Ben AffleckFilmography

Born:: August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, CA
Occupation:: Actor, Executive Producer
Biography:: Tall and handsome in a meat-eating sort of way, Ben Affleck has the looks of a matinee idol and the resume of an actor who honed his craft as an indie film slacker before flexing his muscles as a Hollywood star. A staple of Kevin Smith films and such seminal indies as Dazed and Confused, Affleck...Read More

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The Town

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Affleck

Synopsis: Gone Baby Gone director Ben Affleck adapts author Chuck Hogan's Hammett Prize-winning novel concerning four thieves who are hunted on the streets of Boston by a determined FBI agent and a woman with the power to bring them all to their knees. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
The Company Men

Actors: Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Maria Bello, Craig T. Nelson

Synopsis: Ben Affleck stars as a businessman whose life is thrown into ruin when he's affected by company layoffs and has to work at his brother-in-law's (Kevin Costner) construction site in this drama by ER co-creator John Wells. Tommy Lee Jones co-stars in the Paula Weinstein-produced production. ~ Jeremy Read More

1/1/10
Extract

Actors: Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Ben Affleck, Kristen Wiig, Clifton Collins, Jr., J.K. Simmons

Synopsis: Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Ben Affleck, Kristen Wiig, Clifton Collins, and J.K. Simmons star in writer/director Mike Judge's comedy about a flower-extract plant owner contending with an ever-growing avalanche of personal and professional disasters. An employee at the factory has just suffered an Read More

9/4/09
State of Play

Actors: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Jason Bateman, Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: The Last King of Scotland director Kevin McDonald teams with screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan for this American adaptation of the hit British miniseries concerning the suspicious circumstances that set a rising congressman and a dogged reporter on a dangerous collision course. U.S. Read More

4/17/09
He's Just Not That Into You

Actors: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly

Synopsis: Ken Kwapis' adaptation of Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo's best-selling self-help book He's Just Not That Into You follows the love lives of a dozen or so characters. Ginnifer Goodwin stars as Gigi, a young women attempting to understand the mixed signals she gets from the men she's dating. She Read More

2/6/09
The Blade Itself

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Two boyhood Chicago friends, one with prison time under his belt and the other opting for the hardworking thrall of the construction business, come together after years apart and strive to hold tight to the different directions they've chosen in Miramax's adaptation of Marcus Sakey's acclaimed Read More

1/1/09
Reporter

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Nicholas Kristof

Synopsis: Filmmaker Eric Daniel Metzgar highlights the importance of sincere news gathering in enabling democratic nations to function with this documentary profile of Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Nicholas D. Kristof. Having previously succeeded in bringing international attention to the Read More

2008
Saturday Night Live: Ben Affleck [4]

Actors: Ben Affleck, David Cook

Synopsis: This 2008 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Ben Affleck and features musical guest David Cook. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

2008
Gone Baby Gone

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, John Ashton

Synopsis: Ben Affleck's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel Gone, Baby, Gone stars Casey Affleck as Patrick Kenzie, a private investigator from working-class Boston who takes on a case involving a kidnapped girl. The girl's aunt begs Patrick to take the case because he has connections to criminal Boston Read More

10/19/07
Smokin' Aces

Actors: Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Alicia Keys, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven

Synopsis: When a shifty magician turns state's evidence against a Las Vegas underworld heavy, the high price placed on his head sparks a fevered race to rub the snitch out and collect a tidy paycheck in Narc director Joe Carnahan's dark action comedy. Buddy "Aces" Israel (Jeremy Piven) is a small-time Read More

1/26/07
Team Baby: Red Sox Baby

Actors: Ben Affleck

Synopsis: Designed for avid Red Sox fans who have become parents, Team Baby: Red Sox Baby offers toddlers a history of the beloved Boston team and offers them a colorful look at some landmark places associated with the team. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2007
Feast

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Balthazar Getty, Henry Rollins, Navi Rawat, Judah Friedlander, Josh Zuckerman

Synopsis: The hard-drinking patrons of a small-town dive bar are forced to fight for their lives when a vicious family of flesh-eating creatures arrive looking for their latest meal in a fast and fun horror romp filmed as part of HBO's Project Greenlight series and starring Balthazar Getty, Judah Friedlander Read More

