Jan 26, 1949 - San Francisco, California, USA
David Strathairn 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).
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| Movie | 2000 | The Miracle Worker | Captain Keller | |
| Movie | 1989 | The Feud | The Stranger | |
| Movie | 1997 | L.A. Confidential | Pierce Patchett | |
| Movie | 1999 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Theseus | |
| Movie | 1991 | City of Hope | Asteroid | |
| Movie | 1992 | Sneakers | Whistler | |
| Movie | 1996 | Mother Night | Bernard B. O'Hare | |
| Movie | 2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck. | Edward R. Murrow | |
| Movie | 1992 | Bob Roberts | Mack Laflin | |
| Movie | 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | Noah Vosen | |
| Movie | 2007 | My Blueberry Nights | Arnie | |
| Movie | 2006 | We Are Marshall | President Dedmon | |
| Movie | 2009 | Cold Souls | Dr. Flintstein | |
| Movie | 2007 | Fracture | Joe Lobruto | |
| Movie | 1995 | Dolores Claiborne | Joe St. George | |
| Movie | 1987 | Matewan | Police Chief Sid Hatfield | |
| Movie | 1984 | Iceman | Dr. Singe | |
| Movie | 2008 | The Spiderwick Chronicles | Arthur Spiderwick | |
| Movie | 2007 | Steel Toes | Danny Dunkelman | |
| Movie | 2000 | Harrison's Flowers | Harrison Lloyd | |
| Movie | 1994 | The River Wild | Tom Hartman | |
| Movie | 1995 | Home for the Holidays | Russell Terziak | |
| Movie | 1984 | The Brother from Another Planet | Man In Black | |
| Movie | 2010 | Temple Grandin | Professor Carlock | |
| Movie | 1983 | Silkwood | Wesley | |
| Movie | 1988 | Eight Men Out | Eddie Cicotte | |
| Movie | 2004 | Twisted | Dr. Melvin Frank | |
| Movie | 2006 | Heavens Fall | Judge James Horton | |
| Movie | 1995 | Losing Isaiah | Charles Lewin | |
| Movie | 1986 | At Close Range | Tony Pine | |
| Movie | 2005 | Missing in America | Henry R. Hocknell Jr. | |
| Movie | 1992 | Passion Fish | Rennie | |
| Movie | 2009 | The Uninvited | Steven | |
| Movie | 1988 | Call Me | Sam | |
| Movie | 1993 | The Firm | Ray McDeere | |
| Movie | 1999 | Limbo | Joe Gastineau | |
| Movie | 2005 | The Notorious Bettie Page | Estes Kefauver | |
| Movie | 2002 | Lathe of Heaven | Mannie | |
| Movie | 2006 | The Sensation of Sight | Finn | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Tempest | King Alonso | |
| Movie | 1989 | Day One | J. Robert Oppenheimer | |
| Movie | 1997 | In the Gloaming | Martin | |
| Movie | 2010 | Howl | Ralph McIntosh | |
| Movie | 2007 | The Supreme Court | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2012 | The Bourne Legacy | Noah Vosen | |
| Movie | 1992 | Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even | Keith | |
| Movie | 2003 | Blue Car | Auster | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Whistleblower | Peter Ward | |
| Movie | 1998 | The Giraffe | Charles Kaminski | |
| Movie | 1983 | Lovesick | Marvin Zuckerman | |
| Movie | 2007 | Racing Daylight | Henry / Harry | |
| Movie | 2004 | Los Angeles Plays Itself | Pierce Patchett in L.A. Confidential (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2012 | Lincoln | William Seward | |
| Movie | 2010 | Matadors | Roman Lodari | |
| Movie | 1999 | A Map of the World | Howard Goodwin | |
| Movie | 2008 | The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer | |
| Movie | 2002 | Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story | Jack Hoschouer | |
| Movie | 1992 | O Pioneers! | Carl Linstrum | |
| Movie | 2001 | Relative Evil | Dr. Charlie | |
| Movie | 2002 | Speakeasy | Bruce Hickman | |
| Movie | 2013 | Love, Marilyn | Self | |
| Movie | 1993 | A Dangerous Woman | Getso | |
| Movie | 2014 | Godzilla | Admiral William Stenz | |
| Movie | 2012 | Hemingway & Gellhorn | John Dos Passos | |
| Movie | 2000 | A Good Baby | Truman Lester | |
| Movie | 1998 | The Climb | Earl Himes | |
| Movie | 2010 | Area 51 Declassified | Himself - Narrator | |
| Movie | 2012 | Maladies | Delmar | |
| Movie | 1996 | Beyond the Call | Russel Gates | |
| Movie | 1997 | Song of Hiawatha | Marcel | |
| Movie | 1983 | Enormous Changes at the Last Minute | Jerry | |
| Movie | 2014 | No God, No Master | William Flynn | |
| Movie | 1993 | The American Clock | Young Arthur Huntington | |
