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John Sayles

John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Sayles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Directing

Born: Schenectady, New York, USA, 1950-09-28

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1978	Piranha	Army Sentry (uncredited)	59
2	1980	Return of the Secaucus Seven	Howie	66
3	1981	The Howling	Morgue Attendant (uncredited)	66
4	1983	Lianna	Jerry	65
5	1984	The Brother from Another Planet	Man in Black	66
6	1985	Hard Choices	Don	35
7	1986	Something Wild	Motorcycle Cop	66
8	1986	Unnatural Causes	Lloyd	68
9	1987	Matewan	Hardshell Preacher	74
10	1988	Eight Men Out	Ring Lardner	69
11	1989	Untamagiru	US High Commissioner	47
12	1989	La fine della notte	Wayne	65
13	1990	Little Vegas	Mike	10
14	1991	City of Hope	Carl	67
15	1992	Straight Talk	Guy Girardi	59
16	1992	Malcolm X	FBI Agent	75
17	1992	Passion Fish	Soap Opera Doctor (uncredited)	69
18	1993	Matinee	Bob	66
19	1994	My Life's in Turnaround	Marginal producer	47
20	1997	Gridlock'd	Cop #1	67
21	1997	Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western	Self	0
22	2000	A Constant Forge	Self	66
23	2000	Girlfight	Science Teacher	64
24	2000	When It Was a Game 3	Self (voice)	90
25	2002	Sunshine State	Man who almost got hit by a golf ball (uncredited)	64
26	2003	Unleashing the Beast: Making ‘The Howling’		0
27	2004	Tell Them Who You Are	Self	58
28	2006	Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States	Self	0
29	2006	Edge of Outside	Self	58
30	2007	Honeydripper	Zeke	58
31	2007	Alligator Author	Self	0
32	2008	Obscene	Self	50
33	2009	The Toe Tactic	Cramden	40
34	2009	In the Electric Mist	Michael Goldman	61
35	2009	Great Directors	Self	59
36	2011	Corman's World	Self - Filmmaker	71
37	2012	Casting By	Self	71
38	2012	The Normals	Dr. Marx	53
39	2014	That Guy Dick Miller	Self	70
40	2015	The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence	Self	0
41	2016	The Umbrella	Pastor Jim	0
42	2019	Them That Work	Self	0
43	2020	Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi	Self	64
44	2021	Texas Red	Governor Johnson (voice)	27
45	2021	Corona Film Club	Self	50
46	2021	Algren	Self	60
47	2022	1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!	Self	80
48	2024	John Sayles and Gregory Nava	Themself	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1987	Square One Television	Roy 'Lefty' Cobbs	46
2	1990	Shannon's Deal	Ronnie Nash	80
3	1994	Baseball	Self	73
4	1997	Scene by Scene	Self	60
5	1998	Independent Focus	Self	90
6	2010	Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood	Self	47
7	2011	The Story of Film: An Odyssey	Self	76
8	2023	Poker Face	Chief Hal	76