9/22/06
Hollywoodland

Actors: Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck, Diane Lane, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: The mysterious and unexpected death of an iconic Hollywood star may be just the tip of an iceberg of scandal in this show biz drama based on a true story. George Reeves (played by Ben Affleck) was a journeyman actor who had played a small role in Gone With The Wind and appeared on screen with the Read More

9/8/06
Clerks II

Actors: Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson, Trevor Fehrman, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith

Synopsis: You can take the clerks out of the Quick Stop, but you just can't take the Quick Stop out of the clerks as Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randall (Jeff Anderson) prove in this long-awaited sequel to Kevin Smith's breakthrough comedy. Years after we last saw them, Dante is still toiling behind the Read More

7/21/06
Man About Town

Actors: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Romijn, John Cleese, Samuel Ball, Mike Binder

Synopsis: An unscrupulous Hollywood agent seeks to balance the success of his professional status with the abysmal reality of his personal life in director Miek Binder's existential comedy drama. When it comes to playing the Hollywood game, no one does it better than Jack Giamoro (Ben Affleck). Yet despite Read More

2005
Surviving Christmas

Actors: Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Christina Applegate, Catherine O'Hara, Josh Zuckerman

Synopsis: Directed by Mike Mitchell, Surviving Christmas finds Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) uneager to spend another lonely Christmas in his own home. Longing for holidays past, Drew travels to his childhood home intending to relive the experience of a family Christmas -- unfortunately, his family no longer Read More

10/22/04
Jersey Girl

Actors: Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Lopez, Raquel Castro, George Carlin

Synopsis: Writer and director Kevin Smith embraces his warm and fuzzy side with this comedy drama about a man who learns a lot about life and love in the wake of a personal tragedy. Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck) is a guy who seemingly has it made -- he has a great job as a music publicist with a major Read More

3/26/04
Saturday Night Live: Ben Affleck [3]

Actors: Ben Affleck, Nelly

Synopsis: This 2004 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Ben Affleck and features musical guest Nelly. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

2004
How's Your News? On the Campaign Trail

2004
Saturday Night Live: Ben Affleck [2]

Actors: Ben Affleck, N.E.R.D.

Synopsis: This 2004 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Ben Affleck and features musical guest N.E.R.D. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

2004
Paycheck

Actors: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Colm Feore

Synopsis: John Woo directs the sci-fi action thriller Paycheck, based on a story written by Philip K. Dick in 1953. Waking up with his short-term memory erased, engineer Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) learns that he has been doing highly secretive work for the last three years in exchange for billions of Read More

12/25/03
The Battle of Shaker Heights

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Elden Henson, Amy Smart, Billy Kay, Kathleen Quinlan

Synopsis: The Battle of Shaker Heights is directed by the team of Efram Potelle and Kyle Rankin. Kelly Ernswiler (Shia LaBeouf) is a quirky 17-year-old whose greatest passion is reenacting battles from World War II. After meeting Bart Bowland (Elden Henson), someone who is nothing like him but shares his Read More

8/22/03
Gigli

Actors: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bartha, Lainie Kazan, Missy Crider

Synopsis: Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck) is a low-level Los Angeles mob enforcer. His volatile boss, Louis (Lenny Venito), hires Gigli to kidnap Brian (newcomer Justin Bartha), the mentally handicapped younger brother of a federal prosecutor who's about to bring Louis' boss to trial in New York. Gigli gets the Read More

8/1/03
Daredevil

Actors: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jon Favreau

Synopsis: One of Marvel Comics' most popular characters comes to the screen for the first time in this sci-fi action-thriller. Matthew Murdock (Ben Affleck) is a lawyer whose father, a prizefighter, was killed by gangsters when Murdock was just a boy. Since then, Murdock has devoted his life to bringing Read More

2/14/03
The Curse of the Bambino

Synopsis: By 1920, the Boston Red Sox had won five or the 15 World Series. Its star player that year was a young triple-threat man and home-run impresario named George Herman "Babe" Ruth. One would naturally assume that the Sox would want to hold on to this valuable property at all cost -- and one would be Read More

