James Franco

James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor and filmmaker. For his role in 127 Hours (2010), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Franco is known for his roles in films, such as Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), Milk (2008), Eat, Pray, Love (2010), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Spring Breakers (2012), and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). He is known for his collaborations with fellow actor Seth Rogen, having appeared in eight films and one television series with him, examples being Pineapple Express (2008), This Is the End (2013), Sausage Party (2016), and The Disaster Artist (2017), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Franco is also known for his work on television where his first prominent acting role was the character Daniel Desario on the short-lived ensemble comedy-drama Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), which developed a cult following. He portrayed the title character in the television biographical film James Dean (2001), for which he won a Golden Globe Award, and received nominations for Screen Actors Guild Award and Primetime Emmy Award. Franco had a recurring role on the daytime soap opera General Hospital (2009–2012) and starred in the limited series 11.22.63 (2016). He starred in the David Simon-created HBO drama The Deuce (2017–2019).

Known For: Acting

Born: Palo Alto, California, USA, 1978-04-19

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1999	Never Been Kissed	Jason	62
2	2000	Whatever It Takes	Chris Campbell	58
3	2001	Mean People Suck	Casey	68
4	2001	James Dean	James Dean	68
5	2002	Spider-Man	Harry Osborn	73
6	2002	City by the Sea	Joey	58
7	2002	Sonny	Sonny	51
8	2003	The Company	Josh	52
9	2004	Spider-Man 2	Harry Osborn	73
10	2005	The Ape	Harry Walker	41
11	2005	The Great Raid	Captain Prince	65
12	2006	Annapolis	Jake Huard	69
13	2006	Tristan & Isolde	Tristan	67
14	2006	The Wicker Man	Bar Guy #1	43
15	2006	Flyboys	Blaine Rawlings	65
16	2006	The Dead Girl	Derek	60
17	2007	Spider-Man 3	New Goblin / Harry Osborn	64
18	2007	Knocked Up	Self (uncredited)	63
19	2007	An American Crime	Andy	73
20	2007	In the Valley of Elah	Sergeant Carnelli	68
21	2007	The Hills with James Franco and Mila Kunis	Justin Bobby	40
22	2008	Camille	Silias	62
23	2008	Pineapple Express	Saul Silver	66
24	2008	Good Time Max	Max	53
25	2008	Milk	Scott Smith	72
26	2010	Date Night	Taste	61
27	2010	Shadows & Lies	William Vincent	40
28	2010	Eat Pray Love	David	62
29	2010	Love and Distrust	Travis (segment "Grasshopper")	38
30	2010	Howl	Allen Ginsberg	65
31	2010	127 Hours	Aron Ralston	71
32	2011	Your Highness	Fabious	53
33	2011	Rise of the Planet of the Apes	Will Rodman	73
34	2011	Eames: The Architect and the Painter	Self - Narrator (voice)	71
35	2012	About Cherry	Francis	46
36	2012	The Broken Tower	Hart Crane	50
37	2012	The Iceman	Marty Freeman	66
38	2013	Oz the Great and Powerful	Oz	59
39	2014	Dave Skylark's Very Special VMA Special	David Skylark	75
40	2024	The Price of Money: A Largo Winch Adventure	Ezio Burntwood	59
41		Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin	Finn (voice)	0
42	2002	Mother Ghost	Skateboarder guy	64
43	2008	Nights in Rodanthe	Mark Flanner (uncredited)	63
44	2009	Erased James Franco	Self	55
45	2009	SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas		74
46	2010	Saturday Night	Self	80
47	2010	With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story	Self	68
48	2012	Hart Crane: An Exegesis	Himself	45
49	2012	Maladies	James	53
50	2012	The Letter	Tyrone	45
51	2012	The Color of Time	C.K. Williams (age 40)	40
52	2013	Spring Breakers	Alien	52
53	2013	This Is the End	James Franco	62
54	2013	Lovelace	Hugh Hefner	60
55	2013	Comedy Central Roast of James Franco	Self	72
56	2013	Interior. Leather Bar.	James	54
57	2013	As I Lay Dying	Darl Bundren	52
58	2013	Sal	Milton Katselas	36
59	2013	Homefront	Morgan 'Gator' Bodine	69
60	2013	Palo Alto	Mr. B	61
61	2014	Veronica Mars	James Franco (uncredited)	66
62	2014	Child of God	Jerry	49
63	2014	Third Person	Rick	59
64	2014	Good People	Tom Reed	55
65	2014	National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men	George	80
66	2014	The Interview	Dave Skylark	62
67	2015	I Am Michael	Michael Glatze	55
68	2015	Every Thing Will Be Fine	Tomas Eldan	54
69	2015	True Story	Christian Longo	63
70	2015	Queen of the Desert	Henry Cadogan	59
71	2015	The Sound and the Fury	Benjy Compson	50
72	2016	Yosemite	Phil	47
73	2016	Memoria	Mr. Wyckoff	51
74	2016	The Adderall Diaries	Stephen Elliott	53
75	2016	Sausage Party	Druggie (voice)	57
76	2017	Alien: Covenant	Jacob Branson (uncredited)	62
77	2017	Dumpster Diving	El Diablo	30
78	2019	Zeroville	Vikar	51
79	2022	Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home	Self (archive footage)	68
80	2024	Hey Joe	Dean Barry	63
81		Alina of Cuba: La Hija Rebelde	Fidel Castro	0
82		Golden State Killer		0
83	2000	At Any Cost	Mike	50