| Movie | 2010 | Inside Area 51's Secrets | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1990 | Memphis Belle | Craig Harriman | |
| Movie | 2001 | The Victim | Mark Zingerline | |
| Movie | 1987 | Broken Vows | Stuart Chase | |
| Movie | 2006 | The Shovel | Paul Mullin | |
| Movie | 1998 | Evidence of Blood | Jackson Kinley | |
| Movie | 2023 | Remember This | Jan Karski | |
| Movie | 2015 | Louder Than Bombs | Richard Weissman | |
| Movie | 1993 | Lost in Yonkers | Johnny | |
| Movie | 2015 | The Debt | Nathan | |
| Movie | 1991 | Without Warning: The James Brady Story | Dr. Arthur Kobrine | |
| Movie | 1988 | Stars & Bars | Charlie | |
| Movie | 2025 | A Little Prayer | Bill | |
| Movie | 2015 | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Ty Burley | |
| Movie | 2007 | Trumbo | Self | |
| Movie | 2003 | The Making of ‘Sneakers’ | Self | |
| Movie | 2006 | The Human Behavior Experiments | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1998 | Bad Manners | Wes Westlund | |
| Movie | 2000 | Freedom Song | Peter Crowley | |
| Movie | 2005 | Willa Cather: The Road Is All | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2025 | O Horizon | Warren | |
| Movie | 1990 | Judgment | Father Frank Aubert | |
| Movie | 1990 | Heat Wave | Bill Thomas | |
| Movie | 2025 | The Luckiest Man in America | Bill Carruthers | |
| Movie | 2009 | The People Speak | Self | |
| Movie | 1985 | When Nature Calls | Weejun | |
| Movie | 2016 | American Pastoral | Nathan Zuckerman | |
| Movie | 1994 | April One | John McCowan | |
| Movie | 2017 | November Criminals | Theo | |
| Movie | 1980 | Return of the Secaucus Seven | Ron | |
| Movie | 2018 | UFO | Franklin Ahls | |
| Movie | 1998 | With Friends Like These | Armand Minetti | |
| Movie | 2019 | Fast Color | Ellis | |
| Movie | 1998 | Simon Birch | Rev. Russell | |
| Movie | 2017 | Darkest Hour | President Roosevelt (voice) | |
| Movie | 2019 | The Devil Has a Name | Fred Stern | |
| Movie | 2018 | An Interview with God | God | |
| Movie | 2020 | Walkaway Joe | Joe Haley | |
| Movie | 2018 | My Dinner with Hervé | Marty Rothstein | |
| Movie | 2007 | Matters of Life and Death | Mr. Jennings | |
| Movie | 2021 | Nomadland | Dave | |
| Movie | 2019 | Godzilla: King of the Monsters | Admiral William Stenz | |
| Movie | 2025 | The Gettysburg Address | Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice) | |
| Movie | 2004 | Paradise | Reverend Bobby Paradise | |
| Movie | 2019 | Them That Work | Self | |
| Movie | 2021 | Nightmare Alley | Pete | |
| Movie | 2020 | The Oedipus Project | Messenger 1 | |
| Movie | 1992 | A League of Their Own | Ira Lowenstein | |
| Movie | 1988 | Dominick and Eugene | Martin Chernak | |
| Movie | 2008 | Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential' | Self | |
| Movie | 2008 | Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential' | Self | |
| Movie | 2022 | Where the Crawdads Sing | Tom Milton | |
| Movie | 2013 | Lincoln@Gettysburg | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2016 | He Does Not Want Peace | Richard Englebright | |
| Movie | N/A | By Any Means | ||
| TV Show | 1999 | The Sopranos | Robert Wegler | 3 |
| TV Show | 1985 | Spenser: For Hire | 1 | |
| TV Show | 2002 | Monk | Patrick Kloster | 1 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Miami Vice | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1985 | The Equalizer | Phillip Borchek | 1 |
| TV Show | 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Carl Linstrum | 1 |
| TV Show | 1987 | Wiseguy | 2 | |
| TV Show | 2018 | McMafia | Semiyon Kleiman | 7 |
| TV Show | 1953 | The Oscars | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1949 | The Emmy Awards | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2011 | Alphas | Lee Rosen | 24 |
| TV Show | 2015 | Z: The Beginning of Everything | Anthony Sayre | 10 |
| TV Show | 2013 | The Blacklist | Peter Kotsiopulos | 12 |
| TV Show | 1987 | The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd | Moss Goodman | 20 |
| TV Show | 2004 | House | Nash | 1 |
| TV Show | 2015 | The Expanse | Commander Klaes Ashford | 6 |
| TV Show | 2020 | Interrogation | Henry Fisher | 10 |
| TV Show | 2015 | The Expanse | Klaes Ashford | 7 |
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| Movie | 2006 | The Sensation of Sight | Producer | Production |
