Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American film, stage, and voice actor, and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group. He has had roles in a wide range of films, including Streets of Fire, To Live and Die in L.A., Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, The English Patient, The Last Temptation of Christ, Mississippi Burning, Wild at Heart, The Boondock Saints, Inside Man, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Spider-Man, Shadow of the Vampire, The Aviator, American Psycho, Antichrist, and voice roles in Fantastic Mr. Fox and Finding Nemo. Dafoe has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice. The first was for his role in Platoon in 1986 and the second time for his performance in Shadow of the Vampire in 2000. Description above from the Wikipedia article Willem Dafoe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Jul 22, 1955 In Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 184
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Sleeping Shepherd
- Latest Project:
- Movie Nosferatu 2024-12-24
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Sleeping Shepherd | Dirk | 2025 |
| Movie | Nosferatu | Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz | 2024-12-24 |
| Movie | Finally Dawn | Rufo Priori | 2024-02-14 |
| Movie | Kinds of Kindness | Raymond / George / Omi | 2024-05-30 |
| Movie | Zero | 2024-09-30 | |
| Movie | Saturday Night | David Tebet | 2024-09-27 |
| Movie | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Jackson | 2024-09-04 |
| Movie | Inside | Nemo | 2023-03-09 |
| Movie | Asteroid City | Saltzburg Keitel | 2023-06-08 |
| Movie | Poor Things | Godwin Baxter | 2023-12-07 |
| Movie | Barbie | Ken | 2023-07-19 |
| Movie | Pet Shop Days | Francis | 2023-09-03 |
| Movie | The Northman | Heimir the Fool | 2022-04-07 |
| Movie | 7 Deaths of Maria Callas | Film Actor | 2022-07-24 |
| Movie | Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home | Self | 2022-05-03 |
| Movie | Dead for a Dollar | Joe Cribbens | 2022-09-30 |
| Movie | The Card Counter | Gordo | 2021-09-03 |
| Movie | Zack Snyder's Justice League | Vulko | 2021-03-18 |
| Movie | Maresco / Pasolini | Self | 2021-05-05 |
| Movie | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Norman Osborn / Green Goblin | 2021-12-15 |
| Movie | The French Dispatch | Albert 'the Abacus' | 2021-10-21 |
| Movie | Nightmare Alley | Clem Hoatley | 2021-12-02 |
| Movie | The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy Tale | Self | 2020-01-14 |
| Movie | The Last Thing He Wanted | Richard McMahon | 2020-02-14 |
| Movie | Tommaso | Tommaso | 2020-01-08 |
| Movie | Babenco: Tell Me When I Die | Self | 2020-11-26 |
| Movie | Sportin' Life | Self | 2020-09-06 |
| Movie | Siberia | Clint | 2020-07-02 |
| Movie | Wim Wenders, Desperado | Self | 2020-07-16 |
| Movie | The Lighthouse | Thomas Wake | 2019-10-18 |
| Movie | Motherless Brooklyn | Paul Randolph | 2019-10-31 |
| Movie | Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee | Self / Norman Osborn/ Green Goblin (archive footage) | 2019-12-20 |
| Movie | Togo | Leonhard Seppala | 2019-12-20 |
| Movie | Vincent van Gogh Superstar | Vincent van Gogh (archive footage) | 2019-11-05 |
| Movie | Theatron. Romeo Castellucci | 2018-03-30 | |
| Movie | Under the Rainbow: Making The Florida Project | 2018-02-20 | |
| Movie | Vox Lux | Narrator (voice) | 2018-09-07 |
| Movie | Aquaman | Nuidis Vulko | 2018-12-07 |
| Movie | Friedkin Uncut | Self | 2018-11-05 |
| Movie | Opus Zero | Paul | 2018-12-28 |
| Movie | At Eternity's Gate | Vincent van Gogh | 2018-11-15 |
| Movie | What Happened to Monday | Terrence Settman | 2017-08-18 |
| Movie | Death Note | Ryuk (voice) | 2017-08-25 |
| Movie | Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait | Self | 2017-05-05 |
| Movie | Ballad of a Righteous Merchant | Self | 2017-08-01 |
| Movie | Justice League | Nuidus Vulko (cut) | 2017-11-15 |
| Movie | Piazza Vittorio | Himself | 2017-09-09 |
| Movie | Murder on the Orient Express | Gerhard Hardman | 2017-11-03 |
| Movie | Mountain | Narrator (voice) | 2017-11-30 |
