Birthday
1953/02/21 (72 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Also know as
William L. Petersen, William Peterson , William Louis Petersen, ویلیام پترسن
William Louis Petersen is an American actor and producer, best known for playing Dr. Gilbert "Gil" Grissom on the hit CBS series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Richard Chance in the film To Live and Die in L.A., and Will Graham in the film Manhunter. Born in Evanston, Illinois, Petersen attended Idaho State University on a football scholarship, where he first tried acting and immediately joined the drama department, before leaving to work in the Basque country as a Shakespearean actor. Peterson...Read more
(1996) Fear
as Steve Walker
(1996) Mulholland Falls
as Jack Flynn
(1981) Thief
as Katz & Jammer Bartender
(2021) Three Short Plays by Tracy Letts
as Ted
(1986) Manhunter
as Will Graham
(2000) The Skulls
as Ames Levritt
(1989) Cousins
as Tom Hardy
(1998) The Rat Pack
as John F. Kennedy
(1997) 12 Angry Men
as Juror 12
(1990) Young Guns II
as Patrick Floyd 'Pat' Garrett
(1985) To Live and Die in L.A.
as Richard Chance
(1992) Passed Away
as Frank Scanlan
(1998) Kiss the Sky
as Jess
(2011) Detachment
as Mr. 'Sarge' Kepler
(1987) Amazing Grace and Chuck
as Russell
(2012) Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
as Trucker
(1987) Long Gone
as Stud Cantrell
(1992) Hard Promises
as Joey
(1998) The Staircase
as Joad
(2001) Haven
as Jackson Connolly
(1998) Gunshy
as Jake Bridges
(1993) Curaçao
as Stephen Guerin
(2001) Inside 'Manhunter'
as Himself
(2004) Blue Neon Night: Michael Connelly's Los Angeles
as Narrator
(1996) The Beast
as Whip Dalton
(2000) The Contender
as Jack Hathaway
(2014) 100 Years of Wrigley Field
as Narrator
(2015) CSI: Immortality
as Gil Grissom
(1992) Keep the Change
as Joe Starling
(1995) In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King
as Tony C.
(2003) Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
as Self
(2018) Friedkin Uncut
as Self
(2001) Wrigley Field: Beyond the Ivy
as Narrator
(2004) This Old Cub
as Himself
(2000) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Gil Grissom
(1985) The Twilight Zone
as (segment "Need to Know")
(2002) Without a Trace
as Gil Grissom
(2021) CSI: Vegas
as Gil Grissom
(1993) Return to Lonesome Dove
as Captain Gideon Walker
(1993) Fallen Angels
as Georgie
(1999) The Directors
as Self
(1990) The Kennedys of Massachusetts
as Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
(2014) Manhattan
as Col. Emmett Darrow
(2012) Blue
as Mitch
(1996) The Beast
as Whip Dalton
(1987) Sacrée soirée
as Self