Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

148

Gender

Male

Birthday

1949-01-26 (76 years old)

Place of Birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Also Known As

David Russell Strathairn
Дэвид Стрэтэйрн

David Strathairn

Biography

David Strathairn (born January 26, 1949) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of journalist Edward R. Murrow in the feature film "Good Night, and Good Luck" (2005), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He had also starred in "L.A. Confidential" (1997), "Godzilla" (2014), and the "Bourne" franchise (2007–2012).

Known For

6.3%

Godzilla

May 14, 2014

7.4%

The Bourne Ultimatum

Aug 3, 2007

8.6%

House

Nov 16, 2004

6.7%

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

May 29, 2019

6.2%

The Bourne Legacy

Aug 8, 2012

7.4%

Darkest Hour

Nov 22, 2017

7.8%

L.A. Confidential

Sep 19, 1997

7.3%

Fracture

Apr 19, 2007

6.9%

Lincoln

Nov 9, 2012

7.6%

The Blacklist

Sep 23, 2013

7.2%

Nomadland

Jan 29, 2021

7.0%

Nightmare Alley

Dec 2, 2021

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Acting

—		Last Meals
—		Them That Work
—		By Any Means

2025		The Gettysburg Address as Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice)
2025		The Luckiest Man in America as Bill Carruthers
2025		O Horizon as Warren

2023		A Little Prayer as Bill
2023		Remember This as Jan Karski

2022

Where the Crawdads Sing as Tom Milton

2021		Nightmare Alley as Pete
2021		Nomadland as Dave

2020		The Oedipus Project as Messenger 1
2020		Walkaway Joe as Joe Haley
2020		Interrogation as Henry Fisher

2019		Them That Work as Self
2019		The Devil Has a Name as Fred Stern
2019		Godzilla: King of the Monsters as Admiral William Stenz
2019		Fast Color as Ellis

2018		My Dinner with Hervé as Marty Rothstein
2018		UFO as Franklin Ahls
2018		An Interview with God as God
2018		McMafia as Semiyon Kleiman

2017		Darkest Hour as President Roosevelt (voice)
2017		November Criminals as Theo

2016		American Pastoral as Nathan Zuckerman
2016		He Does Not Want Peace as Richard Englebright

2015		The Expanse as Commander Klaes Ashford
2015		The Expanse as Klaes Ashford
2015		Z: The Beginning of Everything as Anthony Sayre
2015		Louder Than Bombs as Richard Weissman
2015		The Debt as Nathan
2015		The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel as Ty Burley

2014		Godzilla as Admiral William Stenz
2014		No God, No Master as William Flynn

2013		Lincoln@Gettysburg as Narrator (voice)
2013		The Blacklist as Peter Kotsiopulos
2013		Love, Marilyn as Self

2012		Lincoln as William Seward
2012		Hemingway & Gellhorn as John Dos Passos
2012		The Bourne Legacy as Noah Vosen
2012		Maladies as Delmar

2011

Alphas as Lee Rosen

2010		The Whistleblower as Peter Ward
2010		The Tempest as King Alonso
2010		Howl as Ralph McIntosh
2010		Inside Area 51's Secrets as Narrator
2010		Area 51 Declassified as Himself - Narrator
2010		Temple Grandin as Professor Carlock
2010		Matadors as Roman Lodari

2009		The People Speak as Self
2009		Cold Souls as Dr. Flintstein
2009		The Uninvited as Steven

2008		Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential' as Self
2008		Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential' as Self
2008		The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer as J. Robert Oppenheimer
2008		The Spiderwick Chronicles as Arthur Spiderwick

2007		My Blueberry Nights as Arnie
2007		Trumbo as Self
2007		Matters of Life and Death as Mr. Jennings
2007		The Bourne Ultimatum as Noah Vosen
2007		Racing Daylight as Henry / Harry
2007		Steel Toes as Danny Dunkelman
2007		Fracture as Joe Lobruto
2007		The Supreme Court as Narrator

2006		We Are Marshall as President Dedmon
2006		The Sensation of Sight as Finn
2006		Heavens Fall as Judge James Horton
2006		The Human Behavior Experiments as Narrator
2006		The Shovel as Paul Mullin

2005		Good Night, and Good Luck. as Edward R. Murrow
2005		The Notorious Bettie Page as Estes Kefauver
2005		Willa Cather: The Road Is All as Narrator
2005		Missing in America as Henry R. Hocknell Jr.

