Eric Bogosian

AKA: Эрик Богосян
1.407

1953-04-24

Woburn, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Eric Bogosian (born April 24, 1953) is an American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist.

Crew Roles

Talk Radio
Screenplay
Talk Radio
Theatre Play
SubUrbia
Theatre Play
SubUrbia
Screenplay
Eric Bogosian: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
Writer
Arena Brains
Writer
Mall
Novel
The Wedding Toast
Writer
15 Minutes
Thanks
Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
Writer
Random Positions
Additional Dialogue
Highway
Writer
Highway
Director
Chasing the Dragon
Writer
Writer
Creator
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {79}

Barry Champlain

1988-12-21 7

Talk Radio

A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national. ...
Genre :Drama

Travis Dane

1995-07-13 5.844

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

A passenger train has been hijacked by an electronics expert and turned into an untraceable command center for a weapons satellite. He has planned to blow up Washington DC and only one man can stop hi ...
Genre :Action, Thriller

Burt

1997-12-12 7.249

Deconstructing Harry

Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Eddie Nash

2003-10-23 6.077

Wonderland

On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Drama

Peter

1995-03-24 7.3

Dolores Claiborne

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her empl ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Phido the Vulture (voice)

1993-09-23 7.088

The Thief and the Cobbler

It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the vast deserts, that the world which we see is an ...
Genre :Animation, Family, Fantasy, Romance

Sen. Larson Crockett

1994-12-10 5.1

Witch Hunt

Magic and murder connect an actress, a private eye, a senator and a witch in 1950s Hollywood. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Bentley Tittle

2004-12-08 5.9

Blade: Trinity

For years, Blade has fought against the vampires in the cover of the night. But now, after falling into the crosshairs of the FBI, he is forced out into the daylight, where he is driven to join forces ...
Genre :Action, Horror, Science Fiction

1981-01-01 0

Static

Short film by John Sanborn ...
Genre :

Toaster

1999-06-01 0

The Wedding Toast

A best man gives an increasingly uncomfortable toast at his friends' wedding reception. ...
Genre :Comedy

Professor Goodwin

2000-04-21 5.811

Gossip

For a class project, three college students decide to invent an unfounded rumor about the most popular girl on campus. But as the rumor spreads, it begins to spiral out of control. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Executive

2012-01-13 2.417

Don't Go in the Woods

Don't Go in the Woods is sound advice, especially when there's a killer on the loose. First-time director Vincent D'Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket, "Law & Order: Criminal Intent") explores love, greed ...
Genre :Horror, Music

Himself

2001-01-01 0

Eric Bogosian: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

A profoundly insightful and wickedly provocative performer, Obie Award winner Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio) has never shied away from the disturbing truths in life. Frequently compared to comedic social ...
Genre :Comedy

Chris Neville

1984-11-16 4.6

Special Effects

Reality and illusion collide as megalomaniacal filmmaker Chris Neville murders a young would-be actress, then sets about making a feature about the deed, casting the deceased's clueless husband as the ...
Genre :Drama, Horror, Thriller

Self

1993-11-10 4.381

Naked in New York

Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, and to whom you can turn to for help while facing life. From there it flashes back to his memor ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Various characters

1991-09-06 6.2

Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll

A filmed record of Eric Bogosian's acclaimed one-man show. ...
Genre :Documentary, Comedy

Simon

2000-06-11 6.4

In the Weeds

It's Martha's first night as a waitress in an upscale New York restaurant. Veteran Chloe shows her the ropes and introduces her to the lives of the restaurant staff. Adam, a hopeful playwright, suffer ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Edward Templeton Sr. (voice)

1998-08-07 5.491

Safe Men

Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Lt. Barney Greenwald

1988-05-08 6.4

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny". ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Himself

2007-09-09 4

To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore

He is considered to be one of the most significant links in the history of comedy, admired by such people as Eric Bogosian and Woody Allen. His television appearances have spanned from Merv Griffin to ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1994-06-18 7.4

Bill Hicks: It's Just a Ride

Short documentary / tribute to the late, truly great American stand-up comedian Bill Hicks, included as an extra in several box sets. Bill Hicks passed away in 1994, taken tragically young aged only 3 ...
Genre :Documentary

Captain Robert Allen

2023-09-29 6.671

Reptile

Following the brutal murder of a young real estate agent, a hardened detective attempts to uncover the truth in a case where nothing is as it seems, and by doing so dismantles the illusions in his own ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Drama

2025-06-05 0

On a String

A young, Juilliard-trained violist is still living at home with her parents in the heart of NYC, while trying to make a living playing gigs with her friends in the homes of strangers. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Music