| Movie | The Florida Project | Bobby | 2017-10-06 |
| Movie | Nelson Algren Live | Role1 / Frankie Machine / Role2 / Blackie Cavanaugh | 2016-06-04 |
| Movie | Mind the Gap | Self | 2016-02-17 |
| Movie | Finding Dory | Gill (voice) | 2016-06-16 |
| Movie | My Hindu Friend | Diego Fairman | 2016-03-03 |
| Movie | A Family Man | Ed Blackridge | 2016-09-13 |
| Movie | Father | James Verdun | 2016-10-25 |
| Movie | The Great Wall | Ballard | 2016-12-16 |
| Movie | Dog Eat Dog | Mad Dog | 2016-11-04 |
| Movie | Fukushima: A Nuclear Story | Narrator | 2015-03-13 |
| Movie | The Fault in Our Stars | Peter van Houten | 2014-05-16 |
| Movie | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Jopling | 2014-02-26 |
| Movie | Pasolini | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 2014-09-25 |
| Movie | A Most Wanted Man | Tommy Brue | 2014-07-25 |
| Movie | John Wick | Marcus | 2014-10-22 |
| Movie | Bad Country | Bud Carter | 2014-09-26 |
| Movie | Saving Norman | Lionel Pembrooke | 2013-05-25 |
| Movie | The Smile Man | Willem | 2013-06-15 |
| Movie | Odd Thomas | Wyatt Porter | 2013-01-29 |
| Movie | Nymphomaniac: Vol. II | L | 2013-12-25 |
| Movie | Love's Routine | Barry | 2013-06-19 |
| Movie | Out of the Furnace | John Petty | 2013-11-09 |
| Movie | John Carter | Tars Tarkas | 2012-03-07 |
| Movie | 4:44 Last Day on Earth | Cisco | 2012-03-23 |
| Movie | Tomorrow You're Gone | The Buddha | 2012-10-31 |
| Movie | Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic | Self | 2012-09-12 |
| Movie | The Hunter | Martin David | 2011-10-06 |
| Movie | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-04 |
| Movie | Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World | Narrator | 2010-05-10 |
| Movie | Daybreakers | Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac | 2010-01-06 |
| Movie | The Making of Daybreakers | Self | 2010-05-11 |
| Movie | Miral | Eddie | 2010-09-15 |
| Movie | A Woman | Max Oliver | 2010-09-04 |
| Movie | My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | Detective Hank Havenhurst | 2010-07-08 |
| Movie | Farewell | Feeney | 2009-09-23 |
| Movie | Antichrist | He | 2009-05-20 |
| Movie | The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day | Paul Smecker (uncredited) | 2009-11-24 |
| Movie | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | Gavner Purl | 2009-10-23 |
| Movie | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Rat (voice) | 2009-10-23 |
| Movie | Fireflies in the Garden | Charles Waechter | 2008-08-07 |
| Movie | Adam Resurrected | Commandat Klein | 2008-08-08 |
| Movie | The Dust of Time | A | 2008-11-22 |
| Movie | Mr. Bean's Holiday | Carson Clay | 2007-03-22 |
| Series | The Graham Norton Show | Himself | 2007-02-22 |
| Movie | Spider-Man 3 | Green Goblin / Norman Osborn | 2007-05-01 |
| Movie | The Walker | Larry Lockner | 2007-02-13 |
| Movie | Cannes: All Access | Self | 2007-10-27 |
| Movie | Go Go Tales | Ray Ruby | 2007-05-23 |
| Movie | To Each His Own Cinema | (segment "Occupations") (archive footage) | 2007-10-31 |
| Movie | Voom Portraits | Self | 2007-10-01 |
| Movie | Anamorph | Stan Aubray | 2007-09-21 |
| Movie | The Procedure | Christopher | 2007-08-01 |
| Movie | American Dreamz | Chief of Staff | 2006-03-04 |
| Movie | Inside Man | John Darius | 2006-03-17 |
| Movie | Paris Je T'aime | Le cow-boy (Place des Victoires) | 2006-06-21 |
| Movie | Tales from Earthsea | Cob | 2006-07-29 |
| Movie | Jiminy Glick in Lalawood | Willem Dafoe (uncredited) | 2005-05-08 |
| Movie | xXx: State of the Union | Gen. George Octavius Deckert | 2005-04-27 |
| Movie | On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' | Self / Klaus D. | 2005-01-15 |
| Movie | Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal | Self | 2005-05-09 |
| Series | The Colbert Report | Unknown | 2005-10-17 |
| Movie | Ripley Under Ground | Neil Murchison | 2005-11-06 |
| Movie | This Is an Adventure | Self | 2005-05-10 |
| Movie | Before It Had a Name | Leslie | 2005-09-10 |
| Movie | Manderlay | Grace's Father | 2005-06-03 |
| Movie | Spider-Man 2 | Green Goblin / Norman Osborn | 2004-06-25 |
