William Atherton
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Acting
William Atherton Knight Jr. (born July 30, 1947) is an American actor, best known for portraying Richard Thornburg in Die Hard and its sequel and Walter Peck in Ghostbusters.
Filmography
- Where Did the Adults Go? (2025)
- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
- Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2020)
- Bad Company (2018)
- Clinical (2017)
- Ghostheads (2016)
- Jinn (2014)
- The Citizen (2012)
- Jersey Shore Shark Attack (2012)
- Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012)
- The Kane Files: Life of Trial (2010)
- Ghouls (2008)
- Black Crescent Moon (2008)
- Aces 'N' Eights (2008)
- The Girl Next Door (2007)
- Kush (2007)
- Towards Darkness (2007)
- Into the Sun (2005)
- Headspace (2005)
- Gone but Not Forgotten (2005)
- Who's Your Daddy? (2004)
- The Last Samurai (2003)
- Race to Space (2001)
- Burning Down the House (2001)
- Bread and Roses (2000)
- The Crow: Salvation (2000)
- The Stranger (1999)
- Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
- Michael Kael vs. the World News Company (1998)
- Mad City (1997)
- Executive Power (1997)
- Hoodlum (1997)
- Raven Hawk (1996)
- Bio-Dome (1996)
- Broken Trust (1995)
- A Night to Die For (1995)
- Virus (1995)
- Frank & Jesse (1994)
- Saints and Sinners (1994)
- The Pelican Brief (1993)
- Chrome Soldiers (1992)
- Diagnosis Murder: Diagnosis of Murder (1992)
- Oscar (1991)
- Grim Prairie Tales (1990)
- Die Hard 2 (1990)
- Buried Alive (1990)
- Intrigue (1988)
- Die Hard (1988)
- The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine (1987)
- No Mercy (1986)
- A Fight for Jenny (1986)
- Real Genius (1985)
- Ghostbusters (1984)
- Malibu (1983)
- Tomorrow's Child (1982)
- The House of Mirth (1981)
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
- Independence (1976)
- The Hindenburg (1975)
- The Day of the Locust (1975)
- The Sugarland Express (1974)
- Class of '44 (1973)
- The New Centurions (1972)
- Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story