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- Breakdown: 1975 → (archive footage)
- The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special → Self (Archival Footage)
- The Playboy Murders (TV) → Self (archive footage)
- Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend → Self (archive footage)
- Sacheen: Breaking the Silence → Self (archive footage)
- Pattern Recognition → Self (archive footage)
- We, the Marines → Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima → Self - Narrator
- Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films → Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story → Self
- I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale → Self
- Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' → Self
- Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (TV) → Self
- Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut → Lex Luthor
- America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions (TV) → Self - Narrator (voice)
- Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage → Narrator (voice)
- Welcome to Mooseport → Monroe Cole
- Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust → Narrator
- Runaway Jury → Rankin Fitch
- Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' → Self
- All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger → Self
- Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs' → Self
- Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend → Self
- Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection → Self
- The Royal Tenenbaums → Royal Tenenbaum
- Heartbreakers → William B. Tensy
- Behind Enemy Lines → Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
- The Mexican → Arnold Margolese
- Heist → Joe Moore
- With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson → Self
- Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes → Lex Luthor (archive footage)
- Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman' → Self
- Heroes of Iwo Jima → Self - Host/Narrator
- Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe → Himself/Narrator
- The Replacements → Jimmy McGinty
- Under Suspicion → Henry Hearst
- Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows → Self
- The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection' → Self
- The Directors (TV) → Self
- Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood → Narrator (voice)
- Antz → General Mandible (voice)
- Enemy of the State → Brill
- Twilight → Jack Ames
- Sports on the Silver Screen → Self (archive footage)
- Absolute Power → President Richmond
- Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein → Blind Man (archive footage)
- The Birdcage → Senator Kevin Keeley
- Extreme Measures → Dr. Lawrence Myrick
- The Chamber → Sam Cayhall
- The Making of 'Crimson Tide' → Self
- Crimson Tide → Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
- The Quick and the Dead → Herod
- Get Shorty → Harry Zimm
- Wyatt Earp → Nicholas Earp
- Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso → Self
- Inside the Actors Studio (TV) → Self
- Shurtleff on Acting → Self
- The Firm → Avery Tolar
- Geronimo: An American Legend → Brig. Gen. George Crook
- Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' → Self
- Unforgiven → 'Little' Bill Daggett
- Earth and the American Dream → Reader (voice)
- Class Action → Jedediah Tucker Ward
- Company Business → Sam Boyd
- Postcards from the Edge → Lowell Kolchek
- Loose Cannons → MacArthur Stern
- Narrow Margin → Robert Caulfield
- The Package → Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
- Mississippi Burning → Agent Rupert Anderson
- Another Woman → Larry
- Bat*21 → Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
- Split Decisions → Dan McGuinn
- Full Moon in Blue Water → Floyd
- No Way Out → Defense Secretary David Brice
- Superman IV: The Quest for Peace → Lex Luthor
- American Masters (TV) → Self
- Hoosiers → Coach Norman Dale
- Power → Wilfred Buckley
- Larry King Live (TV) → Self
- Target → Walter Lloyd
- Twice in a Lifetime → Harry MacKenzie
- The Making of 'Superman II' → Self
- Uncommon Valor → Col. Cal Rhodes
- Under Fire → Alex Grazier
- Eureka → Jack McCann
- Two of a Kind → God (voice) (uncredited)
- Misunderstood → Ned Rawley
- The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' → Self
- Entertainment Tonight (TV) → Self
- Reds → Pete van Wherry
- All Night Long → George Dupler
- Superman II → Lex Luthor
- The South Bank Show (TV) → Self
- Superman → Lex Luthor
- Formula 1 - Speed fever → Self
- A Bridge Too Far → Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
- The Hollywood Greats (TV)
- March or Die → Major William Sherman Foster
- The Domino Principle → Tucker
- French Connection II → "Popeye" Doyle
- Night Moves → Harry Moseby
- Lucky Lady → Kibby
- Bite the Bullet → Sam Clayton
- Dinah! (TV) → Self
- Young Frankenstein → Blindman
- The Conversation → Harry Caul
- Zandy's Bride → Zandy Allen
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... (TV) → Self
- Scarecrow → Max Millan
- On the Road with: Scarecrow → Self
- The Poseidon Adventure → Reverend Scott
- Prime Cut → Mary Ann
- Film '72 (TV) → Self
- V.I.P. Schaukel (TV) → Self
- The French Connection → Jimmy Doyle
- Cisco Pike → Officer Leo Holland
- Doctors' Wives → Dave Randolph
- The Hunting Party → Brandt Ruger
- I Never Sang for My Father → Gene Garrison
- Downhill Racer → Eugene Claire
- Marooned → Buzz Lloyd
- Riot → Red Fraker
- The Gypsy Moths → Joe Browdy
- The Sky Divers → Self
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV) → Self
- The Split → Lt. Walter Brill
- Shadow on the Land → Rev. Thomas Davis
- The Invaders (TV) → Tom Jessup
- Bonnie and Clyde → Buck Barrow
- Banning → Tommy Del Gaddo
- A Covenant with Death → Harmsworth
- First to Fight → Sergeant Tweed
- CBS Playhouse (TV) → Ned
- Hawk (TV)
- Hawaii → John Whipple
- The F.B.I. (TV) → Herb Kenyon
- The Trials of O'Brien (TV) → Roger Nathan
- Lilith → Norman
- East Side/West Side (TV)
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV) → Self
- The Merv Griffin Show (TV) → Self
- The Mike Douglas Show (TV) → Self
- The Defenders (TV) → Stanley McGuirk
- The DuPont Show of the Week (TV) → Douglas McCann
- Tallahassee 7000 (TV) → Joe Lawson
- Mad Dog Coll → Cop (uncredited)
- Route 66 (TV) → Motorist
- Naked City (TV) → Mr. Jasper
- The Oscars (TV) → Self
- The United States Steel Hour (TV)
- Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Nominee
- Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Presenter
- Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
- Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Nominee / Presenter