Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
| 2017 | Never Here | Paul Stark |
| 2016 | Midnight Special | Calvin Meyer |
| 2016 | California Typewriter | Self |
| 2016 | In Dubious Battle | Mr. Anderson |
| 2015 | Ithaca | Willie Grogan |
| 2014 | Cold in July | Ben Russell |
| 2013 | Out of the Furnace | Gerald "Red" Baze |
| 2013 | Mud | Tom Blankenship |
| 2013 | Savannah | Mr. Stubbs |
| 2013 | August: Osage County | Beverly Weston |
| 2012 | Safe House (2012) | Harlan Whitford |
| 2012 | Killing Them Softly | Dillon |
| 2012 | Darling Companion | Sheriff Morris |
| 2012 | Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction | Actor |
| 2011 | Blackthorn | James Blackthorn/Butch Cassidy |
| 2010 | Fair Game (2005) | Sam Plame |
| 2010 | Inhale | James Harrison |
| 2008 | The Accidental Husband | Wilder |
| 2008 | Patti Smith: Dream of Life | Actor |
| 2008 | Felon | Gordon Camrose |
| 2007 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Frank James |
| 2006 | Bandidas | Bill Buck |
| 2006 | Charlotte's Web (2006) | Narrator |
| 2005 | Stealth | Capt. George Cummings |
| 2005 | Don't Come Knocking | Howard Spence |
| 2005 | Trudell | Actor |
| 2004 | The Notebook (2004) | Frank Calhoun |
| 2003 | This So-Called Disaster | Self |
| 2002 | LIFF: I’ll See You in My Dreams | Screenwriter |
| 2001 | The Pledge | Eric Pollack |
| 2001 | Swordfish | Senator Reisman |
| 2001 | Black Hawk Down | Garrison |
| 2001 | Shot in the Heart | Frank Gilmore Sr. |
| 2000 | Hamlet (2000) | Ghost |
| 2000 | All the Pretty Horses | J.C. Franklin |
| 1999 | Snow Falling on Cedars | Arthur Chambers |
| 1994 | Safe Passage | Patrick Singer |
| 1993 | The Pelican Brief | Thomas Callahan |
| 1992 | Thunderheart | Frank Coutelle |
| 1990 | Bright Angel | Lucy |
| 1989 | Steel Magnolias (1989) | Spud Jones |
| 1988 | Far North | Director, Screenwriter |
| 1987 | Baby Boom | Dr. Jeff Cooper |
| 1986 | Crimes of the Heart | Doc Porter |
| 1985 | Fool for Love | Eddie |
| 1984 | Paris, Texas | Writer |
| 1983 | The Right Stuff | Capt/Col. Chuck Yeager, Test Pilot |
| 1982 | Frances | Harry York |
| 1981 | Raggedy Man | Bailey |
| 1980 | Resurrection (2009) | Cal |
| 1978 | Days of Heaven | The Farmer |
| 1970 | Zabriskie Point | Writer |
| 1970 | Brand X | Actor |
