Will Patton Biography (1954-)

Born June 14, 1954, in Charleston, SC; father, a Lutheran minister. Addresses: Agent: Sandi Dudek, Paradigm, 10100 Santa Monica Blvd., 25th Floor,Los Angeles, CA 90067.; Manager: Kate Edwards, Grandview Management, 520 Washington Blvd., Suite 903, Marina del Rey, CA 90292.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Actor, playwright
Birth Details: June 14, 1954; Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Appearances
Bar customer, priest in diner, man in dream, and radio preacher, KingBlank, Metafilms, 1983
Joe, Silkwood, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1983
Langdon "Lang" Marsh, Chinese Boxes, Palace, 1984
Mark, Variety, Horizon, 1984
Horst, After Hours, Warner Bros., 1985
Forest ranger, The Beniker Gang (also known as Dear Lola, or How to Start Your Own Family), 1985
Wayne Nolan, Desperately Seeking Susan, Orion, 1986
Matthew Perry, Belizaire the Cajun, Skouras/Norstar, 1986
Scott Pritchard, No Way Out, Orion, 1987
Duane, Stars and Bars, Columbia, 1988
Mike, Wildfire, MCA/Universal Home Video, 1988
Mr. Coughlin, Sr., Signs of Life (also known as One for Sorrow,Two for Joy), Avenue, 1989
Jerry, Everybody Wins, Orion, 1990
Lieutenant Laker, A Shock to the System, Corsair Pictures, 1990
Sheriff Foster, The Rapture, Fine Line, 1991
(Uncredited) Woody, Bright Angel, 1991
Woody, The Paint Job (also known as Painted Heart), 1992
Father Niles, Cold Heaven, Hemdale Releasing, 1992
Skippy, In the Soup (also known as In the Soup--Alles Kino, In the soup; en la sopa, and In the soup--un mare di guai), Triton Pictures, 1992
Michael Murphy, Natural Causes, Columbia/TriStar Home Video, 1993
Sergeant Hardy, The Client, Warner Bros., 1994
Jack Travers, Midnight Edition, Shapiro Glickenhaus, 1994
Dr. Lawrence Riggs (some sources cite Dr. Graves), Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters (also known as The Puppet Masters), Buena Vista, 1994
Martie Cuchinski, Romeo Is Bleeding, Gramercy, 1994
Dash Pepper, Tollbooth, New Line Home Video, 1994
Nicoletti, Copycat (also known as Copykill), Warner Bros.,1995
Nahum Goddard, The Spitfire Grill (also known as Care of the Spitfire Grill), Columbia, 1996
Plain Pleasures, 1996
Detective Matthew "Gib" Gibson, Fled, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1996
Lloyd Abbot, Inventing the Abbotts, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1997
Police Lieutenant Morgan, This World, Then Fireworks, Orion, 1997
General Bethlehem, The Postman, Warner Bros., 1997
Sean, O.K. Garage (also known as All Revved Up), New City Releasing, 1998
Preacher, Ed Wood's I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (also known asI Awoke Early the Day I Died and I Woke Up Early the Day I Died), Cinequanon Pictures International, 1998
Charles "Chick" Chapple, Armageddon, Buena Vista, 1998
Moe, Breakfast of Champions, Buena Vista/Warner Bros., 1999
Hector Cruz, Entrapment (also known as Verlockende Falle),Twentieth Century-Fox, 1999
W. "Red" Rafferty, Trixie, Sony Pictures Classics, 1999
John Smith, Jesus's Son, Lions Gate Films, 2000
Atley Jackson, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Buena Vista, 2000
Coach Bill Yoast, Remember the Titans, Buena Vista, 2000