84	2001	Some Body	Apartment Guy #3	50
85	2002	Deuces Wild	Tino	56
86	2002	The Car Kid		0
87	2003	Blind Spot	Danny	60
88	2005	Fool's Gold	Brent	0
89	2006	Grasshopper	Travis	47
90	2007	Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee	Dean Silo	50
91	2007	Interview	Boyfriend on Phone (voice)	64
92	2010	Masculinity & Me		0
93	2011	The Green Hornet	Danny Crystal Cleer (uncredited)	56
94	2011	Caput		0
95	2014	Obituaries	Felix Mitchum	0
96	2015	Wild Horses	Ben Briggs	49
97	2016	Burn Country	Lindsay	50
98		Me, You		0
99		Bunny-Man	Austin Boyd	0
100	2014	Future Relic 02	The Searcher	0
101	2015	Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha	Pasamonte	55
102	2015	The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards	Conrad	49
103	2015	Black Dog, Red Dog	Leo	75
104	2015	The Little Prince	The Fox (voice)	76
105	2015	Call Me Lucky	Self	70
106	2015	A Walk in Winter	Conrad	0
107	2015	The Night Before	Self	61
108	2015	Richard Peter Johnson	James Franco	27
109	2016	The 4%: Film's Gender Problem	Self	33
110	2016	The Caged Pillows	David D-R+	50
111	2016	Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?	Director	53
112	2016	Goat	Mitch	54
113	2016	In Dubious Battle	Mac McLeod	58
114	2016	Why Him?	Laird Mayhew	64
115	2017	The Disaster Artist	Tommy / 'Johnny'	71
116		The Long Home	Dallas Hardin	0
117		The Razor's Edge	Dante	0
118	1999	To Serve and Protect	Matt Carr	65
119	2000	If Tomorrow Comes	Devin	10
120	2002	Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'	Self	50
121	2002	Spider-Mania	Self	54
122	2002	You Always Stalk the Ones You Love		10
123	2006	The Holiday	James Franco	71
124	2009	The Room Before and After - Part 1: James Franco		0
125	2010	Catblock (The Ultimate Co%kblock)	James Franco (Image Only)	0
126	2010	14 Actors Acting	Self	70
127	2011	Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10		0
128	2012	Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present	Self	74
129	2013	Roast of James Franco: Red Carpet Pre-Show	Self	0
130	2013	A Fuller Life	Self - Reader (segment "Copy Boy")	66
131	2013	Venice 70: Future Reloaded		52
132	2013	What Is Cinema?	Self	64
133	2013	Mademoiselle C	Self	58
134	2013	Here Comes the Night Time	Man on Phone	80
135	2013	Playtime	The Art Dealer	10
136	2013	Seth Rogen & James Franco Bound 3		0
137	2014	Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto	Self	60
138	2015	Killing Animals	Mr. Hurston	100
139	2016	King Cobra	Joe Kerekes	59
140	2016	Blood Surf	Metalhead Troy	0
141	2016	The Labyrinth	Narrator (voice)	76
142	2017	High School Lover	Rick Winters	59
143	2017	Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Last Supper	Branson	66
144	2017	The Institute	Dr. Cairn	42
145	2017	Actors Anonymous	Jake Lamont	43
146	2017	The Mad Whale	Edward Fry	56
147	2017	The Show	Male Host	57
148	2018	Mississippi Requiem	Homer Barron	10
149		Kill the Czar		0
150	2017	Blood Heist	Farmer Simon	100
151	2017	The Vault	Ed Mass	49
152	2017	Drugs, Skate & Violence: Filmmaker Harmony Korine	Self - Archive Footage	0
153	2018	Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster	Self	0
154	2018	Future World	Warlord	44
155	2018	Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary	Self	68
156	2018	Kin	Taylor Balik	61
157	2018	The Ballad of Buster Scruggs	Cowboy (segment "Near Algodones")	71
158	2019	Don't Come Back from the Moon	Roman Smalley	56
159	2019	Pretenders	Maxwell	52
160	2019	Arctic Dogs	Lemmy (voice)	60
161	2025	Squali	Robert Price	0
162		Jesse Heiman: World's Greatest Extra	Self	0
163		Toad		0
164		Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life	Self (archive footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Cameo (uncredited)	70
2	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
3	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self	56
4	1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		54
5	1993	The X-Files	Officer #2	84
6	1996	Pacific Blue	Brian	53
7	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
8	1996	Profiler		70
9	1999	To Serve and Protect	Matt Carr	0
10	1999	Freaks and Geeks	Daniel Desario	82
11	1999	The Early Show	Self	57
12	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Self	55
13	2004	The Tony Danza Show	Self	61
14	2005	The Colbert Report		69
15	2006	30 Rock	James Franco	75
16	2008	Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis	Self	75
17	2010	Conan	Self	71
18	2011	Hamish and Andy's Gap Year	Himself	75
19	2012	Honest Trailers	Cowboy (archive footage)	65
20	2012	The Mindy Project	Paul Leotard	62
21	2013	The Frame	Will Rodman	100
22	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self	59
23	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
24	2014	Deadbeat	Johnny	66
25	2015	Hot Ones	Self	75
26	2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self	57
27	2016	Angie Tribeca	Sgt. Eddie Pepper	64
28	2016	11.22.63	Jake Epping	78
29	2017	The Deuce	Vincent Martino / Frankie Martino	76
30	2017	Marcians	Self - Interviewee	0

James Franco

Film

Television