Willem Dafoe Movies: Every Film Credit, 1980–2026

Willem Dafoe has film credits spanning 46 years, from 1980 to 2026. A filmography that runs that long stops being a list of jobs and starts being a record of how the industry changed around someone: the kinds of film available to a performer in 1980 and in 2026 have little in common, and the 138 titles below cross that shift rather than sitting on one side of it.

Every Willem Dafoe film credit

In release order, with the character recorded where the source carries it — 14 of 138 here.

1. 01 Heaven's Gate 1980
2. 02 The Loveless 1982
3. 03 The Hunger 1983
4. 04 Roadhouse 66 1984
5. 05 Streets of Fire 1984
6. 06 To Live and Die in L.A. 1985
7. 07 Platoon 1986
8. 08 Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam 1987
9. 09 Mississippi Burning as Joseph Sullivan 1988
10. 10 Off Limits 1988
11. 11 The Last Temptation of Christ as Jesus Christ 1988
12. 12 Born on the Fourth of July 1989
13. 13 Triumph of the Spirit 1989
14. 14 Cry-Baby 1990
15. 15 Wild at Heart 1990
16. 16 Flight of the Intruder 1991
17. 17 White Sands 1992
18. 18 Light Sleeper 1992
19. 19 Faraway, So Close! 1993
20. 20 Body of Evidence 1993
21. 21 Clear and Present Danger as John Clark 1994
22. 22 Tom & Viv 1994
23. 23 The Night and the Moment 1995
24. 24 Victory 1996
25. 25 The English Patient 1996
26. 26 Basquiat 1996
27. 27 Affliction 1997
28. 28 Speed 2: Cruise Control 1997
29. 29 Lulu on the Bridge 1998
30. 30 New Rose Hotel 1998
31. 31 Existenz 1999
32. 32 The Boondock Saints 1999
33. 33 Animal Factory 2000
34. 34 Shadow of the Vampire as Max Schreck 2000
35. 35 American Psycho 2000
36. 36 Edges of the Lord 2001
37. 37 Pavilion of Women 2001
38. 38 Spider-Man as Norman Osborn 2002
39. 39 Auto Focus 2002
40. 40 The Reckoning 2003
41. 41 Once Upon a Time in Mexico 2003
42. 42 The Aviator 2004
43. 43 Spider-Man 2 as Norman Osborn 2004
44. 44 Control 2004
45. 45 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004
46. 46 The Clearing 2004
47. 47 XXX: State of the Union 2005
48. 48 Manderlay 2005
49. 49 Ripley Under Ground 2005
50. 50 Inside Man 2006
51. 51 Paris, je t'aime 2006
52. 52 American Dreamz 2006
53. 53 Anamorph 2007
54. 54 Spider-Man 3 as Norman Osborn 2007
55. 55 Mr. Bean's Holiday 2007
56. 56 The Walker 2007
57. 57 Go Go Tales 2007
58. 58 To Each His Own Cinema 2007
59. 59 The Dust of Time 2008
60. 60 Fireflies in the Garden 2008
61. 61 Adam Resurrected 2008
62. 62 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? 2009
63. 63 Farewell 2009
64. 64 Daybreakers 2009
65. 65 The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day 2009
66. 66 Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant 2009
67. 67 Antichrist 2009
68. 68 A Woman 2010
69. 69 طارق كهربااا 2010
70. 70 The Hunter 2011
71. 71 4:44 Last Day on Earth 2011
72. 72 Tomorrow You're Gone 2012
73. 73 John Carter 2012
74. 74 Odd Thomas 2013
75. 75 Nymphomaniac 2013
76. 76 Nymphomaniac: Volume II 2013
77. 77 Out of the Furnace 2013
78. 78 The Smile Man 2013
79. 79 A Most Wanted Man 2014
80. 80 The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014
81. 81 Whiskey Bay 2014
82. 82 Pasolini 2014
83. 83 Nymphomaniac Director's Cut 2014
84. 84 The Fault in Our Stars 2014
85. 85 John Wick 2014
86. 86 The Great Wall 2016
87. 87 A Family Man 2016
88. 88 Padre 2016
89. 89 Dog Eat Dog 2016
90. 90 My Hindu Friend 2016
91. 91 Sculpt 2016
92. 92 What Happened to Monday 2017
93. 93 Death Note 2017
94. 94 Murder on the Orient Express as Cyrus Bethman Hardman 2017
95. 95 The Florida Project 2017
96. 96 Aquaman as Nuidis Vulko 2018
97. 97 At Eternity's Gate as Vincent van Gogh 2018
98. 98 Vox Lux 2018
99. 99 Motherless Brooklyn 2019
100. 100 The Lighthouse 2019
101. 101 Togo as Leonhard Seppala 2019
102. 102 Tommaso 2019
103. 103 Babenco: Tell Me When I Die 2019
104. 104 The Last Thing He Wanted 2020
105. 105 Siberia 2020
106. 106 Sportin' Life 2020
107. 107 Zack Snyder's Justice League as Nuidis Vulko 2021
108. 108 The French Dispatch 2021
109. 109 Spider-Man: No Way Home as Norman Osborn 2021
110. 110 Nightmare Alley 2021
111. 111 The Card Counter 2021
112. 112 The Wild One 2022
113. 113 The Northman 2022
114. 114 Dead for a Dollar 2022
115. 115 Spider-Man: No Way Home - The More Fun Stuff Version as Norman Osborn 2022
116. 116 Inside 2023
117. 117 Pet Shop Days 2023
118. 118 Asteroid City 2023
119. 119 Poor Things 2023
120. 120 Gonzo Girl 2023
121. 121 Finally Dawn 2023
122. 122 Saturday Night 2024
123. 123 Zero 2024
124. 124 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 2024
125. 125 Kinds of Kindness 2024
126. 126 Nosferatu 2024
127. 127 The Legend of Ochi 2025
128. 128 The Man In My Basement 2025
129. 129 The Phoenician Scheme 2025
130. 130 Late Fame 2025
131. 131 The Birthday Party 2025
132. 132 The Souffleur 2025
133. 133 Werwulf 2026
134. 134 Spider-Man in film —
135. 135 Tropico —
136. 136 Tenzing —
137. 137 Problema —
138. 138 Time Out —

