George Clooney Filmography

Born:: May 6, 1961 in Lexington, KY
Occupation:: Actor, Executive Producer, Producer
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Fantastic Mr. Fox

Actors: George Clooney, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Jason Schwartzman

Synopsis: A wily fox uses his formidable cunning to outsmart three feeble-minded farmers who resort to extreme tactics to protect their chickens in director Wes Anderson's animated adaptation of the popular Roald Dahl children's book. George Clooney supplies the voice for Mr. Fox, with Cate Blanchett, Bill Read More

11/6/09
Farragut North

Crew: Producer

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio

Synopsis: Leonardo DiCaprio top lines the big-screen version of Beau Willimon's play Farragut North in this Warner Bros. production regarding a budding staff member of a presidential candidate who's given a first-row seat to the toxic dirty tricks of partisan politics. George Clooney produces the Appian Way Read More

1/1/09
Burn After Reading

Actors: George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton

Synopsis: A CIA agent who is currently in the process of writing a book loses the disc containing his only manuscript in this comedic tale of espionage that reunites filmmaking duo Joel and Ethan Coen with Intolerable Cruelty and O Brother, Where Art Thou? star George Clooney. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Read More

9/12/08
Leatherheads

Crew: Director

Actors: George Clooney, Renée Zellweger, John Krasinski, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: Good Night, and Good Luck director George Clooney pulls double duty once again in this sports-oriented romantic comedy set against the formation of professional football in the 1920s. Dodge Connelly (Clooney) is a brash and handsome gridiron giant who is equally comfortable leading his team in a Read More

4/4/08
Tishomingo Blues

Crew: Producer

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Don Cheadle

Synopsis: Academy Award-nominated actor Don Cheadle makes his feature directorial debut with this crime drama based on a book by Elmore Leonard. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/08
Belmont Boys

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Seven thieving railbirds who once schemed to pull off the heist of a lifetime regroup 30 years after the fact to follow through with the plan and finish what they had started three decades earlier in this George Clooney-directed comedy that finds the Ocean's Eleven star re-teaming with that film's Read More

1/1/08
White Jazz

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Smokin' Aces director Joe Carnahan takes the helm for this adaptation of James Ellroy's novel concerning a corrupt LAPD lieutenant assigned to a high-profile case just as his notoriously debauched department is singled out for investigation. White Jazz is a screen adaptation of the fourth and Read More

1/1/08
Darfur Now

Synopsis: Ted Braun's documentary about Darfur showcases how six different people have each done their part in order to help stop the genocide in the region and bring humanitarian relief to the millions there who suffer. His subjects include a UCLA student who, with no political experience whatsoever Read More

11/2/07
Michael Clayton

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe

Synopsis: Michael Clayton (Clooney) handles all of the dirty work for a major New York law firm: Arranging top-flight legal services and skirting through loopholes for ethically questionable clients. But when a fellow "fixer" decides to turn on the very firm they were hired to clean up for, Clayton finds Read More

10/5/07
Ocean's Thirteen

Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia

Synopsis: Cinema icon Al Pacino joins a powerhouse cast headed by of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, and series newcomer Ellen Barkin for this, the third installment of director Steven Soderbergh's popular series of glitzy crime comedies. The only hotelier in Las Read More

6/8/07
Wind Chill

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Emily Blunt, Ashton Holmes, Martin Donovan

Synopsis: Two college students heading home for the holidays break down on a lonesome stretch of highway, only to find themselves targeted by the malevolent spirits of other travelers who met their end on the same road in a supernatural road movie directed by Greg Jacobs, and produced by Steven Soderbergh Read More

4/27/07
Sand and Sorrow

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Elie Wiesel, Alex de Waal, Samantha Power, Abdulrahman Al-Zuma, Gerard Prunier

Synopsis: Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Paul Freedman directs this sobering documentary about the genocidal crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan. Freedman followed a group of African Union peacekeeping forces on a journey through the area, observing the 2.5 million people displaced from their homes by Read More

