William Atherton
Acting
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.
As actor 89
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order
1990
Desperate Housewives
2004
Castle
2009
Lost
2004
Stargate SG-1
1997
Monk
2002
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Boston Legal
2004
Numb3rs
2005
The Practice
1997
Childrens Hospital
2008
Nash Bridges
1996
Tales from the Crypt
1989
The Twilight Zone
1985
The Outer Limits
1995
Die Hard
1988
Workaholics
2011
The Equalizer
1985
Life
2007
The Last Samurai
2003
Ghostbusters
1984
Justice League
2001
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
2024
Die Hard 2
1990
Night Visions
2001
HBO First Look
1992
The Pelican Brief
1993
Centennial
1978
Oscar
1991
The Girl Next Door
2007
Real Genius
1985
Reunited Apart
2020
Bio-Dome
1996
Into the Sun
2005
The Crow: Salvation
2000
Hoodlum
1997
Buried Alive
1990
Mad City
1997
No Mercy
1986
The Sugarland Express
1974
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
1977
Gone But Not Forgotten
2005
Jinn
2014
The Hindenburg
1975
Ghostheads
2016
Max Monroe: Loose Cannon
1990
The Citizen
2012
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
1999
Who's Your Daddy?
2004
Frank & Jesse
1994
The Day of the Locust
1975
Class of '44
1973
Ghouls
2008
Intrigue
1988
The New Centurions
1972
Aces 'N' Eights
2008
Headspace
2005
Executive Power
1997
Towards Darkness
2007
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
2020
Clinical
2017
Bread and Roses
2000
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
2012
Bad Company
2018
Raven Hawk
1996
A Night to Die For
1995
Jersey Shore Shark Attack
2012
Race to Space
2001
Broken Trust
1995
Virus
1995
Malibu
1983
A Fight for Jenny
1986
Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story
The Kane Files: Life of Trial
2010
The House of Mirth
1981
Grim Prairie Tales
1990
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
1987
Saints and Sinners
1994
Chrome Soldiers
1992
Independence
1976
Where Did the Adults Go?
2025
Diagnosis Murder: Diagnosis of Murder
1992
Burning Down the House
2001
Black Crescent Moon
2008
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
1998
The Stranger
1999
Kush
2007
Tomorrow's Child
1982