Where the credits fall

One frame per year from 1980 to 2026, 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. 80 1
2. 81
3. 82 1
4. 83 1
5. 84 2
6. 85 1
7. 86 1
8. 87 1
9. 88 3
10. 89 2
11. 90 2
12. 91 1
13. 92 2
14. 93 2
15. 94 2
16. 95 1
17. 96 3
18. 97 2
19. 98 2
20. 99 2
21. 00 3
22. 01 2
23. 02 2
24. 03 2
25. 04 5
26. 05 3
27. 06 3
28. 07 6
29. 08 3
30. 09 6
31. 10 2
32. 11 2
33. 12 2
34. 13 5
35. 14 7
36. 15
37. 16 6
38. 17 4
39. 18 3
40. 19 5
41. 20 3
42. 21 5
43. 22 4
44. 23 6
45. 24 5
46. 25 6
47. 26 1

1980s: 13 · 1990s: 19 · 2000s: 35 · 2010s: 36 · 2020s: 30

Films here with a full cast list

One of these films has a cast page on this site, so the rest of the ensemble is one click away.

• Aquaman

The shape of the career

The first credit on record is 1980 and the most recent is 2026, with work in 45 separate years. 2014 was the busiest single year, with 7 credits landing in it, the kind of cluster that usually reflects films shot earlier arriving at once rather than an unusually productive twelve months.

What those films actually are

One of these credits sits in a film this site holds full cast data for, which is worth spelling out because a title on its own says very little.

Aquaman (2018) , directed by James Wan carries 11 credited performers, with Willem Dafoe as Nuidis Vulko. A cast that size is small enough that every name in it is findable, which is not true of most films.

Reading the list

138 credits across 45 working years averages out at roughly 3.1 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 138 credits, 14 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 138 credits a lead role, because the data cannot support that claim.

Questions about Willem Dafoe

How many films has Willem Dafoe been in?

138 credited film roles are on record, running from 1980 to 2026. That counts feature credits only, so television and uncredited appearances are not included.

When was Willem Dafoe most active in film?

The 2010s, with 36 of the 138 credits. The full spread across decades is listed above.

Why are some roles missing?

Character names are recorded for 14 of the 138 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.

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.