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Tom Berenger

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Tom Berenger is an American actor known mainly for his roles in action films.

Early life


Berenger was born as Thomas Michael Moore in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 to an Irish Catholic
Irish Catholic
Irish Catholic is a term used to describe people who are both Roman Catholic and Irish .Note: the term is not used to describe a variant of Catholicism. More particularly, it is not a separate creed or sect in the sense that "Anglo-Catholic", "Old Catholic", "Eastern Orthodox Catholic" might be...

 family. Berenger's father was a printer for the Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship paper of the Sun-Times Media Group.-History:The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city...

. Berenger has a sister, Susan. He picked "Berenger" as his professional name, after a school friend, because there was already a "Tom Moore" in the Actors' Equity Association
Actors' Equity Association
The Actors' Equity Association , commonly referred to as Actors' Equity or simply Equity, is an American labor union representing the world of live theatrical performance, as opposed to film and television performance. However, performers appearing on live stage productions without a book or...

. He graduated from Rich East High School
Rich East High School
Rich East High School or REHS, is a public four-year high school located in Park Forest, Illinois, a southern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. The Rich East Campus serves the cities of Park Forest, Matteson,Olympia Fields,Chicago Heights, & Richton Park...

 in Park Forest, Illinois
Park Forest, Illinois
Park Forest is a village located south of Chicago in Cook County and Will County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 23,462...

, in 1967. Berenger studied journalism at the University of Missouri
University of Missouri
The University of Missouri System is a state university system providing centralized administration for four universities, a health care system, an extension program, five research and technology parks, and a publishing press. More than 64,000 students are currently enrolled at its four campuses...

 in Columbia, Missouri
Columbia, Missouri
Columbia is the fifth-largest city in Missouri, and the largest city in Mid-Missouri. With a population of 108,500 as of the 2010 Census, it is the principal municipality of the Columbia Metropolitan Area, a region of 164,283 residents. The city serves as the county seat of Boone County and as the...

, but decided to seek an acting career following his graduation. The Tom Berenger Acting Scholarship Fund was established in 1988 by Tom Berenger to award Theatre students for excellence in performance. He worked first in regional theatre and moved to New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 in the 1970s.

Career


Berenger worked in soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

s and had a starring role on One Life to Live
One Life to Live
One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...

. His feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...

 debut was the lead in Rush It
Rush It
Rush It is a 1977 film co-written and directed by Gary Youngman. The directorial debut film also featured the first acting role in a film by Tom Berenger.-Principal cast:...

(1976), an independent film now mostly forgotten except for those of its cast members who went on to greater renown. In 1977, Berenger had a small but noticeable role as a murderer in Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a 1977 film written for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks and starring Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, Richard Gere, and also features Tom Berenger...

. In 1978, he had a starring role in In Praise of Older Women for Avco-Embassy Pictures. In 1979, he played Butch Cassidy in Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, a role he got in part because of his resemblance to Paul Newman
Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver and auto racing enthusiast...

, who played the character in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman...

(1969). These early roles highlighted Berenger's ability to play both villains and heroes.

Berenger starred in several significant films in the 1980s, including The Big Chill
The Big Chill (film)
The Big Chill is a 1983 American comedy-drama film directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams. It is about a group of baby boomer college friends who reunite briefly after 15 years due to...

(1983), Someone to Watch Over Me
Someone to Watch over Me (film)
Someone to Watch Over Me is a 1987 film starring Tom Berenger and Mimi Rogers and directed by Ridley Scott. The film's soundtrack includes the George and Ira Gershwin song from which the film takes its title, here sung by Sting, and Vangelis' Memories of Green, originally from Scott's Blade...

(1987), and Major League
Major League (film)
Major League is a 1989 American satire comedy film written and directed by David S. Ward, starring Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes, James Gammon, and Corbin Bernsen. Made for US$11 million, Major League grossed nearly US$50 million in domestic release...

(1989). In 1986, he received an Academy Award
Academy Awards
An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

 nomination for his portrayal of SSG Barnes in Platoon
Platoon (film)
Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone and stars Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen. It is the first of Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, followed by 1989's Born on the Fourth of July and 1993's Heaven & Earth....

