John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor, producer, director, and fashion designer. Over the last 30 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award nominations. He has also appeared in well-received films such as Empire of the Sun, The Killing Fields, Dangerous Liaisons, Of Mice and Men, Being John Malkovich, Burn After Reading, RED, and Warm Bodies, as well as producing numerous films, including Juno and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Malkovich attended exclusively Illinois schools throughout his childhood and into adulthood, building a community of like-minded performers such as Joan Allen, Gary Sinise and Glenne Headly, all of whom co-founded the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1976. After appearing in numerous stage productions, Malkovich began acting in feature films in the late 1970s, garnering critical acclaim for his numerous dramatic and comedic roles in films such as Dangerous Liasions, Of Mice and Men, Being John Malkovich, and Burn After Reading. In keeping with his renaissance-man image, he created his own fashion company, Mrs. Mudd, in 2002. Malkovich continues to act, direct and produce numerous movies per year, and is considered one of the most influential voices in modern cinema.
Movie | 100 Years | Hero | 2025 |
Movie | In the Hand of Dante | 2025 | |
Movie | The Line | Beach Miller | 2023-06-09 |
Movie | Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes | Seneca | 2023-02-20 |
Movie | Fool's Paradise | Ed Cote | 2023-05-12 |
Movie | Mindcage | The Artist | 2022-12-16 |
Movie | Savage Salvation | Peter | 2022-12-02 |
Movie | White Elephant | Glen Follett | 2022-06-03 |
Movie | Rogue Hostage | Sam Nelson | 2021-06-11 |
Series | Ten Year Old Tom | 2021-09-30 | |
Movie | The Survivalist | Aaron Ramsey | 2021-12-02 |
Series | The New Pope | Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox | 2020-01-10 |
Movie | Arkansas | Bright | 2020-05-05 |
Series | Space Force | Dr. Adrian Mallory | 2020-05-29 |
Movie | Valley of the Gods | Wes Tauros | 2020-09-17 |
Movie | Ava | Duke | 2020-07-02 |
Series | Home Movie: The Princess Bride | The Impressive Clergyman | 2020-06-29 |
Movie | Last Call | Dr. Felton | 2020-11-25 |
Movie | Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile | Edward Cowart | 2019-05-02 |
Series | Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2019-11-29 |
Movie | Velvet Buzzsaw | Piers | 2019-02-01 |
Series | The ABC Murders | Hercule Poirot | 2018-12-26 |
Movie | Supercon | Sid Newberry | 2018-04-27 |
Movie | Mile 22 | Bishop | 2018-08-16 |
Movie | Bird Box | Douglas | 2018-12-13 |
Movie | Unlocked | Bob Hunter | 2017-04-27 |
Movie | About Love. Adults Only | 2017-09-01 | |
Movie | Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda | Port (archive footage) | 2017-11-04 |
Movie | Bullet Head | Walker | 2017-12-07 |
Movie | The Wilde Wedding | Laurence | 2017-09-15 |
Movie | I Love You, Daddy | Leslie Goodwin | 2017-09-09 |
Series | Billions | 2016-01-17 | |
Movie | Deepwater Horizon | Donald Vidrine | 2016-09-28 |
Movie | Zoolander 2 | Chazz Spencer | 2016-02-06 |
Movie | Cesar Chavez | Bogdanovitch | 2014-03-28 |
Series | Crossbones | Blackbeard | 2014-05-30 |
Movie | Penguins of Madagascar | Dave (voice) | 2014-11-22 |
Movie | Cut Bank | Sheriff Vogel | 2014-10-04 |
Movie | Noseland | Himself | 2014-06-12 |
Movie | The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue | Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine | 2014-07-22 |
Movie | Casanova Variations | Giacomo | 2014-08-21 |
Movie | Siberian Education | Grandfather Kuzya | 2013-02-27 |
Movie | RED 2 | Marvin Boggs | 2013-07-18 |
Movie | Warm Bodies | Colonel Grigio | 2013-01-31 |
Movie | Side by Side | Self | 2012-08-19 |
Movie | Lines of Wellington | General Wellington | 2012-10-04 |
Movie | All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set | Self | 2012-05-15 |
Movie | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Bruce Brazos | 2011-06-28 |
Movie | 100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story | Self | 2011-03-13 |
Movie | Saturday Night | Self | 2010-05-02 |
Movie | The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer | Jack Unterweger | 2010-06-08 |
Movie | Jonah Hex | Turnbull | 2010-06-18 |
Movie | Drunkboat | Mort | 2010-10-08 |
Movie | RED | Marvin Boggs | 2010-10-13 |
