George Clooney filmography

George Clooney is an American actor and filmmaker. He is one of the highest-grossing actors of all time with over $2.6 billion total box office gross and an average of $61.7 million per film.^[1] He has been involved in thirteen films that grossed over $200 million at the worldwide box office.^[2]

George Clooney at The White House in 2016.

Clooney started his career with minor recurring roles in the television series The Facts of Life (1985–1987), Roseanne (1988–1991), Bodies of Evidence (1992–1993), Sisters (1993–1994). He also took in early low-budget film roles in Grizzly II: Revenge (1983), Return to Horror High (1987), and Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988). His breakthrough role was as doctor Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama series ER (1994–2000) earned him nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.^[3][4]

Clooney established himself as a leading film star in the 1990s with films such as From Dusk till Dawn (1996), One Fine Day (1996), The Peacemaker (1997), Batman & Robin (1997), and Out of Sight (1998). The new millennium saw Clooney in films The Perfect Storm (2000), which was a hit at the box office and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), earning him a Golden Globe Award.^[5][6][7] He teamed up again with Soderbergh for the star-studded caper film Ocean's Eleven (2000), Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007).^[8][9] He has also acted in Solaris (2002), Intolerable Cruelty (2003), The Good German (2006), Burn After Reading (2008), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Gravity (2013), and Tomorrowland (2015).^[10]

Clooney won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a CIA agent in Syriana (2005). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles in Michael Clayton (2007), Up in the Air (2009), and The Descendants, the later of which earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.^[11][12] Clooney expanded his career as a filmmaker directing and starring in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Leatherheads (2008), The Ides of March (2011), The Monuments Men (2014), and The Midnight Sky (2020).

Film

At a ceremony for John Wells to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in January 2012

At the Paris premiere of The Ides of March in October 2011

As an actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	Grizzly II: Revenge	Ron
1987	Return to Horror High	Oliver
1988	Return of the Killer Tomatoes	Matt Stevens
1989	Red Surf	Remar
1992	Unbecoming Age	Mac
1993	The Harvest	Lip Syncing Transvestite	Cameo
1996	From Dusk till Dawn	Seth Gecko
	One Fine Day	Jack Taylor
1997	Batman & Robin	Bruce Wayne / Batman
	The Peacemaker	Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe
1998	The Thin Red Line	Captain Charles Bosche
	Out of Sight	Jack Foley
	Waiting for Woody	Himself	Short film
1999	Three Kings	Archie Gates
	The Book That Wrote Itself	Himself	Cameo
	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut	Dr. Horatio Gauche	Voice
2000	The Perfect Storm	Captain Billy Tyne
	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Ulysses Everett McGill
2001	Ocean's Eleven	Danny Ocean
	Spy Kids	Diego Devlin
2002	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	Jim Byrd
	Solaris	Chris Kelvin
	Welcome to Collinwood	Jerzy
2003	Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over	President Diego Devlin
	Intolerable Cruelty	Miles Massey
2004	Ocean's Twelve	Danny Ocean
2005	Good Night, and Good Luck	Fred Friendly
	Syriana	Bob Barnes
2006	The Good German	Jake Geismer
2007	Michael Clayton	Michael Clayton
	Ocean's Thirteen	Danny Ocean
	Sand and Sorrow	Narrator	Documentary
	Darfur Now	Himself
2008	Leatherheads	Jimmy "Dodge" Connelly
	Burn After Reading	Harry Pfarrer
2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Mr. Fox	Voice
	The Men Who Stare at Goats	Lyn Cassady
	Up in the Air	Ryan Bingham
2010	The American	Jack / Edward
2011	The Ides of March	Governor Mike Morris
	The Descendants	Matthew "Matt" King
2013	Gravity	Matthew "Matt" Kowalski
2014	The Monuments Men	Frank Stokes
2015	Tomorrowland	Frank Walker
2016	Hail, Caesar!	Baird Whitlock
	Money Monster	Lee Gates
2020	The Midnight Sky	Augustine Lofthouse
2022	Ticket to Paradise	David Cotton
2023	The Flash	Bruce Wayne	Uncredited cameo
2024	IF	Spaceman	Voice
	Wolfs	Margaret's Man	Also producer[13]
2025	Nespresso: The Detective	The Detective	Short film[14]
	Jay Kelly	Jay Kelly	Post-production[15]

