- Tangles
2027 Rob Leavitt (voice)
- Chili Finger
2026 Dave
- The Sheep Detectives
2026 Sebastian (voice)
- National Theatre Live: All My Sons
2026 Joe Keller
- Everything's Going to Be Great
2025 Buddy Smart
- The Phoenician Scheme
2025 Reagan
- The Equilibrium Knight II- The Cast of Shadows
2025 Walter White
- Kung Fu Panda 4
2024 Li (voice)
- Argylle
2024 Director Ritter
- Moscow Mule
2024 Bryan Cranston
- Asteroid City
2023 The Host
- Jerry & Marge Go Large
2022 Jerry Selbee
- Show of Titles
2021 "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
- The One and Only Ivan
2020 Mack
- Love Letters
2020 Andrew Makepeace Ladd III
- The Upside
2019 Phillip Lacasse
- El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019 Walt
- Isle of Dogs
2018 Chief (voice)
- Every Act of Life
2018 John Steinbeck (voice)
- Network
2018 Howard Beale
- Wakefield
2017 Howard Wakefield
- The Disaster Artist
2017 Bryan Cranston (uncredited)
- Power Rangers
2017 Zordon
- Last Flag Flying
2017 Sal Nealon
- Get a Job
2016 Roger Davis
- Kung Fu Panda 3
2016 Li (voice)
- The Infiltrator
2016 Executive Producer
- In Dubious Battle
2016 Sheriff
- All the Way
2016 Executive Producer
- Why Him?
2016 Ned Fleming
- Trumbo
2015 Dalton Trumbo
- Godzilla
2014 Joe Brody
- Barely Legal Pawn
2014 Buzz Jackson
- Sense of Smell
2014 Tyler
- Cold Comes the Night
2013 Topo
- Writer's Block
2013
- Seth Rogen Is the Worst Person in the World
2013 Heisenberg
- Übermansion
2013 Titanium Rex
- Total Recall
2012 Cohaagen
- John Carter
2012 Powell
- Argo
2012 Jack O'Donnell
- Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
2012 Vitaly (voice)
- Rock of Ages
2012 Mayor Mike Whitmore
- Red Tails
2012 Colonel William Mortamus
- Drive
2011 Shannon
- Contagion
2011 Lyle Haggerty
- Batman: Year One
2011 Jim Gordon (voice)
- The Lincoln Lawyer
2011 Detective Lankford
- Detachment
2011 Mr. Dearden
- Larry Crowne
2011 Dean Tainot
- Leave
2011 Eliot
- Love Ranch
2010 James Pettis
- The Big Thing
2008 Roberto Montalban
- Hard Four
2007 Lt. Bryce Baxter
- Little Miss Sunshine
2006 Stan Grossman
- Dark Mind
2006 CSE Radio Host
- Special Unit
2006 Director
- Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
2005 Buzz Aldrin (voice)
- Seeing Other People
2004 Peter
- Illusion
2004 David
- Holiday Reunion
2003 Woodrow Snider
- The Santa Claus Brothers
2002 Santa Claus (voice)
- 'Twas the Night
2001 Nick Wrigley
- Terror Tract
2000 Ron Gatley
- Last Chance
1999 Director
- Saving Private Ryan
1998 War Department Colonel
- Strategic Command
1997 Phil Hertzberg
- Time Under Fire
1997 Braddock (as Brian Cranston)
- That Thing You Do!
1996 Virgil "Gus" Grissom
- Armitage III: Poly Matrix
1996 Eddie (voice)
- The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime
1996 Patrick Dougherty
- Street Corner Justice
1996 Father Brophy
- Kissing Miranda
1995 Special Agent Falsey
- Clean Slate
1994 Club Official
- Erotique
1994 Dr. Robert Stern (segment 'Let's Talk About Love')
- The Companion
1994 Alan
- The Disappearance of Nora
1993 Police Detective
- Dead Silence
1991 Prof. Harris
- Dead Space
1991 Dr. Frank Darden
- Corporate Affairs
1990 Darren
- The Big Turnaround
1988 Jim
- The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1987 Dr. Shepherd
- Amazon Women on the Moon
1987 Paramedic #1 (segment "Roast Your Loved One") (uncredited)
- Loving
1983 Douglas Donovan
- To Race the Wind
1980 Quarterback (uncredited)
- Grendel
King Hrothgar
