Michael Raymond O'Keefe (born April 24, 1955) is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his roles as Danny Noonan in Caddyshack, Ben Meechum in The Great Santini (for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), and Darryl Palmer in The Slugger's Wife. On television, he had a recurring roles as Fred in Roseanne from 1993 to 1995 and more recently in the series Homeland and Sneaky Pete.

Filmography

• 2025A Break in the Rain — Jake
• The Hunting Party — Philip Beaumont
• Your Friends & Neighbors — Ron Cooper
• 2023One True Loves — Colin Blair
• Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty — Jack Kent Cooke
• 2021Things Heard & Seen — Travis Laughton
• 2019Inside Game — Mr. Donaghy
• The Enemy Within — National Security Advisor
• 2018Instant Family — Jerry
• Manhunt — Mr. Brennan
• Billions — Eric Scott
• MacGyver — Harry McGyver
• 2015Eye in the Sky — Ken Stanitzke
• Sneaky Pete — Detective Winslow
• 2013Finding Neighbors — Sam
• King & Maxwell — Frank Rigby
• Masters of Sex — Harry Eshelman
• Sleepy Hollow — Director Jack Walters
• The Blacklist — Mr. Deavers
• 2013The Wait — Ben's Dad
• 2012A Thousand Cuts — Frank
• Daybreak — Professor Aaron Wilkins
• Elementary — Harris Waylon Greer
• 2012Junction — Walters
• 2011Apartment 143 — Dr. Helzer
• 2011Atlas Shrugged: Part I — Hugh Akston
• Homeland — John Redmond
• 2011Sarina's Song — Charles Berkeley
• 2011Too Big to Fail — Chris Flowers
• 2010Chasing 3000 — Dr. Stuart
• 2008American Violet — Calvin Beckett
• Eleventh Hour — Philip Gifford
• 2008Frozen River — Trooper Finnerty
• 2008Keith — Alan Ascher
• Leverage — Darren Hoffman
• 2007An American Crime — Bill Collier
• Burn Notice — Wallace
• 2007Cherry Crush — Detective Griffin
• 2007Michael Clayton — Barry Grissom
• Saving Grace — Father Lloyd Tierney
• Brothers and Sisters — Wally Wandell
• Vanished — Bob
• Criminal Minds — Dr. Stan Howard
• Ghost Whisperer — Dr. Calvin Byrd
• Night Stalker — Doug Panero
• Numb3rs — Reverend Joseph Ezra
• The Closer — Agent Tim Hecht
• 2005The Inner Circle — Jack Scott
• House — Fletcher Stone
• 2003Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story — Mike Harris
• 2002The Hot Chick — Richie
• 2001Herman U.S.A. — Dennis
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Michael McShale, Eli Rush
• 2001Prancer Returns
• 2001The Glass House — Dave Baker
• 2001The Pledge — Duane Larsen
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Daniel Easton
• 2000Just One Night — Wayne
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Ronald McCain, Al Marcosi, Eugene O'Hanigan
• 1999Swing Vote
• The West Wing — Will Sawyer
• 1996Edie & Pen — Ken
• 1996Ghosts of Mississippi — Merrida Coxwell
• Life's Work — Kevin Hunter
• 1996The People Next Door — Garrett James
• 1995Nina Takes a Lover — Journalist
• The Outer Limits — Eddie Wexler
• 1995Three Wishes — Adult Tom
• 1994Incident at Deception Ridge — Jack Bolder
• 1994Kangaroo Court
• 1993Me and Veronica — Michael
• Middle Ages — Ron Steffey
• 1991Out of the Rain — Frank Reade
• Against the Law
• 1990Fear — Jack Hays
• 1990In the Best Interest of the Child — Walt Colton
• Law & Order — Cally Lonegan / Professor Donald Lonegan, Archbishop Keane
• 1990Too Young to Die — Mike Medwicki
• 1989Bridge to Silence — Dan
• 1988Disaster at Silo 7 — Sgt. Mike Fitzgerald
• Roseanne — Fred
• 1988Unholy Matrimony — Dr. Cassius William 'Bill' Sander
• 1987Ironweed — Billy
• 1986The Whoopee Boys — Jake Bateman
• The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Art Toomey
• 1985The Slugger's Wife — Darryl Palmer
• 1984Finders Keepers — Michael Rangeloff
• 1983Nate and Hayes — Nathaniel Williamson
• The Hitchhiker — Richard Shepard
• 1982Split Image — Danny "Joshua" Stetson
• A Rumor of War — Lt. Walter Cohen
• 1980Caddyshack — Danny Noonan
• 1979The Great Santini — Ben Meechum
• 1978Gray Lady Down — Harris
• The Dark Secret of Harvest Home — Worthy Pettinger
• 1976Panache — Horseman
• 1976The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case — Terry Long
• 1975Friendly Persuasion — Josh Birdwell
• M*A*S*H — Corporal Travis
• The Waltons — Chad Marshall
• After All — Jake

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2014Everything is Forever — Himself
• 2014Showing Up — Self
• 2009Caddyshack: The Inside Story — Himself
• Boulevard of Broken Dreams — Self (archive footage)