2003
Project Greenlight: Season 02

2003
The Sum of All Fears

Actors: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber, Alan Bates

Synopsis: The successful franchise of Paramount motion pictures based on novelist Tom Clancy's techno-thrillers featuring heroic CIA intelligence analyst Jack Ryan stages a much-publicized "do-over" with this action-adventure that recasts the character of Ryan as a rookie to the complex game of geopolitical Read More

5/31/02
Changing Lanes

Actors: Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette, Sydney Pollack, William Hurt

Synopsis: Director Roger Michell follows up the hit romantic comedy Notting Hill (1999) with this thought-provoking thriller. Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson star, respectively, as Gavin Banek and Doyle Gibson, two New York men whose lives become accidentally intertwined in a Good Friday fender bender on Read More

4/12/02
Stolen Summer

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Bonnie Hunt, Kevin Pollak, Adi Stein

Synopsis: Pete (Adi Stein) is an eight-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the mid-'70s. Pete attends Catholic school, where as classes let out for the summer, he's admonished by a nun to follow the path of Lord, and not that of the Devil. Perhaps taking this message a bit too Read More

3/22/02
The Third Wheel

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Luke Wilson, Denise Richards, Jay Lacopo, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon

Synopsis: An unlucky-in-love bachelor lands his dream date, but finds that getting through the evening will be a difficult challenge indeed in this romantic comedy. The Third Wheel stars Luke Wilson as Stanley, a woefully inept young man who -- with the aid of his roommate Mike (Ben Affleck) -- works up the Read More

2002
Speakeasy

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: A runner-up in HBO's popular series Project Greenlight, this touching tale of common threads and self-discovery stars David Strathairn, Nicky Katt, and Christopher McDonald. Brought together by a car accident, Bruce Hickman (Strathairn) and Frank Marnikov (Katt) soon discover that they are Read More

2002
Push, Nevada [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Derek Cecil, Scarlett Chorvat, Jon Polito, Armand Assante, Conchata Ferrell

Synopsis: Network television's first "interactive" mystery-suspense series, Push, Nevada got under way somewhat in the manner of the 1945 theatrical feature Murder, He Says, with stalwart IRS agent Jim Prufrock (Derek Cecil) venturing into the hinterlands in search of a huge cache of stolen money. Prufrock Read More

2002
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Actors: Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Ben Affleck, Shannon Elizabeth

Synopsis: The frequently recurring title characters, employed by writer and director Kevin Smith as supporting players in several of his films, are put to rest with this comedy that focuses on them exclusively. Jay (Jason Mews) and Silent Bob (Smith) are a pair of stoned New Jersey slackers who have long Read More

8/24/01
Pearl Harbor

Actors: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: At the time of its release, this lavish period war drama from hyperkinetic director Michael Bay became the most expensive motion picture ever green-lighted by a studio. Ben Affleck stars as Rafe McCawley, a military pilot stationed under Jimmy Doolittle (Alec Baldwin) in New Jersey, along with his Read More

5/25/01
Project Greenlight [TV Series]

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Project Greenlight is an ambitious and unique reality program. The series was a joint venture of Miramax, HBO, Sam Adams, and LivePlanet. The executive producers of the series and the subsequent feature film, Stolen Summer, were actor/screenwriters Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and producer Chris Moore Read More

2001
Daddy & Them

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Jeff Bailey, Brenda Blethyn, Laura Dern, Jim Varney, Diane Ladd, Daniel Steven Di Vito, Walton Goggins, Andy Griffith

Synopsis: Billy Bob Thornton wrote, directed, and starred in this serio-comic look at the trials (literally and figuratively) of an eccentric Arkansas family. Struggling musician Claude (Thornton) and his wife Ruby (Laura Dern) get the news that Claude's uncle Hazel (Jim Varney) has been accused of murder Read More

2001
Bounce

Actors: David Paymer, Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joe Morton, Natasha Henstridge, Tony Goldwyn

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy-drama, two people whose lives were touched by the same tragedy find love. Buddy Amaral (Ben Affleck) is a successful L.A. advertising executive who has a way with the ladies, but inside he longs for a meaningful long-term relationship. One day Buddy sells his seat on a Read More

