William Sadler

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1950-04-13 (75 years old)

Place of Birth

Buffalo, New York, USA

William Sadler

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   William Thomas Sadler (born April 13, 1950) is an American actor who works in film and television. His television and motion picture roles have included Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller in The Pacific, Luther Sloan in Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Sheriff Jim Valenti in Roswell, and—perhaps most notably—the Grim Reaper in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, a role for which he was nominated for, and won, the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, and his role as Colonel Stuart alongside Bruce Willis in Die Hard 2.

Acting

1990

Die Hard 2

as Stuart

1991

1991

Rush

as Monroe

2009

Shadowheart

as Thomas Conners

2004

Kinsey

as Kenneth Braun

2007

The Mist

as Jim

2007

August Rush

as Thomas Novacek

1992

Trespass

as Don

2009

The Hills Run Red

as Wilson Wyler Concannon

1999

Stealth Fighter

as Adm. Frank Petersen

2009

1998

1996

1990

Hard to Kill

as Senator Vernon Trent

2008

Eagle Eye

as Jerry's Dad

1994

Roadracers

as Sarge

2011

Silent But Deadly

as John Capper

1996

Solo

as Colonel Frank Madden / Improved Solo

2024

Salem's Lot

as Parkins Gillespie

1997

RocketMan

as Wild Bill Overbeck

1990

The Hot Spot

as Frank Sutton

2010

2006

The Good Student

as Phil Palmer

2009

Last Day of Summer

as Mr. Crolick

1998

2006

Premium

as Cole Carter

1982

Hanky Panky

as Hotel Clerk

1987

Project X

as Dr. Carroll (as Bill Sadler)

2005

Confess

as Senator Lampert

1993

Freaked

as Dick Brian

2012

2013

Iron Man 3

as President Ellis

2006

Jimmy and Judy

as Uncle Rodney

1986

Off Beat

as Dickson

2005

Purple Heart

as Colonel Allen

2011

Restitution

as George Youngstown

2012

See Girl Run

as Marty

1999

2013

Machete Kills

as Sheriff Doakes

2002

1998

Ambushed

as Jim Natter

2013

1978

The Great Wallendas

as Dieter Schmidt

1979

The Other Side of Victory

as Captain Rogers

1990

The Face of Fear

as Anthony Prine

2013

Riddle

as Western Man / Jack Abel

2013

The Suspect

as Sheriff Dixon

1993

2023

She Came from the Woods

as Gilbert McCalister

2014

Freedom

as Plimpton

1991

1991

Tagget

as Yuri Chelenkoff

2014

The Historian

as Valerian Hadley

2005

DeVour

as Ivan Reisz

2015

2009

Stream

as Dr. Shelby

2016

The Duel

as Governor Ross

2014

2015

Frank the Bastard

as Cyrus Gast

1999

The Green Mile

as Klaus Detterick

1992

Two-Fisted Tales

as Mr. Rush (Presenter)

2007

2015

Freeheld

as Peter Santucci

2012

Nothing Sacred

as Chambers

2016

The Hollow

as Sheriff Beau McKinney

1995

The Omen

as Dr. Linus

2007

A New Wave

as Roger Dewitt

2017

Shoot Me Nicely

as Roy Barnes

1989

Unconquered

as Coach Dickey

2013

Onion News Empire

as Ed Musgrove

1989

K-9

as Salesman Don

2018

2015

Edge

as Big Bill

2019

The Grudge

as Detective Wilson

2018

Deadly Crush

as Sheriff Dusty Hawkins

2021

2009

Beyond All Boundaries

as Lt. Colonel Lewis B. 'Chesty' Puller

2019

The Highwaymen

as Henry Barrow

2019

VFW

as Walter Reed

2021

The Unholy

as Father Hagan

2018

2000

2012

2001

Skippy

as Ringo

2006

Unspoken

as Dad

Production

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