Movie | Secretariat | Lucien Laurin | 2010-08-20 |
Movie | La Traversée du désir | Self | 2009-03-16 |
Movie | SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas | 2009-12-17 | |
Movie | In Tranzit | Pavlov | 2008-03-04 |
Movie | Mutant Chronicles | Constantine | 2008-08-07 |
Movie | The Great Buck Howard | Buck Howard | 2008-01-18 |
Movie | Music at the Sea | Himself | 2008-09-28 |
Movie | Gardens of the Night | Michael | 2008-11-21 |
Movie | Changeling | Rev. Gustav Briegleb | 2008-10-24 |
Movie | Afterwards | Joseph Kay | 2008-10-01 |
Movie | Disgrace | David Lurie | 2008-09-06 |
Movie | Burn After Reading | Osborne Cox | 2008-09-05 |
Movie | Beowulf | Unferth | 2007-11-05 |
Movie | Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place | 2007-04-01 | |
Movie | Eragon | King Galbatorix | 2006-12-14 |
Movie | Art School Confidential | Professor Sandiford | 2006-05-05 |
Movie | The Call | Exorcist | 2006-03-01 |
Movie | Klimt | Gustav Klimt | 2006-03-03 |
Movie | 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 | 2005-09-05 |
Movie | Colour Me Kubrick | Alan Conway | 2005-10-06 |
Movie | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Humma Kavula | 2005-04-28 |
Movie | The Libertine | Charles II | 2004-09-16 |
Movie | A Talking Picture | Comandante John Walesa | 2003-08-31 |
Movie | Johnny English | Pascal Sauvage | 2003-03-14 |
Movie | Adaptation. | Self (uncredited) | 2002-12-06 |
Movie | Ripley's Game | Tom Ripley | 2002-09-02 |
Series | Napoleon | Charles Talleyrand | 2002-10-07 |
Movie | The Dancer Upstairs | Abimael Guzman (uncredited) | 2002-09-20 |
Movie | I’m Going Home | John Crawford | 2001-05-13 |
Movie | Savage Souls | Monsieur Numance | 2001-05-20 |
Movie | Knockaround Guys | Teddy Deserve | 2001-11-30 |
Movie | Hotel | Omar Jonnson | 2001-09-12 |
Series | Les Misérables | Javert | 2000-09-04 |
Movie | RKO 281 | Herman Mankiewicz | 2000-04-07 |
Movie | Shadow of the Vampire | F. W. Murnau | 2000-05-15 |
Movie | Time Regained | Baron de Charlus | 1999-05-19 |
Movie | Being John Malkovich | John Horatio Malkovich | 1999-10-29 |
Movie | Ladies Room | Roberto | 1999-11-30 |
Movie | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Charles VII | 1999-10-27 |
Movie | Rounders | Teddy KGB | 1998-09-11 |
Movie | The Man in the Iron Mask | Athos | 1998-03-12 |
Movie | Con Air | Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom | 1997-06-05 |
Movie | Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady | Himself | 1997-01-01 |
Movie | Cannes Man | Self | 1997-06-03 |
Movie | Mary Reilly | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde | 1996-02-23 |
Movie | The Ogre | Abel | 1996-09-12 |
Movie | Mulholland Falls | General Thomas Timms | 1996-04-26 |
Movie | The Portrait of a Lady | Gilbert Osmond | 1996-10-17 |
Movie | The Convent | Michael | 1995-09-06 |
Movie | Beyond the Clouds | The Director | 1995-10-27 |
Series | Zona+ | Próprio | 1994-09-19 |
Movie | Heart of Darkness | Kurtz | 1993-10-01 |
Movie | In the Line of Fire | Mitch Leary | 1993-07-08 |
Movie | Alive | Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited) | 1993-01-15 |
Movie | Of Mice and Men | Lennie Small | 1992-09-16 |
Movie | Jennifer Eight | Agent St. Anne | 1992-11-06 |
Movie | The Object of Beauty | Jake Bartholomew | 1991-04-12 |
Movie | Queens Logic | Eliot | 1991-02-01 |
Movie | Shadows and Fog | Clown | 1991-12-05 |
Movie | Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter | Self | 1990-12-01 |
Movie | The Sheltering Sky | Port | 1990-10-25 |
Movie | Miles from Home | Barry Maxwell | 1988-09-16 |
Movie | Dangerous Liaisons | Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont | 1988-12-21 |
Movie | Empire of the Sun | Basie | 1987-12-09 |
Movie | The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun | Self | 1987-12-30 |
Movie | Making Mr. Right | Jeff Peters / Ulysses | 1987-04-03 |
Movie | The Glass Menagerie | Tom Wingfield | 1987-10-23 |
Movie | Eleni | Nicholas 'Nick' Gage | 1985-11-01 |
Movie | Death of a Salesman | Biff Loman | 1985-08-16 |
Movie | Places in the Heart | Mr. Will | 1984-09-11 |
Movie | The Killing Fields | Al Rockoff | 1984-11-23 |
Movie | True West | Lee | 1984-02-01 |
Movie | Word of Honor | Gary | 1981-01-06 |
Movie | American Dream | 1981-04-26 | |
Movie | A Wedding | Wedding Guest (uncredited) | 1978-08-29 |