Acting credits
116
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
William Devane
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 81Series: 36Crew credits: 2
TMDB ID: 21416
IMDb ID: nm0001137
Known for: Acting
Born: September 5, 1939
Age: 87
Place of birth: Albany, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1955 - 2022
Years active: 68
Average TMDB rating: 6.6
Wikidata: Q451880
Also known as
William Joseph Devane • Γουίλιαμ Ντιβέιν • ویلیام دیوان
Other jobs
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Biography
William Joseph Devane (born September 5, 1937) is an American film, television and theater actor, known for his role as Greg Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing and as James Heller on the Fox serial drama 24, the role he reprised in Live Another Day. He is also known for his supporting roles in films such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Family Plot), Marathon Man, Rolling Thunder and Space Cowboys. Devane began his acting career with the New York Shakespeare Festival where he performed in 15 plays. In 1966, Devane portrayed Robert F. Kennedy in the Off-Broadway spoof MacBird. He gained acclaim for his role as President John F. Kennedy in a television docudrama about the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Missiles of October, and again when he played blacklisted radio personality John Henry Faulk in the Emmy Award-winning TV movie Fear on Trial. He is widely known for his ten years as the ambitious and hardnosed politician-turned-corporate titan Greg Sumner on Knots Landing. In 1994, Devane appeared as Al Capone in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman in an episode entitled "That Old Gang of Mine". He also had a recurring role on the CBS show Early Edition as the lead character's father. Devane appeared in the films McCabe & Mrs. Miller; Lady Liberty; Family Plot; Marathon Man; Rolling Thunder; Yanks; Testament; Timestalkers; Forgotten Sins; Exception to the Rule; Payback; Hollow Man and Space Cowboys. Devane has played members of the Presidential Cabinet on two evening dramas. In 2004, on The West Wing, he guest-starred as the Secretary of State and potential Vice-Presidential nominee. Devane appeared in several scenes with Martin Sheen; they also appeared together as President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, respectively, 30 years earlier in The Missiles of October. In 2005, he joined the cast of 24 as Secretary of Defense James Heller for seasons 4, 5 and 6.
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Movies
Movie credits linked with William Devane.
Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise
as Dr. Dix
2015 Movie
Truth
as Gen. Hodges (voice) (uncredited)
2015 Movie
Interstellar
as Williams
2014 Movie
Bad Turn Worse
as Big Red
2014 Movie
50 to 1
as Leonard Doc Blach
2014 Movie
The Dark Knight Rises
as President
2012 Movie
Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt
as Dr. Dix
2012 Movie
Leprechaun's Revenge
as Pop O'Hara
2012 Movie
Good Morning, Killer
as Everett Morgan Gray
2011 Movie
Flag of My Father
as Jake
2011 Movie
Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost
as Dr. Dix
2011 Movie
The Kane Files: Life of Trial
as Thompson
2010 Movie
Jesse Stone: No Remorse
as Dr. Dix
2010 Movie
The River Why
as Dutch Hines
2010 Movie
The Fall
as judge Stanley Seeban
2009 Movie
Chasing the Green
2009 Movie
Jesse Stone: Thin Ice
as Dr. Dix
2009 Movie
Stargate: Continuum
as President Henry Hayes
2008 Movie
Jesse Stone: Sea Change
as Dr. Dix
2007 Movie
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
as Dr. Dix
2006 Movie
Deceit
as Grove McCarthy
2004 Movie
Monte Walsh
as Cal Brennan
2003 Movie
A Christmas Visitor
as George Boyajian
2002 Movie
Threat of Exposure
as Col. Weldon
2002 Movie
Series
Series credits linked with William Devane.
Bosch: Legacy
as Whitney Vance • 4 eps
2022 Series
The Grinder
as Dean Sanderson Sr. • 22 eps
2015 Series
Revenge
as Edward Grayson • 2 eps
2011 Series
Notes from the Underbelly
as Walter • 1 eps
2007 Series
Psych
as Peters • 1 eps
2006 Series
What About Brian
as Michael Davis • 6 eps
2006 Series
Crumbs
as Billy Crumb • 13 eps
2006 Series
NCIS
as Nicolas Mason • 1 eps
2003 Series
24
as James Heller • 32 eps
2001 Series
The Michael Richards Show
as Brady McKay • 9 eps
2000 Series
The West Wing
as Lewis Berryhill • 2 eps
1999 Series
Turks
as Sergeant Joseph Turk • 13 eps
1999 Series
Stargate SG-1
as President Hayes • 3 eps
1997 Series
Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac
as Greg Sumner • 2 eps
1997 Series
Rogues Gallery
as Self – Narrator • 10 eps
1997 Series
Early Edition
as Bernie Hobson • 5 eps
1996 Series
The Monroes
9 eps
1995 Series
Hope and Gloria
as William Devane • 1 eps
1995 Series
Touched by an Angel
as Benjamin Parker • 1 eps
1994 Series
Phenom
as Lou Della Rosa • 22 eps
1993 Series
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
as Al Capone • 1 eps
1993 Series
The X-Files
as General Mark Suveg • 1 eps
1993 Series
A Woman Named Jackie
as Black Jack Bouvier • 3 eps
1991 Series
American Playhouse
as Tom Wetherly • 1 eps
1982 Series