(this performance won him a Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award
The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...

 for "Best Supporting Actor"). In the mid-1990s he was most recognizable in his role from the movie Sniper (which would later be followed by three sequels of which Berenger starred in two). Other notable films from that period include Born on the Fourth of July
Born on the Fourth of July
Born on the Fourth of July is the best selling autobiography of Ron Kovic, a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran who became an anti-war activist. Kovic was born on July 4, 1946, and his book's ironic title echoed a famous line from George M. Cohan's patriotic 1904 song, "The Yankee Doodle Boy"...

(1989), Shattered
Shattered (film)
Shattered is a 1991 Hitchcockian neo-noir/psychological thriller starring Tom Berenger, Greta Scacchi, Bob Hoskins, Joanne Whalley and Corbin Bernsen...

(1991), Sliver
Sliver (film)
Sliver is a 1993 film based on the Ira Levin novel of the same name about the mysterious occurrences in a privately owned New York highrise apartment building. Phillip Noyce directed the film, from a screenplay by Joe Eszterhas...

(1993), and Chasers (1994).

It has been recorded that Berenger himself has said that his favorite movie of those he had starred in was the 1993 film Gettysburg, where he played the role of General James Longstreet. He has said he has seen Gettysburg more than any other of his starring movies. Berenger co-produced the 1997 miniseries Rough Riders
Rough Riders (film)
Rough Riders is a 1997 three hour television miniseries about future President Theodore Roosevelt and the regiment . The series prominently shows the bravery of the volunteers at the Battle of San Juan Hill, part of the Spanish-American War of 1898. It was released on DVD in 2006...

, also starring as Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

.

In more recent years, Berenger has continued to have an active acting career in film and television, although often at a supporting level. His most notable television appearance was on Cheers
Cheers
Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles...

in its last season as Rebecca Howe's blue collar-plumber love interest, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

 for "Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series". He also began a career as a producer in the 1990s.

Berenger starred in the mini-series version of Stephen King
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...

's Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Nightmares & Dreamscapes is a short story collection by Stephen King published in 1993.-Stories:-Adaptations:"The Night Flier" and "Dolan's Cadillac" were both adapted to films of the same respective names. "Chattery Teeth"' was adapted into a segment of the film Quicksilver Highway...

, as a celebrated author who realizes the warped painting he recently purchased, is alive with illustrations of impending doom for him in "The Road Virus Heads North
The Road Virus Heads North
"The Road Virus Heads North" is a short story by Stephen King. This story first appeared in 999, an anthology published in 1999 and edited by Al Sarrantonio. In 2002, it was collected in King's collection Everything's Eventual....

".

Berenger stars opposite Armand Assante
Armand Assante
-Personal life:Assante was born in New York City and raised in Cornwall, New York, the son of Katherine , a music teacher and poet, and Armand Anthony Assante, Sr., a painter and artist. His father was Italian and his mother was Irish, and was raised in a devoutly Roman Catholic family...

 and Busta Rhymes
Busta Rhymes
Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., better known by his stage name Busta Rhymes ,Smith is an American rapper, producer and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the alias Busta Rhymes after NFL wide receiver George "Buster" Rhymes...

 in the dramatic thriller Breaking Point, which had a limited release starting in December 2009.

Berenger most recently appeared in the science fiction thriller Inception
Inception
Inception: The Subconscious Jams 1994-1995 is a compilation of unreleased tracks by the band Download.-Track listing:# "Primitive Tekno Jam" – 3:23# "Bee Sting Sickness" – 8:04# "Weed Acid Techno" – 8:19...

with Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. He has received many awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator , and has been nominated by the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television...

 and Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy is an Irish film and theatre actor. He is often noted by critics for his chameleonic performances in diverse roles and distinctive blue eyes and general sex appeal....

. He played a business executive who served as a mentor to and was an associate of the father of Cillian Murphy's character. Inception has been a major box office hit and is Berenger's first appearance in a mainstream theatrical movie since Training Day
Training Day
Training Day is a 2001 crime drama film directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by David Ayer, starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. The film follows two LAPD narcotics detectives over a 24-hour period in the gang neighborhoods of South and East Los Angeles.The film was a box office success and...

back in 2001.

Personal life


Berenger has been married three times and has six children. He resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Beaufort
Beaufort, South Carolina
Beaufort is a city in and the county seat of Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1711, it is the second-oldest city in South Carolina, behind Charleston. The city's population was 12,361 in the 2010 census. It is located in the Hilton Head Island-Beaufort Micropolitan...

 and Toluca Lake, Los Angeles.

