Acting credits
108
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
William Devane
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
3.7
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Movies: 78Series: 31Crew credits: 2
TMDB ID: 21416
IMDb ID: nm0001137
Known for: Acting
Born: September 5, 1939
Age: 86
Place of birth: Albany, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1955 - 2022
Years active: 68
Average TMDB rating: 6.65
Wikidata: Q451880
Also known as
William Joseph Devane • Γουίλιαμ Ντιβέιν • ویلیام دیوان
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Biography
William Joseph Devane (born September 5, 1937) is an American film, television and theater actor, known for his role as Greg Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing and as James Heller on the Fox serial drama 24, the role he reprised in Live Another Day. He is also known for his supporting roles in films such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Family Plot), Marathon Man, Rolling Thunder and Space Cowboys. Devane began his acting career with the New York Shakespeare Festival where he performed in 15 plays. In 1966, Devane portrayed Robert F. Kennedy in the Off-Broadway spoof MacBird. He gained acclaim for his role as President John F. Kennedy in a television docudrama about the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Missiles of October, and again when he played blacklisted radio personality John Henry Faulk in the Emmy Award-winning TV movie Fear on Trial. He is widely known for his ten years as the ambitious and hardnosed politician-turned-corporate titan Greg Sumner on Knots Landing. In 1994, Devane appeared as Al Capone in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman in an episode entitled "That Old Gang of Mine". He also had a recurring role on the CBS show Early Edition as the lead character's father. Devane appeared in the films McCabe & Mrs. Miller; Lady Liberty; Family Plot; Marathon Man; Rolling Thunder; Yanks; Testament; Timestalkers; Forgotten Sins; Exception to the Rule; Payback; Hollow Man and Space Cowboys. Devane has played members of the Presidential Cabinet on two evening dramas. In 2004, on The West Wing, he guest-starred as the Secretary of State and potential Vice-Presidential nominee. Devane appeared in several scenes with Martin Sheen; they also appeared together as President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, respectively, 30 years earlier in The Missiles of October. In 2005, he joined the cast of 24 as Secretary of Defense James Heller for seasons 4, 5 and 6.
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Movies
Movie credits linked with William Devane.
6.6
Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise
as Dr. Dix
2015 Movie
6.5
Truth
as Gen. Hodges (voice) (uncredited)
2015 Movie
8.5
Interstellar
as Williams
2014 Movie
5.4
Bad Turn Worse
as Big Red
2014 Movie
6.6
50 to 1
as Leonard Doc Blach
2014 Movie
7.8
The Dark Knight Rises
as President
2012 Movie
6.9
Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt
as Dr. Dix
2012 Movie
5.1
Leprechaun's Revenge
as Pop O'Hara
2012 Movie
4.9
Good Morning, Killer
as Everett Morgan Gray
2011 Movie
6.0
Flag of My Father
as Jake
2011 Movie
6.4
Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost
as Dr. Dix
2011 Movie
4.9
The Kane Files: Life of Trial
as Thompson
2010 Movie
6.9
Jesse Stone: No Remorse
as Dr. Dix
2010 Movie
5.2
The River Why
as Dutch Hines
2010 Movie
5.5
The Fall
as judge Stanley Seeban
2009 Movie
6.9
Jesse Stone: Thin Ice
as Dr. Dix
2009 Movie
7.2
Stargate: Continuum
as President Henry Hayes
2008 Movie
7.0
Jesse Stone: Sea Change
as Dr. Dix
2007 Movie
6.9
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
as Dr. Dix
2006 Movie
3.0
Deceit
as Grove McCarthy
2004 Movie
6.1
Monte Walsh
as Cal Brennan
2003 Movie
5.3
A Christmas Visitor
as George Boyajian
2002 Movie
4.5
Threat of Exposure
as Col. Weldon
2002 Movie
5.7
The Badge
as The Judge
2002 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with William Devane.
7.9
Bosch: Legacy
as Whitney Vance • 4 eps
2022 Series
6.7
The Grinder
as Dean Sanderson Sr. • 22 eps
2015 Series
7.6
Revenge
as Edward Grayson • 2 eps
2011 Series
7.0
Notes from the Underbelly
as Walter • 1 eps
2007 Series
7.9
Psych
as Peters • 1 eps
2006 Series
5.9
What About Brian
as Michael Davis • 6 eps
2006 Series
5.8
Crumbs
as Billy Crumb • 13 eps
2006 Series
7.6
NCIS
as Nicolas Mason • 1 eps
2003 Series
7.8
24
as James Heller • 32 eps
2001 Series
4.5
The Michael Richards Show
as Brady McKay • 9 eps
2000 Series
8.3
The West Wing
as Lewis Berryhill • 2 eps
1999 Series
7.3
Turks
as Sergeant Joseph Turk • 13 eps
1999 Series
8.3
Stargate SG-1
as President Hayes • 3 eps
1997 Series
9.0
Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac
as Greg Sumner • 2 eps
1997 Series
7.3
Early Edition
as Bernie Hobson • 5 eps
1996 Series
The Monroes
9 eps
1995 Series
5.0
Hope and Gloria
as William Devane • 1 eps
1995 Series
7.2
Touched by an Angel
as Benjamin Parker • 1 eps
1994 Series
4.8
Phenom
as Lou Della Rosa • 22 eps
1993 Series
6.9
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
as Al Capone • 1 eps
1993 Series
8.4
The X-Files
as General Mark Suveg • 1 eps
1993 Series
9.2
A Woman Named Jackie
as Black Jack Bouvier • 3 eps
1991 Series
6.8
Knots Landing
as Greg Sumner • 269 eps
1979 Series
6.8
From Here to Eternity
as Sgt. Milt Warden • 3 eps
1979 Series