Wes BentleyFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Wes Bentley was a relative newcomer to film when he starred in Sam Mendes' American Beauty (1999), but his haunting portrayal of the battered, enigmatic Ricky Fitts made him one of the most talked about young actors of the year. Dark, lanky, and possessing a pair of blue eyes of diamond-cutting...Read More

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Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia

Actors: Wes Bentley, Kaitlin Doubleday, Eric Roberts, Michael Madsen, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Synopsis: Wes Bentley, Eric Roberts, and Michael Madsen headline first-time feature filmmaker Michael Straininger's story of a successful writer and scholar who falls under the spell of a bewitching seductress on an obsessive quest for immortality. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's acclaimed short story of the Read More

2008
Weirdsville

Actors: Scott Speedman, Wes Bentley, Taryn Manning, Matt Frewer, Greg Bryk

Synopsis: Two luckless stoners begin a truly awful evening when they discover they have a dead girlfriend on their hands in this black comedy from writer and director Allen Moyle. Dexter (Scott Speedman) and Royce (Wes Bentley) are a pair of half-bright slackers living in a nowhere town in Northern Ontario. Read More

10/5/07
P2

Actors: Wes Bentley, Rachel Nichols

Synopsis: A corporate workaholic finds that her decision to work late on Christmas Eve has potentially deadly consequences in this thriller starring Wes Bentley and Rachel Nichols. It's that time of the year, and as the snow falls outside and families gather around the dinner table, Angela vows to close one Read More

8/22/07
Ghost Rider

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott

Synopsis: When a motorcycle-riding stuntman offers his soul to Mephistopheles in order to save the life of the one he loves most, he is forced to play host to a powerful supernatural entity whose flaming skull visage strikes fear into the heart of his enemies in this feature-film version of the long-running Read More

2/16/07
The Perfect Witness

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Wes Bentley, Mark Borkowski, Joanne Baron, Marina Gatell, Albert López-Murta

Synopsis: Inspired by the satirical black comedy Man Bites Dog, emerging film director Thomas C. Dunn's feature debut tells the tale of a young documentary filmmaker who inadvertently captures a murder on camera, and unwisely attempts to blackmail the murderer into becoming the subject of his latest film. Read More

2007
The Last Word

Actors: Winona Ryder, Wes Bentley, Ray Romano

Synopsis: Wes Bentley and Winona Ryder star in director/screenwriter Geoff Haley's darkly comic romance centering on the relationship between a writer specializing in suicide notes and the unsuspecting sister of his most recent client. Evan Merck (Bentley) is a reclusive, Los Angeles-based writer whose Read More

2007
The Ungodly

Actors: Wes Bentley, Mark Borkowski, Joanne Baron, Albert López-Murta, Marina Gatell, Kenny Johnson, Beth Grant

Synopsis: Inspired by the satirical black comedy Man Bites Dog, emerging film director Thomas C. Dunn's feature debut tells the tale of a young documentary filmmaker who inadvertently captures a murder on camera, and unwisely attempts to blackmail the murderer into becoming the subject of a film designed to Read More

2006
The Game of Their Lives

Actors: Gerard Butler, Wes Bentley, Jay Rodan, Gavin Rossdale, Costas Mandylor

Synopsis: In 1950, most Americans had only a passing familiarity with the game of soccer, even though it was the world's most popular sport, and few athletes in the United States played the game with any particular degree of expertise. However, when an invitation was extended to the United States to Read More

4/22/05
The Four Feathers

Actors: Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson, Djimon Hounsou

Synopsis: A.E.W. Mason's perennially popular tale of honor and adventure is brought to the screen yet again in this lavish period action-drama. In 1884, Harry Feversham (Heath Ledger) is a young officer-in-training in the British Army who is soon to graduate and is expected to be shipped of to the Sudan Read More

9/20/02
Soul Survivors

Actors: Melissa Sagemiller, Casey Affleck, Wes Bentley, Eliza Dushku, Angela Featherstone, Luke Wilson

Synopsis: This entry in the perennially popular teen horror genre is from writer/director Steve Carpenter and the producers of I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and Urban Legend (1998). Melissa Sagemiller stars as Cassie, a college freshman trying to get over the death of her boyfriend Sean (Casey Read More

9/7/01
The Claim

Actors: Peter Mullan, Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski, Sarah Polley

Synopsis: One man's small empire threatens to collapse under the weight of his greed and deceit in this drama that transplants the story of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge to 19th century America. In 1867, Dillon (Peter Mullan) is an Irish immigrant who settled in California during the Gold Rush of Read More

12/29/00
American Beauty

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Chris Cooper

Synopsis: Noted theater director Sam Mendes, who was responsible for the acclaimed 1998 revival of Cabaret and Nicole Kidman's turn in The Blue Room, made his motion picture debut with this film about the dark side of an American family, and about the nature and price of beauty in a culture obsessed with Read More

9/15/99
White River

Actors: Beau Bridges, Ellen Barkin, Antonio Banderas, Bob Hoskins, Wes Bentley

Synopsis: Two small-time crooks find themselves in deeper water than they can handle in this offbeat comedy. Edgar (Bob Hoskins) and Morales (Antonio Banderas) are a pair of minor-league grifters posing as men of the cloth, who travel through the deep South selling cheap socks at inflated prices to raise Read More

1999
Beloved

Actors: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Beah Richards

Synopsis: Jonathan Demme directed this adaptation of Toni Morrison's fact-based fifth novel (winner of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize), written in an experimental stream-of-consciousness flow and capturing the impact and aftermath of slavery on the human soul. In 1873, middle-aged Sethe (Oprah Winfrey) lives near Read More

10/16/98
Three Below Zero

Actors: Judith Roberts, Kate Walsh, Wes Bentley, Don Creech, Jose Rabelo

Synopsis: Simon Aeby made his directorial debut with this Swiss drama. When a door blows shut, three people are trapped in the basement laundry room of a New York apartment building -- Julian (Wes Bentley), Moriat (Kate Walsh), and older Nora (Judith Roberts) -- and their attitudes and arguments lead to Read More

1998