Berenger has two children by his first wife, Barbara Wilson (Moore), to whom he was married between 1976 and 1984: Allison Moore (born in 1977) and Patrick Moore (born in 1978). He has three daughters by second wife Lisa Williams (to whom he was married between 1986 and 1997): Chelsea Moore (born in 1987), Chloe Moore (born in 1988) and Shiloh Moore (born in 1995). He has one daughter, Scout Moore (born 1998), with Patricia Alvaran, whom he married in 1998.

Berenger has also lent his likeness for Frank Jaeger, in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
is an overhead stealth action game that was originally released by Konami in for the MSX2 computer standard exclusively in Japan. Metal Gear 2 was directed and written by Hideo Kojima, who also designed the MSX2 version of the original Metal Gear...

.

Berenger's earlier career before he became an actor was in the skies as a flight attendant
Flight attendant
Flight attendants or cabin crew are members of an aircrew employed by airlines primarily to ensure the safety and comfort of passengers aboard commercial flights, on select business jet aircraft, and on some military aircraft.-History:The role of a flight attendant derives from that of similar...

for the now defunct Eastern Air Lines
Eastern Air Lines
Eastern Air Lines was a major United States airline that existed from 1926 to 1991. Before its dissolution it was headquartered at Miami International Airport in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida.-History:...

. He was based in San Juan Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

and on his first flight to New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

he spent his layover taking pictures of the front of the main theater houses on Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

saying "one day I'll be acting in one of these" (as told by one of his flight attendant coworkers).

Film

  • Rush It
    Rush It
    Rush It is a 1977 film co-written and directed by Gary Youngman. The directorial debut film also featured the first acting role in a film by Tom Berenger.-Principal cast:...

    (1976) — Richard Moore
  • The Sentinel (1977) — Man at end
  • Looking for Mr. Goodbar
    Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film)
    Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a 1977 film written for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks and starring Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, Richard Gere, and also features Tom Berenger...

    (1977) — Gary
  • In Praise of Older Women (1978) — Andras Vayda
  • Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
    Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
    Butch and Sundance: The Early Days is a 1979 Western film and prequel to the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It starred Tom Berenger as Butch Cassidy and William Katt as the Sundance Kid....

    (1979) — Butch Cassidy / Robert Leroy Parker
  • The Dogs of War
    The Dogs of War (film)
    The Dogs of War is a 1980 war film based upon the novel The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth, directed by John Irvin. It stars Christopher Walken and Tom Berenger as part of a small, international unit of mercenary soldiers privately hired to depose President Kimba of a fictional "Republic of...

    (1981) — Drew
  • Beyond the Door
    Beyond the Door (1982 film)
    -Cast:* Marcello Mastroianni - Enrico Sommi* Eleonora Giorgi - Nina* Tom Berenger - Matthew Jackson* Michel Piccoli - Mr. Mutti* Paolo Bonetti* Maria Sofia Amendolea - Secretary* Enrico Bergier* Marcia Briscoe - Nina's Friend...

    (1982) — Matthew Jackson
  • The Big Chill
    The Big Chill (film)
    The Big Chill is a 1983 American comedy-drama film directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams. It is about a group of baby boomer college friends who reunite briefly after 15 years due to...

    (1983) — Sam Weber
  • Eddie and the Cruisers
    Eddie and the Cruisers
    Eddie and the Cruisers is a 1983 American film directed by Martin Davidson with the screenplay written by the director and Arlene Davidson, based on the novel by P. F. Kluge...

    (1983) — Frank Ridgeway
  • Fear City
    Fear City
    Fear City is a 1984 American action-thriller directed by Abel Ferrara. The lead roles are played by Billy Dee Williams and Tom Berenger.-Plot:...

    (1984) — Matt Rossi
  • Rustlers' Rhapsody
    Rustlers' Rhapsody
    Rustlers' Rhapsody is an American comedy-Western film. It is a parody of many Western conventions, most visibly of the singing cowboy films that were prominent in the 1930s and the 1940s...

    (1985) — Rex O'Herlihan
  • Platoon
    Platoon (film)
    Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone and stars Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen. It is the first of Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, followed by 1989's Born on the Fourth of July and 1993's Heaven & Earth....

    (1986) — Staff Sgt. Barnes
  • Someone to Watch Over Me
    Someone to Watch over Me (film)
    Someone to Watch Over Me is a 1987 film starring Tom Berenger and Mimi Rogers and directed by Ridley Scott. The film's soundtrack includes the George and Ira Gershwin song from which the film takes its title, here sung by Sting, and Vangelis' Memories of Green, originally from Scott's Blade...