2007
A Journey to Darfur

Crew: Producer

2007
The Good German

Crew: Producer

Actors: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire, Beau Bridges, Tony Curran

Synopsis: A U.S. Army war correspondent is drawn into a deadly mystery in post-war Berlin as he seeks out his wartime mistress in this adaptation of author Joseph Kanon's best-selling novel. The war is over, and Jake Geismar (George Clooney) is an American journalist assigned the task of covering the peace Read More

12/15/06
A Scanner Darkly

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey, Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, Rory Cochrane

Synopsis: The war on drugs has been lost, and when a reluctant undercover cop is ordered to spy on those he is closest to, the toll that the mission takes on his sanity is too great to comprehend in director Richard Linklater's rotoscoped take on Philip K. Dick's classic novel. With stratospheric concern Read More

7/7/06
The Half Life of Timofey Berezin

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Paddy Considine, Radha Mitchell, Oscar Isaac, Jason Flemyng, Nikolaj Kaas

Synopsis: First-time writer/director Scott Burns spins this suspenseful yarn about a nuclear technician who has a curious encounter with a notoriously violent Russian gangster (Nikolaj Lie Kaas). The year is 1995, and Timofey (Paddy Considine) is a nuclear power-plant worker in post-Soviet Russia. After Read More

2006
Rumor Has It...

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Ruffalo, Richard Jenkins, Mena Suvari

Synopsis: A woman discovers that a part of her family history may be more complicated -- and more famous -- than she ever imagined in this comedy. Thirtysomething Sarah Huttinger (Jennifer Aniston), who has spent most of her adult life in New York City, is flying home to California with her long time Read More

12/25/05
Syriana

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt

Synopsis: Oil drives greed in Oscar-winning Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan's labyrinthine sophomore directorial effort that traces the corruption of the global oil industry from the backrooms of Washington, D.C., to the petroleum-rich fields of the Middle East. Based in part on the writings of former Read More

11/23/05
Good Night, and Good Luck.

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Frank Langella

Synopsis: George Clooney pays homage to one of the icons of American broadcast journalism, Edward R. Murrow, in this fact-based drama, which was Clooney's second feature film as a director. In 1953, Edward R. Murrow (played by David Strathairn) was one of the best-known newsmen on television as host of both Read More

10/7/05
The Jacket

Crew: Producer

Actors: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Synopsis: A troubled war veteran tries to unlock his memories of a terrible crime in this stylish thriller, the first American project for British filmmaker John Maybury. In 1991, Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) was an American soldier serving in the Persian Gulf when he was shot in the head; pronounced dead by Read More

3/4/05
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

Actors: George Clooney, Danny DeVito, Peter Bogdanovich, David Brown, Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: Take a walk on the fine line between box-office blockbusters and instantly forgettable bombs as Oscar and Emmy-winning producer/director Bill Couturie sets out to explore just what separates such high-profile hits as Jaws from such room-clearing disasters as Howard the Duck. Executive produced by Read More

2005
Ocean's Twelve

Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Julia Roberts, Bernie Mac

Synopsis: After pulling off the heist of their lives, Danny Ocean and his pals unexpectedly find themselves back in harness in this sequel to 2001's blockbuster hit Ocean's Eleven. After robbing a cool $160 million from the Bellaggio Hotel Casino and winning back his former wife, Tess (Julia Roberts), from Read More

12/10/04
Criminal

Crew: Producer

Actors: John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Mullan, Jonathan Tucker

Synopsis: A con artist finds family squabbles are getting in the way of a major payday in this sharp blend of comedy and suspense, based on the Argentinean hit Nueve Reinas (aka Nine Queens). Richard Gaddis (John C. Reilly) is a smart-suited confidence man who knows how to run a big con but prefers to pull Read More

9/10/04
Unscripted [TV Series]

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Krista Allen, Bryan Greenberg, Jennifer Hall, Frank Langella, Jake Moritt

2004
Intolerable Cruelty

Actors: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: Joel and Ethan Coen take on the classic battle-of-the-sexes screwball comedy with Intolerable Cruelty. George Clooney plays Miles Massey, a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer nearing a midlife crisis . While representing wealthy client Rex Rexroth (Edward Herrmann), Miles meets his match in Read More

