Jun 7, 1955 - Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, USA
William Forsythe (born June 7, 1955) is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of tough-guy, criminal characters, and has starred in films such as American Me (1992), Raising Arizona (1987), Dick Tracy (1990), Gotti (1996), The Rock (1996), and The Devil's Rejects (2005). He has also played recurring characters in television series such as Boardwalk Empire (2010) and Justified (2010).
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| Movie | 1984 | Once Upon a Time in America | Philip 'Cockeye' Stein | |
| Movie | 1987 | Raising Arizona | Evelle | |
| Movie | 1995 | Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead | Franchise | |
| Movie | 2007 | Halloween | Ronnie White | |
| Movie | 2005 | The Devil's Rejects | Sheriff John Quincy Wydel | |
| Movie | 2007 | 88 Minutes | FBI Special Agent Frank Parks | |
| Movie | 1999 | Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo | Det. Chuck Fowler | |
| Movie | 2007 | Hack! | Willy | |
| Movie | 1987 | Extreme Prejudice | Sgt. Buck Atwater | |
| Movie | 1989 | Dead Bang | Arthur Kressler | |
| Movie | 2002 | Hard Cash | Bo Young | |
| Movie | 1991 | Stone Cold | Ice | |
| Movie | 1995 | Virtuosity | William Cochran | |
| Movie | 1992 | American Me | J.D. | |
| Movie | 1996 | The Rock | Special Agent Ernest Paxton | |
| Movie | 2006 | Freedomland | Boyle | |
| Movie | 1998 | Firestorm | Randall Shaye | |
| Movie | 1983 | The Man Who Wasn't There | Pug Face Crusher | |
| Movie | 1995 | The Immortals | Tim | |
| Movie | 2008 | iMurders | Professor Uberoth | |
| Movie | 1991 | Out for Justice | Richie Madano | |
| Movie | 1985 | Command 5 | Hawk | |
| Movie | 1996 | Gotti | Sammy Gravano | |
| Movie | 2004 | The Last Letter | Mr. Griffith | |
| Movie | 1992 | The Waterdance | Bloss | |
| Movie | 2008 | Stiletto | Alex | |
| Movie | 1989 | Torrents of Spring | Prince Ippolito Polozov | |
| Movie | 1995 | Palookaville | Sid Dunleavy | |
| Movie | 1981 | Smokey Bites the Dust | Kenny | |
| Movie | 1998 | Hell's Kitchen | Lou Reilly | |
| Movie | 1994 | Direct Hit | John Hatch | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Rig | Jim Fleming | |
| Movie | 1999 | Row Your Boat | Gil Meadows | |
| Movie | 2008 | Final Approach | Silas Jansen | |
| Movie | 2003 | Blue Hill Avenue | Det. Torrance | |
| Movie | 1997 | Big City Blues | Hudson | |
| Movie | 2005 | Hammerhead | Tom Reed | |
| Movie | 2009 | The Nail | Massimo | |
| Movie | 1998 | Dollar for the Dead | Dooley | |
| Movie | 1985 | The Lightship | Gene | |
| Movie | 2011 | Born to Ride | Jack Steele | |
| Movie | 1988 | Patty Hearst | Teko | |
| Movie | 2005 | Larva | Jacob Long | |
| Movie | 2001 | Camouflage | Alton Owens | |
| Movie | 2007 | Southern Gothic | Pitt | |
| Movie | 1985 | Savage Dawn | Pigiron | |
| Movie | 1995 | Beyond Desire | Ray Patterson | |
| Movie | 2011 | Inkubus | Ret. Detective Gil Diamante | |
| Movie | 2002 | Coastlines | Fred Vance | |
| Movie | 2011 | L.A., I Hate You | Uncle Rip | |
| Movie | 1993 | Relentless 3 | Walter Hilderman | |
| Movie | 1996 | For Which He Stands | Johnny Rochetti | |
| Movie | 2013 | Infected | Dr. Edward Dennehey | |
| Movie | 1998 | Ambushed | Mike Organski | |
| Movie | 1998 | The Pass | Charles Duprey | |
| Movie | 2003 | The Librarians | Simon | |
| Movie | 1993 | A Kiss to Die For | Detective Mike Stoller | |
| Movie | 2012 | Celluloid Bloodbath | Self | |
| Movie | 2000 | G-Men from Hell | Dean Crept | |
| Movie | 1995 | Thriller Zone | Marcus Deerfield (segment "The Final Hour") | |
| Movie | 2007 | We All Scream for Ice Cream | Buster | |
| Movie | 2008 | Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween | Self | |
| Movie | 2016 | The Bronx Bull | Jake LaMotta | |
| Movie | 2023 | Open | Capt. Edgar J. Steadman | |
| Movie | 1996 | The Substitute | Hollan | |
| Movie | 2014 | Hidden in the Woods | Uncle Costello | |
| Movie | 1987 | Weeds | Burt the Booster | |
| Movie | 1999 | Four Days | Milt | |
| Movie | 1990 | Dick Tracy: Behind the Badge, Behind the Scenes | Self | |
| Movie | 2015 | Road to Juarez | Doug Hermann | |
| Movie | 1999 | Blue Streak | Detective Hardcastle | |
| Movie | 1999 | The Last Marshal | DeClerc | |
