David Strathairn

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1949-01-26 (76 years old)

Place of Birth

San Francisco, California, USA

David Strathairn

Biography

David Strathairn (born January 26, 1949) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of journalist Edward R. Murrow in the feature film "Good Night, and Good Luck" (2005), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He had also starred in "L.A. Confidential" (1997), "Godzilla" (2014), and the "Bourne" franchise (2007–2012).

Acting

2000

The Miracle Worker

as Captain Keller

1989

The Feud

as The Stranger

1997

L.A. Confidential

as Pierce Patchett

1991

City of Hope

as Asteroid

1992

Sneakers

as Whistler

2005

Good Night, and Good Luck.

as Edward R. Murrow

1996

Mother Night

as Bernard B. O'Hare

1992

Bob Roberts

as Mack Laflin

2007

2006

We Are Marshall

as President Dedmon

2009

Cold Souls

as Dr. Flintstein

2007

Fracture

as Joe Lobruto

1987

Matewan

as Police Chief Sid Hatfield

1995

Dolores Claiborne

as Joe St. George

1984

Iceman

as Dr. Singe

2008

The Spiderwick Chronicles

as Arthur Spiderwick

2007

Steel Toes

as Danny Dunkelman

2000

Harrison's Flowers

as Harrison Lloyd

1994

The River Wild

as Tom Hartman

1995

Home for the Holidays

as Russell Terziak

2010

Temple Grandin

as Professor Carlock

1983

Silkwood

as Wesley

1988

Eight Men Out

as Eddie Cicotte

2004

Twisted

as Dr. Melvin Frank

2006

Heavens Fall

as Judge James Horton

1995

Losing Isaiah

as Charles Lewin

1986

At Close Range

as Tony Pine

2005

Missing in America

as Henry R. Hocknell Jr.

1992

Passion Fish

as Rennie

2009

The Uninvited

as Steven

1988

Call Me

as Sam

1993

The Firm

as Ray McDeere

1999

Limbo

as Joe Gastineau

2005

The Notorious Bettie Page

as Estes Kefauver

2002

2010

The Tempest

as King Alonso

1989

Day One

as J. Robert Oppenheimer

1997

2010

Howl

as Ralph McIntosh

2007

2012

The Bourne Legacy

as Noah Vosen

2003

Blue Car

as Auster

2010

The Whistleblower

as Peter Ward

1998

The Giraffe

as Charles Kaminski

1983

Lovesick

as Marvin Zuckerman

2007

Racing Daylight

as Henry / Harry

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself

as Pierce Patchett in L.A. Confidential (archive footage)

2012

Lincoln

as William Seward

2010

Matadors

as Roman Lodari

1999

A Map of the World

as Howard Goodwin

2008

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

as J. Robert Oppenheimer

1992

O Pioneers!

as Carl Linstrum

2001

Relative Evil

as Dr. Charlie

2002

Speakeasy

as Bruce Hickman

2013

1993

2014

Godzilla

as Admiral William Stenz

2012

Hemingway & Gellhorn

as John Dos Passos

2000

A Good Baby

as Truman Lester

1998

The Climb

as Earl Himes

2010

Area 51 Declassified

as Himself - Narrator

2012

Maladies

as Delmar

1996

Beyond the Call

as Russel Gates

1997

2014

No God, No Master

as William Flynn

1993

The American Clock

as Young Arthur Huntington

1990

Memphis Belle

as Craig Harriman

2001

The Victim

as Mark Zingerline

1987

Broken Vows

as Stuart Chase

2006

The Shovel

as Paul Mullin

1998

Evidence of Blood

as Jackson Kinley

2023

Remember This

as Jan Karski

2015

Louder Than Bombs

as Richard Weissman

1993

2015

The Debt

as Nathan

1988

Stars & Bars

as Charlie

2023

2007

Trumbo

as Self

1998

Bad Manners

as Wes Westlund

2000

Freedom Song

as Peter Crowley

2025

O Horizon

as Warren

1990

Judgment

as Father Frank Aubert

1990

Heat Wave

as Bill Thomas

2025

The Luckiest Man in America

as Bill Carruthers

2009

1985

2016

American Pastoral

as Nathan Zuckerman

1994

April One

as John McCowan

2018

UFO

as Franklin Ahls

1998

With Friends Like These

as Armand Minetti

2019

Fast Color

as Ellis

1998

Simon Birch

as Rev. Russell

2017

Darkest Hour

as President Roosevelt (voice)

2019

2020

Walkaway Joe

as Joe Haley

2018

My Dinner with Hervé

as Marty Rothstein

2007

2021

Nomadland

as Dave

2019

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

as Admiral William Stenz

2025

The Gettysburg Address

as Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice)

2004

Paradise

as Reverend Bobby Paradise

2019

2021

2020

The Oedipus Project

as Messenger 1

1992

A League of Their Own

as Ira Lowenstein

1988

Dominick and Eugene

as Martin Chernak

2022

2013

Lincoln@Gettysburg

as Narrator (voice)

2016

He Does Not Want Peace

as Richard Englebright

Production

2006

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