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William Rankin Patton (born June 14, 1954) is an American actor and audiobook narrator. He starred as Colonel Dan Weaver in the TNT science fiction series Falling Skies. He also appeared in the films Remember the Titans, Armageddon, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Punisher, and Minari. He appeared opposite Kevin Costner in two films: No Way Out (1987) and The Postman (1997), as well as having a guest role in seasons 3 and 4 of Costner's Paramount series Yellowstone. He won two Obie Awards for best actor in Sam Shepard's play Fool for Love and the Public Theater production of What Did He See?

Will Patton
Patton in Blood On Her Name (2019)
Born	William Rankin Patton (1954-06-14) June 14, 1954 (age 68) Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1979–present

Early life

Patton was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the eldest of three children. His father is Bill Patton, a playwright and acting/directing instructor who was a Lutheran minister and served as a chaplain at Duke University.[1][2][3] Patton was raised on a farm, where his parents ran a foster home for wayward teenagers.[1]

Career

Patton won two Obie Awards for best actor for his performances in Sam Shepard's play Fool for Love and the Public Theater production of What Did He See? He portrayed the evil antagonist in Desperately Seeking Susan, and had a significant role in No Way Out, his first major film. He was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of General Bethlehem in The Postman. He portrayed coach Bill Yoast in Remember the Titans, and FBI agent Melvin Purvis in the 1991 made-for-television film Dillinger, before an acclaimed supporting actor performance in Armageddon. Patton provided the voice for the audio version of The Assault on Reason by Al Gore, as well as the role of Alan Wilson on the TV show 24. He recorded the audio version for 22 books written by best-selling mystery writer James Lee Burke. Patton plays the character of Sam Conroy in the film American Violet.

From 2011 to 2015, he starred as Colonel Weaver in the TNT sci-fi television series Falling Skies, executive-produced by Steven Spielberg.

In 2018, Patton portrayed Officer Frank Hawkins in the horror reboot of Halloween, and reprised his role its two sequels Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022).

