Highest rated as cast or director
John Malkovich's 6 titles from the 1980s have a median Balasaur Score of 75, led by The Killing Fields (80) and Dangerous Liaisons (78), against 61 for those from the 1990s.
Biography
John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor. He has received several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Malkovich started his career as a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 1976. He moved to New York City, acting in a Steppenwolf production of the Sam Shepard play True West (1980). He made his Broadway debut as Biff in the revival of the Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman (1984). He directed the Harold Pinter play The Caretaker(1986) and acted in Lanford Wilson's Burn This(1987). Malkovich has received two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his performances in Places in the Heart (1984) and In the Line of Fire (1993). Other films include The Killing Fields (1984), Empire of the Sun (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Of Mice and Men (1992), Con Air (1997), Rounders (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999), Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Ripley's Game (2002), Johnny English (2003), Burn After Reading (2008), and Red (2010). He has also produced films such as Ghost World (2001), Juno (2007), and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012). For his work on television, he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for Death of a Salesman (1985). His other Emmy-nominated roles were for portraying Herman J. Mankiewicz in RKO 281 (1999) and Charles Talleyrand in Napoléon (2002). Other television roles include Crossbones (2014), Billions (2018–19), The New Pope (2020), and Space Force (2020–2022).
Acted in 144
2020s
- 2027
Prodigies
Keith · 7 episodes
- 2026
- 2025
The Life of Mirrors
Movie
- 2024
Unsinkable
Chief Engineer Pollard · 11 episodes
- 2023
Breaking Rachmaninoff
Movie
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
44Ava
Duke
2010s
- 2019
- 2018
The Music Critic
The Narrator
Casanova Gene
Movie
- 2017
I Love You, Daddy
Leslie Goodwin
Just Call Me God
Satur Diman Cha
- 2016
Psychogenic Fugue
All characters
- 2014
Casanova Variations
Giacomo
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
Movie
Crossbones
Blackbeard · 9 episodes
Cesar Chavez
Bogdanovitch
- 2013
Ecstasy
Vinny
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
Jack Unterweger
2000s
- 2009
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
(archive footage)
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
- 2003
A Talking Picture
Comandante John Walesa
- 2002
The Dancer Upstairs
Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
- 2001
Hotel
Omar Jonnson
Savage Souls
Monsieur Numance
I’m Going Home
John Crawford, Film Director
- 2000
1990s
- 1999
Time Regained
Baron de Charlus
- 1998
- 1997
- 1996
The Ogre
Abel
- 1995
Beyond the Clouds
The Director
The Convent
Michael
- 1994
Zona+
Próprio · 1 episode
- 1993
- 1992
Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
Movie
- 1991
Old Times
Movie
- 1990
1980s
- 1988
Miles from Home
Barry Maxwell
- 1987
- 1986
Rocket to the Moon
Ben Stark
- 1985
Eleni
Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
Death of a Salesman
Biff Loman
- 1984
True West
Lee
- 1983
Say Goodnight, Gracie
Steve
- 1982
- 1981
American Dream
Movie
Word of Honor
Gary
1970s
- 1978
A Wedding
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
No release date
Lost and Found in Paris
Wim Waldemar
A Winter's Journey
Leiermann
Produced 15
2020s
- 2022
- 2020
2010s
- 2017
- 2016
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
2000s
- 2009
Which Way Home
Executive Producer
- 2007
- 2006
- 2004
- 2003
Kill the Poor
Producer
- 2002
The Dancer Upstairs
Producer
- 2001
1980s
- 1988
Directed 3
2000s
- 2002
The Dancer Upstairs
Director
Hideous Man
Director
- 2000
Lady Behave
Director
Wrote 3
2000s
- 2008
Snow Angel
Writer
- 2002
Hideous Man
Writer
- 2000
Lady Behave
Writer
Sound 1
2010s
- 2019
Gotta Get Down to It
Sound Mixer
Appearances32
2020s
- 2026
Being Related to John Malkovich
Self
- 2024
Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry
self
- 2023
2010s
- 2019
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
Self - Narrator (voice) · 8 episodes
- 2014
Noseland
Self
- 2012
- 2011
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
Self
- 2010
Saturday Night
Self
2000s
- 2009
La Traversée du désir
Self
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Self
- 2002
Hideous Man
Narrator
- 2001
1990s
- 1997
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
Self
- 1996
- 1995
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Self (uncredited)
- 1993
- 1990
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
Self
1980s
- 1989
Decade
Self
- 1987
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
Self
- 1986
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Self / Biff
- 1982
- 1981
1970s
- 1975
