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- Breakdown: 1975 → Self (archive footage)
- SNL50: The Homecoming Concert → Self
- John Candy: I Like Me → Self - Actor (archive footage)
- Films to Die For → (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director → Self (archive footage)
- Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend → Self (archive footage)
- Untold: Deal with the Devil → Self (archive footage)
- Morceaux de Cannes
- Kubrick by Kubrick → Self (archive footage)
- Joker: Put on a Happy Face → Self
- 40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic → Self (archive footage)
- Basketball: A Love Story (TV) → Self (archive footage)
- Mansfield 66/67 → Self - Actor(archive footage)
- The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015 → Self - Audience Member
- Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood → Self
- Close Up → Self (archive footage)
- Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir → Self (archive footage)
- Corman's World → Self - Actor
- How Do You Know → Charles Madison
- I'm Still Here → Jack Nicholson
- BBStory: An American Film Renaissance → Self
- America Lost and Found: The BBS Story → Self
- Mulholland Drive - Ein Hollywood-Mythos → Self
- Stardust → Self (uncredited)
- Soul Searching in 'Five Easy Pieces' → Self
- Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom → Self
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired → Self / Jake Gittes (archive footage)
- Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight → Self
- Notes on an American Film Director at Work → Self
- The Bucket List → Edward Periman Cole
- My Spy Family (TV)
- The Visions of Stanley Kubrick → Self
- View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' → Self
- Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick → Self
- The Departed → Costello
- Witness to 'Reds' → Self
- Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast → Self - Presenter
- Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild → Self(archive footage)
- Something's Gotta Give → Harry Sanborn
- Anger Management → Dr. Buddy Rydell
- Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood → Self
- Celebrities Uncensored (TV) → Self
- Nudes in the News (TV) → Warren Schmidt (archive footage)
- About Schmidt → Warren Schmidt
- Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. → Self
- The Pledge → Jerry Black
- America | A Tribute to Heroes → Self
- Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures → Self
- Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party
- Velocity → Johnny Varron (young) (archive footage)
- Junket Whore → Self
- As Good as It Gets → Melvin Udall
- Mars Attacks! → President Dale / Art Land
- Blood and Wine → Alex
- The Evening Star → Garrett Breedlove
- Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels → Self (archive footage)
- The Crossing Guard → Freddy Gale
- The Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped → Self
- The Rolling Stones: Stripped → Self
- Wolf → Will Randall
- The Making of '...And God Spoke' → Self - Academy Awards (archive footage)
- A Few Good Men → Col. Nathan R. Jessep
- Hoffa → James R. 'Jimmy' Hoffa
- Man Trouble → Harry Bliss
- The Two Jakes → J.J. "Jake" Gittes
- Batman → Jack Napier / The Joker
- On the tracks of a filmmaker → Jack Nicholson
- The Witches of Eastwick → Daryl Van Horne
- Broadcast News → Bill Rorich
- Ironweed → Francis Phelan
- Creepy Classics → Rexford Bedlo - (archive footage)
- Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories → Narrator (voice)
- Rabbit Ears - How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin/How the Camel Got His Hump → Narrator (voice)
- Heartburn → Mark
- Barbra Streisand: One Voice → Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
- The Elephant's Child → Narrator (voice)
- Live Aid → Self
- Prizzi's Honor → Charley Partanna
- Goldene Kamera (TV) → Self
- Not Necessarily the News (TV) → Self (archive footage)
- Terms of Endearment → Garrett Breedlove
- The Border → Charlie Smith
- The Postman Always Rings Twice → Frank Chambers
- Reds → Eugene O'Neill
- The Shining → Jack Torrance
- Making 'The Shining' → Self
- The Kennedy Center Honors (TV) → Self
- Goin' South → Henry Moon
- The Missouri Breaks → Tom Logan
- The Last Tycoon → Brimmer
- TVTV Looks at the Oscars → Self
- Saturday Night Live (TV) → Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- Saturday Night Live (TV) → Self
- Saturday Night Live (TV) → Self (uncredited)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest → Randle Patrick McMurphy
- Tommy → The Specialist
- The Passenger → David Locke
- The Fortune → Oscar 'Dix' Sullivan
- Chinatown → J.J. 'Jake' Gittes
- The Last Detail → Buddusky
- The King of Marvin Gardens → David Staebler
- Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here → Self
- Film '72 (TV) → Self
- Carnal Knowledge → Jonathan
- A Safe Place → Mitch
- Drive, He Said → Annoyed Bearded Guy
- Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age → Narrator
- Five Easy Pieces → Robert Eroica Dupea
- On a Clear Day You Can See Forever → Tad Pringle
- Rebel Rousers → Bunny
- Easy Rider → George Hanson
- Targets → Lt. Andre Duvalier (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Movie Orgy → Self (archive footage)
- Head → Self (uncredited)
- Psych-Out → Stoney
- The Guns of Will Sonnett (TV) → Tom Murdock
- The St. Valentine's Day Massacre → Gino, Hit Man (uncredited)
- Hells Angels on Wheels → Poet
- Ride in the Whirlwind → Wes
- The Shooting → Billy Spear
- Ensign Pulver → Yeoman Dolan
- Back Door to Hell → Burnett
- Flight to Fury → Jay Wickham
- The Terror → Lt. Andre Duvalier
- The Raven → Rexford Bedlo
- Little Amy (TV) → Jefferson City Coach
- The Broken Land → Will
- Little Amy → Jefferson City Coach
- The Hour of St. Francis → Jim Evans
- Dr. Kildare (TV) → Jaime Angel
- The Andy Griffith Show (TV) → Mr. Garland
- The Andy Griffith Show (TV) → Marvin Jenkins
- The Barbara Stanwyck Show (TV) → Bud
- The Little Shop of Horrors → Wilbur Force
- Studs Lonigan → Weary Reilly
- Too Soon to Love → Buddy
- The Wild Ride → Johnny Varron
- Hawaiian Eye (TV) → Tony Morgan
- Mr. Lucky (TV) → Martin
- Sea Hunt (TV) → John Stark
- Bronco (TV) → Bob Doolin
- Cry Baby Killer → Jimmy Wallace
- Matinee Theater (TV) → Musician's Son
- The Oscars (TV) → Self
- Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
- Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Nominee / Presenter
- Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Nominee