| Movie | The Reckoning | Martin | 2004-02-26 |
| Movie | The Clearing | Arnold Mack | 2004-07-02 |
| Movie | The Aviator | Roland Sweet | 2004-12-17 |
| Movie | The Misbehavers | Self | 2004-12-04 |
| Movie | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Klaus Daimler | 2004-12-10 |
| Movie | Control | Dr. Michael Copeland | 2004-12-07 |
| Movie | Rockets Redglare! | Self | 2003-05-02 |
| Movie | Finding Nemo | Gill (voice) | 2003-05-30 |
| Movie | Overnight | Self | 2003-06-12 |
| Movie | Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty | 2003-09-12 | |
| Movie | Once Upon a Time in Mexico | Armando Barillo | 2003-09-11 |
| Movie | Spider-Mania | Self | 2002-04-30 |
| Movie | Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man' | Self | 2002-04-20 |
| Movie | Spider-Man | Green Goblin / Norman Osborn | 2002-05-01 |
| Movie | Auto Focus | John Carpenter | 2002-10-18 |
| Movie | Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure | Hunter (voice) | 2002-12-15 |
| Movie | A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon' | Self | 2001-01-01 |
| Movie | Pavilion of Women | Father Andre | 2001-04-20 |
| Movie | Edges of the Lord | Priest | 2001-10-12 |
| Movie | American Psycho | Donald Kimball | 2000-04-13 |
| Movie | Animal Factory | Earl Copen | 2000-10-13 |
| Movie | Shadow of the Vampire | Max Schreck | 2000-05-15 |
| Movie | Bullfighter | Father Ramirez | 2000-10-01 |
| Movie | The Boondock Saints | Paul Smecker | 1999-01-22 |
| Series | Family Guy | Unknown | 1999-01-31 |
| Movie | eXistenZ | Gas | 1999-04-14 |
| Movie | New Rose Hotel | X | 1999-03-19 |
| Movie | Affliction | Rolfe Whitehouse | 1998-02-12 |
| Movie | Lulu on the Bridge | Dr. Van Horn | 1998-09-06 |
| Movie | Speed 2: Cruise Control | Geiger | 1997-06-13 |
| Series | The Daily Show | Unknown | 1996-07-22 |
| Movie | The English Patient | David Caravaggio | 1996-11-14 |
| Movie | Basquiat | The Electrician | 1996-08-09 |
| Movie | Victory | Axel Heyst | 1996-12-13 |
| Movie | The Night and the Moment | Lo scrittore | 1995-07-05 |
| Movie | Tom & Viv | Tom Eliot | 1994-04-15 |
| Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Unknown | 1994-08-14 |
| Movie | Clear and Present Danger | John Clark | 1994-08-03 |
| Series | The Kingdom | Lucifer | 1994-11-24 |
| Movie | Rhyme 'Em to Death | 1993-01-01 | |
| Movie | Body of Evidence | Frank Dulaney | 1993-01-15 |
| Movie | White Homeland Commando | Karl | 1993-03-04 |
| Movie | Brace Up! | Colonel Alexander Ignatyevich Vershinin | 1993-04-01 |
| Movie | Faraway, So Close! | Emit Flesti | 1993-09-01 |
| Movie | Light Sleeper | John LeTour | 1992-08-21 |
| Movie | White Sands | Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal | 1992-04-24 |
| Movie | Flight of the Intruder | Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole | 1991-01-18 |
| Series | Fishing with John | 1991-11-20 | |
| Movie | Wild at Heart | Bobby Peru | 1990-08-17 |
| Movie | Cry-Baby | Hateful Guard | 1990-04-06 |
| Movie | Triumph of the Spirit | Salamo Arouch | 1989-12-08 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Unknown | 1989-12-17 |
| Movie | Born on the Fourth of July | Charlie | 1989-12-20 |
| Movie | Off Limits | Buck McGriff | 1988-03-11 |
| Movie | Mississippi Burning | Ward | 1988-12-08 |
| Movie | The Last Temptation of Christ | Jesus | 1988-05-28 |
| Movie | Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ | Self | 1988-10-07 |
| Movie | Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam | Elephant Grass (voice) | 1987-10-01 |
| Movie | Platoon | Sergeant Elias Gordon | 1986-12-19 |
| Movie | To Live and Die in L.A. | Eric Masters | 1985-11-01 |
| Movie | Roadhouse 66 | Johnny Harte | 1984-08-31 |
| Movie | The Loveless | Vance | 1984-01-20 |
| Movie | Atalanta Strategy | Immigration Staff | 1984-01-01 |
| Movie | Streets of Fire | Raven Shaddock | 1984-06-01 |
| Movie | New York Nights | Boyfriend | 1984-03-01 |
| Movie | The Hunger | 2nd Phone Booth Youth | 1983-04-29 |
| Series | The Hitchhiker | Unknown | 1983-11-01 |
| Movie | Heaven's Gate | Willy (uncredited) | 1980-11-19 |
| Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |