William Fichtner

William Fichtner is the ultimate "oh, THAT guy" actor, and I mean that as the highest compliment. You've seen him a hundred times and probably never learned his name, but you definitely remember the face: those pale, slightly unsettling eyes and that voice that can flip from charming to menacing in a single line. He's the secret sauce in a stack of late-90s and 2000s favorites of mine, popping up in Heat, Contact, Armageddon, The Perfect Storm, and Black Hawk Down without ever phoning it in. He made the masked bank robber in The Dark Knight unforgettable in about ninety seconds of screen time. I love that he never needed to be the lead; he just quietly elevates whatever he's in, and I'll happily watch anything with him lurking in the cast.

Name (English)

William Fichtner

Name (Japanese)

ウィリアム・フィクナー

Reading

うぃりあむ・ふぃくなー

Born

November 27, 1956 (age 69)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Monkey

Origin

Mitchel Air Force Base, New York, United States

Height

2 cm

Occupation

actor / character actor / television actor / film actor / voice actor

High school

Maryvale High School

University

State University of New York at Brockport

Motto

Private

• Xhttps://x.com/bill_fichtner
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC

Tags

• New York
• actor
• character actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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