10/10/03
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Ricardo Montalban

Synopsis: The first American theatrically released 3-D movie from a major studio since 1991's Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over is the third entry in three years in Robert Rodriguez's family-oriented action-adventure series. Along with the four members of the Cortez family, played Read More

7/25/03
K Street [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: James Carville, Mary Matalin, Mary McCormack, Michael K. Deaver, John Slattery, Roger Guenveur Smith

Synopsis: Co-created by actor George Clooney and director Steve Soderbergh, the ten-part HBO series K Street was a docudrama about a political consulting firm in Washington. Each episode was based on a late-breaking political story, and each was edited just before telecast for the sake of topicality. It was Read More

2003
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Crew: Director

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: Chuck Barris is best known to most Americans as the guy who used to host The Gong Show. He was also the creator and producer of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and a handful of other successful game shows in the 1960s and 1970s. But was he also a hired killer working with the CIA? That's the Read More

12/31/02
Solaris

Actors: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies, Viola Davis

Synopsis: A therapist travels to a distant space station to treat a group of astronauts traumatized by mysterious entities -- and ends up having to deal with an entity of his own -- in this second film version of Stanislaw Lem's philosophical sci-fi novel. Solaris stars George Clooney as Chris Kelvin, a Read More

11/27/02
Far from Heaven

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson, Viola Davis

Synopsis: Maverick director Todd Haynes embraces the look and feel of classic Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s in this period drama. Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) and her husband, Frank (Dennis Quaid), are a seemingly perfect couple; living in a handsome suburban neighborhood in Hartford, CT, in 1957 Read More

11/8/02
Welcome to Collinwood

Crew: Producer

Actors: Luis Guzman, Michael Jeter, Patricia Clarkson, Andrew Davoli, Isaiah Washington

Synopsis: A group of likable losers try to pull of what by their standards seems like a major heist in this offbeat crime comedy, loosely based on the classic Italian caper comedy I Soliti Ignoti. A group of sad sacks living in a rundown neighborhood in Cleveland all have one thing in common -- they need Read More

10/4/02
Insomnia

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Maura Tierney, Martin Donovan

Synopsis: Director Christopher Nolan follows up his breakthrough sophomore film Memento with this remake of a stylish Norwegian thriller. Al Pacino stars as Detective Will Dormer, a Los Angeles Police Department legend who temporarily escapes an internal affairs investigation that may ruin his career by Read More

5/24/02
Ocean's Eleven

Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts

Synopsis: A rag-tag group of con artists and ex-cons team up for the heist to end all heists in this high-profile remake of the 1960 Rat Pack favorite. As with its predecessor, Ocean's Eleven opens with its titular hero Danny Ocean (George Clooney stepping into the Frank Sinatra role) eager for a new Read More

12/7/01
Rock Star

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Jennifer Aniston, Timothy Olyphant, Jason Flemyng, Timothy Spall

Synopsis: Loosely inspired by the true story of the heavy metal band Judas Priest, this music industry fable from director Stephen Herek is based on a script by actor-turned-writer/director John Stockwell. Mark Wahlberg stars as Chris Cole, a wannabe rock star who works by day as a copy machine repairman Read More

9/7/01
Spy Kids

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Alan Cumming

Synopsis: In this reteaming of actor Antonio Banderas and director Robert Rodriguez -- their first film together since the 1995 feature Desperado -- Banderas plays Gregorio; he and devoted partner Ingrid (Carla Gugino), comprise the greatest pair of secret agents working. Both are masters of disguise and Read More

3/30/01
America: A Tribute to Heroes

Actors: U2

Synopsis: Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Sheryl Crow, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Tom Petty, Al Pacino, and many more entertainment industry luminaries teamed up on September 21, 2001, for this live telethon raising funds for the families of the victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks. The focus Read More

2001
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Actors: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Charles Durning, John Goodman

Synopsis: The writing, directing, and producing team of Joel Coen and Ethan Coen created this picaresque comedy (inspired in part by Homer's The Odyssey) set in the Deep South during the Depression. Suave and fancy-talking Everett Ulysses McGill (George Clooney), dim-witted Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) Read More

12/20/00
The Perfect Storm

Actors: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane, William Fichtner, John Hawkes

Synopsis: In October 1991, a dying tropical hurricane from Bermuda collided with a cold front from the Great Lakes, resulting in a "perfect storm" of previously unknown destructive impact that resulted in 100-foot waves; tragically, the crew of a fishing boat was lost in the midst of the fearsome storm. Read More

6/30/00
Fail Safe

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: George Clooney, Noah Wyle, Richard Dreyfuss, Hank Azaria, Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: A seemingly-minor electronic error sets the world on the verge of nuclear annihilation in this made-for-TV adaptation of the novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler (which was previously filmed in 1964). Due to the burn-out of a piece of circuitry, a computer orders a U.S. Air Force jet on a Read More

2000
ER: Such Sweet Sorrow

Synopsis: After briefly reviving a young mother (Rachel Singer) dying of cancer so that the woman can bid goodbye to her family, head nurse Carol Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) suddenly realizes that her own life is figuratively slipping away. Determined to live the rest of her existence to the fullest Read More

2000
Three Kings

Actors: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Nora Dunn

Synopsis: Three stars team up for this unusual look at America's role in the war against Iraq. In 1991, as the Gulf War winds to a close, three American servicemen find themselves happy to have achieved victory but wondering about the ultimate importance of what they've done (especially since Saddam Hussein Read More

10/1/99
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

Actors: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mary Kay Bergman, Isaac Hayes, Jesse Howell

Synopsis: The most tasteless third graders on television graduate to the big screen, as Trey Parker and Matt Stone expand their animated series with foul-mouthed humor that might breach the boundaries of basic cable. In the small Colorado town of South Park, good-natured Stan Marsh, slightly neurotic Kyle Read More

6/30/99
Tony Bennett: Live By Request

Synopsis: This video captures Tony Bennett performing before an adoring audience during a 1998 concert that was recorded for A&E as part of their Live By Request series. Featuring appearances by such luminaries as Elvis Costello, Billy Joel, and Sting, the concert fins Bennett performing timeless favorites Read More

1999
The Thin Red Line

Actors: Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, James Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, George Clooney

Synopsis: The return of director Terrence Malick to feature filmmaking after a twenty year sabbatical, this World War II drama is an elegiac rumination on man's destruction of nature and himself, based on James Jones' semi-autobiographical novel, his follow-up to From Here to Eternity. James Caviezel stars Read More

12/23/98
Out of Sight

Actors: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Dennis Farina

Synopsis: Steven Soderbergh directed this crime caper adapted from the novel by Elmore Leonard. When ex-con Jack Foley (George Clooney) robs a bank, his car goes dead, and Foley lands in a Florida prison. His escape from prison doesn't go as planned, since it's witnessed by deputy federal marshal Karen Read More

6/26/98
ER: Season 05

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, George Clooney, Laura Innes, Gloria Reuben, Alex Kingston, Kellie Martin

Synopsis: It's another year of triumph and tragedy in the emergency room of Chicago's County General Hospital as ER enters its fifth season. New to the cast this year is Kellie Martin as inexperienced and somewhat klutzy medical student Lucy Knight, who soon proves to be a major thorn in the side of her Read More

1998
Murphy Brown: Never Can Say Goodbye, Part 2

Synopsis: In the second part of Murphy Brown's series finale (originally telecast as the conclusion of a single 60-minute episode), Murphy undergoes surgery for a possible malignancy. While under the ether, Murphy conducts an interview with God (played by Alan King), which quickly (and typically) Read More

1998
ER: Season 04

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, George Clooney, Laura Innes, Gloria Reuben, Alex Kingston, Maria Bello

Synopsis: Season four of ER opens with the famous "live" episode, which was originally telecast in "you are there" documentary fashion (with two separate stagings, one each for the East and West Coasts). This episode serves to introduce a new regular, British doctor Elizabeth Corday (Alex Kingston). Within Read More

