William Sadler (actor)
Film

William Sadler (actor)

Section Title: Film
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Year	Title	Role	Notes

1982	Hanky Panky	Hotel Clerk

1986	Off Beat	Dickson

1987	Project X	Dr. Carroll

1989	K-9	Car Salesman Don

1990	Hard to Kill	Senator Vernon Trent

Die Hard 2	Colonel Stuart

The Hot Spot	Frank Sutton

1991	Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey	Grim Reaper / English Family Member	Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor

Rush	Monroe

1992	Trespass	Don Perry

1993	Freaked	Dick Brian

1994	The Shawshank Redemption	Heywood

1995	Demon Knight	Frank Brayker

1996	Bordello of Blood	The Mummy

Solo	Colonel Frank Madden / Improved Solo

1997	RocketMan	William "Wild Bill" Overbeck

1998	Ambushed	Jim Natter

Disturbing Behavior	Dorian Newberry

Reach the Rock	Quinn

1999	Stealth Fighter	Adm. Frank Peterson

The Green Mile	Klaus Detterick

2001	Skippy	Ringo

2002	Another Life	Man	Short film

2003	The Battle of Shaker Heights	Abraham 'Abe' Ernswiler

2004	Kinsey	Kenneth Braun

2005	Devour	Ivan Reisz

Confess	Senator Roger Lampert

Purple Heart	Colonel Allen

2006	Jimmy and Judy	Uncle Rodney

Premium	Cole Carter

Unspoken	Dad

The Wine Bar	Bartender	Short film

2007	A New Wave	Mr. Dewitt

August Rush	Thomas Novacek

The Mist	Jim Grondin

2008	Eagle Eye	William Shaw

The Good Student	Honest Phil Palmer

2009	Stream	Dr. Shelby	Short film

Shadowheart	Thomas Conners	Direct-to-video

The Hills Run Red	Wilson Wyler Concannon

Last Day of Summer	Mr. Crolick

Beyond All Boundaries	Lt. Col. Lewis "Chesty" Puller (voice)	Short film

Red & Blue Marbles	John

2010	Melvin Smarty	Bob

Mineville	Tom O'Roarke

2011	Silent But Deadly	John Capper

Open Gate	Robert

2012	Man on a Ledge	Frank Cassidy and Valet

See Girl Run	Marty

Greetings from Tim Buckley	Lee Underwood

2013	Iron Man 3	President Matthew Ellis

Machete Kills	Sheriff Doakes

The Suspect	Sheriff Dixon

2014	Freedom	Plimpton

2016	The Duel	Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Governor of Texas

The Hollow	Sheriff Beau McKinney

2017	Living Among Us	Samuel

2019	The Highwaymen	Henry Barrow

2020	Grudge	TBA

Bill & Ted Face the Music	Grim Reaper

Sentence(s)

Sadler played in the 1990 film Die Hard 2 as Colonel Stuart, as Heywood in the 1994 The Shawshank Redemption, the Grim Reaper in the 1991 Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey and as Brayker in Demon Knight.

final_sentence: Sadler played in the 1990 film Die Hard 2 as Colonel Stuart, as Heywood in the 1994 The Shawshank Redemption, the Grim Reaper in the 1991 Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey and as Brayker in Demon Knight.