In 2019, Patton portrayed Avery Sunderland in the DC Universe TV series, Swamp Thing.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	Variety	Mark
	King Blank	Bar Customer
	Silkwood	Joe
1985	The Beniker Gang	Forest Ranger
	Desperately Seeking Susan	Wayne Nolan
	After Hours	Horst
1986	Chinese Boxes	Lang Marsh
	Belizaire the Cajun	Matthew Perry
1987	No Way Out	Scott Pritchard
1988	Wildfire	Mike
	Stars and Bars	Duane Gage
1989	Signs of Life	Mr. Coughlin
1990	Everybody Wins	Jerry
	A Shock to the System	Lieutenant Laker
	Bright Angel	Woody	Uncredited
1991	The Rapture	Deputy Foster
	Cold Heaven	Father Niles
1992	In the Soup	'Skippy'
1993	The Paint Job	Wesley
	Midnight Edition	Jack Travers
	Romeo Is Bleeding	Martie
1994	Tollbooth	Dash Pepper
	Natural Causes	Michael Murphy
	Judicial Consent	Alan Warwick
	The Client	Sergeant Hardy
	The Puppet Masters	Dr. Graves
1995	Copycat	Inspector Nicoletti
1996	Plain Pleasures
	The Spitfire Grill	Nahum Goddard
	Fled	Detective Matthew 'Gib' Gibson
1997	Inventing the Abbotts	Lloyd Abbott
	Hounddogg
	This World, Then the Fireworks	Lieutenant Morgan
	The Postman	General Bethlehem	Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
1998	OK Garage	Sean
	Armageddon	Charles 'Chick' Chapple
	I Woke Up Early the Day I Died	Preacher
1999	Breakfast of Champions	'Moe' The Truck Driver
	Entrapment	Hector Cruz
	Jesus' Son	John Smith
2000	Gone in 60 Seconds	Atley Jackson
	Trixie	W. 'Red' Rafferty
	Remember the Titans	Coach Bill Yoast
2002	The Mothman Prophecies	Gordon Smallwood
2004	The Punisher	Quentin Glass
2006	Road House 2	Nate Tanner
2007	Code Name: The Cleaner	Riley
	A Mighty Heart	DSS Special Agent Randall Bennett
	The List	Michael Harriston
	Dog Days of Summer	Eli Cottonmouth
2008	Wendy and Lucy	The Mechanic
	American Violet	Sam Conroy
	Lucky Days	J.C.
2009	Barbarian Princess	Sanford B. Dole
	Looking at Animals	Raymond
	The Canyon	Henry
	The Fourth Kind	Sheriff August
	Waking Madison	Madison's Father
	The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond	Old Man Dobyne
2010	Brooklyn's Finest	Lieutenant Bill Hobarts
	Meek's Cutoff	Solomon Tetherow
	Knucklehead	Vic Sullivan
2012	The Girl	Tommy
	Abigail Harm	The Visitor / Narrator
2014	The November Man	Perry Weinstein
2016	American Honey	Backseat Cowboy
2017	The Scent of Rain and Lightning	Senior
	Megan Leavey	Jim
2018	Boarding School	Dr. Sherman
	An Actor Prepares	Wisdom
	Halloween	Deputy Frank Hawkins
2019	Blood on Her Name	Richard Tiller
	Hammer	Stephen Davis
	Radioflash	Frank
2020	Minari	Paul	Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2021	The Devil Below	Schuttmann
	The Forever Purge	Caleb Tucker
	Halloween Kills	Deputy Frank Hawkins
2022	Halloween Ends
TBA	Horizon		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	Kent State	Peter	Television film
1982	CBS Library	Ben Moody	Episode: "Robbers, Rooftops and Witches"
1982–1983	Ryan's Hope	'Ox' Knowles	Contract role
1984–1985	Search for Tomorrow	Kentucky Bluebird	26 episodes
1985	The Equalizer	Officer Nick Braxton	Episode: "Lady Cop"
1987	A Gathering of Old Men	Lou Dimes	Television film
1990	Nasty Boys	Raymond Batiste	Episode: "Flesh and Blood"
1991	Dillinger	FBI Agent Melvin Purvis	Television film
	Deadly Desire	Giles Menteer	Television film
1992	Lincoln and the War Within	Ward Lamon	Television film
	In the Deep Woods	Eric Gaines	Television film
	A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story	Frank Maxwell	Television film
1993	Taking the Heat	Hadley	Television film
1995–1997	VR.5	Dr. Frank Morgan	5 episodes
1997	The Protector	Jeff	Unknown episodes
2001–2003	The Agency	Jackson Haisley	44 episodes
2004	Family Sins	Philip Rothman	Television film
	The Last Ride	Aaron Purnell	Television film
2005	Into the West	James Fletcher	Episode: "Wheel to the Stars"
2006–2007	Numbers	Lieutenant Gary Walker	4 episodes
2009	24	Alan Wilson	5 episodes
	American Experience	John Wilkes Booth (voice)	Episodes: "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln"
2010	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Craig Haliday	Episode: "Unshockable"
2011–2015	Falling Skies	Captain Dan Weaver	52 episodes
2016	The Good Wife	Mike Tascioni	4 episodes
2017	Shots Fired	Sheriff Daniel Platt	10 episodes
2019	Swamp Thing	Avery Sunderland[4]	10 episodes
2020–present	Yellowstone	Garrett Randall	Season 3, episode 9
2022-present	Outer Range	Wayne Tillerson