    (1987) — Det. Mike Keegan
  • Shoot to Kill (1988) — Jonathan Knox
  • Betrayed
    Betrayed (1988 film)
    Betrayed is a 1988 motion picture drama directed by Costa-Gavras, written by Joe Eszterhas and starring Tom Berenger and Debra Winger.-Plot:Set in the American Midwest, the film begins with the murder of a Jewish radio host in Chicago...

    (1988) — Gary Simmons
  • Last Rites
    Last Rites (film)
    Last Rites is a 1988 thriller film written and directed by Donald P. Bellisario and starring Tom Berenger.-Synopsis:Father Michael is a New York priest with close ties to the Mafia crime syndicate -- his father is a don. The priest's brother-in-law, a mafia boss, is murdered while having sex with...

    (1988) — Michael
  • Major League
    Major League (film)
    Major League is a 1989 American satire comedy film written and directed by David S. Ward, starring Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes, James Gammon, and Corbin Bernsen. Made for US$11 million, Major League grossed nearly US$50 million in domestic release...

    (1989) — Jake Taylor
  • Born on the Fourth of July
    Born on the Fourth of July (film)
    Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American film adaptation of the best selling autobiography of the same name by Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. Tom Cruise plays Kovic, in a performance that earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Oliver Stone co-wrote the screenplay with Kovic, and also...

    (1989) — GySgt. Hayes
  • Love at Large
    Love at Large
    Love at Large is a 1990 romance and mystery film directed by Alan Rudolph and starring Tom Berenger.-Plot:Set in a present that feels more like the past, Harry Dobbs is a private detective surrounded by mysterious and dangerous dames...

    (1990) — Harry Dobbs
  • The Field
    The Field
    The Field is a play written by John B. Keane, first performed in 1965. It tells the story of the hardened farmer "Bull" McCabe and his love for the land he rents. The play debuted at Dublin's Olympia Theatre in 1965, with Ray McAnally as "The Bull" and Eamon Keane as "The Bird" O'Donnell. The play...

    (1990) — The American
  • Shattered
    Shattered (film)
    Shattered is a 1991 Hitchcockian neo-noir/psychological thriller starring Tom Berenger, Greta Scacchi, Bob Hoskins, Joanne Whalley and Corbin Bernsen...

    (1991) — Dan Merrick
  • At Play in the Fields of the Lord
    At Play in the Fields of the Lord
    At Play in the Fields of the Lord is a drama film directed by Héctor Babenco adapted from the 1965 novel of the same name by American author Peter Matthiessen. The screenplay was written by Babenco and Jean-Claude Carrière...

    (1991) — Lewis Moon
  • Sniper (1993) — Thomas Beckett
  • Sliver
    Sliver (film)
    Sliver is a 1993 film based on the Ira Levin novel of the same name about the mysterious occurrences in a privately owned New York highrise apartment building. Phillip Noyce directed the film, from a screenplay by Joe Eszterhas...

    (1993) — Jack Landsford
  • Gettysburg (1993) — Lt. Gen. James Longstreet
  • Major League II
    Major League II
    Major League II is a 1994 sequel to the 1989 film Major League. Major League II stars most of the same cast from the original, including Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, and Corbin Bernsen. Absent from this film is Wesley Snipes, who played Willie Mays Hayes in the first film and who by 1994 had become...

    (1994) — Jake Taylor
  • Chasers (1994) — Rock Reilly
  • Last of the Dogmen
    Last of the Dogmen
    Last of the Dogmen is a 1995 adventure Western film written and directed by Tab Murphy about the search for and discovery of an unknown band of Dog Soldiers from a tribe of Cheyenne Indians...

    (1995) — Lewis Gates
  • Body Language
    Body language
    Body language is a form of non-verbal communication, which consists of body posture, gestures, facial expressions, and eye movements. Humans send and interpret such signals almost entirely subconsciously....

    (1995) — Gavin St.Claire
  • The Substitute
    The Substitute
    The Substitute is a 1996 action-crime-thriller film directed by Robert Mandel and starring Tom Berenger, Ernie Hudson, Marc Anthony, William Forsythe, Raymond Cruz, and Luis Guzmán.-Plot:...

