William Atherton
Biography
William Atherton Knight Jr. (born July 30, 1947) is an American actor, best known for portraying Richard Thornburg in Die Hard and its sequel and Walter Peck in Ghostbusters.
Filmography
Where Did the Adults Go?
2025 · 10.0
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
1987 · 8.7
Burning Down the House
2001 · 8.5
Stargate SG-1
1997 · 8.3
Justice League
2001 · 8.2
Diagnosis Murder: Diagnosis of Murder
1992 · 8.2
Tales from the Crypt
1989 · 8.0
Lost
2004 · 8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · 8.0
Castle
2009 · 8.0
Boston Legal
2004 · 7.9
Monk
2002 · 7.9
Desperate Housewives
2004 · 7.9
Die Hard
1988 · 7.8
The Outer Limits
1995 · 7.7
The Twilight Zone
1985 · 7.7
Centennial
1978 · 7.7
The Last Samurai
2003 · 7.6
The Practice
1997 · 7.6
Life
2007 · 7.6
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · 7.5
Independence
1976 · 7.5
Ghostbusters
1984 · 7.5
Workaholics
2011 · 7.4
Law & Order
1990 · 7.3
The Equalizer
1985 · 7.2
Night Visions
2001 · 7.1
Numb3rs
2005 · 7.0
Childrens Hospital
2008 · 7.0
Die Hard 2
1990 · 7.0
The Girl Next Door
2007 · 6.7
Buried Alive
1990 · 6.7
The New Centurions
1972 · 6.7
Real Genius
1985 · 6.7
Nash Bridges
1996 · 6.6
The Sugarland Express
1974 · 6.6
The Pelican Brief
1993 · 6.6
Hoodlum
1997 · 6.5
Aces 'N' Eights
2008 · 6.5
Class of '44
1973 · 6.5
The Citizen
2012 · 6.5
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
2024 · 6.4
The Day of the Locust
1975 · 6.4
The Hindenburg
1975 · 6.4
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
1999 · 6.4
Oscar
1991 · 6.4
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
1977 · 6.3
Bread and Roses
2000 · 6.3
Mad City
1997 · 6.2
A Fight for Jenny
1986 · 6.2
Race to Space
2001 · 6.0
Executive Power
1997 · 5.9
No Mercy
1986 · 5.8
Grim Prairie Tales
1990 · 5.8
HBO First Look
1992 · 5.5
The Crow: Salvation
2000 · 5.4
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
2012 · 5.4
Bad Company
2018 · 5.4
Clinical
2017 · 5.3
Frank & Jesse
1994 · 5.2
Headspace
2005 · 5.1
Max Monroe: Loose Cannon
1990 · 5.0
Saints and Sinners
1994 · 5.0
Who's Your Daddy?
2004 · 4.9
Towards Darkness
2007 · 4.9
Gone but Not Forgotten
2005 · 4.8
The Kane Files: Life of Trial
2010 · 4.8
Bio-Dome
1996 · 4.6
Jersey Shore Shark Attack
2012 · 4.6
Into the Sun
2005 · 4.5
Chrome Soldiers
1992 · 4.4
Tomorrow's Child
1982 · 4.3
The Stranger
1999 · 4.3
Jinn
2014 · 4.1
Raven Hawk
1996 · 4.0
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
1998 · 4.0
Malibu
1983 · 3.8
Black Crescent Moon
2008 · 3.5
Kush
2007 · 3.4
Ghouls
2008 · 3.3
Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story
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