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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1949-01-26 (76 years old)

Place of Birth

San Francisco, California, USA

David Strathairn

Biography:

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).

Known For

Acting

2025

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

2023

Remember This as Jan Karski

2022

2021

Nomadland as Dave

2020

Walkaway Joe as Joe Haley
The Oedipus Project as Messenger 1
Interrogation as Henry Fisher

2019

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

2018

UFO as Franklin Ahls
My Dinner with Hervé as Marty Rothstein
McMafia as Semiyon Kleiman

2017

Darkest Hour as President Roosevelt (voice)

2016

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

2015

Louder Than Bombs as Richard Weissman
The Debt as Nathan
The Expanse as Commander Klaes Ashford
The Expanse as Klaes Ashford

2014

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

2013

Lincoln@Gettysburg as Narrator (voice)
The Blacklist as Peter Kotsiopulos

2012

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

2011

Alphas as Lee Rosen

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

2009

Cold Souls as Dr. Flintstein
The Uninvited as Steven

2008

The Spiderwick Chronicles as Arthur Spiderwick
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer as J. Robert Oppenheimer

2007

The Bourne Ultimatum as Noah Vosen
Fracture as Joe Lobruto
Steel Toes as Danny Dunkelman
The Supreme Court as Narrator
Racing Daylight as Henry / Harry
Trumbo as Self

2006

We Are Marshall as President Dedmon
Heavens Fall as Judge James Horton
The Shovel as Paul Mullin

2005

Good Night, and Good Luck. as Edward R. Murrow
Missing in America as Henry R. Hocknell Jr.
The Notorious Bettie Page as Estes Kefauver

2004

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

2003

Blue Car as Auster

2002

Lathe of Heaven as Mannie
Speakeasy as Bruce Hickman
Monk as Patrick Kloster

2001

Relative Evil as Dr. Charlie
The Victim as Mark Zingerline

2000

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

1999

Limbo as Joe Gastineau
A Map of the World as Howard Goodwin
The Sopranos as Robert Wegler

1998

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

1997

L.A. Confidential as Pierce Patchett
In the Gloaming as Martin

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
April One as John McCowan

1993

The Firm as Ray McDeere
The American Clock as Young Arthur Huntington
Lost in Yonkers as Johnny

1992

Sneakers as Whistler
Bob Roberts as Mack Laflin
Passion Fish as Rennie
O Pioneers! as Carl Linstrum
A League of Their Own as Ira Lowenstein

1991

City of Hope as Asteroid

1990

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

1989

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

1988

Eight Men Out as Eddie Cicotte
Call Me as Sam
Stars & Bars as Charlie
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

The Equalizer as Phillip Borchek

1984

Iceman as Dr. Singe

1983

Silkwood as Wesley
Lovesick as Marvin Zuckerman

1980

1953

The Oscars as Self

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Carl Linstrum

1949

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Production

2006