John Heard Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This John Heard filmography covers 65 movie titles and 26 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.

John Heard movies by release year

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

• Between the Lines (1977) as Harry
• Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979) as Charles
• Heart Beat (1980) as Jack Kerouac
• Cutter's Way (1981) as Alex Cutter
• Cat People (1982) as Oliver Yates
• C.H.U.D. (1984) as George Cooper
• Too Scared to Scream (1984) as Sid
• After Hours (1985) as Tom the Bartender
• Heaven Help Us (1985) as Brother Timothy
• The Trip to Bountiful (1985) as Ludie Watts
• Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987) as Johnny Boy (voice)
• Beaches (1988) as John Pierce
• Betrayed (1988) as Michael Carnes
• Big (1988) as Paul
• The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) as Charlie Bloom
• The Seventh Sign (1988) as Reverend
• The Telephone (1988) as Telephone Man
• The Package (1989) as Col. Glen Whitacre
• Awakenings (1990) as Dr. Kaufman
• Home Alone (1990) as Peter
• Deceived (1991) as Jack
• Mindwalk (1991) as Thomas Harriman
• Rambling Rose (1991) as Older Willcox "Buddy" Hillyer
• Gladiator (1992) as John Riley
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) as Peter
• Radio Flyer (1992) as Daugherty
• Waterland (1992) as Lewis Scott
• In the Line of Fire (1993) as Professor Riger
• The Pelican Brief (1993) as Gavin Vereek
• Before and After (1996) as Wendell Bye
• My Fellow Americans (1996) as Vice President Ted Matthews
• One Eight Seven (1997) as Childress
• Snake Eyes (1998) as Gilbert Powell
• Desert Blue (1999) as Prof. Lance Davidson
• Animal Factory (2000) as James Decker
• Pollock (2000) as Tony Smith
• O (2001) as Dean Brable
• White Chicks (2004) as Warren Vandergeld
• Edison (2005) as Tilman
• Locusts (2005) as Peter Axelrod
• Sweet Land (2005) as Minister Sorrensen
• The Chumscrubber (2005) as Officer Lou Bratley
• The Deal (2005) as Professor Roseman
• The Guardian (2006) as Capt. Frank Larson
• Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007) as Commander Barry Garner (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Great Debaters (2007) as Sheriff Dozier
• Justice League: The New Frontier (2008) as Ace Morgan (voice)
• The Lucky Ones (2008) as Bob
• The Truth (2010) as Jonathan Davenport
• Too Big to Fail (2011) as Joe Gregory
• A Perfect Ending (2012) as Mason Westridge
• Assault on Wall Street (2013) as Jeremy Stancroft
• Runner Runner (2013) as Harry Furst
• Sharknado (2013) as George
• Would You Rather (2013) as Conway
• Animals (2014) as Albert
• Boys of Abu Ghraib (2014) as Sam Farmer
• The Murder Pact (2015) as John LaSalle
• After the Reality (2016) as Bob
• Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero (2016) as JP Monroe
• Last Rampage (2017) as Blackwell
• Pray for Rain (2017) as Markus Gardner
• Living Among Us (2018) as Andrew
• The Last Sharknado: It's About Time (2018) as George (archive footage)
• The Tale (2018) as William P. Allens

John Heard television roles and appearances

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

• APB as Joe
• Battlestar Galactica as Commander Barry Garner
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Roger Ridley
• CSI: Miami as Kenwall 'Duke' Duquesne
• Elementary as Henry Watson
• Entourage as Richard Wimmer
• Kate & Allie
• Law & Order as Mitch Burke; Walter Grobman
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Larry Wiegert
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Peter Sipes
• MacGyver as Arthur Ericson
• Miami Vice as Laurence Thurmond
• Modern Family as Gunther Thorpe
• NCIS: Los Angeles as Michael Thomas
• Numb3rs as Peter Houseman
• Perception as Congressman Evan Rickford
• Person of Interest as Roger McCourt
• Prison Break as Frank Tancredi
• Southland as Ben Sherman Sr.
• Tales from the Darkside as Billy Malone
• The Equalizer as Ron Parrish
• The Movies That Made Us as Self (figure)
• The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Bill Callahan
• The Outer Limits as Paul Stein
• The Sopranos as Vin Makazian
• Touched by an Angel as Allen Lowry

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