Matthew Broderick

Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American actor whose career has spanned both the silver screen and the stage. Broderick got his start off broadway but quickly wound up as the lead in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs. His first screen role was Max Dugan Returns, also penned by Neil Simon. His breakout role came the same year for his role as a young hacker in Wargames. Later he stared as the eponymous Ferris Bueller in 1985's Ferris Bueller's Day Off, a film which has achieved cult status and had made Broderick a household name. In 1985 while on Vacation in Ireland with his then fiancee Jennifer Grey, who played his sister in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Broderick was involved in a head on collision that killed two locals. Broderick was deemed at fault and faced five years in prison but his punishment was lessened to just a fine. In 1997 he married Sarah Jessica Parker and the pair have had 3 children together.

Known For: Acting

Born: New York City, New York, USA, 1962-03-21

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1983	Max Dugan Returns	Michael McPhae	65
2	1983	WarGames	David Lightman	71
3	1985	'Master Harold'... and the Boys	Hally	62
4	1985	Ladyhawke	Phillipe Gaston	70
5	1985	1918	Brother	63
6	1985	Faerie Tale Theatre: Cinderella	Prince Henry	0
7	1985	Cinderella	Prince Henry	71
8	1986	On Valentine's Day	Brother	40
9	1986	Ferris Bueller's Day Off	Ferris Bueller	76
10	1987	Project X	Jimmy Garrett	63
11	1988	She's Having a Baby	Ferris Bueller (uncredited)	59
12	1988	Biloxi Blues	Eugene Morris Jerome	63
13	1988	Torch Song Trilogy	Alan Simon	73
14	1989	Family Business	Adam McMullen	57
15	1989	Glory	Col. Robert Gould Shaw	75
16	1990	The Freshman	Clark Kellogg	63
17	1992	Out on a Limb	Bill Campbell	55
18	1993	The Night We Never Met	Sam	54
19	1993	The Thief and the Cobbler	Tack the Cobbler (voice)	71
20	1993	A Life in the Theatre	John	65
21	1994	Would You Kindly Direct Me to Hell?: The Infamous Dorothy Parker	Self - Commentator	50
22	1994	The Lion King	Simba (voice)	83
23	1994	The Making of the Lion King	Self	100
24	1994	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle	Charles MacArthur	60
25	1994	The Road to Wellville	William Lightbody	56
26	1996	The Cable Guy	Steven M. Kovacs	60
27	1996	Infinity	Richard Feynman	62
28	1997	Addicted to Love	Sam	61
29	1998	Godzilla	Dr. Niko Tatopoulos	56
30	1998	Walking to the Waterline	Michael Woods	40
31	1998	The Lion King II: Simba's Pride	Simba (voice)	70
32	1999	Election	Jim McAllister	69
33	1999	Inspector Gadget	John Brown / Inspector Gadget / Robo Gadget	45
34	2000	You Can Count on Me	Brian Everett	68
35	2001	Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks	Self	90
36	2003	The Music Man	Professor Harold Hill	54
37	2003	Good Boy!	Hubble (voice)	56
38	2004	Marie and Bruce	Bruce	39
39	2004	The Lion King 1½	Simba (voice)	66
40	2004	The Stepford Wives	Walter Kresby	57
41	2004	The Last Shot	Steven Schats	57
42	2005	The Producers	Leo Bloom	62
43	2006	Who Is Ferris Bueller?	Self	0
44	2006	Strangers with Candy	Roger Beekman	56
45	2006	Deck the Halls	Steve Finch	56
46	2007	Then She Found Me	Ben Green	56
47	2007	Bee Movie	Adam Flayman (voice)	60
48	2008	Shea Goodbye: 45 Years of Amazin' Mets	Narrator	0
49	2008	Finding Amanda	Taylor Peters	48
50	2008	Diminished Capacity	Cooper	56
51	2008	Valentino: The Last Emperor	Self	66
52	2008	The Tale of Despereaux	Despereaux (voice)	61
53	2009	Wonderful World	Ben Singer	53
54	2009	Waking Sleeping Beauty	Self (archive footage)	73
55	2011	Margaret	John Andrew van Tassel	64
56	2011	Pride of The Lion King	Himself	100
57	2011	Tower Heist	Mr. Fitzhugh	61
58	2011	Inside Story: Ferris Bueller's Day Off	Self	67
59	2011	New Year's Eve	Mr. Buellerton (uncredited)	59
60	2012	John Hughes: Life Moves Pretty Fast	Self	0
61	2013	Mel Brooks: Make a Noise	Self	82
62	2013	Skum Rocks!	Self	30
63	2015	Trainwreck	Matthew Broderick	58
64	2015	Dirty Weekend	Les Moore	49
65	2016	Mike Nichols: An American Master	Self	63
66	2016	The American Side	Borden Chase	47
67	2016	Against the Odds: The Mike Piazza Story	Narrator	0
68	2016	Manchester by the Sea	Jeffrey Garner	75
69	2016	Rules Don't Apply	Levar Mathis	57
70	2017	Oh, Hello on Broadway	Himself (uncredited)	69
71	2017	Broadway: The Next Generation	Self	100
72	2017	A Christmas Story Live!	Ralphie as an Adult	48
73	2019	To Dust	Albert	61
74	2019	Wonder Park	June's Dad (voice)	65
75	2019	Love Is Blind	Murray Krafft	53
76	2020	Lazy Susan	Doug	47
77	2021	Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11	Self	50
78	2022	Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain	Self	78
79	2023	No Hard Feelings	Laird Becker	68
80	2023	Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	82
81	2025	The Gettysburg Address	Reader	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1952	Today	Self	55
2	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	46
3	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Host	46
4	1971	Great Performances	Self	54
5	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	69
6	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Cameo (uncredited)	69
7	1977	Lou Grant		73
8	1982	Faerie Tale Theatre	Prince Henry	82
9	1983	Reading Rainbow	Himself - Narrator (voice)	84
10	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self - Guest	54
11	1988	American Experience	Jack Binns (voice)	75
12	1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		54
13	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	71
14	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self	71
15	1993	Frasier	Mark (voice)	77
16	1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self	74
17	1995	MADtv	Self	69
18	1996	The Rosie O'Donnell Show	Himself	35
19	1996	The Rosie O'Donnell Show	Self - Guest	35
20	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
21	1996	The West	Self - William Swain	84
22	1997	The View	Self	45
23	1997	Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery	John Ordway (voice)	75
24	2002	Cyberchase	Max	75
25	2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self	58
26	2005	The Reichen Show	Self - Guest	48
27	2006	The Megan Mullally Show	Self - Guest	42
28	2006	30 Rock	Cooter Burger	74
29	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
30	2009	Late Night with Jimmy Fallon	Self	60
31	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	48
32	2009	Modern Family	Dave	79
33	2010	The Marriage Ref	Self - Panelist	38
34	2010	Who Do You Think You Are?	Self	66
35	2010	Adventure Time	Dream Warrior	85
36	2010	Louie	Matthew Broderick	78
37	2010	Conan	Self	70
38	2012	Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee	Self	72
39	2013	Rick and Morty	Talking Cat (voice)	87
40	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon		58
41	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self - Guest	54
42	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	54
43	2014	BoJack Horseman	Joseph Sugarman (voice)	85
44	2016	Better Things	Dr. David Miller	73
45	2018	The Conners	Peter	70
46	2019	Daybreak	Michael Burr	70
47	2020	Reunited Apart	Self	55
48	2021	Only Murders in the Building	Matthew Broderick	85
49	2023	Painkiller	Richard Sackler	71