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Rod Steiger Acting Filmography (134)

I Am Not Your Negro
2017·Self

The Real James Dean
2006·Self
Hollywood Legenden
2004·Self

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004·Self

Poolhall Junkies
2002·Nick

The Hollywood Sign
2002·Floyd Benson

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002·Pvt. O'Meara (archive footage)
Besuch bei Rod Steiger
2001·Self

The Flying Dutchman
2001·Ben
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2001·Self

Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
2001·Self

Contender: Mastering the Method
2001·Self

A Month of Sundays
2001·Charley McCabe

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000·Self

Animated Epics: Moby Dick
2000·Ahab (voice)

Body and Soul
2000·Johnny Ticotin

The Last Producer
2000·Sheri Ganse

The Unforgettable Diana Dors
2000·Self

Crazy in Alabama
1999·Judge Louis Mead

End of Days
1999·Father Kovak

The Hurricane
1999·Judge Sarokin

Cypress Edge
1999·Woodrow McCammon

Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season
1999·Doc Wallace

Modern Vampires
1998·Dr. Frederick Van Helsing

Legacy
1998·Sadler

Kingdom of Shadows
1998·Narrator

Animals with the Tollkeeper
1998·Fontina

Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
1998·Self

Truth or Consequences, N.M.
1997·Tony Vago

Incognito
1997·Milton A. Donovan

The Kid
1997·Harry Sloan

Mars Attacks!
1996·General Decker

Carpool
1996·Mr. Hammerman

Shiloh
1996·Doc Wallace

Little Surprises
1996

The Real Thing
1996·Victor

Dalva
1996·John Wesley Northridge II

OP Center
1995·Boroda

In Pursuit of Honor
1995·Col. Owen Stuart

Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
1995·The President

Forbidden City: The Great Within
1995·Narrator (voice)

Out There
1995·Col. Buck Gunner

James Dean and Me
1995·Self (uncredited)

Seven Sundays
1995·Benjamin

Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story
1995·Anthony Comstock

James Dean: A Portrait
1995·Self

The Specialist
1994·Joe Leon

The Last Tattoo
1994·General Frank W. Zane

The Neighbor
1993·Dr. Myron Hatch

The Final Contract
1993·Frank Argento

From Hollywood to Hanoi
1993·Self

The Player
1992·Rod Steiger

Earth and the American Dream
1992·Reader (voice)
Lincoln
1992·Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (voice)

Guilty As Charged
1991·Kallin

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991·Rev. Willin

In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas
1991·Gordon Kahl

Men Of Respect
1990·Charlie D'Amico

The January Man
1989·Mayor Eamon Flynn

That Summer of White Roses
1989·Martin

Tennessee Nights
1989·Richter Prescott

Passion and Paradise
1989·Sir Harry Oakes

Hello Actors Studio
1988·Self

Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge
1988·Silas Slaten

The Kindred
1987·Dr. Phillip Lloyd

American Gothic
1987·Pa

Catch the Heat
1987·Jason Hannibal

Sword of Gideon
1986·Mordechai Samuels

The Naked Face
1984·Lieutenant McGreary

Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole
1983·Robert E. Peary

James Bond: The First 21 Years
1983·Self

The Magic Mountain
1982·Mynher Peperkorn

I Love Liberty
1982·Self

The Lucky Star
1982·Colonel Gluck
Sergey Bondarchuk
1982·Self (archive)

The Chosen
1981·Reb Saunders

Lion of the Desert
1981·Benito Mussolini

Cattle Annie and Little Britches
1981·Tilghman

Klondike Fever
1980·Soapy Smith

Wolf Lake
1980·Charlie

Breakthrough
1979·General Webster

The Amityville Horror
1979·Father Delaney

Love and Bullets
1979·Joe Bomposa

Portrait of a Hitman
1979·Max Androtti

F.I.S.T.
1978·Sen. Andrew Madison

W.C. Fields and Me
1976·W. C. Fields

Innocents with Dirty Hands
1975·Louis Wormser

Hennessy
1975·Niall Hennessy

The Last Four Days
1974·Mussolini

Lucky Luciano
1973·Gene Giannini

Lolly-Madonna XXX
1973·Laban Feather

The Heroes
1973·Guenther von Lutz

The Moviemakers
1973·Self

Duck, You Sucker
1971·Juan Miranda

Happy Birthday, Wanda June
1971·Harold Ryan

Waterloo
1970·Napoleon Bonaparte

The Distant Drummer: Bridge from No Place
1970·Narrator

The Illustrated Man
1969·Carl

3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969·Steve Howard

Tattooed Steiger
1969·Himself

No Way to Treat a Lady
1968·Christopher Gill

The Sergeant
1968·MSgt. Albert Callan

In the Heat of the Night
1967·Police Chief Bill Gillespie

The Girl and the General
1967·der General

Death of a Salesman
1966·Willy Loman

Doctor Zhivago
1965·Viktor Komarovsky

The Pawnbroker
1965·Sol Nazerman

The Loved One
1965·Mr. Joyboy

A Man Named John
1965·The Intermediary

MGM 40th Anniversary
1964

Time of Indifference
1964·Leo

Hands Over the City
1963·Edoardo Nottola

The Longest Day
1962·Destroyer Commander

13 West Street
1962·Detective Sergeant Koleski

Convicts 4
1962·Tiptoes

The Mark
1961·Doctor McNally

On Friday at Eleven
1961·Frank Morgan

Seven Thieves
1960·Paul Mason

Al Capone
1959·Al Capone

A Town Has Turned to Dust
1958·Harvey Denton

Cry Terror!
1958·Paul Hoplin

The Unholy Wife
1957·Paul Hochen

Run of the Arrow
1957·Pvt. O'Meara

Across the Bridge
1957·Carl Schaffner

The Harder They Fall
1956·Nick Benko

Jubal
1956·Pinky

Back from Eternity
1956·Vasquel

Oklahoma!
1955·Jud Fry

The Big Knife
1955·Stanley Shriner Hoff

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
1955·Maj. Allan Guillion

On the Waterfront
1954·Charley Malloy

Marty
1953·Marty Pilletti

The Evil Within
1953·Peter

Teresa
1951·Frank