John Malkovich Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This John Malkovich filmography covers 97 movie titles and 12 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 Malkovich movies by release year

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

• A Wedding (1978) as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
• Places in the Heart (1984) as Mr. Will
• The Killing Fields (1984) as Al Rockoff
• Death of a Salesman (1985) as Biff Loman
• Empire of the Sun (1987) as Basie
• Making Mr. Right (1987) as Jeff Peters / Ulysses
• The Glass Menagerie (1987) as Tom Wingfield
• Dangerous Liaisons (1988) as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
• Miles from Home (1988) as Barry Maxwell
• The Sheltering Sky (1990) as Port
• Queens Logic (1991) as Eliot
• Shadows and Fog (1991) as Clown
• The Object of Beauty (1991) as Jake Bartholomew
• Jennifer Eight (1992) as Agent St. Anne
• Of Mice and Men (1992) as Lennie Small
• Alive (1993) as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
• Heart of Darkness (1993) as Kurtz
• In the Line of Fire (1993) as Mitch Leary
• Beyond the Clouds (1995) as The Director
• The Convent (1995) as Michael
• Cannes Man (1996) as Self
• Mary Reilly (1996) as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
• Mulholland Falls (1996) as General Thomas Timms
• The Ogre (1996) as Abel
• The Portrait of a Lady (1996) as Gilbert Osmond
• Con Air (1997) as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
• Rounders (1998) as Teddy KGB
• The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) as Athos
• Being John Malkovich (1999) as John Horatio Malkovich
• RKO 281 (1999) as Herman Mankiewicz
• The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) as Charles VII
• Time Regained (1999) as Baron de Charlus
• Shadow of the Vampire (2000) as F. W. Murnau
• Hotel (2001) as Omar Jonnson
• I’m Going Home (2001) as John Crawford
• Knockaround Guys (2001) as Teddy Deserve
• Adaptation. (2002) as John Malkovich (uncredited)
• Ripley's Game (2002) as Tom Ripley
• The Dancer Upstairs (2002) as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
• A Talking Picture (2003) as Comandante John Walesa
• Johnny English (2003) as Pascal Sauvage
• The Libertine (2004) as Charles II
• Colour Me Kubrick (2005) as Alan Conway
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) as Humma Kavula
• Art School Confidential (2006) as Professor Sandiford
• Eragon (2006) as King Galbatorix
• Klimt (2006) as Gustav Klimt
• Beowulf (2007) as Unferth
• Afterwards (2008) as Joseph Kay
• Burn After Reading (2008) as Osborne Cox
• Changeling (2008) as Rev. Gustav Briegleb
• Disgrace (2008) as David Lurie
• Gardens of the Night (2008) as Michael
• In Tranzit (2008) as Pavlov
• Mutant Chronicles (2008) as Constantine
• The Great Buck Howard (2008) as Buck Howard
• Jonah Hex (2010) as Turnbull
• RED (2010) as Marvin Boggs
• Saturday Night (2010) as Self
• Secretariat (2010) as Lucien Laurin
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) as Bruce Brazos
• Lines of Wellington (2012) as General Wellington
• Side by Side (2012) as Self
• RED 2 (2013) as Marvin Boggs
• Siberian Education (2013) as Grandfather Kuzya
• Warm Bodies (2013) as Colonel Grigio
• Cesar Chavez (2014) as Bogdanovitch
• Cut Bank (2014) as Sheriff Vogel
• Penguins of Madagascar (2014) as Dave (voice)
• Deepwater Horizon (2016) as Donald Vidrine
• Zoolander 2 (2016) as Chazz Spencer
• About Love. Adults Only (2017) as Ed
• Bullet Head (2017) as Walker
• I Love You, Daddy (2017) as Leslie Goodwin
• Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA (2017) as Port (archive footage)
• The Wilde Wedding (2017) as Laurence
• Unlocked (2017) as Bob Hunter
• Bird Box (2018) as Douglas
• Mile 22 (2018) as Bishop
• Supercon (2018) as Sid Newberry
• Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) as Judge Edward D. Cowart
• Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) as Piers
• Arkansas (2020) as Bright
• Ava (2020) as Duke
• Valley of the Gods (2020) as Wes Tauros
• Rogue Hostage (2021) as Sam Nelson
• The Survivalist (2021) as Aaron Ramsey
• Chariot (2022) as Dr. Karn
• Mindcage (2022) as The Artist
• Savage Salvation (2022) as Peter
• Shattered (2022) as Ronald
• White Elephant (2022) as Glen Follett
• Fool's Paradise (2023) as Ed Cote
• Mr. Blake at Your Service! (2023) as Andrew Blake
• One Ranger (2023) as Geddes
• Seneca (2023) as Seneca
• Opus (2025) as Alfred Moretti

John Malkovich television roles and appearances

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

• American Masters as Self
• Billions as Grigor Andolov
• Crossbones as Blackbeard
• Les Misérables as Javert
• Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Napoleon as Charles de Talleyrand
• RIPLEY as Reeves Minot
• Space Force as Dr. Adrian Mallory
• Ten Year Old Tom as Mr. B (voice)
• The ABC Murders as Hercule Poirot
• The New Look as Lucien Lelong
• The New Pope as Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox

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