11/17/00
Reindeer Games

Actors: Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron, Dennis Farina, James Frain

Synopsis: A burglar looking to make time with a beautiful woman after five years in prison falls into a dangerous trap in this action drama. Rudy (Ben Affleck) is serving time in prison for auto theft, where he becomes friendly with his cellmate Nick (James Frain). Nick has been enjoying a spicy courtship Read More

2/25/00
Boiler Room

Actors: Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Nicky Katt, Scott Caan

Synopsis: In this drama that explores greed and corruption in American business, Giovanni Ribisi plays Seth Davis, an intelligent and ambitious college dropout who runs a casino in his apartment. Eager to show his father that he can succeed, Seth lands a job with a small stock brokerage firm. He is given a Read More

2/18/00
Joseph: King of Dreams

Actors: Ben Affleck, Mark Hamill, Steven Weber, Jodi Benson, Maureen McGovern

Synopsis: The Biblical story of Joseph comes to life in this animated feature from the creators of The Prince of Egypt. Adventure and music set the stage for this tale of a boy named Joseph (voice of Ben Affleck) whose dreams bring him powerful visions of the future. Joseph's abilities to prognosticate win Read More

2000
Saturday Night Live: Ben Affleck [1]

Actors: Ben Affleck, Fiona Apple

Synopsis: This 2000 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Ben Affleck and features musical guest Fiona Apple. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

2000
Dogma

Actors: Ben Affleck, George Carlin, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Salma Hayek, Jason Lee, Jason Mewes, Alan Rickman, Chris Rock

Synopsis: Would you believe that the last living descendent of Jesus Christ is a woman working at an abortion clinic in Illinois? And that she's been sent on a holy mission with two minor characters from Clerks and Mallrats as her guides? Prepare to suspend any and all disbelief as you watch the religious Read More

11/12/99
Forces of Nature

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Ben Affleck, Maura Tierney, Steve Zahn, Blythe Danner

Synopsis: Ben (Ben Affleck) has two days to get from New York to Savannah, Georgia for his wedding to Bridget Cahill (Maura Tierney). Everything is running smoothly until his plane skids off the runway. Ben inadvertently saves the life of his seatmate, Sarah (Sandra Bullock), who becomes his companion for Read More

3/19/99
200 Cigarettes

Actors: Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Dave Chappelle, Guillermo Diaz, Angela Featherstone

Synopsis: On New Year's Eve, no one wants to be alone. On this night in 1981, several different groups of young desperate people begin a journey from around New York City to a big party hosted by Monica (Martha Plimpton) and new friend Hillary (Catherine Kellner). As the hours pass and no one shows, Monica Read More

2/26/99
Shakespeare in Love

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Judi Dench

Synopsis: William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is on a cold streak. Not only is he writing for Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush), owner of "The Rose," a theatre whose doors are about to be closed by sadistic creditors, but he's got a nasty case of writer's block. Shakespeare hasn't written a hit in years. In Read More

12/11/98
Armageddon

Actors: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Will Patton

Synopsis: Michael Bay (The Rock) directed this science fiction action thriller in the When Worlds Collide tradition. After astronomy students discover a comet-asteroid collision, an asteroid fragment "the size of the Super Dome" threatens. It's destroyed by a secret USA defense in space, but a large chunk Read More

7/1/98
Phantoms

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going, Liev Schreiber, Ben Affleck

Synopsis: Dean Koontz scripted this adaptation of his fantasy novel. The tale begins when two sisters, Lisa (Rose McGowan) and Jenny (Joanna Going) arrive for a ski vacation in the mountain resort town of Snowfield, Colorado, where they discover their landlady is dead and the town is deserted except for a Read More

1998
Going All the Way

Actors: Ben Affleck, Jill Clayburgh, Amy Locane, Rose McGowan, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeremy Davies, Rachel Weisz

Synopsis: Two men return home from the Army to find that their attitudes on life, love, and the town where they grew up have changed in this bittersweet coming-of-age drama. Sonny Burns (Jeremy Davies) and Gunner Casselman (Ben Affleck) are two guys from Indianapolis who were drafted during the Korean War. Read More

