William H. Macy

Director, Actor

Filmography (All Films)

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Homicide (1991): Dir. David Mamet
Feat. Joe Mantegna, William H. Macy, Natalija Nogulich…; An absorbing, sophisticated psychological drama from the playwright–turned–director who blessed the genre with HOUSE OF GAMES. Joe…
Twenty Bucks (1993): Dir. Keva Rosenfeld
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Christopher Lloyd, Brendan Fraser…; The path of a twenty dollar note connects a number of comic vignettes, most of which hit the mark. Polished up from a recently discovered 1935…
Being Human (1994): Dir. Bill Forsyth
Feat. Robin Williams, Robert Carlyle, John Turturro…; An episodic comic–drama in which Robin Williams plays five men named Hector, who each search for their place in their own historical period…
Client, The (1994): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Susan Sarandon, Brad Renfro, Tommy Lee Jones…; The best adaptation yet of a John Grisham legal–eagle novel. Susan Sarandon embraces the character–driven story that is mercifully free…
Oleanna (1994): Dir. David Mamet
Feat. Debra Eisenstadt, William H. Macy; David Mamet brings his penetrating tete–a–tete about sexual agendas from the stage to screen in purely theatrical form. Stay with its…
Fargo (1996): Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy; The gifted Coen Brothers cross two of their previous treasures – RAISING ARIZONA and BLOOD SIMPLE for this lovingly mocking tale of insurance…
Ghosts of Mississippi (1996): Dir. Rob Reiner
Feat. Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods…; Thirty years after the fact, D.A. Alec Baldwin re–investigates the murder of a Mississippi civil rights leader. Fact–based…
Boogie Nights (1997): Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds…; LA's San Fernando Valley, the late '70s. Mark Wahlberg is Eddie Adams, an anatomically gifted innocent who finds his niche in the cradle of a…
Pleasantville (1998): Dir. Gary Ross
Feat. Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy…; A pair of nineties teenagers are beamed into a starched black and white 50s TV show, where their modern 'freedoms' gradually liberate/corrupt the…
Civil Action, A (1999): Dir. Steven Zaillian
Feat. John Travolta, Robert Duvall, William H. Macy…; Fact–based account of a protracted courtroom duel between two corporations and small–town folk, whose children have been affected by…
Jerry and Tom (1999): Dir. Saul Rubinek
Feat. Joe Mantegna, Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy…; Adding mileage to the crime–caper genre, Joe Mantegna plays a hitman who puts used–car salesman Sam Rockwell (LAWN DOGS) through a droll…
Happy, Texas (1999): Dir. Mark Illsley
Feat. Jeremy Northam, Steve Zahn, William H. Macy; Sweetly sardonic crowd–pleaser indeed took the audience award at Sundance '99, adding a pinch of fashionable 'gay irony' to the more familiar…
A Slight Case of Murder (1999): Dir. Steven Schachter
Feat. William H. Macy; A light case of noir pastiche, but an engaging one, especially for the film savvy. With confessional asides to the camera, a sly–winking…
Mystery Men (1999): Dir. Kinka Usher
Feat. Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, Hank Azaria…; Doing for the super–hero genre what PLEASANTVILLE did for 50s sitcoms, this frequently hilarious spoof sets a rag–tag team of…
Magnolia (2000): Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Tom Cruise, Jason Robards Jr., William H. Macy…; A sprawling, stylistically–impressive but moribund domestic melodrama about Californian amorality and redemption (of sorts), with interleaved…
State and Main (2000): Dir. David Mamet
Feat. William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin, Sarah Jessica Parker…; When a harried film–crew descends upon the leafy streets of Waterford, Vermont to film a period drama, the worlds of apple–pie America…
Panic (2000): Dir. Henry Bromell
Feat. William H. Macy, Neve Campbell, Tracey Ullman…; There is more than meets the eye in this curiously pitched black comedy concerning a well–dressed contract killer (Macy) who seeks refuge from…
Jurassic Park 3 (2001): Dir. Joe Johnston
Feat. Sam Neill, Laura Dern, William H. Macy…; Sam Neill is the only original cast member to return (save a cameo from Laura Dern) for more run–around with the dinosaurs. Without…
Focus (2001): Dir. Neal Slavin
Feat. William H. Macy, Laura Dern, Meatloaf; A finely crafted adaptation of Arthur Miller’s controversial novel set in the waning months of WWII, this examines the incipient racism of a…
Welcome to Collinwood (2002): Dir. Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
Feat. William H. Macy, Isaiah Washington, Sam Rockwell…; A comic 'heist' satire in which Luis Guzman and his girlfriend land in a snowballing mess when trying to spring him from prison to do a big…
Seabiscuit (2003): Dir. Gary Ross
Feat. Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper…; Stirring drama based on a true story of a down–and–out racehorse that confounded expectations by turning around the fortunes of three…
Out of Order (2003): Feat. Eric Stoltz, Felicity Huffman, Justine Bateman…; The pilot episode for a TV Series set around a Los Angeles family, where Mom (Huffman) and Dad (Stoltz) exist on the middle rungs of the Hollywood…
Cooler, The (2004): Dir. Wayne Kramer
Feat. William H. Macy, Maria Bello, Alec Baldwin…; Casino–cool 'indie' film starring William H. Macy as a life–long loser employed to 'cool' the winning streaks of high–rollers in a…
Cellular (2004): Dir. David R Ellis
Feat. Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham…; Interesting abduction thriller leads with a premise that has flaky beachbum Evans rung on his cellphone with a chilling message from a kidnap victim…
Wool Cap, The (2004): Dir. Steven Schachter
Feat. William H. Macy, Ned Beatty, Catherine O'Hara…; A feelgood telemovie with Macy playing the mute, wool–capped superintendent of a tenement block, who is landed with the care of a little girl,…
Spartan (2004): Dir. David Mamet
Feat. Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy…; An expert 'special ops' agent (Kilmer) is sucked headfirst into a wild, yet plausible conspiracy involving the kidnapping of the US president's…
Sahara (2005): Dir. Breck Eisner
Feat. Matthew McConaughey, Penelope Cruz, Steve Zahn…; Preposterous action yarn has 'New Age' treasure–hunter McConaughey team up with Zahn to find a Confederate battleship which is somehow wrecked…
Edmond (2005): Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. William H. Macy, Julia Stiles, Joe Mantegna…; Raw, unapologetic adaptation of David Mamet's 1982 stageplay stars William H. Macy as a downtrodden everyman who embarks on a volatile…
Thank You For Smoking (2005): Dir. Jason Reitman
Feat. Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Sam Elliott…; Smokin' and scathing satire centred on a Big Tobacco lobbyist whose air of smooth earnestness and mastery of rhetorical logic is employed to combat…
Bobby (2006): Dir. Emilio Estevez
Feat. Laurence Fishburne, Heather Graham, Anthony Hopkins…; In the sprawling, overlapping traditional of Robert Altman, dir. Emilio Estevez time capsules the hours leading up to Robert F. Kennedy's…

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Filmography (All Films)