Highest rated as cast or director
Bill Hader's 6 titles from the 2000s have a median Balasaur Score of 72, led by Superbad (78) and Adventureland (73), against 65 for those from the 2010s.
Biography
William Thomas Hader Jr. (born June 7, 1978) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is the creator, producer, writer, director, and star of the HBO dark comedy series Barry (2018–2023), for which he has been nominated for eight Emmy Awards, winning two. Hader's initial success was for his eight-year stint (2005–2013) as a cast member on the long-running NBC variety series Saturday Night Live, for which he received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Peabody Award. He became known for his impressions and especially for his work on the Weekend Update segments, in which he played Stefon Meyers, a flamboyant New York tour guide who recommends unusual nightclubs and parties with bizarre characters with unusual tastes. He is also the star and producer of the IFC mockumentary comedy series Documentary Now! (2015–present) which he co-created along with Fred Armisen and Seth Meyers. Hader has had supporting roles in the films You, Me and Dupree (2006), Hot Rod (2007), Superbad (2007), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, (2009), Paul (2011), This Is 40 (2012), and 22 Jump Street (2014), as well as leading roles in The Skeleton Twins (2014), Trainwreck (2015), and as an adult Richie Tozier in It Chapter Two (2019). He also is known for his extensive work in voice-over, portraying both leading and supporting characters in films such as the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs franchise (2009–2013), Turbo (2013), Inside Out (2015), The BFG (2016), Power Rangers (2017), Toy Story 4 (2019) and Lightyear (2022).
Acted in 108
2020s
- 2026
Vincent Price: What Keeps Us Alive
Movie
- 2024
An SNL Thanksgiving
(archive footage)
- 2023
- 2022
Toast of Tinseltown
Dwight Difference · 1 episode
- 2021
- 2020
2010s
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
Stuart
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
Stuart
Steve's First Bath
Flint Lockwood (voice)
Attack of the 50-foot Gummi Bear
Flint Lockwood (voice)
- 2013
Here Comes the Night Time
Captain Bill the Astronaut
- 2012
- 2011
Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
Vincent Price
- 2010
The Women of SNL
Various (archive footage)
Freaknik: The Musical
Tad (voice)
2000s
- 2009
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
(archive footage)
Monkey Mischief
General Custer
Snake 'n' Bacon
(voice)
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler
Various (archive footage)
- 2008
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday
Various · 9 episodes
Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness
Rob Slolom
Laser cats 3
Nitro
- 2007
Xavier: Renegade Angel
Fiddelin Announcer (voice), Pavlov (voice) · 1 episode
Purple Violets
Bill - Bookstore Fan
Laser Cats 2
Nitro / Self
- 2006
The Pity Card
Eric
- 2005
- 2004
Sounds Good to Me: Remastering 'The Sting'
Barnaby G. Price
- 2003
- 2000
No release date
Empress of Serenity
Movie
Produced 11
2020s
- 2026
2010s
- 2018
- 2015
- 2013
2000s
- 2004
- 2002
- 2001
- 2000
Little Heroes 2
Production Assistant
1990s
- 1997
Wrote 6
2010s
- 2018
- 2015
2000s
- 2007
Laser Cats 2
Writer
- 2006
- 2004
Sounds Good to Me: Remastering 'The Sting'
Co-Writer
1970s
- 1975
Other crew 2
2010s
- 2015
2000s
- 2002
Created 2
2010s
- 2018
- 2015
Edited 1
2000s
- 2004
The Frank International Film Festival
Assistant Editor
Directed 1
2010s
- 2018
Appearances55
2020s
- 2026
- 2025
- 2024
Hendrie
Self
- 2023
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
Self - Guest
- 2022
Starting Now: the Making of Barry
Self
- 2020
Celebrity Escape Room
Self
2010s
- 2019
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
Self
At the Video Store
Self
- 2018
Love, Gilda
Self
- 2017
Talking with Chris Hardwick
Self · 1 episode
- 2016
Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously
Self
- 2015
Beaver Trilogy Part IV
Narrator
- 2014
- 2013
Comedy Central Roast of James Franco
Self
Talking Bad
Self · 1 episode
- 2012
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Self
- 2011
- 2010
Saturday Night
Self
2000s
- 2009
- 2007
- 2006
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Saturday TV Funhouse
Self
- 2005
- 2003
1990s
- 1999
- 1996
The Ambiguously Gay Duo
Self, Flame Eye / Flatside (voice) · 12 episodes
- 1993
Thanked in the credits3
2020s
- 2025
- 2023
