Adam Beach

Born 1972 · Canadian actor

Adam Rueben Beach is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles as Victor Joseph in Smoke Signals; Frank Fencepost in Dance Me Outside; Tommy on Walker, Texas Ranger; Kickin' Wing in Joe Dirt; US Marine Corporal Ira Hayes in Flags of Our Fathers; Private Ben Yahzee in Windtalkers; Dr. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee; NYPD Detective Chester Lake in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; and Officer Jim Chee in the film adaptations of Skinwalkers, Coyote Waits and A Thief of Time. He starred in the Canadian 2012–2014 series Arctic Air and played Slipknot in the 2016 film Suicide Squad. He also performed as Squanto in Disney's historical drama film Squanto: A Warrior's Tale. Most recently he has starred in Hostiles (2017) as Black Hawk and the Netflix original film Juanita (2019) as Jess Gardiner and Edward Nappo in Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog.

Adam Beach, in order

1. 1994 Dance Me Outside: acted · directed by Bruce McDonald
2. 1994 Squanto: A Warrior's Tale: acted · directed by Xavier Koller · critics 67%, audiences 55% · streaming on Disney+
3. 1995 A Boy Called Hate: acted · directed by Mitch Marcus
4. 1995 JAG (TV series): acted · streaming on Prime Video, Paramount+
5. 1996 Coyote Summer: acted · directed by Matias Alvarez · audiences 71%
6. 1998 Smoke Signals: acted · directed by Chris Eyre · critics 90%, audiences 82% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+, Kanopy
7. 1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series): acted · audiences 84% · streaming on Hulu, Peacock, fuboTV
8. 1999 Mystery, Alaska: acted · directed by Jay Roach · critics 35%, audiences 66% · streaming on Prime Video, Hoopla
9. 2000 The Last Stop: acted · directed by Mark Malone
10. 2001 Joe Dirt: acted · directed by Dennie Gordon
11. 2001 The Art of Woo: acted · directed by Helen Lee
12. 2002 Now & Forever: acted · directed by Bob Clark
13. 2002 Skinwalkers (TV movie): acted · directed by Chris Eyre
14. 2002 Windtalkers: acted · directed by John Woo · critics 33%, audiences 50% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
15. 2003 Posers: acted · directed by Katie Tallo
16. 2003 The Big Empty: acted · directed by Steve Anderson
17. 2004 A Thief of Time (TV movie): acted · directed by Chris Eyre
18. 2004 Sawtooth: acted
19. 2005 Four Brothers: acted · directed by John Singleton
20. 2005 Johnny Tootall (TV movie): acted · directed by Shirley Cheechoo
21. 2006 Bottoms Up: acted · directed by Erik MacArthur
22. 2006 Flags of Our Fathers: acted · directed by Clint Eastwood · critics 76%, audiences 69% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Paramount+
23. 2007 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (TV movie): acted · directed by Yves Simoneau
24. 2008 Older than America: wrote, produced, acted · directed by Georgina Lightning
25. 2009 Reel Injun: acted · directed by Catherine Bainbridge and Neil Diamond · critics 88%, audiences 86% · streaming on Prime Video, Kanopy, Hoopla
26. 2010 Hawaii Five-0 (TV series): acted
27. 2010 The Stranger: acted · directed by Robert Lieberman
28. 2011 A Warrior's Heart: acted · directed by Mike Sears
29. 2011 Cowboys & Aliens: acted · directed by Jon Favreau · critics 44%, audiences 43% · streaming on Netflix
30. 2012 Arctic Air (TV series): acted
31. 2015 Diablo: acted · directed by Lawrence Roeck
32. 2015 Into the Grizzly Maze: acted · directed by David Hackl
33. 2015 Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser: acted · directed by Fred Wolf
34. 2016 Suicide Squad: acted · directed by David Ayer
35. 2017 Hostiles: acted · directed by Scott Cooper
36. 2019 Juanita: acted · directed by Clark Johnson
37. 2020 Percy: acted · directed by Clark Johnson
38. 2020 The New Mutants: acted · directed by Josh Boone
39. 2021 Swan Song: acted · directed by Benjamin Cleary · critics 80%, audiences 76% · streaming on Apple TV
40. 2021 The Power of the Dog: acted · directed by Jane Campion
41. The Birds Who Fear Death: acted · directed by Sanjay Patel