Larry Rose

1990-05-22 0

Last Flight Out

Fact-based story set in Saigon on April, 1975, shortly after U.S. combat troops have withdrawn, and immediately before Communist forces overrun the city. American citizens try to help South Vietnamese ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Alan Freed

2008-12-05 7.085

Cadillac Records

The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Ho ...
Genre :Drama, History, Music

1984-01-01 0

The Specialist

A return to Super-8 after "Vortex"; concerned with training in torture. ...
Genre :

Alan Caulfield

2003-06-25 5.486

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

The Angels are charged with finding a pair of missing rings that are encoded with the personal information of members of the Witness Protection Program. As informants are killed, the ladies target a r ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy

Himself

1986-01-01 0

Funhouse

"Welcome to the Freak Show" is a refrain in the Funhouse: a claustrophobically small, dark room in which Eric Bogosian's furious series of monologues plays out. The flipside of the American Dream, the ...
Genre :

1984-01-01 0

Made for TV

Combining Rubnitz’s skillful manipulation of the familiar “look” of TV shows with an extraordinary range of characters, performer Ann Magnuson convincingly impersonates the array of female types seen ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Harold Ross

2017-09-15 6.6

Rebel in the Rye

The life of celebrated but reclusive author J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel The Catcher in the Rye. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Henry

2005-07-15 6.3

Heights

Spanning twenty-four hours, HEIGHTS follows five New Yorkers challenged to choose their destiny before the sun comes up the next day. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Ranger at Old Faithful / Press Secretary / Lieutenant at Strategic Air Command (voice)

1996-12-20 6.657

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

Slacker duo Beavis and Butt-Head wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a new one takes them on a clueless adventure across America, during which they manage to accidentally becom ...
Genre :Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Crime, Music

Gene Byck

1996-09-11 7.1

The Substance of Fire

Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financ ...
Genre :Drama

Supermarket Clerk (uncredited)

1985-06-14 5.998

The Stuff

Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of ...
Genre :Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy

Self

2018-07-07 6.35

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen

A feature-length documentary focusing on the acclaimed work and eclectic career of maverick filmmaker Larry Cohen, writer-director of "Black Caesar," "It's Alive," "God Told Me To," "Q," "The Stuff," ...
Genre :Documentary

The Entertainer

1987-10-01 3.7

Arena Brains

A short film by painter-turned-filmmaker Robert Longo, "Arena Brains" is a series of interlocking vignettes set in and around the art world of 1980s New York City, satirizing the neuroses and eccentri ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2017-07-21 5.577

Who the Fuck Is That Guy?: The Fabulous Journey of Michael Alago

The astonishing story of a gay Puerto Rican kid growing up in a Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood, who got on the subway one day and began a musical odyssey that helped shape the musical landscape across ...
Genre :Music, Documentary

Arno Moradian

2019-08-30 7.2

Uncut Gems

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime

Mr. Nice Guy

2002-09-13 6.565

Igby Goes Down

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Doug Elders

1998-05-30 5.464

A Bright Shining Lie

Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advisory force a stepping stone to promotion. However, ...
Genre :Drama, War, TV Movie

Narrator

2014-10-17 5.843

Listen Up Philip

Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographe ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

CBS technician

1983-04-01 6.059

Born in Flames

In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled. ...
Genre :Drama, Science Fiction

Mr.Leeds

1989-12-09 1

Suffering Bastards

Two brothers try to get back the nightclub that was swindled from their mother. ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

2019-05-03 5.3

It Takes a Lunatic

The extraordinary life of beloved acting teacher and theatre producer Wynn Handman is recalled in this portrait of a provocative, innovative artist. ...
Genre :Documentary

Peter Douglas (uncredited)

1997-12-03 5.1

Office Killer

When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her c ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller, Comedy

Eric

2010-04-07 5.8

F--k

Some people will do anything to find the location. ...
Genre :Comedy

Rouben

2002-05-20 6.1

Ararat

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide. ...
Genre :Drama, War, History

Larry Schiller

2001-10-04 5.6

Shot in the Heart

The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his own family. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Self

1989-12-09 7

Decade

Interviews with personalities including John Mellencamp, Spike Lee, Lou Reed, Roseanne Barr, David Byrne, George Michael and more, as they reflect on the 1980s. ...
Genre :Documentary, Music, History

Self

1998-11-23 7.725

Totally Bill Hicks

Consisting of two parts: ‘Revelations’, Bill Hicks’ last live performance in the United Kingdom made at the Dominion Theatre; and a documentary about Hicks’ life ‘Just a Ride’ featuring interviews wi ...
Genre :Comedy, Documentary

