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William Sadler

William Thomas Sadler is an American actor who works in film and television. His television and motion picture roles have included Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller in The Pacific, Luther Sloan in Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Sheriff Jim Valenti in Roswell, and—perhaps most notably—the Grim Reaper in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, a role for which he was nominated for, and won, the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, and his role as Colonel Stuart alongside Bruce Willis in Die Hard 2.

Known For: Acting

Born: Buffalo, New York, USA, 1950-04-13

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1978	The Great Wallendas	Dieter Schmidt	60
2	1979	The Other Side of Victory	Captain Rogers	0
3	1981	Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase	Joey	0
4	1982	Hanky Panky	Hotel Clerk	53
5	1986	Off Beat	Dickson	47
6	1987	Project X	Dr. Carroll (as Bill Sadler)	63
7	1989	Unconquered	Coach Dickey	100
8	1989	K-9	Salesman Don	62
9	1990	Hard to Kill	Senator Vernon Trent	60
10	1990	Die Hard 2	Stuart	70
11	1990	The Face of Fear	Anthony Prine	66
12	1990	The Hot Spot	Frank Sutton	63
13	1991	The Last to Go	Treat	50
14	1991	Tagget	Yuri Chelenkoff	0
15	1991	Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey	Grim Reaper	63
16	1991	Rush	Monroe	66
17	1992	Two-Fisted Tales	Mr. Rush (Presenter)	50
18	1992	Trespass	Don	63
19	1993	Freaked	Dick Brian	61
20	1993	Jack Reed: Badge of Honor	David Anatole	53
21	1994	Bermuda Grace		0
22	1994	Roadracers	Sarge	59
23	1994	The Shawshank Redemption	Heywood	87
24	1995	Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight	Frank Brayker	69
25	1995	A Night to Die For	Self	0
26	1995	The Omen	Dr. Linus	40
27	1996	Bordello of Blood	Mummy	59
28	1996	Solo	Colonel Frank Madden / Improved Solo	48
29	1997	RocketMan	Wild Bill Overbeck	52
30	1998	Ambushed	Jim Natter	49
31	1998	Disturbing Behavior	Newberry	58
32	1998	Reach the Rock	Quinn	65
33	1999	Stealth Fighter	Adm. Frank Petersen	41
34	1999	The Green Mile	Klaus Detterick	85
35	1999	Witness Protection	Sharp	64
36	2000	Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile	Self - 'Klaus Detterick'	70
37	2001	Skippy	Ringo	37
38	2002	Another Life	Man	20
39	2003	The Battle of Shaker Heights	Abe	56
40	2004	Kinsey	Kenneth Braun	66
41	2005	Confess	Senator Lampert	41
42	2005	Purple Heart	Colonel Allen	46
43	2005	DeVour	Ivan Reisz	52
44	2006	The Good Student	Phil Palmer	46
45	2006	Premium	Cole Carter	48
46	2006	Jimmy and Judy	Uncle Rodney	47
47	2006	Unspoken	Dad	0
48	2007	Jesse Stone: Sea Change	Gino Fish	69
49	2007	A New Wave	Roger Dewitt	34
50	2007	Abandoned in the Arctic	Adolphus Greely (voice)	60
51	2007	The Mist	Jim	69
52	2007	August Rush	Thomas Novacek	74
53	2008	When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'	Self	82
54	2008	Eagle Eye	Jerry's Dad	65
55	2009	Stream	Dr. Shelby	0
56	2009	Jesse Stone: Thin Ice	Gino Fish	68
57	2009	Shadowheart	Thomas Conners	48
58	2009	The Hills Run Red	Wilson Wyler Concannon	57
59	2009	Last Day of Summer	Mr. Crolick	47
60	2009	Beyond All Boundaries	Lt. Colonel Lewis B. 'Chesty' Puller	68
61	2010	Jesse Stone: No Remorse	Gino Fish	68
62	2010	The Making Of Fallout: New Vegas	Self	87
63	2011	Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost	Gino Fish	64
64	2011	Restitution	George Youngstown	35
65	2011	Silent But Deadly	John Capper	40
66	2012	Nothing Sacred	Chambers	0
67	2012	Man on a Ledge	Valet	64
68	2012	Being Flynn	Ray	62
69	2012	See Girl Run	Marty	49
70	2012	Future Weather	Ed	62
71	2012	Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt	Gino Fish	68
