Richard Gere
Born 1949 · American actor
Richard Tiffany Gere is an American actor. He began appearing in films in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and a starring role in Days of Heaven (1978). Gere came to prominence with his role in the film American Gigolo (1980), which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. Gere's other films include An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), The Cotton Club (1984), Internal Affairs (1990), Pretty Woman (1990), Sommersby (1993), First Knight (1995), Primal Fear (1996), The Jackal (1997), Red Corner (1997), Runaway Bride (1999), Unfaithful (2002), Shall We Dance? (2004), I'm Not There (2007), Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009), Arbitrage (2012) and Norman (2016). For portraying Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago (2002), he won a Golden Globe Award.
Richard Gere, in order
- 1975 Report to the Commissioner: acted · directed by Milton Katselas
- 1977 Looking for Mr. Goodbar: acted · directed by Richard Brooks
- 1978 Bloodbrothers: acted · directed by Robert Mulligan
- 1978 Days of Heaven: acted · directed by Terrence Malick
- 1979 Yanks: acted · directed by John Schlesinger
- 1980 American Gigolo: acted · directed by Paul Schrader
- 1981 Reporter: acted · directed by Raymond Depardon
- 1982 An Officer and a Gentleman: acted · directed by Taylor Hackford
- 1983 Breathless: acted · directed by Jim McBride
- 1983 The Honorary Consul: acted · directed by John Mackenzie
- 1984 The Cotton Club: acted · directed by Francis Ford Coppola · critics 75%, audiences 57% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, Hoopla
- 1985 King David: acted · directed by Bruce Beresford
- 1986 No Mercy: acted · directed by Richard Pearce
- 1986 Power: acted · directed by Sidney Lumet · critics 50%, audiences 43%
- 1988 Miles from Home: acted · directed by Gary Sinise
- 1990 Internal Affairs: acted · directed by Mike Figgis · critics 80%, audiences 58% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+
- 1990 Pretty Woman: acted · directed by Garry Marshall · critics 67%, audiences 68%
- 1991 Rhapsody in August: acted · directed by Akira Kurosawa · critics 64%, audiences 73%
- 1992 Final Analysis: acted · directed by Phil Joanou
- 1993 And the Band Played On: acted · directed by Roger Spottiswoode
- 1993 Mr. Jones: acted · directed by Mike Figgis · critics 46%, audiences 50% · streaming on YouTube (free), Tubi
- 1993 Sommersby: acted · directed by Jon Amiel
- 1994 Intersection: acted · directed by Mark Rydell
- 1995 First Knight: acted · directed by Jerry Zucker · critics 43%, audiences 54% · streaming on Philo, Tubi
- 1996 Primal Fear: acted · directed by Gregory Hoblit · critics 78%, audiences 89% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+, Kanopy
- 1997 Red Corner: acted · directed by Jon Avnet
- 1997 The Jackal: acted · directed by Michael Caton-Jones · critics 27%, audiences 51%
- 1998 Junket Whore: acted · directed by Debbie Melnyk
- 1999 Runaway Bride: acted · directed by Garry Marshall
- 2000 Autumn in New York: acted · directed by Joan Chen
- 2000 Dr. T & the Women: acted · directed by Robert Altman · critics 61%, audiences 20% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Fandango at Home (free)
- 2001 The Concert for New York City: acted · directed by Edward Burns and Jerry Seinfeld
- 2002 Chicago: acted · directed by Rob Marshall · critics 87%, audiences 83% · streaming on Paramount+, Kanopy, Hoopla
- 2002 The Mothman Prophecies: acted · directed by Mark Pellington · critics 54%, audiences 56% · streaming on Netflix, Prime Video, fuboTV
- 2002 Unfaithful: acted · directed by Adrian Lyne
- 2003 Day by Day: A Director's Journey Part I: acted · directed by Jason Free and Mark Pellington
- 2004 Shall We Dance?: acted · directed by Peter Chelsom
- 2005 Bee Season: acted · directed by David Siegel and Scott McGehee
- 2006 The Hoax: acted · directed by Lasse Hallström
- 2007 I'm Not There: acted · directed by Todd Haynes
- 2007 Manufacturing Dissent: acted · directed by Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine · critics 54%, audiences 39%
- 2007 The Flock: acted · directed by Andrew Lau
- 2007 The Hunting Party: acted · directed by Richard Shepard
- 2008 Nights in Rodanthe: acted · directed by George C. Wolfe
- 2009 Amelia: acted · directed by Mira Nair
- 2009 Brooklyn's Finest: acted · directed by Antoine Fuqua · critics 45%, audiences 46% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, Hoopla
- 2009 Hachi: A Dog's Tale: produced, acted · directed by Lasse Hallström
- 2011 The Double: acted · directed by Michael Brandt
- 2012 Arbitrage: acted · directed by Nicholas Jarecki
- 2013 Movie 43: acted · directed by Bob Odenkirk and Bobby Farrelly
- 2014 Henry & Me: acted · directed by Barrett Esposito
- 2014 Time Out of Mind: produced, acted · directed by Oren Moverman
- 2015 The Benefactor: acted · directed by Andrew Renzi · critics 26%, audiences 24% · streaming on Prime Video, Peacock, Philo
- 2015 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: acted · directed by John Madden
- 2016 Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer: acted · directed by Joseph Cedar
- 2017 The Dinner: acted · directed by Oren Moverman
- 2019 It Takes a Lunatic: acted · directed by Billy Lyons and Kim Ferraro · audiences 80% · streaming on Netflix
- 2019 MotherFatherSon (TV series): acted · directed by Charles Sturridge
- 2023 Maybe I Do: acted · directed by Michael Jacobs
- 2024 Longing: acted · directed by Savi Gabizon
- 2024 Oh, Canada: acted · directed by Paul Schrader
- 2024 The Agency (TV series): acted · directed by Grant Heslov and Joe Wright · critics 79%, audiences 87% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+
- 2026 The Basics of Philosophy: acted · directed by Paul Schrader
- Na plovarne (TV series): acted · directed by Jan Hojtaš