Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936) is an American actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home (1978) and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Nebraska (2013). His other major film appearances include Silent Running (1972), The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), The Cowboys (1972), Posse (1975), Family Plot (1976), Black Sunday (1977), Tattoo (1981), Monster (2003), The Hateful Eight (2015), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Bruce Dern, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Bad Men Must Bleed — George Wells
• 2026Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern
• 2026Northbound — Arthur
• 2026Robot Dracula — Van Sellsing
• 2025Bhuthan: The World’s Happiest Man
• 2025Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch — Mike Cassidy
• 2025Fractured — Papa Joe
• 2024Accidental Texan — Scheermeyer
• 2024Bloodline Killer — Dr. Lucien
• Palm Royale — Skeet
• 2024The Devil’s Trap — Mr. Cohen
• 2023Buck Alamo or (A Phantasmagorical Ballad) — Death
• 2023Butch vs. Sundance — Mike Cassidy
• 2023Hands That Bind — Hank
• 2023Hunting Games — Henry
• 2023Old Dads — Richie Jacobs
• 2023The Weapon — Doris
• 2022Coast — Executive Producer
• 2022Death in Texas — Reynolds
• 2022Hellblazers — Bill Unger
• 2022Mid-Century — Emil Larson
• 2022The Hater — Frank
• 2022The Most Dangerous Game — Whitney Tyler
• 2021Christmas vs The Walters — Cliff Walters
• 2021Last Call — Coach Finnegan
• 2021Last Shoot Out — Blair Callahan
• 2021Overrun — Arkadi Dubkova
• 2021The Gateway — Marcus
• 2020Emperor — Levi Coffin
• 2020Ravage — Mallincrkordt
• 2020The Artist's Wife — Richard Smythson
• 2019Badland — Reginald Cooke
• Black Monday — Rod "The Jammer" Jaminski
• 2019Freaks — Mr. Snowcone
• 2019Inherit the Viper — Clay Carter
• 2019Nation's Fire — PopPop
• 2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — George Spahn
• 2019Remember Me — Claude
• The Hateful Eight — General Sanford Smithers
• 2019The Mustang — Myles
• 2019The Peanut Butter Falcon — Carl
• 2018American Dresser — King
• 2018Chappaquiddick — Joseph Kennedy
• 2018Lez Bomb — Grandpa
• 2018Nostalgia — Ronnie Ashemore
• 2018Warning Shot — Calvin
• 2018White Boy Rick — Grandpa Roman Wershe
• 2017American Violence — Richard Morton
• 2017Borderland — Cowboy
• 2017Class Rank — Oswald Flannigan
• 2017Hickok — Doc Rivers O'Roark
• Mr. Mercedes — John Rothstein
• 2017Our Souls at Night — Dorlan
• 2017The Lears — Davenport Lear
• Goliath — Frank Zax
• 2015Northern Borders — Austin Kittredge Sr.
• 2015The Hateful Eight — General Sandy Smithers
• 2015The Millionaires' Unit — Narrator (voice)
• 2014Cut Bank — Georgie Wits
• 2013Coffin Baby — Vance Henrickson
• 2013Fighting for Freedom — Christian Dobbe
• 2013Nebraska — Woody Grant
• 2013Pete's Christmas — Grandpa
• 2012Django Unchained — Old Man Carrucan
• 2012Hitting the Cycle — James
• 2011Choose — Dr. Ronald Pendleton
• 2011Inside Out — Vic Small
• 2011Twixt — Sheriff Bobby LaGrange
• 2010Trim — Dale
• 2009American Cowslip — Cliff
• 2009The Hole — Creepy Carl
• 2009The Lightkeepers — Bennie
• 2008Swamp Devil — Howard Blaime
• 2008The Golden Boys — Capt. Perez Ryder
• 2007The Astronaut Farmer — Hal
• 2007The Cake Eaters — Easy
• 2007The Death and Life of Bobby Z — Narrator
• 2006Believe in Me — Ellis Brawley
• Big Love — Frank Harlow
• 2006The Hard Easy — Gene
• 2006Walker Payne — Chester
• 2005Down in the Valley — Charlie
• 2005Madison — Harry Volpi
• CSI: NY — Vet
• 2003Hard Ground — Sheriff Hutch Hutchinson
• 2003Masked and Anonymous — Editor
• 2003Milwaukee, Minnesota — Sean McNally
• 2003Monster — Thomas
• 2001The Glass House — Alvin Begleiter
• 2000All the Pretty Horses — Judge
• 1999Hard Time: The Premonition — Winston
• 1999If... Dog... Rabbit — McGurdy
• 1999The Haunting — Mr. Dudley
• 1998Perfect Prey — Capt. Swaggert
• 1998Small Soldiers — Link Static (voice)
• 1997Comfort, Texas
• King of the Hill — Randy Strickland (voice)
• 1996Down Periscope — Rear Admiral Yancy Graham
• 1996Last Man Standing — Sheriff Ed Galt
• 1996Mulholland Falls — The Chief
• 1995A Mother's Prayer — John Walker
• 1995Mrs. Munck — Patrick Leary
• 1995Wild Bill — Will Plummer
• 1994Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight — George Putnam
• 1994Dead Man's Revenge — Payton McCay
• 1993It's Nothing Personal — Billy Archer
• 1992Diggstown — John Gillon
• 1991Carolina Skeletons — Junior Stoker
• 1991Into the Badlands — T.L. Barston
• 1990After Dark, My Sweet — Garrett "Uncle Bud" Stoker
• 1990The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson — Scout Ed Higgins
• 1989The 'Burbs — Lt. Mark Rumsfield
