Bill Camp on screen and stage

Bill Camp is an American actor of the stage and screen. He is known for his extensive character actor roles since 1989 acting in a revival of William Shakespeare's romance Twelfth Night at the Public Theater. He made his film acting debut in the legal thriller Reversal of Fortune (1990).

Bill Camp at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival

Camp continued to take roles in films such as the drama Rounders (1998), the crime drama Public Enemies (2009), the independent drama Compliance (2012), the prohibition drama Lawless (2012), the historical drama Lincoln (2012), the historical drama 12 Years a Slave (2013), the musical drama Love & Mercy (2015), the drama Black Mass (2015), the historical drama Loving (2016), the action film Jason Bourne (2016), the psychological drama The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), the crime thriller Molly's Game (2017), the drama Wildlife (2018), the political satire Vice (2018), the superhero film Joker (2019), the western News of the World (2020), the drama Passing (2021).

On television, he started his career with recurring roles in the NBC police procedural series Law & Order (1999–2004), the FX legal drama Damages (2006), the drama series Manhattan (2014–2015), and the HBO supernatural drama series The Leftovers (2015–2017). For his role as a Detective Sergeant in the HBO crime drama miniseries The Night Of (2016), he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award. He played a custodian and chess mentor in the Netflix period drama miniseries The Queen's Gambit (2020) he was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award.

Recently he had recurring roles in the Hulu miniseries The Looming Tower (2018), the HBO horror-crime series The Outsider (2020), the Netflix legal drama miniseries A Man in Full (2024), the Apple TV+ legal drama series Presumed Innocent (2024), the Netflix political miniseries Zero Day (2025), and the Netflix melodrama miniseries Sirens (2025). In 2025 he portrayed J. P. Morgan in the HBO period drama series The Gilded Age.

Film

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1990	Reversal of Fortune	Bill	Barbet Schroeder
1997	In & Out	Bachelor Party Guest	Frank Oz
1998	Rounders	Eisenberg	John Dahl
2005	The Dying Gaul	Malcolm	Craig Lucas
2007	Reservation Road	Desk Cop	Terry George
2008	The Guitar	Pa Wilder	Amy Redford
	Deception	Clancey Controller	Marcel Langenegger
2009	Public Enemies	Frank Nitti	Michael Mann
2010	Tamara Drewe	Glen McGreavey	Stephen Frears
2012	Compliance	Van	Craig Zobel
	Lawless	Sheriff Hodges	John Hillcoat
	Lincoln	Mr. Jolly	Steven Spielberg
2013	12 Years a Slave	Radburn	Steve McQueen
	The Maid's Room	Mr. Crawford	Michael Walker
2014	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Crazy Man	Alejandro G. Iñárritu
	Love & Mercy	Murry Wilson	Bill Pohlad
2015	Aloha	Bob Largent	Cameron Crowe
	Black Mass	John Callahan	Scott Cooper
2016	Midnight Special	Doak	Jeff Nichols
	Loving	Frank Beazley	Jeff Nichols
	Jason Bourne	Malcolm Smith	Paul Greengrass
	Gold	Hollis Dresher	Stephen Gaghan
2017	Crown Heights	William Robedee	Matt Ruskin
	The Killing of a Sacred Deer	Matthew Williams	Yorgos Lanthimos
	The Only Living Boy in New York	Uncle Buster	Marc Webb
	Hostiles	Jeremiah Wilks	Scott Cooper
	Molly's Game	Harlan Eustice	Aaron Sorkin
	Woman Walks Ahead	General Crook	Susanna White
2018	Wildlife	Warren Miller	Paul Dano
	Red Sparrow	Marty Gable	Francis Lawrence
	Skin	Fred "Hammer" Krager	Guy Nattiv
	The Land of Steady Habits	Donny O'Connell	Nicole Holofcener
	Vice	Gerald Ford	Adam McKay
2019	Native Son	Henry Dalton	Rashid Johnson
	The Kitchen	Alfonso Coretti	Andrea Berloff
	Joker	Detective Garrity	Todd Phillips
	Dark Waters	Wilbur Tennant	Todd Haynes
2020	News of the World	Willie Branholme	Paul Greengrass
2021	Passing	Hugh Wentworth	Rebecca Hall
	With/In: Volume 2	Himself	Also writer and director
2022	White Noise	Man With TV	Noah Baumbach
2023	Boston Strangler	Commissioner Edmund McNamara	Matt Ruskin
	Sound of Freedom	Vampiro	Alejandro Gómez Monteverde
	The Burial	Raymond Loewen	Maggie Betts
2024	Drive-Away Dolls	Curlie	Ethan Coen
	'Salem's Lot	Matthew Burke	Gary Dauberman
	Transplant[1]	Dr. Edward Harmon	Jason Park
2025	The Mastermind	Bill Mooney	Kelly Reichardt
	Huntington †	TBA	John Patton Ford	Post-production[2]
TBA	Judgment Day †	TBA	Nicholas Stoller	Filming[3]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Great Performances	Marcellus / Sailor / Player	Episode: "Hamlet"
1994	New York Undercover	Bronski	Episode: "Pilot"
1995	New York News	Performer	Episode: "Past Imperfect"
1999–2004	Law & Order	Denny Rogis / Barney Rade	2 episodes
2000	The Great Gatsby	Wilson	TV movie
2003	Joan of Arcadia	Painter God	Episode: "St. Joan"
2005	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Mickey	Episode: "Acts of Contrition"
2008	Brotherhood	Agent Jarvis	3 episodes
2011	Boardwalk Empire	Glenmore	Episode: "Gimcrack & Bunkum"
2011	The Good Wife	Daniel Clove	Episode: "Parenting Made Easy"
2012	Damages	Samurai Seven/Hacker	6 episodes
2014–15	Manhattan	William Hogarth	5 episodes
2015–17	The Leftovers	David Burton	4 episodes
2016	The Night Of	Dennis Box	Miniseries, 8 episodes
2018	The Looming Tower	Robert Chesney	Miniseries, 8 episodes
2018	The First	Aaron Shultz	Episode: "Collisions"
2020	The Outsider	Howard Salomon	Miniseries, 10 episodes
2020	Forensic Files II	Narrator	Succeeding Peter Thomas
2020	Monsterland	Stan	Episode: "New York, New York"
2020	The Queen's Gambit	Mr. Shaibel	Miniseries, 4 episodes
2021	American Rust	Henry English	Main role, 9 episodes
2024	A Man in Full	Harry Zane	Miniseries, Main role
	Presumed Innocent	Raymond Horgan
2025	Zero Day	Director Lasch
	Sirens	Bruce DeWitt
	The Gilded Age	J. P. Morgan	Episode: "What the Papers Say"

