD |