David Strathairn

Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Born
January 26, 1949 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Popular Genres
Drama Thriller Mystery
Career Span
– Present

David Strathairn

9 wins
828 nominations
9 Oscars
128 credits

David Strathairn (born January 26, 1949) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of journalist Edward R. Murrow in the feature film "Good Night, and Good Luck" (2005), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He had also starred in "L.A. Confidential" (1997), "Godzilla" (2014), and the "Bourne" franchise (2007–2012).

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Personal Info

Born
Jan 26, 1949
From
San Francisco, California, USA
Known For
Acting
Career
– Present

Award Recognition

9
Wins
828
Nominations
9
Oscars

Complete Filmography

2025

The Luckiest Man in America as Bill Carruthers
The Gettysburg Address as Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice)
O Horizon as Warren

2023

A Little Prayer as Bill
Remember This as Jan Karski

2022

Where the Crawdads Sing as Tom Milton Award

2021

Nightmare Alley as Pete Award
Nomadland as Dave

2020

Walkaway Joe as Joe Haley
The Oedipus Project as Messenger 1

2019

Godzilla: King of the Monsters as Admiral William Stenz Award
The Devil Has a Name as Fred Stern
Fast Color as Ellis
Them That Work as Self

2018

UFO as Franklin Ahls
An Interview with God as God
My Dinner with Hervé as Marty Rothstein

2017

Darkest Hour as President Roosevelt (voice) Award
November Criminals as Theo

2016

American Pastoral as Nathan Zuckerman
He Does Not Want Peace as Richard Englebright

2015

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel as Ty Burley
Louder Than Bombs as Richard Weissman
The Debt as Nathan

2014

Godzilla as Admiral William Stenz Award
No God, No Master as William Flynn

2013

Love, Marilyn as Self
Lincoln@Gettysburg as Narrator (voice)

2012

The Bourne Legacy as Noah Vosen Award
Lincoln as William Seward Award
Hemingway & Gellhorn as John Dos Passos
Maladies as Delmar

2010

Temple Grandin as Professor Carlock
The Tempest as King Alonso
Howl as Ralph McIntosh
The Whistleblower as Peter Ward
Matadors as Roman Lodari
Area 51 Declassified as Himself - Narrator
Inside Area 51's Secrets as Narrator

2009

The Uninvited as Steven
Cold Souls as Dr. Flintstein
The People Speak as Self

2008

The Spiderwick Chronicles as Arthur Spiderwick Award
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer as J. Robert Oppenheimer
Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential' as Self
Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential' as Self

2007

The Bourne Ultimatum as Noah Vosen Award
Fracture as Joe Lobruto Award
My Blueberry Nights as Arnie Award
Steel Toes as Danny Dunkelman
Trumbo as Self
Racing Daylight as Henry / Harry
Matters of Life and Death as Mr. Jennings
The Supreme Court as Narrator

2006

We Are Marshall as President Dedmon
Heavens Fall as Judge James Horton
The Sensation of Sight as Finn
The Shovel as Paul Mullin
The Human Behavior Experiments as Narrator

2005

Good Night, and Good Luck. as Edward R. Murrow Award
The Notorious Bettie Page as Estes Kefauver Award
Missing in America as Henry R. Hocknell Jr.
Willa Cather: The Road Is All as Narrator

2004

Twisted as Dr. Melvin Frank
Los Angeles Plays Itself as Pierce Patchett in L.A. Confidential (archive footage)
Paradise as Reverend Bobby Paradise

2003

Blue Car as Auster
The Making of ‘Sneakers’ as Self

2002

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story as Jack Hoschouer
Speakeasy as Bruce Hickman
Lathe of Heaven as Mannie

2001

The Victim as Mark Zingerline
Relative Evil as Dr. Charlie

2000

The Miracle Worker as Captain Keller
Harrison's Flowers as Harrison Lloyd
Freedom Song as Peter Crowley
A Good Baby as Truman Lester

1999

A Midsummer Night's Dream as Theseus
A Map of the World as Howard Goodwin
Limbo as Joe Gastineau

1998

Simon Birch as Rev. Russell
With Friends Like These as Armand Minetti
Evidence of Blood as Jackson Kinley
The Climb as Earl Himes
Bad Manners as Wes Westlund
The Giraffe as Charles Kaminski

1997

L.A. Confidential as Pierce Patchett Award
In the Gloaming as Martin
Song of Hiawatha as Marcel

1996

Mother Night as Bernard B. O'Hare
Beyond the Call as Russel Gates

1995

Dolores Claiborne as Joe St. George
Home for the Holidays as Russell Terziak
Losing Isaiah as Charles Lewin

1994

The River Wild as Tom Hartman Award
April One as John McCowan

1993

The Firm as Ray McDeere Award
A Dangerous Woman as Getso
The American Clock as Young Arthur Huntington
Lost in Yonkers as Johnny

1992

Sneakers as Whistler Award
A League of Their Own as Ira Lowenstein Award
Passion Fish as Rennie
Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even as Keith
O Pioneers! as Carl Linstrum
Bob Roberts as Mack Laflin

1991

City of Hope as Asteroid
Without Warning: The James Brady Story as Dr. Arthur Kobrine

1990

Memphis Belle as Craig Harriman
Judgment as Father Frank Aubert
Heat Wave as Bill Thomas

1989

Day One as J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Feud as The Stranger

1988

Eight Men Out as Eddie Cicotte
Stars & Bars as Charlie
Call Me as Sam
Dominick and Eugene as Martin Chernak

1987

Matewan as Police Chief Sid Hatfield
Broken Vows as Stuart Chase

1986

At Close Range as Tony Pine

1985

When Nature Calls as Weejun

1984

The Brother from Another Planet as Man In Black
Iceman as Dr. Singe

1983

Silkwood as Wesley
Lovesick as Marvin Zuckerman
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute as Jerry

1980

Return of the Secaucus Seven as Ron

By Any Means

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Featured in Trailers

Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Godzilla
Sneakers
The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Bourne Ultimatum
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Firm
The Bourne Legacy
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Lincoln

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