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1989	Twelfth Night, or What You Will	Walter	Delacorte Theatre, Off-Broadway	[4]
1989	Titus Andronicus	Chiron	Delacorte Theatre, Off-Broadway	[4]
1990	Hamlet	Marcellus/Lord/Sailor	The Public Theatre, Off-Broadway	[4]
1991	Light Shining in Buckinghamshire	Performer	Perry Street Theatre, Off-Broadway	[4]
1992	The Seagull	Konstantin Treplev (understudy)	Lyceum Theatre, Broadway	[4]
1993	Saint Joan	Gilles de Rais	Lyceum Theatre, Broadway	[4]
1995	Troilus and Cressida	Paris	Delacorte Theatre, Off-Broadway	[4]
1996	Measure for Measure	Duke	Theatre at St. Clement's, Off-Broadway	[4]
1997	One Flea Spare	Bunce	The Public Theatre, Off-Broadway	[4]
1997	The Devils	Performer	New York Theatre Workshop, Off-Broadway	[4]
1997–98	Jackie	Various	Belasco Theatre, Broadway	[4]
2000	Lydie Breeze, Parts I & II	Joshua Hickman	New York Theatre Workshop, Off-Broadway	[4]
2001	Homebody/Kabul	Quango Twistleton	New York Theatre Workshop, Off-Broadway	[4]
2006	Soar Throats	Jack	Duke on 42nd Street, Off-Broadway	[4]
2006	Heartbreak House	Boss Mangan	American Airlines Theatre, Broadway Revival	[4]
2007	Coram Boy	Otis Gardner	Imperial Theatre, Broadway	[4]
2007	The Misanthrope	Alceste	New York Theatre Workshop, Off-Broadway	[4]
2007	4 Beckett Shorts	Performer	New York Theatre Workshop, Off-Broadway	[4]
2009	Still Life	Voice	Lucille Lortel Theatre, Off-Broadway	[4]
2011	The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide	Adam	The Newman Theatre, Off-Broadway	[4]
2012	Death of a Salesman	Charley	Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway	[4]
2016	The Crucible	Reverend John Hale	Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway	[4]
2022	Long Day's Journey into Night	James Tyrone Sr.	Minetta Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway	[5]