    (1996) — Jonathan Shale
  • An Occasional Hell
    An Occasional Hell
    An Occasional Hell is a crime novel by the American writer Randall Silvis.Set in 1990s in the lower Monongahela River Valley below Pittsburgh, it tells the story of Ernest DeWalt, a former Chicago private investigator and successful novelist who is now a college professor...

    (1996) — Dr. Ernest Dewalt
  • The Gingerbread Man
    The Gingerbread Man (film)
    The Gingerbread Man is a 1998 American legal thriller film directed by Robert Altman and based on a discarded John Grisham manuscript. The film stars Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey Jr, Tom Berenger, Daryl Hannah, Famke Janssen, and Robert Duvall.-Plot:Divorced lawyer Rick Magruder ...

    (1998) — Pete Randle
  • Shadow of Doubt
    Shadow of Doubt
    Shadow of Doubt is a 1998 American independent mystery-thriller film directed by Randal Kleiser and starring Melanie Griffith, Tom Berenger, Craig Sheffer, and Huey Lewis.-Plot:...

    (1998) — Jack Campioni
  • A Murder of Crows
    A Murder of Crows (film)
    A Murder of Crows is a 1999 thriller film directed by Rowdy Herrington and starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Tom Berenger.-Plot synopsis:Lawson Russell is a Louisiana-based criminal lawyer who gets disbarred for committing a mistrial. After that, he retires to Key West and decides to write a book...

    (1999) — Clifford Dubose
  • One Man's Hero
    One Man's Hero
    One Man's Hero is a 1999 film starring Tom Berenger and directed by Lance Hool. The film has the distinction of being the last one released by Orion Pictures....

    (1999) — Sgt. / Lt. / Capt. John Riley
  • Diplomatic Siege (1999) — Gen. Buck Swain
  • Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying (2000) — Sikes
  • Takedown
    Takedown (film)
    Track Down, also known as Takedown outside the USA, is a 2000 film about computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, based on the book Takedown by John Markoff and Tsutomu Shimomura...

    (2000) — McCoy Rollins
  • Cutaway
    Cutaway (2000 film)
    Cutaway is a 2000 action film about skydiving, directed by Guy Manos and starring Tom Berenger, Stephen Baldwin, Dennis Rodman, Maxine Bahns, Ron Silver, Casper Van Dien, and Thomas Ian Nicholas. The film features numerous aerial stunts and much of the film was shot in Miami. This was Dennis...

    (2000) — Red Line
  • Training Day
    Training Day
    Training Day is a 2001 crime drama film directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by David Ayer, starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. The film follows two LAPD narcotics detectives over a 24-hour period in the gang neighborhoods of South and East Los Angeles.The film was a box office success and...

    (2001) — Stan Gursky
  • The Hollywood Sign
    The Hollywood Sign (film)
    The Hollywood Sign is a 2001 comedy/suspense drama film directed by Sönke Wortmann and written by Leon de Winter. It stars Tom Beringer, Rod Steiger, Burt Reynolds and Jacqueline Kim as three washed-up actors risking their lives to make a comeback.-Plot:...

    (2001) — Tom Greener
  • True Blue (2001) — Rembrandt Macy
  • Watchtower (a.k.a. Cruel And Unusual) (2001) — Art Stoner
  • Eye See You (2002)
  • The Junction Boys (2002)
  • D-Tox
    D-Tox
    D-Tox is a 2002 film directed by Jim Gillespie and starring Sylvester Stallone. It also stars Tom Berenger, Charles S. Dutton, Robert Patrick, Polly Walker, Jeffrey Wright and Kris Kristofferson. The film was released internationally by United International Pictures...

    (2002) — Hank
  • Sniper 2
    Sniper 2
    Sniper 2 is an American film shot in Hungary in November 2002 and released in early 2003. It stars Tom Berenger, Bokeem Woodbine, Erika Marozsán and Tamás Puskás, and was directed by Craig R. Baxley....

    (2002) — Thomas Beckett
  • Sniper 3
    Sniper 3
    Sniper 3 is a 2004 action adventure direct-to-video film starring Tom Berenger, Byron Mann, John Doman and Denis Arndt. It was directed by P.J. Pesce and written by Michael Frost Beckner and Crash Leyland....

    (2004) — Thomas Beckett
  • The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
    The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
    The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey is a 2007 British film starring Tom Berenger, Joely Richardson, Luke Ward-Wilkinson, Aran Bell, Benjamin Eli and Saoirse Ronan....

