# John Malkovich on stage and screen

American actor, director, and producer John Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. He started acting in the 1980s, appearing in the films Places in the Heart (1984) with Sally Field, Death of a Salesman (1985), The Glass Menagerie (1987), Empire of the Sun (1987), and Dangerous Liaisons (1988) with Glenn Close. His role in Places in the Heart earned him an Academy Award nomination. During the 1990s, he starred in the films Of Mice and Men (1992) as Lennie Small, In the Line of Fire (1993) as Mitch Leary, Beyond the Clouds (1995) as The Director, The Portrait of a Lady (1996) as Gilbert Osmond, Con Air (1997) as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) as Athos, Being John Malkovich (1999) as John Horatio Malkovich, and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) as Charles VII. His role as Mitch Leary in In the Line of Fire earned him his second Academy Award nomination.
Malkovich went on to appear in the early 2000s films Johnny English (2003) as Pascal Sauvage, The Libertine (2004) as Charles II, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) as Humma Kavula, Eragon (2006) as Galbatorix, Klimt (2006) as Gustav Klimt, Burn After Reading (2008) as Osborne Cox, and Changeling (2008) as Reverend Briegleb. In 2010, he co-starred with Josh Brolin and Megan Fox in the science fiction Western Jonah Hex as Quentin Turnbull. The same year, he also starred in Secretariat with Diane Lane, and RED with Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren, a role he later reprised in the sequel RED 2 (2013). Malkovich made an appearance in the science fiction action film Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) as Bruce Brazos. He co-starred in the romantic zombie comedy film Warm Bodies (2013) as General Grigio and lent his voice to the animated movie Penguins of Madagascar (2014) as the villainous octopus Dave.
As a producer, Malkovich has produced the films Ghost World (2001), The Libertine (2004), Juno (2007), and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012).