1997
Chasing Amy

Actors: Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Lee, Dwight Ewell

Synopsis: After a pair of films about hipster slackers, the work of writer-director Kevin Smith matured and gained critical respect with this low budget, independent comedy-drama about love, sex and the fine line between the two. Ben Affleck stars as Holden McNeil, a New Jersey comic book writer who is Read More

1997
Good Will Hunting

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver, Stellan Skarsgård

Synopsis: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck co-scripted and star in this drama, set in Boston and Cambridge, about rebellious 20-year-old MIT janitor Will Hunting (Damon), gifted with a photographic memory, who hangs out with his South Boston bar buddies, his best friend Chuckie (Affleck), and his affluent British Read More

1997
Glory Daze

Actors: John Rhys-Davies, Alyssa Milano, Ben Affleck, Sam Rockwell, Megan Ward, French Stewart, Vien Hong, Vinnie DeRamus, Spalding Gray

Synopsis: "El Rancho," a sort of punk rock Animal House, is the setting for this college drama. Five roommates live in this group house on the cusp of college graduation. Jack (a mohawk-wearing Ben Affleck) is an art major pining over his ex-girlfriend, while Rob (Sam Rockwell) fears domestication after Read More

1996
Mallrats

Actors: Shannen Doherty, Jeremy London, Jason Lee, Claire Forlani, Michael Rooker

Synopsis: Kevin Smith's follow-up to his unexpected hit Clerks details the pointless story of T.S. (Jeremy London) and Brodie (Jason Lee), two suburban New Jersey slackers who decide to head to the mall in search of solace after being dumped by their girlfriends (Shannon Doherty and Claire Forlani Read More

1995
Dazed and Confused

Actors: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Rory Cochrane, Milla Jovovich, Joey Lauren Adams, Marissa Ribisi, Adam Goldberg

Synopsis: Like George Lucas' American Graffiti, Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused is an affectionate look at the youth culture of a bygone era. While Lucas took aim at the conservative 1950's, Linklater jumps ahead a generation to the bicentennial year of 1976 to celebrate the joys of beer blasts, pot Read More

1993
Against the Grain [TV Series]

Actors: Ben Affleck

1993
School Ties

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell, Randall Batinkoff, Andrew Lowery

Synopsis: An assemblage of young Hollywood actors poised for stardom marked this tale of anti-Semitism at a 1950s prep school. Brendan Fraser stars as David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, who is offered a senior year scholarship to a prestigious New England academy. Read More

9/18/92
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Actors: Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer, Paul Reubens, Luke Perry

Synopsis: The idea of fusing teen sex-comedy and horror genres into a boffo box-office bonanza seems like classic braindead Hollywood-think... but somehow, beyond all reason, the makers of this film manage to pull it off. Much of the credit goes to director Fran Rubel Kuzui (Tokyo Pop) who chooses wisely to Read More

7/31/92
Danielle Steel's 'Daddy'

Synopsis: This TV movie's original title was Danielle Steel's Daddy, which was either an invitation or a warning depending upon one's outlook. The usual Steel formula of a big city high-roller finding love in the hinterlands is followed religiously. Patrick Duffy, a chauvinistic advertising man coming off Read More

1991
Hands of a Stranger

Actors: Armand Assante, Blair Brown, Beverly D'Angelo, Arliss Howard

Synopsis: Hands of a Stranger was adapted by playwright Arthur Kopit from the best-selling novel by Robert Daley. Armand Assante plays a New York City narcotics officer who aids DA Blair Brown in her investigation of a rape case in which drugs were involved. In the subsequent days, Assante becomes something Read More

1987
Wanted: A Perfect Guy

Actors: Ben Affleck, Madeline Kahn, Pam Potillo, Keith Szarabajka, Melanie Mayron

Synopsis: Thirteen-year-old Ben Affleck heads the cast of this semi-comic ABC Afterschool Special. Affleck plays Danny Coleman, the teenaged son of New York divorcée Ellie Coleman (Madeline Kahn). Sensing his mother's loneliness, Danny conspires with his girlfriend, Melanie (Pam Potillo), to secretly Read More

1986
The Voyage of the Mimi [TV Series]

Actors: Ben Affleck, Peter Marston

1984

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