Birthday
1939/09/05 (85 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Albany, New York, USA
Also know as
William Joseph Devane, Γουίλιαμ Ντιβέιν, ویلیام دیوان
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 ...Read more
(2002) The Badge
as The Judge
(1999) Payback
as Carter
(1976) Marathon Man
as Janeway
(2000) Space Cowboys
as Eugene Davis
(1977) Rolling Thunder
as Major Charles Rane
(1979) Yanks
as John
(1976) Family Plot
as Arthur Adamson
(2002) A Christmas Visitor
as George Boyajian
(2008) Stargate: Continuum
as President Henry Hayes
(1971) McCabe & Mrs. Miller
as The Lawyer
(1975) Report to the Commissioner
as Asst. D.A. Jackson
(2003) Monte Walsh
as Cal Brennan
(2010) The Kane Files: Life of Trial
as Thompson
(2000) Poor White Trash
as Ron Lake
(1995) Night Watch
as Nick Caldwell
(1990) Murder C.O.D.
as Alex Brandt
(1990) Vital Signs
as Dr. Chatham
(2009) The Least Among You
as Alan Beckett
(1977) The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
as Mike Leak
(1987) Timestalkers
as Scott McKenzie
(1995) Freefall: Flight 174
as Capt. Bob Pearson
(1974) The Missiles of October
as President John F. Kennedy
(2011) Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost
as Dr. Dix
(2012) Leprechaun's Revenge
as Pop O'Hara
(1979) The Dark
as Roy Warner, aka Steve Dupree
(1990) Chips, the War Dog
as Col. Charnley
(1994) For the Love of Nancy
as Tom
(2012) Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt
as Dr. Dix
(2011) Flag of My Father
as Jake
(1992) Obsessed
as Ed Bledsoe
(1993) Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story
as Daniel 'Dan' Fields
(1977) Red Alert
as Frank Brolen
(2009) The Dealership
as Frank Carson
(2014) 50 to 1
as Leonard Doc Blach
(2014) Bad Turn Worse
as Big Red
(1971) Lady Liberty
as Jock Fenner
(2001) Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story
as Tom Kincaid
(1973) The Bait
as Earl Stokey
(1994) Lady in Waiting
as Lt. Barrett
(2001) Race to Space
as Roger Thornhill
(1975) Fear on Trial
as John Henry Faulk
(1983) Testament
as Tom Wetherly
(2014) Interstellar
as Williams
(1996) Forgotten Sins
as Dr. Richard Ofshe
(1997) Doomsday Rock
as Dr. Karl Sorenson
(1991) Nightmare in Columbia County
as Sheriff Jim Metts
(1981) The Other Victim
as Harry Langford
(1981) Red Flag: The Ultimate Game
as Maj. Phil Clark
(2000) The Man Who Used to Be Me
as Older Sam Ryan
(1997) Exception to the Rule
as Lawrence Kellerman
(1983) Hadley's Rebellion
as Coach Ball
(2004) Deceit
as Grove McCarthy
(2009) The Fall
as judge Stanley Seeban
(2000) Hollow Man
as Dr. Kramer
(2015) Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise
as Dr. Dix
(2012) The Dark Knight Rises
as President
(2011) Good Morning, Killer
as Everett Morgan Gray
(2007) Jesse Stone: Sea Change
as Dr. Dix
(1967) In the Country
as ---
(2010) Jesse Stone: No Remorse
as Dr. Dix
(2002) Threat of Exposure
as Col. Weldon
(1992) Ancient Secrets of the Bible
as Host & Narrator
(1989) The Preppie Murder
as Jack Litman
(2001) Plotting 'Family Plot'
as Self
(1971) My Old Man's Place
as Jimmy Pilgrim
(2009) Jesse Stone: Thin Ice
as Dr. Dix
(2006) Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
as Dr. Dix
(1972) The Irish Whiskey Rebellion
as LT. Ashley
(1997) The Absolute Truth
as Sen. Emmett Hunter
(1973) Crime Club
as Kilburn
(2015) Truth
as Gen. Hodges (voice) (uncredited)
(1992) The President's Child
as Elliot McSwain
(1981) Honky Tonk Freeway
as Mayor Kirby T. Calo
(1995) Virus
as Dr. Harbuck
(1971) The 300-Year Weekend
as Tom
(2010) The River Why
as Dutch Hines
(1993) Rubdown
as Harry Orwitz
(1983) Jane Doe
as William Quinn
(1971) The Pursuit of Happiness
as Pilot
(1984) With Intent to Kill
as Aaron Charney
(1974) Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita
as ---
(2006) Crumbs
as ---
(1997) King of the Hill
as Chuck Garrison (voice)
(1979) Knots Landing
as Greg Sumner
(2000) The Michael Richards Show
as Brady McKay
(1993) Phenom
as Lou Della Rosa
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Moss Stratton
(1993) The X-Files
as General Mark Suveg
(2003) NCIS
as Nicolas Mason
(1997) Stargate SG-1
as President Hayes
(1995) The Monroes
as ---
(1999) Turks
as Sergeant Joseph Turk
(1997) Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac
as Greg Sumner
(2001) 24
as James Heller
(2006) Psych
as Peters
(1999) The West Wing
as Lewis Berryhill
(2011) Revenge
as Edward Grayson
(2015) The Grinder
as Dean Sanderson Sr.
(1979) From Here to Eternity
as Sgt. Milt Warden
(1991) A Woman Named Jackie
as Black Jack Bouvier
(1978) Black Beauty
as John Manly
(2022) Bosch: Legacy
as Whitney Vance
(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
(1995) Hope and Gloria
as William Devane
(1969) Medical Center
as Dr. Ray Waltham
(1993) Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
as Al Capone
(1967) Mannix
as Al Kordic
(1994) Touched by an Angel
as Benjamin Parker
(1973) The Snoop Sisters
as David Prine
(1974) The Missiles of October
as John F. Kennedy - US President