Bryan Cranston Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Bryan Cranston filmography covers 53 movie titles and 50 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.

Bryan Cranston movies by release year

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

• Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) as Paramedic #1 (segment "Roast Your Loved One") (uncredited)
• The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1987) as Dr. Shepherd
• Dead Space (1991) as Dr. Frank Darden
• Clean Slate (1994) as Club Official
• Armitage III: Poly Matrix (1996) as Eddie (voice)
• That Thing You Do! (1996) as Virgil "Gus" Grissom
• Strategic Command (1997) as Phil Hertzberg
• Saving Private Ryan (1998) as War Department Colonel
• Terror Tract (2000) as Ron Gatley
• 'Twas the Night (2001) as Nick Wrigley
• Holiday Reunion (2003) as Woodrow Snider
• Seeing Other People (2004) as Peter
• Little Miss Sunshine (2006) as Stan Grossman
• Love Ranch (2010) as James Pettis
• Batman: Year One (2011) as Jim Gordon (voice)
• Contagion (2011) as Lyle Haggerty
• Detachment (2011) as Mr. Dearden
• Drive (2011) as Shannon
• Larry Crowne (2011) as Dean Tainot
• The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) as Detective Lankford
• Argo (2012) as Jack O'Donnell
• John Carter (2012) as Powell
• Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012) as Vitaly (voice)
• Red Tails (2012) as Colonel William Mortamus
• Rock of Ages (2012) as Mayor Mike Whitmore
• Total Recall (2012) as Cohaagen
• Cold Comes the Night (2013) as Topo
• David Blaine: Real or Magic (2013) as Self
• No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad (2013) as Self
• Godzilla (2014) as Joe Brody
• Trumbo (2015) as Dalton Trumbo
• All the Way (2016) as Lyndon B. Johnson
• Get a Job (2016) as Roger Davis
• In Dubious Battle (2016) as Sheriff
• Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) as Li (voice)
• The Infiltrator (2016) as Robert Mazur
• Why Him? (2016) as Ned Fleming
• Last Flag Flying (2017) as Sal Nealon
• Power Rangers (2017) as Zordon
• The Disaster Artist (2017) as Bryan Cranston (uncredited)
• Wakefield (2017) as Howard Wakefield
• Isle of Dogs (2018) as Chief (voice)
• El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) as Walt
• The Upside (2019) as Phillip Lacasse
• The One and Only Ivan (2020) as Mack
• An Audience with Adele (2021) as Self
• Jerry & Marge Go Large (2022) as Jerry Selbee
• Asteroid City (2023) as The Host
• Argylle (2024) as Director Ritter
• Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024) as Li (voice)
• Everything's Going to Be Great (2025) as Buddy Smart
• The Phoenician Scheme (2025) as Reagan
• The Sheep Detectives (2026) as Sebastian (voice)

Bryan Cranston television roles and appearances

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

• 30 Rock as Ron
• 3rd Rock from the Sun as Neil Diamond impersonator
• Airwolf as Robert Hollis
• American Dad! as Bill Publisherman (voice); Mr. Winthrop (voice)
• Animal as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Archer as Commander Tony Drake (voice)
• Babylon 5 as Ericsson
• Baywatch as Tom Logan
• Better Call Saul as Walter White
• Breaking Bad as Walter White
• Chicago Hope as Jesus
• CHiPs
• Clerks as Various (voice); Helicopter Pilot (voice)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm as Dr. Templeton
• Diagnosis: Murder as Walter Mason; Martin Rutgers
• Falcon Crest as Martin Randall
• Fallen as Lucifer
• Family Guy as Dr. Jewish (voice); Bert / Arby's Executive (voice); Bert (voice); Bert / Judge (voice); Hal (voice); Bryan Cranston
• From the Earth to the Moon as Buzz Aldrin
• Hill Street Blues
• How I Met Your Mother as Hammond Druthers
• I Know My First Name Is Steven as Officer Dickenson
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as Bryan Cranston
• Jake and the Fatman
• L.A. Law as James Phillips
• Lilo & Stitch: The Series as Mr. Jamieson (voice); Mr. Jameson (voice)
• MADtv as Self; Self / Mike
• Malcolm in the Middle as Hal
• Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair as Hal
• Matlock as Brian Emerson; Dr. Harding Fletcher - Marriage Counselor
• Murder, She Wrote as Brian East; Parker Foreman; Jerry Wilber
• Nowhere Man as Norman Wade
• Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams as Silas Herrick
• Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as Witch Lawyer
• Seinfeld as Tim Whatley
• Sneaky Pete as Vince
• The Flash as Philip Moses
• The King of Queens as Tim
• The Oscars as Self
• The Pretender as Neil Roberts
• The Simpsons as Stradivarius Cain (voice); Walter White (voice)
• The Stand as The President (voice) (uncredited)
• The Studio as Griffin Mill
• The X-Files as Patrick Crump
• Touched by an Angel as Tom Bryant
• V.I.P. as Colt Arrow
• Viper as Garrett Berlin
• Walker, Texas Ranger as Hank
• Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
• Your Honor as Michael Desiato

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