Bruce McGill Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Bruce McGill filmography covers 67 movie titles and 33 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Bruce McGill movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Animal House (1978) as Daniel Simpson Day
• F.I.S.T. (1978) as Hitman (uncredited)
• The Hand (1981) as Brian Ferguson
• Silkwood (1983) as Mace Hurley
• The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1983) as Reporter Blakely
• Into the Night (1985) as Charlie
• Club Paradise (1986) as Dave the Fireman
• No Mercy (1986) as Lt. Hall
• Wildcats (1986) as Dan Darwell
• The Secret of My Success (1987) as W. Shaw (uncredited)
• Out Cold (1989) as Ernie
• Three Fugitives (1989) as Charlie
• The Last Boy Scout (1991) as Mike Matthews
• My Cousin Vinny (1992) as Sheriff Farley
• A Perfect World (1993) as Paul Saunders
• Cliffhanger (1993) as Treasury Agent
• Timecop (1994) as Commander Eugene Matuzak
• Black Sheep (1996) as Neuschwander
• Courage Under Fire (1996) as McQuillan
• Lawn Dogs (1997) as Nash
• Rosewood (1997) as Duke Purdy
• Ground Control (1998) as T.C. Bryant
• Letters from a Killer (1998) as Brinker
• Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery (1998) as Sheriff Rick
• A Dog of Flanders (1999) as William
• The Insider (1999) as Ron Motley
• The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) as Walter Hagen
• 61* (2001) as Ralph Houk
• Ali (2001) as Bradley
• Exit Wounds (2001) as Frank Daniels
• Shallow Hal (2001) as Reverend Larson
• Live from Baghdad (2002) as Peter Arnett
• The Sum of All Fears (2002) as National Security Advisor Revell
• Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003) as Stanford Marks
• Matchstick Men (2003) as Chuck Frechette
• Path to War (2003) as George Ball
• Runaway Jury (2003) as Judge Harkin
• Collateral (2004) as Frank Pedrosa
• Cinderella Man (2005) as Jimmy Johnston
• Elizabethtown (2005) as Bill Banyon
• Slow Burn (2005) as Godfrey
• Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (2006) as Gen. Norman T. Vance
• The Good Life (2007) as Frank Jones
• The Lookout (2007) as Robert Pratt
• Recount (2008) as Mac Stipanovich
• Vantage Point (2008) as Phil McCullough
• W. (2008) as George Tenet
• Imagine That (2009) as Mr. Rowe (uncredited)
• Law Abiding Citizen (2009) as Jonas Cantrell
• Obsessed (2009) as Joe Gage
• The Perfect Game (2009) as Mr. Tanner
• Fair Game (2010) as Jim Pavitt
• Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap! (2010) as John Williams (voice)
• FDR: American Badass! (2012) as Louis
• Lincoln (2012) as Edwin Stanton
• Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012) as President Calvin Coolidge
• Unconditional (2012) as Detective Miller
• Ride Along (2014) as Lt. Brooks
• Run All Night (2015) as Pat Mullen
• Ride Along 2 (2016) as Lt. Brooks
• Poms (2019) as Chief Carl
• The Best of Enemies (2019) as Carvie Oldham
• Belushi (2020) as Self (archive footage)
• The Big Ugly (2020) as Milt
• American Underdog (2021) as Jim Foster
• Blue Miracle (2021) as Wayne Bisbee
• Buried in Barstow (2022) as Von

Bruce McGill television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Bruce McGill; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• American Dad! as Judge (voice)
• Babylon 5 as Major Ed Ryan
• Cow and Chicken as Baboon's Dad / Santa (voice)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Jimmy Tadero
• Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives as Self
• Family Guy as Santa Claus (voice); John Williams (voice); (voice); Lincoln's Cabinet Member (voice)
• Home Improvement as Doug O'Brien
• I Am Weasel as Baboon's Dad / Santa (voice)
• Justice League as General McCormick (voice)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Peter Bellingham
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Gordon Garrison
• Lioness as NSA Advisor Hollar
• Love & Death as Judge Tom Ryan
• MacGyver as Jack Dalton
• MacGyver as Detective Greer
• Medium as Jerry Carlisle
• Miami Vice as Hank Weldon
• NCIS as Henry Rogers
• Numb3rs as Austin
• Psych as Dan Trombly
• Quantum Leap as Weird Ernie; Al the Bartender
• Reacher as Mayor Teale
• Rizzoli & Isles as Detective Vince Korsak
• Star Trek: Voyager as Captain Braxton
• Suits as Stanley Gordon
• Tales from the Crypt as Luigi "Lou" Paloma ("segment "The Trap")
• The Cleveland Show as Mr. Waterman (voice)
• The Commish
• The Crew as Bobby Spencer
• The Good Wife as Jeremy Breslow
• The Practice as Judge Charles Fleming
• Walker, Texas Ranger as Boone Waxwell
• Wolf Lake as Willard Cates

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Bruce McGill's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.