| Movie | 1992 | The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag | Beaudeen | |
| Movie | 2015 | Laugh Killer Laugh | Frank Stone | |
| Movie | 2014 | Tom Holland's Twisted Tales | Mr. Smith (segment "To Hell With You") | |
| Movie | 2015 | Echoes of War | Randolph McCluskey | |
| Movie | 1994 | Lives in Hazard | Self | |
| Movie | N/A | Just Breathe | Tony | |
| Movie | 2005 | The L.A. Riot Spectacular | George Holliday | |
| Movie | 2016 | The Midnight Man | Fairbanks | |
| Movie | 1999 | Paradise Lost | Mike Stark | |
| Movie | 1999 | Soundman | Frank Rosenfeld | |
| Movie | 1984 | Cloak & Dagger | Morris | |
| Movie | 2011 | Jesse | Vince the Godfather | |
| Movie | 1981 | The Miracle of Kathy Miller | Mark | |
| Movie | 1988 | Baja Oklahoma | Tommy Earl Browner | |
| Movie | 2016 | The Hollow | Big John Dawson | |
| Movie | 2009 | Happy in the Valley | Stewart | |
| Movie | 2018 | The Little Mermaid | ||
| Movie | 2019 | Betrayal: When the Government Took Over the Teamsters Union | narrator | |
| Movie | 2017 | Check Point | The Sheriff | |
| Movie | 2006 | Jam | Ted | |
| Movie | 2000 | Luck of the Draw | Max Fenton | |
| Movie | 2001 | Outlaw | Ted Castle | |
| Movie | N/A | A Christmas Cop | Captain Carol | |
| Movie | 1978 | Long Shot | Bille | |
| Movie | 2017 | The Networker | Charles Mangano | |
| Movie | 2002 | City by the Sea | Spyder | |
| Movie | 1990 | Dick Tracy | Flattop | |
| Movie | 1992 | Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story | Terry Harper | |
| Movie | 2013 | The Ghost Club: Spirits Never Die | Stanley | |
| Movie | 1990 | Sons | Mike | |
| Movie | 2012 | Loosies | Captain Tom Edwards | |
| Movie | 2019 | Cold Pursuit | Brock 'Wingman' Coxman | |
| Movie | 2020 | I Am Fear | Marco | |
| Movie | 2019 | Run with the Hunted | Augustus | |
| Movie | 2019 | Vault | Buddy Providence | |
| Movie | 2003 | The Technical Writer | Joe | |
| Movie | 2019 | Awake | Roger Bower | |
| Movie | 2000 | Civility | Andrew LeBretian | |
| Movie | 2011 | Underground Entertainment: The Movie | Bill | |
| Movie | 1999 | 18 Shades of Dust | Tommy Cucci | |
| Movie | 2010 | Dear Mr. Gacy | John Wayne Gacy | |
| Movie | 1996 | Peacock Blues | ||
| Movie | 2020 | A Perfect Plan | Grayson | |
| Movie | 2011 | Slip and Fall | Jerry | |
| Movie | 2021 | God's Not Dead: We The People | Senator Robert Benson | |
| Movie | 2021 | Roe v. Wade | Justice Potter Stewart | |
| Movie | 2021 | Ida Red | Lawrence Twilley | |
| Movie | 1991 | Career Opportunities | Custodian | |
| Movie | 2024 | 9 Windows | Det. Tim Boyle | |
| Movie | N/A | The Roaring Game | ||
| Movie | 1997 | First Time Felon | Sorley | |
| Movie | N/A | The Witching Hour | Devlin Deeds | |
| TV Show | 2006 | Shark | 1 | |
| TV Show | 2002 | John Doe | Digger | 21 |
| TV Show | 1982 | T. J. Hooker | Wounded Assailant | 1 |
| TV Show | 1982 | Fame | 1 | |
| TV Show | 2002 | CSI: Miami | 1 | |
| TV Show | 2003 | Las Vegas | Uncle Luke | 2 |
| TV Show | 1981 | Hill Street Blues | 2 | |
| TV Show | 2005 | Masters of Horror | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1982 | Tales of the Gold Monkey | 2 | |
| TV Show | 2001 | UC: Undercover | 13 | |
| TV Show | 1993 | The Untouchables | Al Capone | 42 |
| TV Show | 1990 | Blind Faith | Ferlin L'Heureux | 2 |
| TV Show | 2012 | The Mob Doctor | Constantine Alexander | 13 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Hawaii Five-0 | Harry Brown | 2 |
| TV Show | 2008 | The Mentalist | Steve Rigsby | 2 |
| TV Show | 2015 | Marvel's Daredevil | Dutton | 1 |
| TV Show | 1985 | The Long Hot Summer | Isaac | 2 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Justified | Michael | 1 |
| TV Show | 1992 | Cruel Doubt | Police Chief John Crone | 2 |
| TV Show | 2015 | The Man in the High Castle | J. Edgar Hoover | 7 |
| TV Show | 2018 | Magnum P.I. | Harry Brown | 2 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Boardwalk Empire | Manny | 1 |
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| Movie | 1995 | Beyond Desire | Executive Producer | Production |
| Movie | 2004 | The Last Letter | Executive Producer | Production |
| Movie | 1959 | The Young Land | Assistant Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2003 | The Librarians | Screenplay | Writing |
| Movie | 2017 | Check Point | Producer | Production |