• 1989Trenchcoat in Paradise — John Hollander
• 19881969 — Cliff Denny
• 1987Roses Are for the Rich — Douglas Osborne
• Roses Are for the Rich — Douglas Osborne
• 1987The Big Town — M. Edwards
• 1987Uncle Tom's Cabin — Augustine St. Claire
• 1987World Gone Wild — Ethan
• 1986On the Edge — Wes Holman
• Space — Stanley Mott
• 1985Tough Love — Rob Charters
• 1982Harry Tracy, Desperado — Harry Tracy
• 1982That Championship Season — George Sitkowski
• 1981Tattoo — Karl Kinsky
• 1980Middle Age Crazy — Bobby Lee
• 1979The Horror Show — (archive footage)
• 1978Coming Home — Capt. Bob Hyde
• 1978The Driver — The Detective
• 1977Black Sunday — Lander
• 1976Family Plot — George Lumley
• 1976The Twist — William
• 1976Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood — Grayson Potchuck
• 1975Posse — Jack Strawhorn
• 1975Smile — Big Bob
• 1974The Great Gatsby — Tom Buchanan
• 1973Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid — Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
• 1973The Laughing Policeman — Insp. Leo Larsen SFPD
• 1972Silent Running — Freeman Lowell
• 1972The Cowboys — Long Hair
• 1972The King of Marvin Gardens — Jason Staebler
• 1972Thumb Tripping — Smitty
• 1971Drive, He Said — Coach Bullion
• 1971The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant — Roger
• 1971Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster? — Deputy Doyle Pickett
• 1970Bloody Mama — Kevin Dirkman
• 1970Rebel Rousers — J.J. Weston
• The Immortal — Luther Seacombe
• 1969Castle Keep — Lt. Billy Byron Bix
• 1969Number One — Richie Fowler
• 1969Support Your Local Sheriff! — Joe Danby
• 1969The Cycle Savages — Keeg
• Then Came Bronson — Bucky O'Neill
• 1969They Shoot Horses, Don't They? — James Bates
• 1968Hang 'em High — Miller
• Lancer — Lucas Thatcher, Tom Nevill
• Land of the Giants — Thorg
• 1968Psych-Out — Steve Davis
• The High Chaparral — Wade
• 1967The St. Valentine's Day Massacre — Johnny May
• 1967The Trip — John
• 1967The War Wagon — Hammond
• 1967Waterhole #3 — Deputy
• 1967Will Penny — Rafe Quint
• 1966Gallegher Goes West — Turk
• 1966The Wild Angels — Joe 'Loser' Kearns
• Branded — Les - Wolfer Who Kidnaps Squaw
• Laredo — Joe Durkee
• Run for Your Life — Alex Ryder
• The Big Valley — Follet, Dixon, Clovis, Gabe Skeels, John Weaver
• The F.B.I. — Pfc. Byron Landy, Virgil Roy Phipps
• The Loner — Lud Grant
• 12 O'Clock High — TSgt. Frank Jones, Lt. Michaels, Lt. Danton
• 1964Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte — John Mayhew
• 1964Marnie — Sailor
• Kraft Suspense Theatre — Maynard
• The Fugitive — Hank, Cody, Hutch, Charley, Deputy Martin
• The Greatest Show on Earth — Vernon
• The Outer Limits — Ben Garth
• Stoney Burke — E.J. Stocker
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — Roy Bullock, Jesse
• The Virginian — Pell, Lee Darrow, Bert Kramer
• Ben Casey — Billy Harris
• Cain's Hundred — Joe Krajac, Eddie Light
• 1961The Crimebusters — Joe Krajac
• Route 66 — Albert
• Surfside 6 — Johnny Page
• Thriller — Johnny Norton
• 1960Wild River — Jack Roper
• Bonanza — Cully Maco, Bayliss
• Rawhide — Ed Rankin
• The Detectives — Jud Treadwell
• Naked City — Nicky
• Sea Hunt — FBI Agent John Furillo
• Wagon Train — Wilkins, Jud Fisher
• Gunsmoke — Doyle Phleger, Judd Print, Lou Stone, Guerin
• All Day Happy Dance — Gramps
• CATnip
• Crimes of Passion II
• Welcome Back Lounge — Gideon

Appearances as themselves (28)

• 2026The Way Things Seem to Be — Self
• The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman — Himself
• 2020I Am Burt Reynolds — Self - Interviewee
• 2019QT8: The First Eight — Self
• 2018Trumbull Land — Self (archive footage)
• The Cowboy — Self
• 2011Corman's World — Self - Actor
• 2011Miller's Tale — Self
• 2010America Lost and Found: The BBS Story — Self
• 2010BBStory: An American Film Renaissance — Self
• 2010Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom — Self
• 2008The Making of 'Rebecca' — Self
• 2007The Cowboys: Together Again — Himself
• 2003A Decade Under the Influence — Self
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self
• 2003Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King — Self
• 2002'Silent Running' By Director Douglas Trumbull — Self (achive footage)
• 2002'Silent Running': A Discussion With Bruce Dern 'Lowell Freeman' — Self
• 2002Afterthoughts — Self
• 2001It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures — Self
• 2001Plotting 'Family Plot' — Self
• 1997Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western — Self
• E! True Hollywood Story — Self
• Midi Première — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
• 1972The Making of Silent Running — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self