## Filmography
### As actor
#### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1978 | A Wedding | Extra | Uncredited |
| 1984 | Places in the Heart | Mr. Will | |
| 1984 | The Killing Fields | Al Rockoff | |
| 1985 | Eleni | Nick Gage | |
| 1987 | The Glass Menagerie | Tom Wingfield | |
| 1987 | Making Mr. Right | Dr. Jeff Peters / Ulysses | |
| 1987 | Empire of the Sun | Basie | |
| 1988 | Miles from Home | Barry Maxwell | |
| 1988 | Dangerous Liaisons | Vicomte de Valmont | |
| 1990 | The Sheltering Sky | Port Moresby | |
| 1991 | The Object of Beauty | Jake Bartholemew | |
| 1991 | Queens Logic | Eliot | |
| 1992 | Shadows and Fog | Paul, The Clown | |
| 1992 | Of Mice and Men | Lennie Small | |
| 1992 | Jennifer 8 | FBI Agent St. Anne | |
| 1993 | In the Line of Fire | Mitch Leary | |
| 1993 | Alive | Older Carlitos Paez | Uncredited |
| 1993 | The Convent | Michael Padovic | |
| 1995 | Beyond the Clouds | The Director | |
| 1996 | Mary Reilly | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde | |
| 1996 | The Portrait of a Lady | Gilbert Osmond | |
| 1996 | The Ogre | Abel Tiffauges | |
| 1996 | Mulholland Falls | General Thomas Timms | |
| 1997 | Con Air | Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom | |
| 1998 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Athos | |
| 1998 | Rounders | Teddy "KGB" | |
| 1999 | Being John Malkovich | John Horatio Malkovich | |
| 1999 | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Charles VII | |
| 1999 | Le Temps Retrouvé | Le Baron de Charlus | |
| 2000 | Shadow of the Vampire | F. W. Murnau | |
| 2001 | Knockaround Guys | Teddy Deserve | |
| 2001 | Hotel | Omar Jonnson | |
| 2001 | I'm Going Home | John Crawford | |
| 2001 | Les âmes fortes | Monsieur Numance | |
| 2002 | The Dancer Upstairs | Abimael Guzman | Uncredited; also producer and director |
| 2002 | Hideous Man | The Narrator | Short film; also writer and director |
| 2002 | Ripley's Game | Tom Ripley | |
| 2002 | Adaptation | Himself | |
| 2003 | Johnny English | Pascal Sauvage | |
| 2003 | Um Filme Falado | Captain John Walesa | |
| 2004 | The Libertine | Charles II | Also producer |
| 2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Humma Kavula | |
| 2005 | Colour Me Kubrick | Alan Conway | |
| 2005 | Flipping Uncle Kimono | Himself | Documentary |
| 2006 | Art School Confidential | Professor Sandiford | Also producer |
| 2006 | Eragon | Galbatorix | |
| 2006 | Klimt | Gustav Klimt | |
| 2006 | The Call | Priest | Short film |
| 2007 | Drunkboat | Mort | |
| 2007 | Beowulf | Unferth | |
| 2007 | Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place | Himself | Documentary |
| 2008 | The Great Buck Howard | Buck Howard | |
| 2008 | Gardens of the Night | Michael | |
| 2008 | In Transit | Colonel Pavlov | |
| 2008 | Burn After Reading | Osborne Cox | |
| 2008 | Disgrace | David Lurie | |
| 2008 | Mutant Chronicles | Constantine | |
| 2008 | Changeling | Reverend Gustav Briegleb | |
| 2009 | Afterwards | Joseph Kay | |
| 2010 | Jonah Hex | Quentin Turnbull | |
| 2010 | Secretariat | Lucien Laurin | |
| 2010 | RED | Marvin Boggs | |
| 2011 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Bruce Brazos | |
| 2012 | Lines of Wellington | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | |
| 2013 | Warm Bodies | General Grigio | |
| 2013 | Siberian Education | Grandfather Kuzya | |
| 2013 | Ecstasy | Vinny | Short film |
| 2013 | RED 2 | Marvin Boggs | |
| 2014 | Cesar Chavez | Bogdanovich Senior | Also executive producer |
| 2014 | Penguins of Madagascar | Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine | Voice only |
| 2014 | Casanova Variations | Giacomo Casanova | |
| 2014 | Cut Bank | Sheriff Vogel | |
| 2016 | Zoolander 2 | Chazz Spencer | |
| 2016 | Dominion | Dr. Felton | |
| 2016 | Deepwater Horizon | Donald Vidrine | |
| 2016 | Hell | The Soldier | Short film |
| 2016 | Psychogenic Fugue | Various Roles | Short film |
| 2017 | Unlocked | Bob Hunter | |
| 2017 | The Wilde Wedding | Laurence Darling | Also executive producer |
| 2017 | I Love You, Daddy | Leslie Goodwin | |
| 2017 | About Love. For Adults Only | Ed, The Lecturer | |
| 2017 | Bullet Head | Walker | |
| 2018 | Casanovagen | John Malkovich / Giacomo Casanova | |
| 2018 | Supercon | Sid Newberry | |
| 2018 | Mile 22 | James Bishop | |
| 2018 | Bird Box | Douglas | |
| 2019 | Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile | Judge Edward Cowart | |
| 2019 | Velvet Buzzsaw | Piers | |
| 2019 | Valley of the Gods | Wes Tauros | |
| 2020 | Arkansas | "Bright" | |
| 2020 | Ava | Duke | |
| 2021 | Rogue Hostage | Sam Safty | |
| 2021 | The Survivalist | Aaron Neville Ramsey | |
| 2022 | Shattered | Ronald | Also producer |
| 2022 | Chariot | Dr. Karn | |
| 2022 | White Elephant | Glen Follett | |
| 2022 | Savage Salvation | Peter | |
| 2022 | Mindcage | The Artist | |
| 2023 | Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes | Seneca the Younger | |
| 2023 | One Ranger | Geddes | |
| 2023 | Fool’s Paradise | Ed Cote | |
| 2023 | The Line | Beach Miller | |
| 2023 | Mr. Blake At Your Service! | Andrew Blake | |
| 2025 | Opus | Alfred Moretti | |
| 2025 | The Fantastic Four: First Steps † | TBA | Post-production |
| TBA | The Yellow Tie † | Sergiu Celibidache | Post-production |
| TBA | A Winter's Journey † | Leiermann | Post-production |
| TBA | In the Hand of Dante † | TBA | Post-production |
| TBA | Sacrifice † | TBA | Post-production |
| TBA | Wild Horse Nine † | TBA | Filming |
| 2115 | 100 Years | Male Protagonist | Short film; also writer |
Key :
| † | Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released |

#### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
| 1981 | Word of Honor | Gary | Television film | |
| 1983 | Say Goodnight, Gracie | Steve | Television film | |
| 1984 | True West | Lee | Television film | |
| 1985 | Death of a Salesman | Biff Loman | Television film | |
| 1986 | Rocket to the Moon | Ben Stark | Television film | |
| 1987 | Santabear's High Flying Adventure | Santa Claus (voice) | Television film | |
| 1989, 1993, 2008 | Saturday Night Live | Himself / Host | 3 episodes | [114] [115] [116] |
| 1991 | Old Times | Deeley | Television film | |
| 1993 | Heart of Darkness | Kurtz | Television film | |
| 1999 | RKO 281 | Herman J. Mankiewicz | Television film | |
| 2000 | Les Misérables | Javert | 4 episodes | |
| 2002 | Napoléon | Charles Talleyrand | 4 episodes | |
| 2014 | Crossbones | Blackbeard | 9 episodes | |
| 2018–2023 | Billions | Grigor Andolov | 7 episodes | |
| 2018 | The ABC Murders | Hercule Poirot | 3 episodes; also associate producer | |
| 2019 | Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona | The Narrator (voice) | 8 episodes | |
| 2020 | The New Pope | Pope John Paul III | 9 episodes | |
| 2020–2022 | Space Force | Dr. Adrian Mallory | 17 episodes | |
| 2020 | Home Movie: The Princess Bride | The Impressive Clergyman | Episode: "Chapter Nine: Have Fun Storming The Castle!" | |
| 2021–2023 | Ten Year Old Tom | Mr. B (voice) | 20 episodes | |
| 2024 | The New Look | Lucien Lelong | 7 episodes | |
| 2024 | Ripley | Reeves Minot | Episode: "VIII Narcissus" | |
Key :
| † | Denotes series that have not yet been released |

#### Podcasts

| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
| 2024 | Unsinkable | Chief Engineer Pollard (voice) | 11 episodes | |

#### Video games

| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
| 2015 | Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare | Oz | Exo Zombies | |

#### Music videos

| Year | Artist | Title | Ref. |
| 1992 | Annie Lennox | "Walking on Broken Glass" | |
| 2015 | Eminem | "Phenomenal" | |

### As director

* 2002 The Dancer Upstairs
* 2002 Hideous Man

### As writer

* 2002 Hideous Man
* 2015 100 Years (due to be released in 2115)

### As producer

* 1988 The Accidental Tourist (executive producer)
* 2001 Ghost World
* 2002 The Dancer Upstairs
* 2004 The Libertine
* 2006 Kill the Poor
* 2006 Art School Confidential
* 2007 Juno
* 2011 Young Adult (executive producer)
* 2012 The Perks of Being a Wallflower
* 2013 César Chávez (executive producer)
* 2015 Demolition (executive producer)
* 2017 The Wilde Wedding (executive producer)
* 2022 Shattered

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Role | Playwright | Venue |
| 1979 | The Glass Menagerie | Tom Wingfield | Tennessee Williams | Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago |
| 1980 | Balm in Gilead | Stranger | Lanford Wilson | Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago |
| 1982 | True West | Lee | Sam Shepard | Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago |
| 1982 | True West | Lee | Sam Shepard | Cherry Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| 1984 | Death of a Salesman | Biff Loman | Arthur Miller | Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway debut |
| 1985 | Arms and the Man | Captain Bluntschli | George Bernard Shaw | Circle in the Square Theatre, Broadway |
| 1987 | Burn This | Pale | Lanford Wilson | Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles |
| 1987 | Burn This | Pale | Lanford Wilson | Theater 890, Off-Broadway |
| 1987 | Burn This | Pale | Lanford Wilson | Plymouth Theatre, Broadway |
| 1990 | Burn This | Pale | Lanford Wilson | Lyric Theatre, London |
| 1991 | States of Shock | Colonel | Sam Shepard | American Place Theater, Off-Broadway |
| 1992 | A Slip of the Tongue | Dominic Tantra | Dusty Hughes | Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago |
| 1996 | The Libertine | John Wilmot | Stephen Jeffreys | Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago |
| 2005 | Lost Land | Count Kristof | Stephen Jeffreys | Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago |
| 2010 | The Infernal Comedy – Confessions of a Serial Killer | Jack Unterweger | Michael Sturminger | Howard Gilman Opera House, New York |
| 2011 | The Giacomo Variations | Giacomo Casanova | Michael Sturminger | Ronacher Theatre, Vienna |
| 2017 | Just Call Me God | Satur Diman Cha | Michael Sturminger | Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg |
| 2019 | Bitter Wheat | Barney Fein | David Mamet | Garrick Theatre, London |
| 2022 | In the Solitude of Cotton Fields | The Client / The Dealer | Bernard-Marie Koltès | Dailes Theatre, Riga |