Jack Nicholson
- Films to Die For
2025 (archive footage) (uncredited)
- How Do You Know
2010 Charles
- I'm Still Here
2010 Jack Nicholson
- The Bucket List
2007 Edward Periman Cole
- Into the Wild
2007 Thanks
- The Departed
2006 Costello
- Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
2004 Producer
- Something's Gotta Give
2003 Harry Sanborn
- Anger Management
2003 Dr. Buddy Rydell
- About Schmidt
2002 Warren Schmidt
- The Pledge
2001 Jerry Black
- Velocity
1999 Johnny Varron (young) (archive footage)
- As Good as It Gets
1997 Melvin Udall
- Mars Attacks!
1996 President Dale / Art Land
- The Evening Star
1996 Garrett Breedlove
- Blood and Wine
1996 Alex
- The Crossing Guard
1995 Freddy Gale
- Wolf
1994 Will Randall
- A Few Good Men
1992 Col. Nathan R. Jessep
- Hoffa
1992 James R. 'Jimmy' Hoffa
- Man Trouble
1992 Harry Bliss
- The Two Jakes
1990 Director
- Batman
1989 Joker / Jack Napier
- On the tracks of a filmmaker
1988 Jack Nicholson
- The Witches of Eastwick
1987 Daryl Van Horne
- Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
1987 Narrator (voice)
- Broadcast News
1987 Bill Rorich
- Ironweed
1987 Francis Phelan
- Creepy Classics
1987 Rexford Bedlo - (archive footage)
- Rabbit Ears - How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin/How the Camel Got His Hump
1987 Narrator (voice)
- Heartburn
1986 Mark
- The Elephant's Child
1986 Narrator (voice)
- Prizzi's Honor
1985 Charley Partanna
- Terms of Endearment
1983 Garrett Breedlove
- The Border
1982 Charlie Smith
- The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981 Frank Chambers
- Reds
1981 Eugene O'Neill
- The Shining
1980 Jack Torrance
- Goin' South
1978 Director
- The Missouri Breaks
1976 Tom Logan
- The Last Tycoon
1976 Brimmer
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 Randle Patrick McMurphy
- Tommy
1975 The Specialist
- The Passenger
1975 David Locke
- The Fortune
1975 Oscar 'Dix' Sullivan
- Chinatown
1974 J.J. 'Jake' Gittes
- The Last Detail
1973 Billy L. 'Badass' Buddusky
- The King of Marvin Gardens
1972 David Staebler
- Carnal Knowledge
1971 Jonathan
- A Safe Place
1971 Mitch
- Drive, He Said
1971 Director
- Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
1971 Narrator
- Five Easy Pieces
1970 Robert Eroica Dupea
- Rebel Rousers
1970 Bunny
- On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
1970 Tad Pringle
- Easy Rider
1969 George Hanson
- Psych-Out
1968 Stoney
- Head
1968 Writer
- Targets
1968 Lt. Andre Duvalier (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Hells Angels on Wheels
1967 Poet
- The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967 Gino, Hit Man (uncredited)
- The Trip
1967 Writer
- The Shooting
1966 Producer
- Ride in the Whirlwind
1966 Writer
- Ensign Pulver
1964 Yeoman Dolan
- Back Door to Hell
1964 Burnett
- Flight to Fury
1964 Writer
- Cordillera
1964 Screenplay
- The Terror
1963 Lt. Andre Duvalier
- The Raven
1963 Rexford Bedlo
- Thunder Island
1963 Screenplay
- The Broken Land
1962 Will
- The Hour of St. Francis
1962 Jim Evans
- Little Amy
1962 Jefferson City Coach
- The Little Shop of Horrors
1960 Wilbur Force
- The Wild Ride
1960 Johnny Varron
- Studs Lonigan
1960 Weary Reilly
- Too Soon to Love
1960 Buddy
- Cry Baby Killer
1958 Jimmy Wallace
