Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine
Biography
Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker. He shared the Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actor as part of the ensemble cast of Robert Altman's film Streamers (1983). He went on to play lead roles in several high-profile films throughout the 1980s, including Birdy (1984), Vision Quest (1985), and Married to the Mob (1988). He gained further prominence for playing U.S. Marine James T. "Joker" Davis in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987). Other notable films include Pacific Heights (1990), Short Cuts (1993), Cutthroat Island (1995), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Oppenheimer (2023). On television, he portrayed Dr. Don Francis in the HBO film And the Band Played On (1993), Sullivan Groff on Weeds (2007), Ivan Turing in Proof (2015), and Dr. Martin Brenner on Netflix's Stranger Things (2016–2022). Modine has been nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for his work in And the Band Played On and What the Deaf Man Heard and received a special Golden Globe for him and the rest of the ensemble in Short Cuts. He was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for And the Band Played On. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthew Modine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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as Cowboy
as Bill Braddock
as Richard Dreyer
as Greg Townsend
as Steve
as Anders Muller
as Vannevar Bush
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as Karl Buttons
as Scott Shaw
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as Congressman Cliff Williams
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as George Bush
as Secretary of Defense James Riley
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as Dr. Ross
as Sid
as Kyle
as Martin Brenner
as Narrator (voice)
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as Abe
as Theodore Foster
as Ivan Turing
as Alec
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as Duncan Dungy
as Dr. Michael Ranger
as Foley
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as John Thain
as Himself
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as Ted Binion
as Joe
as David's Father
as Jeff
as Johnie Ruby
as Ben's Father
as Mel
as Jake Macklin
as Tony Childress / Jesus
as Eric
as Jefferson Billings
as Sullivan Groff
as Samson Wheeler
as Alec McCall
as Honus Wagner
as Jeff
as Bobby Myers
as Self - Guest
as Tellman
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as Fritz Gerlich
as Paul Freeman
as Mitch Garrett
as Eric
as Sonny
as Jack Robinson
as Himself
as Bartender
as Charlie Gordon
as Dr. Ollie Powers
as Johnnie Cooper
as Actor (uncredited)
as Marco Arlens
as Gordon Rickett
as Christopher Newman
as Lawrence Svobida (voice)
as Joe
as Self - Guest
as Sammy Ayers
as Walter Schmeiss
as Matty
as Narrator
as William Shaw
as Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
as Dave Goldman
as Narrator
as Self - Guest
as Jakob
as Frank Hunter
as Dr. Ralph Wyman
as Dr. Don Francis
as Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man
as Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace
as Will Parker
as Drake Goodman
as Dennis Dearborn
as Wild Bill Hamer
as Joe Slovak
as Francesco Sacredo
as Mike Downey
as Self - Guest
as Treat
as Pvt. Joker
as Louden Swain
as Jack Biddle
as Birdy
as Chip Dove / Ernst
as Billy
as Jim Green
as Steve
as Randy
as Self - Host
as Sammy Ayers
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Director
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Sound
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as Music Supervisor
Art
as Set Decoration
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Crew
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Camera
as Camera Operator
Costume & Make-Up
as Costume Supervisor
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