- 2008: Featured in Helen Hunt's directorial debut, "Then She Found Me"
- 2008: Played the lead in the comedy, "Finding Amanda"
- 2006: Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (January)
- 2006: Co-starred with Danny DeVito in the holiday comedy "Deck the Halls"
- 2006: Played an astronomy teacher in the Broadway play, "The Starry Messenger"; second collaboration with director Kenneth Lonergan
- 2005: Reprised his role as Leo Bloom, opposite Nathan Lane in the feature adaptation of "The Producers"
- 2005: Re-united with Nathan Lane to play Oscar and Felix in the Broadway revival of "The Odd Couple" directed by Joe Mantello
- 2004: Co-starred with Nicole Kidman in the Frank Oz remake of the 1975 cult classic, "The Stepford Wives"
- 2004: Starred as a movie director in "The Last Shot" with Alec Baldwin, Toni Collette and Tony Shalhoub
- 2003: Portrayed Professor Harold Hill in the ABC television remake of the "Music Man"
- 2001: With Nathan Lane, co-starred in the Mel Brooks' stage version of "The Producers"; received a Tony nomination
- 2000: Played a bank manager in the Sundance hit "You Can Count on Me" directed by Kenneth Lonergan
- 2000: Acted opposite Parker Posey in the ill-fated Broadway comedy "Taller Than a Dwarf"
- 1999: Offered a winning performance as a teacher out to thwart an overachieving female student in in Alexander Payne's "Election"
- 1999: Had title role in the live-action film, "Inspector Gadget"
- 1999: Starred in the National Actors Theater Broadway revival of "Night Must Fall"
- 1998: Played a scientist tracking the lizard in the blockbuster, "Godzilla"
- 1996: Co-produced (also directed and co-starred) the biopic "Infinty"; film scripted by his mother Patricia Broderick
- 1996: Played the customer in whose life comes Jim Carrey's "The Cable Guy"
- 1995: Returned to Broadway to star in the revival of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"; wife Sarah Jessica Parker co-starred in the final months of the show's run
- 1994: Voiced the adult Simba in Disney's animated blockbuster "The Lion King"; also sang
- 1993: Made rare TV acting appearance opposite Jack Lemmon in the TNT movie "A Life in the Theatre"
- 1990: Offered a comic turn opposite Marlon Brando in "The Freshman"
- 1989: Delivered a fine turn as Robert Gould Shaw, the white commander of a black infantry during the Civil War in "Glory"
- 1988: Recreated stage role of Eugene Jerome in Mike Nichols film adaption of "Biloxi Blues"
- 1986: Reprised his stage role of Brother Vaughn in the film "On Valentine's Day"
- 1986: Breakthrough film performance in title role of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
- 1985: Appeared in the Showtime production of Athol Fugard's "'Master Harold'... and the Boys"
- 1984: Reprised role of Eugene Jerome in Simon's "Biloxi Blues" on Broadway
- 1983: Broadway debut as Eugene Jerome in Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical play "Brighton Beach Memoirs"
- 1983: Had leading role in the summer hit "WarGames"
- 1982: Film acting debut in "Max Dugan Returns"
- 1982: TV acting debut in an episode of "Lou Grant" (CBS)
- 1981: Played lead role in the off-Broadway production of Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy"
- 1980: Acting debut as Brother Vaughn in Horton Foote's play "Valentine's Day"; also starred his father James
- Began acting after a knee injury
- Appeared in the Off-Broadway production of Horton Foote's "The Widow Claire"




