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Philip Baker Hall

1931–2022 · American actor

Philip Baker Hall was an American character actor. He is known for his collaborations with Paul Thomas Anderson, including Hard Eight (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), and Magnolia (1999). He also starred in leading roles in films, such as Secret Honor (1984) and Duck (2005). Hall had supporting roles in many films, including Midnight Run (1988), Say Anything... (1989), The Truman Show (1998), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The Insider (1999), The Contender (2000), Bruce Almighty (2003), Dogville (2003), Zodiac (2007), 50/50 (2011), and Argo (2012). He received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Male Lead for his role in Hard Eight and two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture for Boogie Nights and Magnolia.

Philip Baker Hall, in order

  1. 1980 The Man with Bogart's Face: acted · directed by Robert Day
  2. 1981 Dream On!: acted · directed by Ed Harker
  3. 1984 Secret Honor: acted · directed by Robert Altman · critics 77%, audiences 78%
  4. 1987 Three O'Clock High: acted · directed by Phil Joanou
  5. 1988 Cigarettes & Coffee: acted · directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
  6. 1988 Midnight Run: acted · directed by Martin Brest · critics 95%, audiences 87%
  7. 1989 An Innocent Man: acted · directed by Peter Yates · critics 44%, audiences 47% · streaming on Hoopla
  8. 1989 How I Got into College: acted · directed by Savage Steve Holland
  9. 1989 Say Anything...: acted · directed by Cameron Crowe · critics 98%, audiences 85%
  10. 1991 Blue Desert: acted · directed by Bradley Battersby
  11. 1992 Live Wire: acted · directed by Christian Duguay
  12. 1994 M.A.N.T.I.S.: acted · directed by Eric Laneuville
  13. 1994 Without Warning (TV movie): acted · directed by Robert Iscove
  14. 1995 Kiss of Death: acted · directed by Barbet Schroeder · critics 66%, audiences 38%
  15. 1996 Eye for an Eye: acted · directed by John Schlesinger · critics 8%, audiences 60% · streaming on Hoopla
  16. 1996 Hard Eight: acted · directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
  17. 1996 Hit Me: acted · directed by Steven Shainberg · streaming on Prime Video, Tubi
  18. 1996 The Rock: acted · directed by Michael Bay · critics 76%, audiences 85% · streaming on fuboTV
  19. 1997 Air Force One: acted · directed by Wolfgang Petersen · critics 81%, audiences 66% · streaming on Netflix, Peacock
  20. 1997 Boogie Nights: acted · directed by Paul Thomas Anderson · critics 91%, audiences 89% · streaming on Criterion Channel
  21. 1997 Michael Hayes (TV series): acted
  22. 1998 Enemy of the State: acted · directed by Tony Scott · critics 71%, audiences 78%
  23. 1998 Judas Kiss: acted · directed by Sebastian Gutierrez
  24. 1998 Psycho: acted · directed by Gus Van Sant
  25. 1998 Rush Hour: acted · directed by Brett Ratner
  26. 1998 The Truman Show: acted · directed by Peter Weir · critics 94%, audiences 89% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla
  27. 1999 Cradle Will Rock: acted · directed by Tim Robbins · critics 67%, audiences 71% · streaming on Prime Video, Hoopla, YouTube (free)
  28. 1999 Let the Devil Wear Black: acted · directed by Stacy Title
  29. 1999 Magnolia: acted · directed by Paul Thomas Anderson · critics 82%, audiences 89% · streaming on Fawesome
  30. 1999 The Insider: acted · directed by Michael Mann · critics 96%, audiences 90%
  31. 1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley: acted · directed by Anthony Minghella · critics 85%, audiences 80% · streaming on Paramount+, Philo, Starz
  32. 2000 Lost Souls: acted · directed by Janusz Kamiński
  33. 2000 Rules of Engagement: acted · directed by William Friedkin
  34. 2000 The Contender: acted · directed by Rod Lurie
  35. 2001 Rush Hour 2: acted · directed by Brett Ratner
  36. 2002 Path to War (TV movie): acted · directed by John Frankenheimer · critics 100%, audiences 74% · streaming on HBO Max
  37. 2002 The Sum of All Fears: acted · directed by Phil Alden Robinson · critics 57%, audiences 49% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Paramount+
  38. 2003 Bruce Almighty: acted · directed by Tom Shadyac · critics 48%, audiences 57%
  39. 2003 Die, Mommie, Die!: acted · directed by Mark Rucker
  40. 2003 Dogville: acted · directed by Lars von Trier · critics 70%, audiences 89% · streaming on MUBI
  41. 2003 Dogville Confessions: acted · directed by Sami Saif
  42. 2004 In Good Company: acted · directed by Lawrence Pressman and Paul Weitz · critics 83%, audiences 54%
  43. 2004 The West Wing (TV series): acted · directed by Alex Graves and Christopher Misiano · critics 81%, audiences 95% · streaming on Netflix, HBO Max
  44. 2005 Duck: acted · directed by Nicole Bettauer
  45. 2005 The Amityville Horror: acted · directed by Andrew Douglas
  46. 2005 The Matador: acted · directed by Richard Shepard
  47. 2005 The Zodiac: acted · directed by Alexander Bulkley
  48. 2006 The Shaggy Dog: acted · directed by Brian Robbins · critics 25%, audiences 39%
  49. 2006 The TV Set: acted · directed by Jake Kasdan · critics 63%, audiences 58% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, Roku Channel
  50. 2007 Rush Hour 3: acted · directed by Brett Ratner · critics 18%, audiences 63% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+
  51. 2007 You Kill Me: acted · directed by John Dahl
  52. 2007 Zodiac: acted · directed by David Fincher · critics 90%, audiences 78% · streaming on Paramount+, MGM+, Kanopy
  53. 2009 Fired Up!: acted · directed by Will Gluck
  54. 2009 Modern Family (TV series): acted
  55. 2009 The Lodger: acted · directed by David Ondaatje
  56. 2010 All Good Things: acted · directed by Andrew Jarecki
  57. 2010 The Chicago 8: acted · directed by Pinchas Perry
  58. 2011 50/50: acted · directed by Jonathan Levine · critics 93%, audiences 88% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome
  59. 2011 Mr. Popper's Penguins: acted · directed by Mark Waters
  60. 2012 Argo: acted · directed by Ben Affleck · critics 96%, audiences 90% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+
  61. 2012 Bending the Rules: acted · directed by Artie Mandelberg
  62. 2012 People Like Us: acted · directed by Alex Kurtzman
  63. 2013 Bad Words: acted · directed by Jason Bateman
  64. 2014 Playing It Cool: acted · directed by Justin Reardon · critics 14%, audiences 33% · streaming on Roku Channel, Hoopla, Fandango at Home (free)
  65. 2015 Altman: acted · directed by Ron Mann · critics 70%, audiences 66% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla
  66. 2016 Second Chance (TV series): acted
  67. 2016 The Last Word: acted · directed by Mark Pellington
  68. 2017 Person to Person: acted · directed by Dustin Guy Defa · critics 55%, audiences 43% · streaming on Netflix, Kanopy, Hoopla