William Sadler Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This William Sadler filmography covers 61 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.

William Sadler movies by release year

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

• Hanky Panky (1982) as Hotel Clerk
• Off Beat (1986) as Dickson
• Project X (1987) as Dr. Carroll
• K-9 (1989) as Salesman Don
• Die Hard 2 (1990) as Stuart
• Hard to Kill (1990) as Senator Vernon Trent
• The Hot Spot (1990) as Frank Sutton
• Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) as Grim Reaper
• Rush (1991) as Monroe
• Trespass (1992) as Don
• Freaked (1993) as Dick Brian
• Roadracers (1994) as Sarge
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994) as Heywood
• Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995) as Frank Brayker
• Bordello of Blood (1996) as Mummy
• Solo (1996) as Colonel Frank Madden / Improved Solo
• RocketMan (1997) as Wild Bill Overbeck
• Disturbing Behavior (1998) as Newberry
• Stealth Fighter (1999) as Adm. Frank Petersen
• The Green Mile (1999) as Klaus Detterick
• Witness Protection (1999) as Sharp
• The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003) as Abe
• Kinsey (2004) as Kenneth Braun
• DeVour (2005) as Ivan Reisz
• Jimmy and Judy (2006) as Uncle Rodney
• The Good Student (2006) as Phil Palmer
• August Rush (2007) as Thomas Novacek
• Jesse Stone: Sea Change (2007) as Gino Fish
• The Mist (2007) as Jim
• Eagle Eye (2008) as Jerry's Dad
• Jesse Stone: Thin Ice (2009) as Gino Fish
• Last Day of Summer (2009) as Mr. Crolick
• The Hills Run Red (2009) as Wilson Wyler Concannon
• Jesse Stone: No Remorse (2010) as Gino Fish
• Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost (2011) as Gino Fish
• Silent But Deadly (2011) as John Capper
• Being Flynn (2012) as Ray
• Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt (2012) as Gino Fish
• Man on a Ledge (2012) as Valet
• See Girl Run (2012) as Marty
• Greetings from Tim Buckley (2013) as Lee Underwood
• Iron Man 3 (2013) as President Ellis
• Machete Kills (2013) as Sheriff Doakes
• Riddle (2013) as Western Man / Jack Abel
• The Suspect (2013) as Sheriff Dixon
• Freedom (2014) as Plimpton
• That Guy Dick Miller (2014) as Self
• Ava's Possessions (2015) as Bernard
• Freeheld (2015) as Peter Santucci
• Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise (2015) as Gino Fish
• The Duel (2016) as Governor Ross
• The Hollow (2016) as Sheriff Beau McKinney
• Living Among Us (2018) as Samuel
• The Grudge (2019) as Detective Wilson
• The Highwaymen (2019) as Henry Barrow
• VFW (2019) as Walter Reed
• Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) as Death
• The Unholy (2021) as Father Hagan
• She Came from the Woods (2023) as Gilbert McCalister
• Salem's Lot (2024) as Parkins Gillespie
• The Yeti (2026) as Hollis Bannister

William Sadler television roles and appearances

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

• Bull as Father Andy
• Criminal Minds as Ray Finnegan
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Red Cooper
• Damages as McClarenTruth.org's Financier; Helmut Torben
• Ed as Lee Leetch
• Elementary as Ian Gale
• Fringe as Dr. Sumner
• Full Circle as Gene McCusker
• God Friended Me as Rev. Elias
• Golden Boy as Police Commissioner Jack Dowdell
• Hawaii Five-0 as John McGarrett
• Homeland as Michael Higgins
• Hunters as Dr. Friedrich Mann
• JAG as Saul Wainright
• Law & Order as Kevin Drucker
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Kyle Devlin
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Gary Dolan
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Paul Rice
• Madam Secretary as George Peters
• Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as President Ellis
• Medium as John Edgemont
• Murphy Brown as Colonel Fitzpatrick
• Newhart as Clumsy Guest
• Numb3rs as J. Everett Tuttle
• Our Cartoon President as General Kelly / Mitch McConnell / Jeff Sessions (voice)
• Person of Interest as Anton's Father
• Poltergeist: The Legacy as Shamus Bloom
• Power as Tony Teresi
• Roseanne
• Roswell as Jim Valenti
• St. Elsewhere as J.J. Oppenheimer
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Sloan
• Tales from the Crypt as Niles Talbot (segment "The Man Who Was Death"); The Grim Reaper
• The Blacklist as Sam Milhoan
• The Comey Rule as Michael Flynn
• The Equalizer as Rick Dillon / Kevin Moore
• The Flash as Simon Stagg
• The Good Fight as Judge Nilsson
• The Outer Limits as Frank Hellner
• The Pacific as Lt Col. Lewis 'Chesty' Puller
• The Rookie as Walter Fields
• Third Watch as Scotty Murray
• Three Rivers
• Tour of Duty as Major Rigby
• Traveler as Carlton Fog
• Tru Calling as Travis
• When They See Us as Detective Michael Sheehan
• White Collar as Brett Gelles
• Wonderfalls as Darrin Tyler
• Z Nation as Sam Custer

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