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Tom Berenger

Tom Berenger
Tom Berenger
Born: May 31, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois
Occupation: Actor,
Active: '80s-2000s
Major Genres: Thriller, Drama
Career Highlights: Platoon, The Big Chill, At Play in the Fields of the Lord
First Major Screen Credit: In Praise of Older Women (1978)
Filmography
PLATOON 1986
SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME 1987
LAST RITES 1988
MAJOR LEAGUE 1989
BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY 1989
BIG CHILL, THE 1983
LOVE AT LARGE 1990
DOGS OF WAR, THE 1980
EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS 1983
BETRAYED 1988
FIELD, THE 1990
AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD 1991
FEAR CITY 1984
SNIPER 1992
SLIVER 1993
GETTYSBURG 1993
MAJOR LEAGUE 2 1994
CHASERS 1994
LAST OF THE DOGMEN, THE 1995
SUBSTITUTE, THE 1995
OCCASIONAL HELL, AN 1996
BODY LANGUAGE 1995
ONE MAN'S HERO 1999
DIPLOMATIC SEIGE 2000
BUTCH AND SUNDANCE: THE EARLY YEARS 1972
TURBULENCE 2: FEAR OF FLYING 1999
CUTAWAY 2000
SHADOW OF DOUBT 1998
TRUE BLUE 2002
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL 2002
HOLLYWOOD SIGN 2001
JOHNSON COUNTY WAR 2002
SNIPER 2 2003
EYE SEE YOU 2002
DIRECTORS: WOLFGANG PETERSEN, THE 2001
SNIPER 3 2004
NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES 2006
STILETTO 2009
SMOKIN' ACES 2: ASSASSINS' BALL 2010
44 Videos for Tom Berenger
Inception (2010) One Man's Hero (1998) Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball (2010) Shadow of Doubt (1998) Love at Large (1989)
Stiletto (2008) The Gingerbread Man (1998) Major League (1989)
Sniper 3 (2004) An Occasional Hell (1996) Betrayed (1988)
Johnson County War (2002) The Substitute (1996) Last Rites (1988)
Sniper 2 (2002) Body Language (1995) Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987)
Cruel and Unusual (2001) Last of the Dogmen (1995) Someone to Watch over Me (1987)
The Hollywood Sign (2001) Chasers (1994) Platoon (1986)
Training Day (2001) Major League II (1994) Fear City (1984)
Cutaway (2000) Gettysburg (1993) Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
Eye See You (2000) Sliver (1993) The Big Chill (1983)
True Blue (2000) Sniper (1992) The Dogs of War (1981)
Diplomatic Siege (1999) At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991) Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979)
Turbulence II: Fear of Flying (1999) Shattered (1991) The Sentinel (1976)
A Murder of Crows (1998) The Field (1990)
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Biography:

University of Missouri graduate Tom Berenger began his theater work in regional repertory. Once he hit New York, he was employed in several TV soap operas, most prominently as the ill-fated Timmy Siegel on One Life to Live. His first film acting ranged from the grittier urban demands of Looking for Mr.

Goodbar (1977) to the cavalier heroics of Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979). After such relatively sympathetic assignments as The Big Chill in 1983, Berenger followed in the role of the sociopathic, battle-scarred Sergeant Barnes in Platoon (1986), a performance that earned him an Oscar nomination.

This did not, however, stop the versatile actor from trying future good-guy roles like the irresponsible baseball player in Major League (1988). Berenger continued to successfully fluctuate between heroes and villains into the '90s, with a few side trips into television, notably in an amusing, unheralded guest stint in the waning days of the sitcom Cheers.

In 1998, he gave a particularly good portrayal of a villainous low life in Robert Altman's adaptation of John Grisham's The Gingerbread Man. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.