72	2013	Riddle	Western Man / Jack Abel	46
73	2013	The Suspect	Sheriff Dixon	54
74	2013	Iron Man 3	President Ellis	69
75	2013	Onion News Empire	Ed Musgrove	68
76	2013	Gilded Lilys		0
77	2013	Greetings from Tim Buckley	Lee Underwood	52
78	2013	Machete Kills	Sheriff Doakes	56
79	2014	That Guy Dick Miller	Self	70
80	2014	Freedom	Plimpton	55
81	2014	The Historian	Valerian Hadley	40
82	2014	Walking the Mile	Self	50
83	2015	Ava's Possessions	Bernard	58
84	2015	Frank the Bastard	Cyrus Gast	25
85	2015	Freeheld	Peter Santucci	72
86	2015	Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise	Gino Fish	65
87	2015	Edge	Big Bill	52
88	2016	The Duel	Governor Ross	54
89	2016	The Hollow	Sheriff Beau McKinney	48
90	2017	Shoot Me Nicely	Roy Barnes	0
91	2018	Living Among Us	Samuel	62
92	2018	Melvin Smarty	Bob	35
93	2018	Deadly Crush	Sheriff Dusty Hawkins	46
94	2019	The Highwaymen	Henry Barrow	68
95	2019	VFW	Walter Reed	59
96	2019	The Grudge	Detective Wilson	54
97	2020	Bill & Ted Face the Music	Death	59
98	2021	Alice Fades Away	James	50
99	2021	The Unholy	Father Hagan	66
100	2023	She Came from the Woods	Gilbert McCalister	55
101	2024	A Stage of Twilight	Barry	60
102	2024	Salem's Lot	Parkins Gillespie	61
103	2025	The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide	Horror Film Expert	0
104		It's Not Real Until You Shoot It: Making HILLS RUN RED	Self	0
105		The Yeti		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1985	The Equalizer	Rick Dillon / Kevin Moore	71
2	1987	Private Eye		42
3	1987	Tour of Duty	Major Rigby	80
4	1988	Dear John	Ken	55
5	1988	Roseanne		68
6	1988	Murphy Brown	Colonel Fitzpatrick	64
7	1989	Tales from the Crypt	Niles Talbot (segment "The Man Who Was Death")	80
8	1989	Tales from the Crypt	The Grim Reaper	80
9	1990	Law & Order	Kevin Drucker	74
10	1992	HBO First Look		49
11	1993	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Sloan	79
12	1994	Rebel Highway	Sarge	100
13	1995	The Outer Limits	Frank Hellner	77
14	1995	JAG	Saul Wainright	73
15	1996	Poltergeist: The Legacy	Shamus Bloom	62
16	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Gary Dolan	79
17	1999	Third Watch	Scotty Murray	79
18	1999	Roswell	Jim Valenti	77
19	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Red Cooper	76
20	2000	Ed	Lee Leetch	77
21	2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Kyle Devlin	76
22	2003	Tru Calling	Travis	73
23	2004	Wonderfalls	Darrin Tyler	77
24	2005	Medium	John Edgemont	75
25	2005	Numb3rs	J. Everett Tuttle	70
26	2005	Law & Order: Trial by Jury	Paul Rice	81
27	2005	Criminal Minds		83
28	2005	Criminal Minds	Ray Finnegan	83
29	2006	The Path to 9/11	Neil Herman	71
30	2007	Traveler	Carlton Fog	67
31	2008	Fringe	Dr. Sumner	81
32	2009	Three Rivers		71
33	2009	White Collar	Brett Gelles	82
34	2010	The Pacific	Lt Col. Lewis 'Chesty' Puller	78
35	2010	Hawaii Five-0	John McGarrett	78
36	2011	Person of Interest	Anton's Father	81
37	2012	Elementary	Ian Gale	76
38	2013	Golden Boy	Police Commissioner Jack Dowdell	61
39	2013	The Blacklist	Sam Milhoan	76
40	2013	Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	President Ellis	75
41	2014	Power	Tony Teresi	77
42	2014	Delirium	John (archive footage)	97
43	2014	Z Nation	Sam Custer	73
44	2014	Madam Secretary	George Peters	70
45	2014	The Flash	Simon Stagg	78
46	2015	WHIH Newsfront	President Ellis	60
47	2016	Bull	Father Andy	71
48	2017	The Good Fight	Judge Nilsson	76
49	2018	Our Cartoon President	General Kelly / Mitch McConnell / Jeff Sessions (voice)	52
50	2018	God Friended Me	Rev. Elias	78
51	2018	The Rookie	Walter Fields	85
52	2019	When They See Us	Detective Michael Sheehan	82
53	2020	Hunters	Dr. Friedrich Mann	72
54	2020	The Comey Rule	Michael Flynn	69
55	2023	Full Circle	Gene McCusker	65