Cast: William H. Macy

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring William H. Macy. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Shameless (TV Series)

2011 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Paul Abbott · Mark Mylod · Mimi Leder · John Wells

Cast William H. Macy · Emmy Rossum · Ethan Cutkosky · Shanola Hampton

Plot TV Series (2011-2021). 11 Seasons. 134 Episodes. Meet the fabulously dysfunctional Gallagher family. Dad's a drunk, Mom split long ago, eldest daughter Fiona tries to hold the family together. Eldest...

7.8

15K votes

7.8

15K votes

Fargo

1996 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Joel Coen

Cast Frances McDormand · William H. Macy · Steve Buscemi · Peter Stormare

Plot Poor Jerry Lundegaard. He's deep in debt. His wealthy father-in-law has no respect for him. He cheats customers at the car dealership where he works. And now he's hired a...

7.8

97K votes

7.8

97K votes

Room

2015 · Movie · 118 min. · Ireland

Direction Lenny Abrahamson

Cast Brie Larson · Jacob Tremblay · Joan Allen · William H. Macy

Plot Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the...

7.7

43K votes

7.7

43K votes

Magnolia

1999 · Movie · 188 min. · United States

Direction Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast Tom Cruise · John C. Reilly · Philip Baker Hall · William H. Macy

Plot In a single day in Los Angeles, a number of interconnected lives are changed forever. A lonely police officer (John C. Reilly) falls in love with a disturbed cocaine addict...

7.6

46K votes

7.6

46K votes

Radio Days

1987 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Mia Farrow · Dianne Wiest · Seth Green · Julie Kavner

Plot These are the 40s, the golden age of radio, when the peculiar members of a working-class New York family live with the set on all day long. The music, tear-jerking...

7.4

16K votes

7.4

16K votes

Boogie Nights

1997 · Movie · 156 min. · United States

Direction Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast Mark Wahlberg · Julianne Moore · Burt Reynolds · Don Cheadle

Plot Eddie Adams would have been just another high-school drop-out had he not met the likes of adult film director Rick Horner. Horner transforms Eddie into Dirk Diggler, a rising-star actor...

7.3

24K votes

7.3

24K votes

Thank You For Smoking

2005 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Jason Reitman

Cast Aaron Eckhart · Maria Bello · Cameron Bright · Adam Brody

Plot Nick Naylor, chief spokesman for Big Tobacco, makes his living defending the rights of smokers and cigarette makers in today’s neo-puritanical culture. Confronted by health zealots and an opportunistic senator,...

7.0

22K votes

7.0

22K votes

House of Games

1987 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction David Mamet

Cast Lindsay Crouse · Joe Mantegna · Mike Nussbaum · J.T. Walsh

Plot The film is a character study of Dr. Margaret Ford (Lindsay Crouse), a psychiatrist and best-selling author specializing in addictive behaviour. During a therapy session, she discovers that a patient...

7.0

6K votes

7.0

6K votes

7.0

8K votes

Door to Door (TV)

2002 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Steven Schachter

Cast William H. Macy · Helen Mirren · Kyra Sedgwick · Kathy Baker

Plot Based on true events, "Door to Door" is the story about a man with cerebral palsy who is determined to become a salesman.

6.9

185 votes

6.9

185 votes

Searching for Bobby Fischer

1993 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Steven Zaillian

Cast Max Pomeranc · Joe Mantegna · Joan Allen · Ben Kingsley

Plot Josh (Max Pomeranc) is a "regular kid" who begins evincing signs of being a genius at chess. His father (Joe Mantegna) encourages this, hoping that it won't fundamentally change his...

6.8

8K votes

6.8

8K votes

Pleasantville

1998 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Gary Ross

Cast Tobey Maguire · Jeff Daniels · Reese Witherspoon · Joan Allen

Plot Plot: Left home together for the weekend, teenage brother and sister David and Jennifer argue over which tv show to watch, he wanting to watch a marathon of his favourite...

6.8

13K votes

6.8

13K votes

The Sessions

2012 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Ben Lewin

Cast John Hawkes · Helen Hunt · William H. Macy · Moon Bloodgood

Plot At the age of 38, Mark O'Brien, a tetraplegic man in an iron lung, decides he no longer wishes to be a virgin. With the help of his therapist and...

6.8

12K votes

6.8

12K votes

The Dropout (TV Miniseries)

2022 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Elizabeth Meriwether · Michael Showalter · Francesca Gregorini · Erica Watson

Cast Amanda Seyfried · Utkarsh Ambudkar · Laurie Metcalf · William H. Macy

Plot TV series that chronicles Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' attempt to revolutionize the healthcare industry after dropping out of college and starting a technology company.

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

E.R. (TV Series)

1994 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction Michael Crichton · Christopher Chulack · Jonathan Kaplan · Richard Thorpe

Cast Noah Wyle · Maura Tierney · Laura Innes · George Clooney

Plot TV Series (1994-2009). 15 Seasons. 331 Episodes. Created by best-selling author Michael Crichton (“Jurassic Park”), the series centers on the medical personnel in the emergency room of a Chicago hospital....

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6.7

40K votes

6.7

40K votes

Rudderless

2014 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction William H. Macy

Cast Billy Crudup · Anton Yelchin · Felicity Huffman · Selena Gomez

Plot Sam Manning is a former high-profile advertising executive whose life has been torn apart by the tragic death of his son Josh in a shotting at his University. Off the...

6.6

671 votes

6.6

671 votes

The Wool Cap (TV)

2004 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Steven Schachter

Cast William H. Macy · Keke Palmer · Ned Beatty · Marcia Bennett

Plot William H. Macy co-writes and stars as a broken man bereft of love, family, and his very voice in a made-for-TV film based on an original story by the legendary...

6.6

40 votes

6.6

40 votes

That Moment: Magnolia Diary

2000 · Documentary · 73 min. · United States

Direction Mark Rance

Cast Paul Thomas Anderson · Fiona Apple · Philip Seymour Hoffman · Julianne Moore

Plot A very in-depth documentary that follows the very over-worked director Paul Thomas Anderson through a gruelling 80+ days of shooting for the film Magnolia (1999). Very funny behind the scenes...

6.6

124 votes

6.6

124 votes

Things Change

1988 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

6.6

746 votes

6.6

746 votes

Wag the Dog

1997 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Barry Levinson

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Robert De Niro · Anne Heche · Woody Harrelson

Plot Less than two weeks before election day, a scandal erupts that threatens to cripple the President's bid for a second term. But before the incident can cause irreparable damage, a...

6.6

11K votes

6.6

11K votes