Self

2017-11-10 4.8

Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction

INTENT TO DESTROY embeds with a historic feature production as a springboard to explore the violent history of the Armenian Genocide and legacy of Turkish suppression and denial over the past century. ...
Genre :Documentary

1987-12-31 0

Vandemonium Plus

Ann Magnuson is launched off the back of her boyfriend's motorcycle while doing a bong rip, and into a strange fantasy world airbrushed on the side of a van. Will she make it back to our world in time ...
Genre :TV Movie, Comedy

self

2023-02-17 0

Make Me Famous

An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on sucess, who thwarted his own career with antics that roiled NYC’s art elite. Brezinski’s quest for ...
Genre :Documentary

Rabbi Evelyn Fink

2004-06-08 5.7

King of the Corner

Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and his wife is losing her patience. A twist of fate an ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Franz Meyer / Israel Gutman (voices)

1997-04-30 5.8

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

David Brinkley hosts this shattering two-hour documentary about the trial of the man whose role in deporting the Jews of Europe for extermination made him the target of a 15-year manhunt by Israeli ag ...
Genre :Documentary

Dee

1986-09-18 7.4

Crime Story: Pilot

One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show. ...
Genre :Crime

Radio Announcer

1980-01-01 0

Another Great Day

Another Great Day depicts a day in the life of a housewife as she routinely performs her daily chores; TV, radio and pulp novels form her world of fantasy. ...
Genre :Animation

1983-01-01 0

Random Positions

Guys talk about women. Women talk about guys. People meet at a club: they dance, they drink. Two women who live together retire, and as they are falling asleep, they get into an argument about whether ...
Genre :Animation, Drama

1982-10-05 0

Chasing the Dragon

a fictional autobiography in which a day from the artist’s life—filtered, edited, mediated, and performed by another actor—becomes the “ghost” of the person, a doubled identity that can never fully ca ...
Genre :

Voice

2025-12-05 0

This Ordinary Thing

A film about non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust. ...
Genre :Documentary

Junkie

1984-09-30 7.2

Tales from the Darkside

Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres o ...
Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Lt. Lewis

1999-09-23 7.911

Third Watch

The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift - the 'Th ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Defense Attorney Gary Lowenthal

1990-09-13 7.367

Law & Order

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

(segment "Healer")

1985-09-27 7.8

The Twilight Zone

This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery

Danny Ross

2001-09-30 7.6

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crim ...
Genre :Drama

Self

1989-11-26 6.8

MTV Unplugged

MTV's acclaimed music series showcases today's top artists and rising stars in the industry performing acoustic versions of their songs. ...
Genre :Documentary

Phil Leshing

2006-01-17 7.5

Love Monkey

Thirty-something, single, record executive Tom Ferrell navigates the tumultuous and highly amusing waters of work and dating in New York City. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Dr. Gross

2001-10-02 8.003

Scrubs

In the unreal world of Sacred Heart Hospital, John "J.D." Dorian learns the ways of medicine, friendship and life. ...
Genre :Comedy

Stan Paxton

1992-08-15 7.7

The Larry Sanders Show

Comic Garry Shandling draws upon his own talk show experiences to create the character of Larry Sanders, a paranoid, insecure host of a late night talk show. Larry, along with his obsequious TV sideki ...
Genre :Comedy

Otto Ose

2001-05-13 5.533

Blonde

A fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe mixed with series of real events in her life. ...
Genre :Drama

Daniel Molloy

2022-10-02 7.346

Interview with the Vampire

A century-old vampire from New Orleans reunites with an ailing journalist to recount his life of bloodlust and his tumultuous relationship with the rakish Frenchman who turned him. ...
Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Dee

1986-09-19 7.971

Crime Story

The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery

Gil Eavis

2018-06-03 8.3

Succession

Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Harry Kassabian

2018-03-18 6.76

Instinct

Dr. Dylan Reinhart, a gifted author, university professor and former CIA operative is lured back to his old life by tenacious top NYPD Detective Lizzie Needham. Though Dylan and Lizzie initially clash ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Collin Eisely

2012-09-27 7.608

Elementary

A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where h ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Crime

Zeke

1984-09-16 7.464

Miami Vice

The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first mee ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Nelson Dubeck

2009-09-22 7.6

The Good Wife

Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. ...
Genre :Drama

Various Characters

1985-07-01 0

Alive from Off Center

An avant-garde omnibus that features works by off-the-wall artists in many different disciplines. ...
Genre :Documentary

Daniel Molloy

2025-10-19 6.663

Talamasca: The Secret Order

Guy Anatole joins the clandestine world of the Talamasca, an international spy agency for the immortal universe, as he searches for answers to his family's own part in the supernatural world. ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy