- 2009: Nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (“The Visitor”)
- 2008: Nominated for the 2008 Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead (“The Visitor”)
- 2008: Played the lead role in the Thomas McCarthy directed "The Visitor"
- 2008: Nominated for the 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role (“The Visitor”)
- 2008: Joined an ensemble cast for the Coen's brothers' "Burn After Reading"
- 2007: Cast in the Peter Berg directed, "The Kingdom"
- 2005: Cast in the update of the 1977 comedy, "Fun with Dick and Jane," where a married couple turn to robbery to pay the bills
- 2005: Played Charlize Theron's father in "North Country" a fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States
- 2004: Cast in David O Russell's "I Heart Huckabees" starring Mark Wahlberg, Jude Law and Naomi Watts
- 2004: Played the father of a fourteen year old boy (Emile Hirsch) trying to deal with the death of his mother in "The Mudge Boy"
- 2003: Portrayed Freddy Bender in the Coen's brothers comedy "Intolerable Cruelty"
- 2003: Appeared in the film "Cheaper by the Dozen"
- 2002: Co-starred in the FX original movie "Sins of the Father"
- 2001: Played Sally Field's husband in "Say It Isn't So"
- 2001: Had recurring role as the family patriarch Nathaniel Fisher in the acclaimed HBO series "Six Feet Under"
- 1999: Featured in "The Mod Squad" and "Snow Falling on Cedars"
- 1997: Played the parole officer in Tim Blake Nelson's atmospheric "Eye of God"
- 1996: Was featured in the CBS special "The Boys Next Door"
- 1993: Co-starred in the CBS miniseries "Queen"
- 1990: Portrayed an attorney in "Blue Steel"
- 1988: Was featured in "Little Nikita"
- 1987: Reprised role of Bobby Pate in "Courtship"; another film based on a Horton Foote play
- 1987: Had supporting role in "The Witches of Eastwick"
- 1986: Co-starred as Bobby Pate in "On Valentine's Day"; adapted from a play by Horton Foote
- 1985: Feature film debut, "Silverado"
- 1984: Acted in the award-winning PBS miniseries "Concealed Enemies"
- 1975: Appeared in the Trinity production "Brothers to Dragons"; filmed for broadcast on PBS
- In the 1970s, was artistic director of Trinity Square Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island




