John Sayles

John Sayles

directing Sep 28, 1950 75 years Schenectady, New York, USA

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2 nominations

  • 1992 WRITING (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) Passion Fish
  • 1996 WRITING (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) Lone Star

81 of 83 films rated

IMDb avg 6.5
IMDb median 6.6
RT avg 75%
RT median 81%

highest rated

acting

  1. An Ode to Mary Jo
  2. John Sayles and Gregory Nava → Themself
  3. Poker Face (TV) → Chief Hal
  4. Corona Film Club → Self
  5. Algren → Self
  6. Texas Red → Governor Johnson (voice)
  7. Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi → Self
  8. Them That Work → Self
  9. The Umbrella → Pastor Jim
  10. The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence → Self
  11. That Guy Dick Miller → Self
  12. Casting By → Self
  13. The Normals → Dr. Marx
  14. The Story of Film: An Odyssey (TV) → Self
  15. Corman's World → Self - Filmmaker
  16. Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (TV) → Self
  17. In the Electric Mist → Michael Goldman
  18. The Toe Tactic → Cramden
  19. Great Directors → Self
  20. Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press → Self
  21. Honeydripper → Zeke
  22. Alligator Author → Self
  23. Edge of Outside → Self
  24. Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States → Self
  25. Tell Them Who You Are → Self
  26. Unleashing the Beast: Making ‘The Howling’
  27. Sunshine State → Man who almost got hit by a golf ball (uncredited)
  28. Girlfight → Science Teacher
  29. When It Was a Game 3 → Self (voice)
  30. A Constant Forge → Self
  31. Independent Focus (TV) → Self
  32. Scene by Scene (TV) → Self
  33. Gridlock'd → Cop #1
  34. Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western → Self
  35. Baseball (TV) → Self
  36. My Life's in Turnaround → Marginal producer
  37. Matinee → Bob
  38. Malcolm X → FBI Agent
  39. Straight Talk → Guy Girardi
  40. Passion Fish → Soap Opera Doctor (uncredited)
  41. City of Hope → Carl
  42. Shannon's Deal (TV) → Ronnie Nash
  43. Little Vegas → Mike
  44. Untamagiru → US High Commissioner
  45. La fine della notte → Wayne
  46. Eight Men Out → Ring Lardner
  47. Square One Television (TV) → Roy 'Lefty' Cobbs
  48. Matewan → Hardshell Preacher
  49. Something Wild → Motorcycle Cop
  50. Unnatural Causes → Lloyd
  51. Hard Choices → Don
  52. The Brother from Another Planet → Man in Black
  53. Lianna → Jerry
  54. The Howling → Morgue Attendant (uncredited)
  55. Return of the Secaucus Seven → Howie
  56. Piranha → Army Sentry (uncredited)

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