2004		House as Nash
2004		Los Angeles Plays Itself as Pierce Patchett in L.A. Confidential (archive footage)
2004		Twisted as Dr. Melvin Frank
2004		Paradise as Reverend Bobby Paradise

2003		The Making of ‘Sneakers’ as Self
2003		Blue Car as Auster

2002		Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story as Jack Hoschouer
2002		Lathe of Heaven as Mannie
2002		Monk as Patrick Kloster
2002		Speakeasy as Bruce Hickman

2001		Relative Evil as Dr. Charlie
2001		The Victim as Mark Zingerline

2000		A Good Baby as Truman Lester
2000		The Miracle Worker as Captain Keller
2000		Harrison's Flowers as Harrison Lloyd
2000		Freedom Song as Peter Crowley

1999		A Map of the World as Howard Goodwin
1999		Limbo as Joe Gastineau
1999		A Midsummer Night's Dream as Theseus
1999		The Sopranos as Robert Wegler

1998		Bad Manners as Wes Westlund
1998		The Giraffe as Charles Kaminski
1998		Simon Birch as Rev. Russell
1998		With Friends Like These as Armand Minetti
1998		Evidence of Blood as Jackson Kinley
1998		The Climb as Earl Himes

1997		L.A. Confidential as Pierce Patchett
1997		Song of Hiawatha as Marcel
1997		In the Gloaming as Martin

1996		Mother Night as Bernard B. O'Hare
1996		Beyond the Call as Russel Gates

1995		Home for the Holidays as Russell Terziak
1995		Dolores Claiborne as Joe St. George
1995		Losing Isaiah as Charles Lewin

1994		The River Wild as Tom Hartman
1994		April One as John McCowan

1993		A Dangerous Woman as Getso
1993		The Firm as Ray McDeere
1993		Lost in Yonkers as Johnny
1993		The American Clock as Young Arthur Huntington

1992		Passion Fish as Rennie
1992		Sneakers as Whistler
1992		Bob Roberts as Mack Laflin
1992		A League of Their Own as Ira Lowenstein
1992		Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even as Keith
1992		O Pioneers! as Carl Linstrum

1991		City of Hope as Asteroid
1991		Without Warning: The James Brady Story as Dr. Arthur Kobrine

1990		Judgment as Father Frank Aubert
1990		Memphis Belle as Craig Harriman
1990		Heat Wave as Bill Thomas

1989		The Feud as The Stranger
1989		Day One as J. Robert Oppenheimer

1988		Eight Men Out as Eddie Cicotte
1988		Call Me as Sam
1988		Dominick and Eugene as Martin Chernak
1988		Stars & Bars as Charlie

1987		Wiseguy
1987		Matewan as Police Chief Sid Hatfield
1987		The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd as Moss Goodman
1987		Broken Vows as Stuart Chase

1986

At Close Range as Tony Pine

1985		Spenser: For Hire
1985		The Equalizer as Phillip Borchek
1985		When Nature Calls as Weejun

1984		Miami Vice
1984		The Brother from Another Planet as Man In Black
1984		Iceman as Dr. Singe

1983		Silkwood as Wesley
1983		Lovesick as Marvin Zuckerman
1983		Enormous Changes at the Last Minute as Jerry

1980

Return of the Secaucus Seven as Ron

1953

The Oscars as Self

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Carl Linstrum

1949

The Emmy Awards as Self

Production

2006

The Sensation of Sight as Producer