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William Rankin Patton is an American actor and audiobook narrator. He starred as Colonel Dan Weaver in the TNT science fiction series Falling Skies. He also appeared in films such as Remember the Titans, Armageddon, Gone in 60 Seconds and The Punisher. He appeared opposite Kevin Costner in two films: No Way Out (1987) and The Postman (1997). Patton's father, Bill Patton, was a playwright and acting/directing instructor. Patton has been in many films, starting in 1981. He has done many television appearances as well, starting in 1982 and he has done a great deal of voice work with audio books. He won two Obie Awards for best actor in Sam Shepard's play Fool for Love and the Public Theater production of What Did He See?.
Birth Name
William Rankin Patton
Born
Monday, 14 June 1954
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 | 2024 | |
Horizon: An American Saga | 2024 | |
Janet Planet | Wayne | 2024 |
Silo | Deputy Marnes | 2023 |
Halloween Ends | Frank Hawkins / Frank | 2022 |
Outer Range | Wayne Tillerson | 2022 |
Halloween Kills | Officer Hawkins | 2021 |
The Forever Purge | Caleb Tucker | 2021 |
The Devil Below | Schuttmann | 2021 |
Minari | Paul | 2021 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 | 2024 | |
Horizon: An American Saga | 2024 | |
Janet Planet | Wayne | 2024 |
Silo | Deputy Marnes | 2023 |
Halloween Ends | Frank Hawkins / Frank | 2022 |
Outer Range | Wayne Tillerson | 2022 |
Halloween Kills | Officer Hawkins | 2021 |
The Forever Purge | Caleb Tucker | 2021 |
The Devil Below | Schuttmann | 2021 |
Minari | Paul | 2021 |
Hammer | Stephen Davis | 2020 |
Blood on Her Name | Richard Tiller / Richard | 2020 |
Sweet Thing | Adam | 2020 |
Radioflash | Frank | 2019 |
Swamp Thing | Avery Sunderland | 2019 |
Halloween | Officer Hawkins / Deputy Frank Hawkins | 2018 |
An Actor Prepares | Wisdom | 2018 |
Boarding School | Dr. Sherman | 2018 |
Yellowstone | Garrett Randall | 2018 |
The Scent of Rain & Lightning | Senior / Hugh 'Senior' Linder | 2018 |
Megan Leavey | Jim | 2017 |
Shots Fired | Sheriff Daniel Platt | 2017 |
American Honey | Backseat | 2016 |
The November Man | Perry Weinstein | 2014 |
Abigail Harm | Narrator / The Visitor / The Visitor/Narrator | 2013 |
The Girl | Tommy | 2012 |
Falling Skies | Captain Weaver / Captain Daniel 'Dan' Weaver / Colonel Weaver / Colonel Dan Weaver | 2011 |
Waking Madison | Steven Walker | 2011 |
Meek's Cutoff | Soloman Tetherow | 2011 |
The Presence of Joseph Chaikin | Self | 2011 |
Conan | Weaver (archive footage) | 2010 |
Knucklehead | Vic Sullivan / Vic | 2010 |
Princess Kaiulani | Sanford Dole / Sanford B. Dole | 2010 |
Looking at Animals | Raymond | 2010 |
Brooklyn's Finest | Lt. Bill Hobarts | 2010 |
MindFlux | Self | 2010 |
The Fourth Kind | Sheriff August | 2009 |
The Canyon | Henry | 2009 |
The Good Wife | Mike Tascioni | 2009 |
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond | Mr. Dobyne / Old Man Dobyne | 2009 |
Wendy and Lucy | Mechanic | 2008 |
American Violet | Sam Conroy | 2008 |
The List | Harriston / Michael Harriston | 2008 |
Lucky Days | J.C. | 2008 |
Dog Days of Summer | Eli Cottonmouth | 2008 |
A Mighty Heart | Randall Bennett | 2007 |
Code Name: The Cleaner | Riley | 2007 |
Road House 2: Last Call | Nate Tanner | 2006 |
Into the West | James Fletcher | 2005 |
Numb3rs | Lt. Gary Walker / Det. Gary Walker | 2005 |
The Last Ride | Aaron Purnell | 2004 |
The Punisher | Quentin Glass | 2004 |
Family Sins | Philip Rothman | 2004 |
The Rough South of Larry Brown | Frank in 'Samaritans' | 2002 |
The Mothman Prophecies | Gordon Smallwood | 2002 |
24 | Alan Wilson | 2001 |
The Agency | Jackson Haisley | 2001 |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | CIA Associate Director Craig Halliday | 2000 |
Remember the Titans | Coach Bill Yoast | 2000 |
Trixie | W. 'Red' Rafferty | 2000 |
Jesus' Son | John Smith | 2000 |
Gone in 60 Seconds | Atley Jackson | 2000 |
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died | Preacher | 1999 |
Entrapment | Cruz / Hector Cruz | 1999 |
Breakfast of Champions | Moe the Truck Driver | 1999 |
Armageddon | Chick | 1998 |
O.K. Garage | Sean | 1998 |
The Postman | General Bethlehem | 1997 |
This World, Then the Fireworks | Lt. Morgan | 1997 |
Inventing the Abbotts | Lloyd Abbott | 1997 |
Fled | Gibson | 1996 |
The Spitfire Grill | Nahum Goddard | 1996 |
Copycat | Nicoletti | 1995 |
VR.5 | Dr. Frank Morgan | 1995 |
Tollbooth | Dash Pepper | 1994 |
The Puppet Masters | Dr. Graves / Dr. Lawrence Graves | 1994 |
The Client | Sgt. Hardy / Sergeant Hardy | 1994 |
Natural Causes | Michael Murphy | 1994 |
Midnight Edition | Jack Travers | 1994 |
Romeo Is Bleeding | Martie | 1994 |
Judicial Consent | Alan Warwick | 1994 |
The Paint Job | Wesley | 1993 |
Taking the Heat | Hadley | 1993 |
A Child Lost Forever: the Jerry Sherwood Story | Frank Maxwell | 1992 |
In the Deep Woods | Eric Gaines | 1992 |
In the Soup | Skippy | 1992 |
Cold Heaven | Father Niles | 1992 |
The Rapture | Deputy Foster / Foster | 1991 |
Deadly Desire | Giles Menteer | 1991 |
Dillinger | Melvin Purvis | 1991 |
Bright Angel | Woody | 1990 |
A Shock to the System | Lt. Laker | 1990 |
Nasty Boys | Raymond Batiste | 1990 |
Everybody Wins | Jerry | 1990 |
Signs of Life | Owen's Father | 1989 |
American Experience | John Wilkes Booth | 1988 |
Wildfire | Mike | 1988 |
Stars and Bars | Duane Gage | 1988 |
No Way Out | Scott Pritchard | 1987 |
A Gathering of Old Men | Lou Dimes | 1987 |
Belizaire the Cajun | Matthew Perry | 1986 |
The Equalizer | Officer Nick Braxton | 1985 |
After Hours | Horst | 1985 |
Desperately Seeking Susan | Wayne Nolan | 1985 |
Variety | Mark | 1985 |
Chinese Boxes | Marsh | 1984 |
The Beniker Gang | Forest Ranger | 1984 |
Silkwood | Joe | 1983 |
King Blank | Bar Customer | 1983 |
Kent State | Peter | 1981 |
CBS Library | Ben Moody | 1979 |
Minus Zero | Schreiber | 1979 |
Ryan's Hope | Ox Knowles | 1975 |