Voice work

Audio books

Title	Author	Year
Mister Impossible	Maggie Stiefvater	2021
If It Bleeds	Stephen King	2020
Tales of Ordinary Madness	Charles Bukowski	2017
Call Down The Hawk	Maggie Stiefvater	2019
The Outsider	Stephen King	2018
Robicheaux	James Lee Burke	2018
The Mist	Stephen King	2017
Killers of the Flower Moon	David Grann	2017
End of Watch	Stephen King	2016
The Raven King	Maggie Stiefvater	2016
House of the Rising Sun	James Lee Burke	2015
Finders Keepers	Stephen King	2015
Blue Lily, Lily Blue	Maggie Stiefvater	2014
Mr. Mercedes	Stephen King	2014
Doctor Sleep	Stephen King	2013
The Dream Thieves	Maggie Stiefvater	2013
The Son	Philipp Meyer	2013
My Cross to Bear	Gregg Allman	2012
The Raven Boys	Maggie Stiefvater	2012
Creole Belle	James Lee Burke	2012
Deliverance	James Dickey	2011
Feast Day of Fools	James Lee Burke	2011
The Glass Rainbow	James Lee Burke	2010
Alas, Babylon	Pat Frank	2010
Light in August	William Faulkner	2010
"Chasing Lincoln's Killer"	James L. Swanson	2009
Jesus' Son	Denis Johnson	2009
Swan Peak	James Lee Burke	2008
On the Road	Jack Kerouac	2007
The Tin Roof Blowdown	James Lee Burke	2007
The Assault on Reason	Al Gore	2007
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3	Annie Proulx	2008
Tree of Smoke	Denis Johnson	2007
Last Car to Elysian Fields	James Lee Burke	2007
Thirteen Moons	Charles Frazier	2006
Pegasus Descending	James Lee Burke	2006
Crusader's Cross	James Lee Burke	2006
Jolie Blon's Bounce	James Lee Burke	2006
"The President Has Been Shot!"	James L. Swanson	2006
The Thomas Berryman Number	James Patterson	2006
To Have and Have Not	Ernest Hemingway	2006
A Dave Robicheaux Audio Collection	James Lee Burke	2006
A Stained White Radiance (#5)
In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead (#6)
Dixie City Jam (#7)
Burning Angel (#8)
Cadillac Jukebox (#9)
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town	Kimberly Willis Holt	2006
Cosmopolis	Don DeLillo	2005
In the Moon of Red Ponies	James Lee Burke	2004
Cimarron Rose	James Lee Burke	2004
White Doves at Morning	James Lee Burke	2003
Bitterroot	James Lee Burke	2001
Cadillac Jukebox	James Lee Burke	2001
Purple Cane Road	James Lee Burke	2000
Boone's Lick	Larry McMurtry	2000
Burning Angel	James Lee Burke	1999
Heaven's Prisoners	James Lee Burke	1999
Heartwood	James Lee Burke	1999
Primal Fear	William Diehl	1999
Dixie City Jam	James Lee Burke	1999
A Stained White Radiance	James Lee Burke	1998
Sunset Limited	James Lee Burke	1998
The Sea-Wolf	Jack London	1997
Dead Man's Walk	Larry McMurtry	1996
Dirty White Boys	Stephen Hunter	1995
The Water Is Wide	Pat Conroy	1995
The Fermata	Nicholson Baker	1995
Gump and Co.	Winston Groom	1995
Gone South	Robert R. McCammon	1994
Lila – An Inquiry into Morals	Robert M. Pirsig	1991
The Neon Rain	James Lee Burke	1987
The Lost Get-Back Boogie	James Lee Burke	1986

References

External links

• Will Patton at IMDb

• Will Patton at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

На других языках

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[de] Will Patton

William „Will“ Patton (* 14. Juni 1954 in Charleston, South Carolina) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.

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[es] Will Patton

William Rankin Patton (Charleston, Carolina del Sur; 14 de junio de 1954), más conocido como Will Patton, es un actor estadounidense de cine, televisión y teatro.

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[ru] Паттон, Уилл

Уи́льям Ра́нкин «Уилл» Па́ттон (англ. William Rankin «Will» Patton; род. 14 июня 1954, Чарлстон, Южная Каролина, США) — американский актёр кино и телевидения, известный по фильмам «Армагеддон», «Угнать за 60 секунд» и «Каратель», а также по телесериалу «Рухнувшие небеса».

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