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- Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame → Himself
- One Battle After Another → Col. Steven J. Lockjaw
- aka Charlie Sheen (TV) → Self
- Everybody's Live with John Mulaney (TV) → Self - Actor and Founder of CORE
- Variety & CNN Actors on Actors (TV) → Self
- Animals in War
- In Thanks We Trust → Self
- Daddio → Clark
- BRATS → Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Asphalt City → Gene Rutkovsky
- Becoming Madonna → Self (archive footage)
- Bruce Springsteen – The America whisperer → Self : Actor, Director & Writer (Archive footage)
- Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique → Self
- Gonzo Girl
- Superpower → Self
- Gaslit (TV) → John Mitchell
- Licorice Pizza → Jack Holden
- Flag Day → John Vogel
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read → Pizza Guy
- Citizen Penn → Himself
- Lights Out with David Spade (TV) → Self
- The Professor and the Madman → Dr. William Chester Minor
- Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (TV)
- The First (TV) → Tom Haggerty
- Sound of Sun → Man
- Mad Hannans
- The Angry Birds Movie → Terence (voice)
- El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle → Self
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV) → Self
- The Gunman → Jim Terrier
- Beaver Trilogy Part IV → Himself (archive footage)
- Sweet Micky for President → Self
- The Human Experiment → Narrator
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (TV) → Self - Guest
- Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey → Self
- The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles → Self
- Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story → Himself
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty → Sean O'Connell
- Gangster Squad → Mickey Cohen
- Americans → Commie
- Haiti Untold
- The Tree of Life → Jack
- Woody Allen: A Documentary → Self
- This Must Be the Place → Cheyenne
- Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune → Self
- Fair Game → Joseph Wilson
- I'm Still Here → Sean Penn (uncredited)
- The People Speak → Self
- Deflating the Elephant → Narrator
- Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis (TV) → Self
- Milk → Harvey Milk
- What Just Happened → Sean Penn
- VH1 Rock Honors: The Who → Self
- Witch Hunt → Himself (Narrator)
- The Graham Norton Show (TV) → Self
- Brando: The Documentary (TV) → Self
- Brando → Self
- War Made Easy → Narrator (Voice)
- All the King's Men → Willie Stark
- When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (TV) → Self
- VH1 Rock Honors (TV)
- Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride → Self
- The Reichen Show (TV) → Self
- Iconoclasts (TV) → Self
- The Interpreter → Tobin Keller
- The Assassination of Richard Nixon → Samuel Bicke
- The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing → Self
- Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild → Self(archive footage) (uncredited)
- Mystic River: Beneath the Surface → Self
- 21 Grams: In Fragments → Self
- Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments → Self
- Two and a Half Men (TV) → Sean Penn
- Real Time with Bill Maher (TV) → Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV) → Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV) → Self - Guest
- Mystic River → Jimmy Markum
- 21 Grams → Paul Rivers
- Viva La Bam (TV)
- Pauly Shore Is Dead → Sean Penn
- It's All About Love → Marciello
- This So-Called Disaster → Ray
- Bukowski: Born Into This → Self
- Mystic River: From Page to Screen → Self
- Inside Björk → Self
- Celebrities Uncensored (TV) → Self
- Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die) → Self
- Searching for Debra Winger → Self (uncredited)
- Dogtown and Z-Boys → Narrator
- Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick → Self
- I Am Sam → Sam Dawson
- The Weight of Water → Thomas Janes
- Curb Your Enthusiasm (TV) → Sean Penn
- Before Night Falls → Cuco Sanchez
- Up at the Villa → Rowley Flint
- A Constant Forge → Self
- Beaver Trilogy → "Groovin' Larry" Huff
- Family Guy (TV) → Sean Penn (voice)
- Where Are They Now? (TV) → Self
- Being John Malkovich → Sean Penn (uncredited)
- The Early Show (TV) → Self
- Sweet and Lowdown → Emmet Ray
- Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- The Thin Red Line → 1st Sgt. Edward Welsh
- Hurlyburly → Eddie
- The View (TV) → Self
- The Game → Conrad Van Orton
- U Turn → Bobby Cooper
- She's So Lovely → Eddie Quinn
- Loved → Man on the Hill (Michael)
- Hugo Pool → Strange Hitchhiker
- Dead Man Walking → Matthew Poncelet
- Friends (TV) → Eric
- Inside the Actors Studio (TV) → Self
- Carlito's Way → David Kleinfeld
- The Last Party → Self
- Madonna: The Name of the Game → Self
- The Larry Sanders Show (TV) → Sean Penn
- Cruise Control
- State of Grace → Terry
- Cool Blue → Phil the Plumber (uncredited)
- Casualties of War → Sgt. Tony Meserve
- We're No Angels → Jim
- Colors → Danny McGavin
- Judgment in Berlin → Guenther X
- Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam → (voice)
- At Close Range → Bradford 'Brad' Whitewood Jr.
- Shanghai Surprise → Glendon Wasey
- The Falcon and the Snowman → Daulton Lee
- Racing with the Moon → Henry 'Hopper' Nash
- Crackers → Dillard
- Risky Business → Passenger in Car (uncredited)
- Bad Boys → Mick O'Brien
- Summerspell → Buddy
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High → Jeff Spicoli
- Taps → Cadet Captain Alex Dwyer
- The Killing of Randy Webster → Don Fremont
- Hellinger's Law → Bit Part (uncredited)
- The Beaver Kid 2 → Groovin' Larry
- Saturday Night Live (TV) → Self - Host
- Saturday Night Live (TV) → Self (uncredited)
- Little House on the Prairie (TV) → Boy (uncredited)
- aspekte (TV) → Self
- The Oscars (TV) → Self
- Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Presenter
- Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Nominee