- Starman
2027 Ed Watkins
- The Brink of War
2026 Ronald Reagan
- The American Revolution
2025 Thomas Jefferson (voice)
- A Man in Full
2024 Charlie Croker
- The Saint of Second Chances
2023 Narrator (voice)
- The American Buffalo
2023 (voice)
- Shrinking
2023
- American Rust
2021 Executive Producer
- Hemingway
2021 Ernest Hemingway (voice)
- Adam
2020 Mickey
- The Comey Rule
2020 James Comey
- Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
2020 Himself
- Guest Artist
2019 Writer
- The Morning Show
2019 Lukas
- The Catcher Was a Spy
2018 Bill Donovan
- The Emperor's Newest Clothes
2018 The Emperor (voice)
- The Looming Tower
2018 John O'Neill
- Godless
2017 Frank Griffin
- Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
2017 Narrator
- The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer
2017 Creator
- Allegiant
2016 David
- The Martian
2015 Theodore "Teddy" Sanders
- Steve Jobs
2015 John Sculley
- ARES: live
2015 Teddy Sanders
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 Casting Reject
- Hunting Hitler
2015 Creator
- Dumb and Dumber To
2014 Harry Dunne
- Looper
2012 Abe
- The Newsroom
2012 Will McAvoy
- Howl
2010 Professor David Kirk
- The Answer Man
2009 Arlen Faber
- State of Play
2009 George Fergus
- Paper Man
2009 Richard Dunn
- Away We Go
2009 Jerry Farlander
- Space Chimps
2008 Zartog (voice)
- A Plumm Summer
2008 Narrator
- Sweet Nothing in My Ear
2008 Dan Miller
- Traitor
2008 Carter
- The Lookout
2007 Lewis
- Mama's Boy
2007 Mert Rosenbloom
- RV
2006 Travis Gornicke
- Infamous
2006 Alvin Dewey
- Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005 Sig Mickelson
- The Squid and the Whale
2005 Bernard Berkman
- Because of Winn-Dixie
2005 Preacher
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven
2004 Blue Man
- Imaginary Heroes
2004 Ben Travis
- The Goodbye Girl
2004 Elliot Garfield
- Remembering Ragtime
2004 P. C. O'Donnell (archive footage)
- I Witness
2003 James Rhodes
- Gods and Generals
2003 Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
- The Hours
2002 Louis Waters
- Blood Work
2002 Jasper 'Buddy' Noone
- Super Sucker
2002 Director
- Chasing Sleep
2001 Ed Saxon
- Escanaba in da Moonlight
2001 Director
- It's the Rage
2000 Warren
- The Crossing
2000 Gen. George Washington
- Cheaters
2000 Dr. Gerard Plecki
- My Favorite Martian
1999 Tim O'Hara
- Family Guy
1999 Jeff Daniels (voice)
- Pleasantville
1998 Mr. Johnson
- Trial and Error
1997 Charles Tuttle
- Fly Away Home
1996 Thomas Alden
- 101 Dalmatians
1996 Roger
- 2 Days in the Valley
1996 Alvin Strayer
- Redwood Curtain
1995 Lyman Fellers
- Speed
1994 Harry
- Dumb and Dumber
1994 Harry Dunne
- Gettysburg
1993 Col. Joshua Chamberlain
- Rain Without Thunder
1993 Jonathan Garson
- Frasier
1993 Doug (voice)
- Timescape
1992 Ben Wilson
- There Goes the Neighborhood
1992 Willis Embry
- Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
1992 Tom Noonan
- HBO First Look
1992
- The Butcher's Wife
1991 Dr. Alex Tremor
- Arachnophobia
1990 Ross Jennings
- Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
1990 Denton Webb
- Love Hurts
1990 Paul Weaver
- No Place Like Home
1989 Mike Cooper
- Sweet Hearts Dance
1988 Sam Manners
- Checking Out
1988 Ray Macklin
- The House on Carroll Street
1988 Cochran
- The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1988 Lt. Steve Maryk
- Radio Days
1987 Biff Baxter
- Trying Times
1987 Jim
- Something Wild
1986 Charles Driggs
- Heartburn
1986 Richard
- The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985 Tom Baxter / Gil Shepherd
- Marie: A True Story
1985 Eddie Sisk
- Terms of Endearment
1983 Flap Horton
- An Invasion of Privacy
1983 Francis Ryan
- Fifth of July
1982 Jed Jenkins
- American Playhouse
1982 Jed Jenkins
- Ragtime
1981 P.C. O'Donnell
- A Rumor of War
1980 Chaplain
- Hawaii Five-O
1969 Neal Forrester
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 Lyman Fellers
- Blind Logic: The Ralph R. Teetor Story
Ralph Teetor (voice)
- Bannerman
Raymond Lesko
