Bill Pullman Movies: Every Film Credit, 1986–2027

Bill Pullman appears in a film whose follow-up this site tracks, which makes the filmography unusually easy to place: Spaceballs set up a sequel that has their own entry here.

Every Bill Pullman film credit

In release order, with the character recorded where the source carries it — 10 of 72 here.

1. 01 Ruthless People 1986
2. 02 Spaceballs as Lone Starr 1987
3. 03 The Accidental Tourist 1988
4. 04 Rocket Gibraltar 1988
5. 05 The Serpent and the Rainbow 1988
6. 06 Home Fires Burning 1989
7. 07 Brain Dead 1990
8. 08 Sibling Rivalry 1990
9. 09 Liebestraum 1991
10. 10 Nervous Ticks 1992
11. 11 Singles 1992
12. 12 Newsies 1992
13. 13 A League of Their Own 1992
14. 14 Malice 1993
15. 15 Mr. Jones 1993
16. 16 Sleepless in Seattle 1993
17. 17 Sommersby 1993
18. 18 The Last Seduction 1994
19. 19 The Favor 1994
20. 20 Wyatt Earp as Ed Masterson 1994
21. 21 While You Were Sleeping 1995
22. 22 Casper 1995
23. 23 Mistrial 1996
24. 24 Independence Day as Thomas Whitmore 1996
25. 25 Mr. Wrong 1996
26. 26 Lost Highway 1997
27. 27 The End of Violence 1997
28. 28 Zero Effect 1998
29. 29 Lake Placid 1999
30. 30 Spy Games 1999
31. 31 Brokedown Palace 1999
32. 32 The Guilty 2000
33. 33 Lucky Numbers 2000
34. 34 Ignition 2001
35. 35 29 Palms 2002
36. 36 Igby Goes Down 2002
37. 37 Tiger Cruise as Commander Gary Dolan 2004
38. 38 The Grudge 2004
39. 39 Dear Wendy 2005
40. 40 Alien Autopsy 2006
41. 41 Scary Movie 4 2006
42. 42 You Kill Me 2007
43. 43 Nobel Son 2007
44. 44 Phoebe in Wonderland 2008
45. 45 Your Name Here 2008
46. 46 Surveillance 2008
47. 47 Bottle Shock as Jim Barrett 2008
48. 48 Peacock 2010
49. 49 Rio Sex Comedy 2010
50. 50 The Killer Inside Me 2010
51. 51 Bringing Up Bobby 2011
52. 52 Too Big to Fail as Jamie Dimon 2011
53. 53 Lola Versus 2012
54. 54 May in the Summer 2013
55. 55 Red Sky 2014
56. 56 The Equalizer 2014
57. 57 Cymbeline 2014
58. 58 American Ultra 2015
59. 59 Brother Nature 2016
60. 60 Independence Day: Resurgence as Thomas Whitmore 2016
61. 61 LBJ as Ralph Yarborough 2016
62. 62 Battle of the Sexes as Jack Kramer 2017
63. 63 The Ballad of Lefty Brown 2017
64. 64 Vice 2018
65. 65 The Equalizer 2 2018
66. 66 Dark Waters 2019
67. 67 The Coldest Game 2019
68. 68 The High Note 2020
69. 69 Everybody Digs Bill Evans 2026
70. 70 Spaceballs: The New One as Lone Starr 2027
71. 71 Merry Christmas, George Bailey —
72. 72 Famous —

Where the credits fall

One frame per year from 1986 to 2027, filled where a credit lands, empty where none does. The empty frames are the informative part: a filmography is usually described by its total, and the total is the one thing that hides the gaps.

1. 86 1
2. 87 1
3. 88 3
4. 89 1
5. 90 2
6. 91 1
7. 92 4
8. 93 4
9. 94 3
10. 95 2
11. 96 3
12. 97 2
13. 98 1
14. 99 3
15. 00 2
16. 01 1
17. 02 2
18. 03
19. 04 2
20. 05 1
21. 06 2
22. 07 2
23. 08 4
24. 09
25. 10 3
26. 11 2
27. 12 1
28. 13 1
29. 14 3
30. 15 1
31. 16 3
32. 17 2
33. 18 2
34. 19 2
35. 20 1
36. 21
37. 22
38. 23
39. 24
40. 25
41. 26 1
42. 27 1

1980s: 6 · 1990s: 25 · 2000s: 16 · 2010s: 20 · 2020s: 3

The sequels these films set up

• Spaceballs 2 , follows Spaceballs, confirmed

The shape of the career

The first credit on record is 1986 and the most recent is 2027, with work in 35 separate years. 1992 was the busiest single year, with 4 credits landing in it, the kind of cluster that usually reflects films shot earlier arriving at once rather than an unusually productive twelve months.

The longest gap runs 6 years, between 2020 and 2026. A gap that size in a screen filmography is worth noticing rather than smoothing over: it is where the record stops describing a run of work and starts describing whatever happened instead, a project that collapsed, a move into other media, or simply nothing being offered.

Reading the list

72 credits across 35 working years averages out at roughly 2.1 per year in the years with any work at all, a figure worth treating carefully, because release dates bunch and a filmography is a record of when films came OUT rather than when they were made. Of the 72 credits, 10 carry a character name, so the rest are placed by film and year alone.

What this page is built from

Structured film records, pulled by the same process that produces the cast pages here, not written from memory, which for credit data is how errors get in. What that source is reliable about is who was credited. What it carries unevenly is character names, and what it almost never carries is billing order, so nothing here calls any of these 72 credits a lead role, because the data cannot support that claim.

Questions about Bill Pullman

How many films has Bill Pullman been in?

72 credited film roles are on record, running from 1986 to 2027. That counts feature credits only, so television and uncredited appearances are not included.

When was Bill Pullman most active in film?

The 1990s, with 25 of the 72 credits. The full spread across decades is listed above.

Why are some roles missing?

Character names are recorded for 10 of the 72 credits. The source is reliable about who was cast and patchy about what they were called, so the rest say the role is not recorded instead of leaving a blank that reads like an oversight.

Was Bill Pullman in a film that got a sequel?

Yes — Spaceballs, whose follow-up Spaceballs 2 is confirmed. The tracker carries the evidence behind each of those verdicts.

Where do these details come from?

Structured film records pulled from Wikidata by the same process that builds the cast pages here, cross-checked against each film's own listed cast rather than written from memory. Where the record is thin — a missing character name, an unconfirmed billing order — the page says so, which is more useful than a confident sentence with nothing behind it.