1997
Full-Tilt Boogie

Actors: Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney, Juliette Lewis, Harvey Keitel

Synopsis: The filmization of Quentin Tarantino's first script, with television actor George Clooney in his first starring feature-film role, Robert "El Mariachi" Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) was a campy action horror thriller that became a major box-office hit. This off-beat documentary from Sarah Kelly Read More

1997
Batman & Robin

Actors: Jesse Ventura, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone

Synopsis: This was the third follow-up to Tim Burton's Batman (1989), the original revisionist look at the Gotham City legend, as well as the second in the Batman series directed by Joel Schumacher and the first featuring George Clooney as the Caped Crusader; it features not one but two super-villains, and Read More

1997
The Peacemaker

Actors: George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iures, Alexander Baluev, Rene Medvesek

Synopsis: The first motion picture produced by DreamWorks SKG, The Peacemaker (1997) was a spy thriller that married the exotic locations and derring-do of James Bond with the high-tech obsession and post-Cold War politics of Tom Clancy. Greedy Russian military officers crash two trains into each other, the Read More

1997
From Dusk Till Dawn

Actors: George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, Cheech Marin

Synopsis: In this action-horror flick from director Robert Rodriguez and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino, Tarantino stars with George Clooney as a pair of bad-to-the-bone brothers named Seth and Richie Gecko. After a string of robberies that left a river of blood in the Geckos' wake, the sadistic siblings Read More

1996
One Fine Day

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Mae Whitman, Alex D. Linz, Charles Durning, Robert Klein

Synopsis: Even without money problems, many divorced single parents have a hard row to hoe. At the drop of a hat, a competent, responsible professional person can be reduced to a frazzled, bumbling parent, when his or her children become unexpected daytime wards. This is what happens to Jack Taylor (George Clooney Read More

1996
ER: Season 03

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, George Clooney, Laura Innes, Sherry Stringfield, Gloria Reuben

Synopsis: Season three of ER marks the (temporary) exit of Chicago County emergency-room doctor Susan Lewis (Sherry Stringfield), whose ever-increasing emotional problems are exacerbated when her romance with Dr. Greene (Anthony Edwards) fails to take off. It also marks the begining of John Carter's (Noah Wyle Read More

1996
Saturday Night Live: George Clooney

Actors: George Clooney, The Cranberries

Synopsis: This 1995 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by George Clooney and features musical guest the Cranberries. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1995
Friends: The One with Two Parts, Part 2

Synopsis: Part two of The One with the Two Parts is a hospital farce. Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) has to go to a doctor, but has no insurance. To alleviate the problem, Monica (Courteney Cox) and Rachel switch identities so that Rachel can use Monica's coverage. Complications ensue when the two become Read More

1995
ER: Season 02

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, George Clooney, Laura Innes, Sherry Stringfield, Gloria Reuben

Synopsis: Having all but forced its CBS medical-show competition Chicago Hope off the Thursday-night schedule, NBC's ER reigned supreme as the series entered its second season. Having wrongly assumed that he would leave Chicago County after his third year of med school, John Carter (Noah Wyle) remains on Read More

1995
ER: Season 01

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, George Clooney, Sherry Stringfield

Synopsis: The first season of the prestigious NBC medical drama ER is seen largely through the eyes of new third-year medical student John Carter (Noah Wyle) as he tries to survive his shakedown cruise in the Emergency Room of Chicago's County General Hospital. Carter is swiftly introduced to his Read More

1994
The Harvest

Actors: Miguel Ferrer, Anthony John Denison, Leilani Sarelle, Henry Silva, Harvey Fierstein, Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: Based on a popular urban myth, The Harvest is about a screenwriter (Miguel Ferrer) who is seduced by a sexy dancer (Leilani Sarelle Ferrer) while he is researching and writing a script in Mexico. She leads him down to the beach, where a group of thugs knock him unconscious. When he wakes up, his Read More

1993
Un-Becoming Age

1993
Without Warning: Terror in the Towers