Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Atherton Knight (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.

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Known for

7.797

1988

NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when,...

Die Hard

1988 Action Thriller

7.59

2003

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

The Last Samurai

2003 Drama Action

7.489

1984

After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into...

Ghostbusters

1984 Comedy Fantasy

6.958

1990

One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in t...

Die Hard 2

1990 Action Thriller

6.6

1974

Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resol...

The Sugarland Express

1974 Crime Drama

6.3

1975

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the l...

The Day of the Locust

1975 Drama

4.527

2005

After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William Atherto...

Into the Sun

2005 Action Adventure

6.303

1991

Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world o...

Oscar

1991 Comedy

5.5

2000

Alex Corvis, a man wrongly executed for the murder of his girlfriend, returns from the dead and sets...

The Crow: Salvation

2000 Action Thriller

4.5

1996

Bud and Doyle are two losers who are doing nothing with their lives. Both of their girlfriends are a...

Bio-Dome

1996 Comedy

6.241

1997

A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into ...

Mad City

1997 Thriller Drama

6.6

1993

A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-r...

The Pelican Brief

1993 Thriller

5.3

2005

25-year-old Alex Borden's chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidl...

Headspace

2005 Horror Sci-fi

5.8

1986

An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New...

No Mercy

1986 Action Crime

6.662

1985

When teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn tha...

Real Genius

1985 Comedy Romance

5.2

1994

At the end of the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James and other former guerillas who rode with Quantril...

Frank & Jesse

1994 Action Adventure

4.9

2005

An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forg...

Gone But Not Forgotten

2005 Crime Drama

2.9

2007

A young drug dealer Dusty, is torn between the money and getting out. When his partner Christian, is...

Kush

2007 Drama

6.658

2007

In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care...

The Girl Next Door

2007 Thriller Crime

5.9

2001

In the 1960s a young woman works at NASA as an animal trainer responsible for the chimpanzee who wil...

Race to Space

2001 Drama Family

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1988

7.59

2003

7.489

1984

6.958

1990

6.6

1974

6.3

1975

4.527

2005

6.303

1991

5.5

2000

4.5

1996

6.241

1997

6.6

1993

5.3

2005

5.8

1986

6.662

1985

5.2

1994

4.9

2005

2.9

2007

6.658

2007

5.9

2001