    (2007) — Jonathan Toomey
  • Stiletto (2008) — Virgil Vadalos
  • Silent Venom (2009) — Admiral Bradley Wallace
  • Charlie Valentine
    Charlie Valentine
    Charlie Valentine, also released as The Hitmen Diaries: Charlie Valentine, is a 2009 Crime drama starring Raymond J. Barry in the titular role. The film co-stars Michael Weatherly, James Russo, and Tom Berenger, and was shot in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Los Angeles, California...

    (2009) — Becker
  • Breaking Point (2009) — Steven Luisi
  • Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball
    Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball
    Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball is an action crime film directed by P.J. Pesce and starring Tom Berenger, Vinnie Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Autumn Reeser and Ernie Hudson. The film is a prequel to Joe Carnahan's 2007 film Smokin' Aces. The film centers on an FBI desk jockey who is targeted for murder...

    (2010) — Walter Weed
  • Sinners and Saints (2010) — Captain Trahan
  • Last Will
    Last Will
    Last Will is a 2011 mystery drama film starring Tatum O'Neal and Tom Berenger. It was shot in Kansas City, Missouri on a modest budget.-Plot:A woman named Hayden is framed for the murder of her wealthy husband Frank...

    (2010) — Frank Emery
  • Firedog (2010) — Einstein (voice only)
  • Inception
    Inception
    Inception: The Subconscious Jams 1994-1995 is a compilation of unreleased tracks by the band Download.-Track listing:# "Primitive Tekno Jam" – 3:23# "Bee Sting Sickness" – 8:04# "Weed Acid Techno" – 8:19...

    (2010) — Peter Browning
  • Faster
    Faster (2010 film)
    Faster is a 2010 American action film directed by George Tillman, Jr. It stars Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Carla Gugino, Moon Bloodgood, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and Maggie Grace. It was released in the United States on November 24, 2010.-Plot:...

    (2010) - Warden
  • Right Angle
    Right Angle (film)
    Right Angle is an upcoming drama film starring Tom Berenger, Tom Sizemore, and Jeff Daniels. Filming took place in Michigan.-Cast:*Tom Berenger ... Jerry*Jeff Daniels ... Mickey*Tom Sizemore ... Lucky*Aaron Paul ... TBA...

    (2011) - Jerry

Television

  • One Life to Live
    One Life to Live
    One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...

    (1975–1976) — Tim Seigel
  • Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye (1977) — Billy Sutton
  • Flesh & Blood (1979) — Bobby Fallon
  • If Tomorrow Comes
    If Tomorrow Comes
    If Tomorrow Comes is a 1985 crime fiction novel by American author Sidney Sheldon. It is a story pertaining an ordinary woman who is framed by a mafia, her quest for vengeance towards them and later life as a con artist...

    (1986) (mini-series) — Jeff Stevens
  • Cheers
    Cheers
    Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles...

    (1993) - Don Santry
  • Rough Riders
    Rough Riders
    The Rough Riders is the name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish-American War and the only one of the three to see action. The United States Army was weakened and left with little manpower after the American Civil War...

    (1997)- Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
  • Third Watch
    Third Watch
    Third Watch is an American television drama series which first aired on NBC from 1999 to 2005 for a total of 132 episodes, broadcast in 6 seasons of 22 episodes each....

    (2003, Season 4, episodes 19-22) — Aaron Noble
  • Peacemakers
    Peacemakers (TV series)
    Peacemakers is an American crime fiction television series about forensic science in the Old West. It was filmed in Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. The series premiered July 30, 2003, on the USA Network. The show was cancelled after one season of nine episodes.-Plot:This very interesting...

    (2003, 10 episodes) — Marshal Jared Stone
  • Detective (2005) (mini-series) — Sgt. Malcolm Ainslie
  • Into the West
    Into the West (TV miniseries)
    Into the West is a 2005 miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks, with six two-hour episodes . The series was first broadcast in the U.S. on Turner Network Television on six Fridays starting on June 10, 2005...

    (2005) (mini-series) — Colonel J. Chivington
  • Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006) — Richard Kinnell
  • October Road
    October Road (TV series)
    October Road is an American television drama that debuted on ABC on March 15, 2007 following Grey's Anatomy. It follows Nick Garrett , who after a decade returns to his hometown, the fictional Knights Ridge, Massachusetts.The series is produced by ABC Studios and GroupM Entertainment; the latter is...

    (2007–2008) — The Commander
  • Desperate Hours: An Amber Alert (2008) — Larsan

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