Gordon Smallwood, The Mothman Prophecies, Screen Gems, 2002
Man in bar in "Samaritans," The Rough South of Larry Brown (documentary), Blue Moon Filmed Productions/Down Home Entertainment, 2002
Desert Saints, Initial Entertainment Group, 2002
Stage Appearances
Chicken, Kingdom of Earth, Staircase Theatre Company, Impossible Ragtime Theatre, New York City, 1976
Goldie, Heaven and Earth, Off-Center Theatre, New York City, 1977
Billy Cavanaugh, Scenes from Country Life, Perry Street Theatre, New York City, 1978
Rearrangements (pantomime/puppet show), Winter Project, Other Theatre Company, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, New York City, 1979
Officer Gruber, Salt Lake City Skyline, New York Shakespeare Festival, Anspacher Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City, 1980
After the Revolution, American Place Theatre, New York City, 1980
Tourists and Refugees 1, Winter Project, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, c. 1980
Tourists and Refugees 2, Winter Project, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, c. 1980
Thief, Dark Ride, Soho Repertory Theatre, New York City, 1981
Bingo, Goose and Tomtom, New York Shakespeare Festival, Estelle R.Newman Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City, 1982
Ward and Dauphin, Joan of Lorraine, Mirror Theatre, New York City,1983
Eddie, Fool for Love, Circle Repertory Theatre, then Douglas Fairbanks Theatre, both New York City, 1983-1985
Mike, A Lie of the Mind, Promenade Theatre, New York City, 1985-1986
What Did He See?, New York Shakespeare Festival, Susan Stein ShivaTheatre, Public Theatre, New York City, 1988
Michael Majeski, Valaparaiso, American Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, MA, 1999
Dad, Shoppers Carried by Escalators into the Flames, Dimson Theatre, New York City, 2002
Also appeared in The Red Snake, Public Theatre; The Seven Descents of Myrtle, Impossible Ragtime Theatre; and Cops, Limbo Tales, and Pedro Paramo, all New York City productions.
Television Appearances
Series
Ox Knowles, Ryan's Hope, ABC, 1982
Kentucky Bluebird, Search for Tomorrow, 1984-1985
Dr. Frank Morgan, VR.5 (also known as Avenging Angel, Virtual Reality, and VR), Fox, 1995
Jackson Haisley, The Agency, CBS, 2001
Also appeared as Jeff in the series The Protector.
Movies
Peter, Kent State, NBC, 1981
Lou Dimes, A Gathering of Old Men (also known as Murder on theBayou and Ein Aufstand alter Maenner), CBS, 1987
Giles Menteer, Deadly Desire, USA Network, 1991
Melvin Purvis, Dillinger (also known as The Last Days of John Dillinger), ABC, 1991
Frank Maxwell, A Child Lost Forever (also known as A Child LostForever: The Jerry Sherwood Story and The Jerry Sherwood Story),NBC, 1992
Eric Gaines, In the Deep Woods, NBC, 1992
Hadley, Taking the Heat, Showtime, 1993
Alan Warwick, Judicial Consent (also known as My Love, My Honor), HBO, 1995
Other
Ben Moody, "Robbers, Rooftops, and Witches" (special), CBS Library, CBS, 1982
Lincoln and the War Within, 1992
Jackson Haisley, The Agency (pilot), CBS, 2001
Episodic
Officer Nick Braxton, "Lady Cop," The Equalizer, CBS, 1985
RECORDINGS
Audio Books; Narrator
The Assassin, 1991
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals, by Robert M. Pirsig, 1991
The Brothers K, by John Zinsser, 1992
Primal Fear, by William Diehl, Random House, 1993
In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead, by James Lee Burke, 1993
The Fermata, by Nicholson Baker, Random House, 1994
Gump and Co., by Winston Groom, Simon & Schuster Audio, 1995
Dead Man's Walk, by Larry McMurtry, Simon & Schuster Audio, 1995
Dancing with the Devil, by Rodney Barker, Dove, 1996
Buzzcut, by James W. Hall, Ballantine Doubleday Dell, 1996
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, by Kimberly Willis Holt, Listening Library, 2000
Cosmopolis: A Novel, by Don DeLillo, Simon & Schuster Audio, 2003
WRITINGS
Stage
(With other) Rearrangements (pantomime/puppet show), Winter Project, Other Theatre Company, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, New York City, 1979
Tourists and Refugees 1, Winter Project, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, c. 1980
Tourists and Refugees 2, Winter Project, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, c. 1980
Other
Lassitudes of Fire (memoir), 1999

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