As a filmmaker

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Writer
2002	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	Yes	No	No
2005	Good Night, and Good Luck	Yes	No	Yes
2008	Leatherheads[16]	Yes	Yes	Uncredited
2011	The Ides of March	Yes	Yes	Yes
2014	The Monuments Men	Yes	Yes	Yes
2017	Suburbicon	Yes	Yes	Yes
2020	The Midnight Sky	Yes	Yes	No
2021	The Tender Bar	Yes	Yes	No
2023	The Boys in the Boat	Yes	Yes	No

Producer only Welcome to Collinwood (2002) Starbuck Holger Meins (2002) (Documentary) Criminal (2004) The Jacket (2005) The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) Playground (2009) The American (2010) Argo (2012) August: Osage County (2013) Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) Money Monster (2016) The Art of Political Murder (2020)

Executive producer Rock Star (2001) Insomnia (2002) Far from Heaven (2002) Syriana (2005) Rumor Has It... (2005) A Scanner Darkly (2006) Pu-239 (2006) Michael Clayton (2007) Sand and Sorrow (2007) (Documentary) Wind Chill (2007) The Informant! (2009) Ticket to Paradise (2022)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1971	The Uncle Al Show	Ship's captain	Skit performer[17][18]
1984–1985	E/R	Mark "Ace" Kolmar	8 episodes
1984	Riptide	Lenny Colwell	Episode: "Where the Girls Are"
1985	Street Hawk	Kevin Stark	Episode: "A Second Self"
	Crazy Like a Fox	Skip	Episode: "Suitable for Framing"
1985–1987	The Facts of Life	George Burnett	17 episodes
1986	Hotel	Nick Miller	Episode: "Recriminations"
	Throb	Rollo Moldonaldo	Episode: "My Fair Punker Lady"
	Combat Academy	Cadet Major Biff Woods	Television movie, also known as Combat High
1987	Hunter	Matthew Winfield	Episode: "Double Exposure"
	Murder, She Wrote	Kip Howard	Episode: "No Laughing Murder"
	The Golden Girls	Det. Bobby Hopkins	Episode: "To Catch A Neighbor"
1988–1991	Roseanne	Booker Brooks	11 episodes
1990, 1992	Sunset Beat	Officer Chris Chesbro	6 episodes
1991	Baby Talk	Joe	5 episodes
1992	Jack's Place	Rick Logan	Episode "Everything Old Is New Again"
1992–1993	Bodies of Evidence	Det. Ryan Walker	16 episodes
1993	The Building	Bonnie's Fiancée	Episode: "Pilot"
	Without Warning: Terror in the Towers	Kevin Shea	Television movie
1993–1994	Sisters	Det. James Falconer	19 episodes
1994–1999, 2000, 2009	ER	Dr. Doug Ross	109 episodes
1995	Friends	Dr. Michael Mitchell	Episode: "The One With Two Parts: Part Two"
	Saturday Night Live	Himself (host)	Episode: "George Clooney/The Cranberries"
1997	South Park	Sparky the Dog (voice)	Episode: "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride"
1998	Murphy Brown	Doctor #2	Episode: "Never Can Say Goodbye: Part 2"
1999	Kilroy	—	TV movie; Producer and writer
2000	Fail Safe	Colonel Jack Grady	Live television production; also executive producer
2003	K Street	—	Executive producer, 10 episodes
2005	Unscripted	—	Executive producer (10 episodes), also director (5 episodes)
2010	Hope for Haiti Now	Himself	Also creator, developer, executive producer and co-host
2010–2011	Memphis Beat	—	Executive producer
2014	Text Santa 4	George Oceans Gravity	Downton Abbey charity sketch[19]
2015	A Very Murray Christmas	Himself	Television special
2018	My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman	Himself	Episode: "You Be the Newsman, I'll Be Liz Taylor"
2019	Catch-22	Scheisskopf	3 episodes, also executive producer and director
	On Becoming a God in Central Florida	—	Executive producer[20]
2020	Trial by Media	—	Executive producer
	The Art of Political Murder	—	Executive producer
2021	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	Himself	Cameos; Episode: "Sponsored Content"[21]
2022	The Last Movie Stars	Paul Newman (voice)	6 episode docuseries
	Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music & Laughter	Himself	Television special[22]
2024	How to Build a Truth Engine	—	Executive producer
	The Agency	—	Executive producer[23]

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Playwright	Venue	Ref.
1986	Vicious	Male Prostitute Drug Dealer	Denis Spedaliere	The Complex, Hollywood / Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago	[24]
2025	Good Night, and Good Luck	Edward R. Murrow	Clooney and Grant Heslov	The Winter Garden Theater, Broadway debut	[25]

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by George Clooney