William Joseph Devane (born September 5, 1937) is an American film, television and theater actor, known for his role as Greg Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing and as James Heller on the Fox serial drama 24, the role he reprised in Live Another Day. He is also known for his supporting roles in films such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Family Plot), Marathon Man, Rolling Thunder and Space Cowboys. Devane began his acting career with the New York Shakespeare Festival where he performed in 15 plays. In 1966, Devane portrayed Robert F. Kennedy in the Off-Broadway spoof MacBird. He gained acclaim for his role as President John F. Kennedy in a television docudrama about the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Missiles of October, and again when he played blacklisted radio personality John Henry Faulk in the Emmy Award-winning TV movie Fear on Trial. He is widely known for his ten years as the ambitious and hardnosed politician-turned-corporate titan Greg Sumner on Knots Landing. In 1994, D...
Interstellar
2014
Stargate: Continuum
2008
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
Vital Signs
1990
Payback
1999
Hollow Man
2000
The River Why
2010
Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story
2001
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
1977
Nightmare in Columbia County
1991
The Irish Whiskey Rebellion
1972
Testament
1983
Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story
1993
The President's Child
1992
Space Cowboys
2000
Deceit
2004
Marathon Man
1976
Yanks
1979
Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise
2015
Rolling Thunder
1977
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971
Threat of Exposure
2002
Truth
2015
Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt
2012
Jesse Stone: Thin Ice
2009
Family Plot
1976
Jesse Stone: No Remorse
2010
Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost
2011
Night Watch
1995
Jesse Stone: Sea Change
2007
Freefall: Flight 174
1995
Poor White Trash
2000
Honky Tonk Freeway
1981
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
2006
Virus
1995
The Badge
2002
Lady Liberty
1971