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William H. Macy
William Hall Macy, Jr. (born March 13, 1950) is an American actor and writer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo. He is also a teacher and director in theater, film and television. His film career has been built mostly on his appearances in small,...
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Shorts
Shorts (also known as Shorts: The Adventures of the Wishing Rock poster title, or Shorts: A Not-So Tall Tale) is a 2009 family comedy/adventure film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez. It was released in the United States on August 21, 2009. A...
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The Maiden Heist
The Maiden Heist is a comedy film directed by Peter Hewitt and starring Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, William H. Macy, and Marcia Gay Harden.
A comedy centered on three museum security guards (Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken and William H....
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Air Force One
Air Force One is a 1997 American action film written by Andrew W. Marlowe and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, director of In the Line of Fire. It stars Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, and Glenn Close, and also features Wendy Crewson, Xander Berkeley,...
Bee Movie
Bee Movie is a 2007 CGI-animated film starring Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Megan Mullally, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Kathy Bates, and Patrick Warburton. Produced by DreamWorks Animation, it is directed by Simon J. Smith and...
Bobby
Bobby is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Emilio Estevez. The screenplay is a fictionalized account of the hours leading up to the June 5, 1968 shooting of Robert F. Kennedy in the kitchen of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles...
Boogie Nights
Boogie Nights is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Set in Southern California in the late 1970s and early 1980s, during the Golden Age of Porn, the screenplay focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes...
Cellular
Cellular is a 2004 action thriller film, directed by David R. Ellis and starring Kim Basinger and Chris Evans. The screenplay was written by Chris Morgan, Larry Cohen, and J. Mackye Gruber, the latter having also scripted Phone Booth, another film...
Edmond
Edmond is a 2005 drama-thriller film based on the play of the same name. It was written (play and screenplay) by David Mamet and directed by Stuart Gordon. It was screened at several film festivals from September 2005 to May 2006, and had a limited...
Everyone's Hero
Everyone's Hero is a 2006 computer animated feature film. It is directed by Colin Brady, Christopher Reeve (who was working on this film at the time of his death), and Daniel St. Pierre, with music by John Debney. The majority of this film was...
Fargo
Fargo is a 1996 American dark comedy crime film produced, directed and written by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen.
The film tells a story about a car salesman who hires two men to kidnap his wife for $40,000 and a car, to divide between themselves. The...
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Ghosts of Mississippi
Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, and James Woods. The plot is based on the true story of the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith, the white supremacist accused of...
Jurassic Park III
Jurassic Park III is a 2001 film and the third and final in the Jurassic Park franchise. It is the only film in the series that is neither directed by Steven Spielberg nor based on a book by Michael Crichton, though numerous scenes in the movie were...
Magnolia
Magnolia is a 1999 American drama film, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, and starring John C. Reilly, Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, and Jeremy Blackman. It interweaves nine separate yet connected...
Pleasantville
Pleasantville is an Academy Award-nominated 1998 film written, produced, and directed by Gary Ross. Released by New Line Cinema in New Zealand on September 17, and stars Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, Marley Shelton, William H. Macy, Joan Allen,...
Sahara
Sahara is a 2005 action/adventure film directed by Breck Eisner and loosely based on the best-selling book of the same name by Clive Cussler.
Though it opened at number one in the US box office, grossing $18 million on its first weekend, Sahara is...
Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit is a 2003 American dramatic film based on the best-selling book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand. The story recounts the life and racing career of Seabiscuit, an undersized and overlooked thoroughbred race horse whose...
Spartan
Spartan is an American political thriller film written and directed by David Mamet and starring Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Ed O'Neill, Tia Texada, and Kristen Bell. It was released in America and Canada in March 12, 2004.
"Bobby Scott"...
State and Main
State and Main is a 2000 comedy film, written and directed by David Mamet and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rebecca Pidgeon, about the on-location production in Waterford, Vermont of a film called The Old Mill. The actual film was shot in...
Thank You for Smoking
Thank You for Smoking is a 2006 comedy-drama film satire directed by Jason Reitman and produced by David O. Sacks. It is based on the 1994 novel of the same name by Christopher Buckley.
The film was released in a limited run on March 17, 2006, and...
The Cooler
The Cooler is a 2003 American drama film directed by Wayne Kramer. The original screenplay was written by Kramer and Frank Hannah. In gambling parlance, a "cooler" is an unlucky individual whose presence at the tables results in a streak of bad luck...
Twenty Bucks
Twenty Bucks is a 1993 film that follows the travels of a $20 bill from a crisp new note from the ATM in downtown Minneapolis through various transactions and incidents from person to person through the city.
Linda Hunt, Brendan Fraser, Gladys...
Wag the Dog
Wag the Dog is a 1997 black comedy film starring Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman about a Washington spin doctor who, merely days before a presidential election, distracts the electorate from a sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood film producer to...
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Welcome to Collinwood
Welcome to Collinwood (The Pride of the East Side) is a 2002 film about five small-time criminals, from the Collinwood area of Cleveland, who try to organise one last big job. The story is a remake of the 1958 Italian movie I soliti ignoti, by Mario...
Wild Hogs
Wild Hogs is a 2007 comedy film starring Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy. It was released nationwide in the United States and Canada on March 2, 2007, though preview film screenings were held in select areas on February...
Being Human
Being Human is a 1993 comedy-drama film starring Robin Williams.
The film portrays the experience of a single human soul, portrayed by Williams, through various incarnations. Williams is the only common actor throughout the stories that span man's...
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He Was a Quiet Man
He Was a Quiet Man is a 2007 drama film, written and directed by Frank Cappello. The film stars Christian Slater, Elisha Cuthbert, Jamison Jones and William H. Macy.
Bob Maconel (Slater) is a disillusioned office worker with ideas of murdering his...
A Civil Action
A Civil Action is a 1998 American film starring John Travolta (as plaintiff's attorney Jan Schlichtmann) and Robert Duvall, based on the book of the same name by Jonathan Harr. Both the book and the film are based on a true story that took place in...
The Magic Roundabout
The Magic Roundabout, (released in France as Pollux, le manège enchanté and a North American version as Doogal), is a film based on the television series of the same name. The film was released on February 11, 2005 in the United Kingdom and France,...
Happy, Texas
Happy, Texas is a comedy film released in 1999 directed by Mark Illsley, and starring Steve Zahn, Jeremy Northam and William H. Macy.
Three prisoners escape from a chain gang, and two of them, Wayne and Harry (Zahn and Northam) run away to Happy,...
In Enemy Hands
In Enemy Hands aka "U-Boat", is a World War II submarine film released in 2004, starring William H. Macy.
Macy stars as the COB (chief of the boat) on a fictitious US Navy submarine, the USS Swordfish (although there was an actual USS Swordfish that...
Mystery Men
Mystery Men is a 1999 comedy film based on a Dark Horse comic book series feature in Flaming Carrot Comics, directed by TV commercial director Kinka Usher. It starred William H. Macy, Ben Stiller, and Hank Azaria as a trio of lesser superheroes with...
Panic
Panic is a 2000 movie, starring William H. Macy, Neve Campbell, Donald Sutherland and John Ritter.
Alex (Macy), a sad-eyed mournful man, goes into psychotherapy: he discloses he's a hit man. He also tells the doctor (Ritter), after a few sessions,...
Psycho
Psycho is a 1998 American horror film produced and directed by Gus Van Sant for Universal Pictures, a remake of the 1960 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Both films are adapted from the novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, which were in turn...
Above Suspicion
Above Suspicion is a 1995 suspense thriller written by William H. Macy, who also has a small role in the film. The film stars Christopher Reeve as a paralyzed police officer who plots to murder his unfaithful wife (Kim Cattrall) and her lover. Just...
Down Periscope
Down Periscope is a 1996 comedy movie starring Kelsey Grammer as the captain of a rust-bucket submarine called the USS Stingray who is fighting for his career. Rob Schneider provides comic support as the uptight executive officer, and Lauren Holly...
A Private Matter
A Private Matter is a 1992 film made for television (HBO) drama based on the true 1963 story of Sherri Finkbine, a resident of Phoenix, Arizona in the first trimester of her fifth pregnancy. She was the popular hostess of the locally produced...
Focus
Focus is a 2002 movie, starring William H. Macy, Laura Dern, and David Paymer based on a 1945 novel by playwright Arthur Miller.
Colin Fitz Lives!
Colin Fitz Lives!, also known simply as Colin Fitz is a 1997 Independent film directed by Robert Bella. Though it received many film festival awards, it was never released to theatres, and has yet to be released on DVD.
Two security guards named...
Bart Got a Room
Bart Got a Room is a 2009 comedy film written and directed by Brian Hecker, and stars Steven Kaplan, Alia Shawkat, William H. Macy, and Cheryl Hines. Also appearing in the film are Ashley Benson, Brandon Hardesty, Kate Micucci, Jennifer Tilly, Dinah...
The Deal
The Deal is a 2008 American satirical comedy film directed by Steven Schachter. The screenplay by Schachter and William H. Macy is based on the 1991 novel of the same title by Peter Lefcourt. Macy and Meg Ryan co-star.
The film was shot in Cape Town...
Choose Your Own Adventure The Abominable Snowman
The first in a series, Choose Your Own Adventure The Abominable Snowman is a 2006 animated interactive movie. It is set in the Himalayas. Viewers make a choice using their DVD player remote control ever 3-6 minutes to determine what happens. Other...
The Wool Cap
The Wool Cap is a 2004 American cable television movie, an updated and Americanized version of the 1962 feature film Gigot starring Jackie Gleason, who wrote the original story.
In this adaptation written by William H. Macy and Steven Schachter,...
Door to Door
Door to Door was a 2002 TV movie about Bill Porter (played by William H. Macy), a door-to-door salesman afflicted with cerebral palsy. The film was produced for the TNT cable network and was nominated for twelve Emmy Awards, winning six. Other...
Murder in the First
Murder in the First is a largely fictitious 1995 film, directed by Marc Rocco, about a petty criminal named Henri Young (played by Kevin Bacon) who is put on trial for murder in the first degree.
As a 17-year old orphan, Henri Young stole $5.00 from...
The Tale of Despereaux
The Tale of Despereaux is a 2008 computer-animated film directed by Sam Fell and Robert Stevenhagen. Loosely based on the 2003 fantasy book of the same name by Kate DiCamillo, the movie is narrated by Sigourney Weaver and stars Matthew Broderick and...
Wild Hogs 2: Bachelor Ride
Wild Hogs 2: Bachelor Ride is a 2010 comedy film starring John Travolta, Tim Allen, William H. Macy, and Martin Lawrence. It is a sequel to Wild Hogs.
Dudley is just about to marry Maggie. The boys decide to take Dudley out for one last ride. The...
The Murder of Mary Phagan
The Murder of Mary Phagan, a 1988 two-part TV miniseries made by Orion Pictures Corporation and distributed by National Broadcasting Company (NBC), tells the true story of Leo Frank, a factory manager unjustly convicted of murdering a little girl in...
Mr. Holland's Opus
Mr. Holland's Opus is a Technicolor 1995 drama film in which Richard Dreyfuss plays Glenn Holland, a musician and composer who takes a teaching job to pay the rent while trying to compose one memorable piece of music to make him famous. However...
Marmaduke
Marmaduke is a 2010 comedy film written by Vince Di Meglio and Tim Rasmussen and directed by Tom Dey.
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Oleanna
Oleanna is a 1994 drama film written and directed by David Mamet based on his play Oleanna and starring William H. Macy. The film was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead.
