Will Patton
Gender: Male
Born: 14th June 1954 (currently 57 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: VR.5, Into the West, The Agency, Search for Tomorrow, Falling Skies, American Experience, Nasty Boys, NUMB3RS, The Equalizer, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Ryan's Hope, 24
Movies: Armageddon, Entrapment, Remember the Titans, The Mothman Prophecies, The Punisher, The Postman, Deadly Desire, Copycat, The List, The Spitfire Grill, Code Name: The Cleaner, The Last Ride, After Hours, Inventing the Abbotts, Romeo Is Bleeding, No Way Out, Desperately Seeking Susan, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Dillinger, Jesus' Son, A Mighty Heart, The Client, Dog Days of Summer, The Rapture, Wendy and Lucy, Waking Madison, Road House 2: Last Call, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, The Canyon, American Violet, Fled, Variety, Breakfast of Champions, The Fourth Kind, Brooklyn's Finest, Trixie, Princess Ka'iulani, I Woke Up Early The Day I Died, Belizaire the Cajun, Signs of Life, The Puppet Masters, A Gathering of Old Men, Meek's Cutoff, Knucklehead, A Shock to the System, Lucky Days, Cold Heaven, Everybody Wins, O.K. Garage, Taking the Heat, Family Sins, Bright Angel, Silkwood, King Blank, Midnight Edition, The Beniker Gang, This World, Then the Fireworks, Stars and Bars, The Girl, The Paint Job, In the Soup, Looking at Animals, A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story, Judicial Consent, Wildfire, Ka'iulani: Crown Princess of Hawai'i, The Girl, Natural Causes
William Rankin "Will" Patton (born June 14, 1954) is an American actor.
Patton was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the eldest of three children. His father is Bill Patton, a playwright and acting/directing instructor who was a Lutheran minister and served as a chaplain at Duke University. Patton was raised on a farm, where his parents ran a foster home for wayward teenagers. He attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and The Actors' Studio.
Patton won two Obie Awards for best actor for his performances in Sam Shepard's play Fool for Love and the Public Theatre production of What Did He See?. He was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of General Bethlehem in The Postman. He also portrayed coach Bill Yoast in Remember the Titans and FBI agent Melvin Purvis in the 1991 made-for-television film Dillinger. Patton provided the voice for the audio version of The Assault on Reason by Al Gore, as well as the role of Alan Wilson on the TV show 24. Patton plays the character of Sam Conroy in the film American Violet.
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