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Bill Sage

Highest Rated: 93% AWOL (2016)

Lowest Rated: 11% The Preppie Connection (2015)

Birthday: Apr 3, 1962

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Bill Sage landed his first movie roles during the late 1980s and early 1990s, around the same time that American independent film was becoming widely popular. Many of his earliest collaborations were with idiosyncratic auteur Hal Hartley, who like Sage was an alumnus of State University of New York at Purchase, including the films "The Unbelievable Truth" (1989), "Trust" (1990), and "Simple Men" (1992), in which he played a recent college graduate who reunites with his brother and sets out to find their father, who has unexpectedly escaped from the hospital. This indie breakthrough was followed by more roles for Hartley with other non-mainstream filmmakers including Mary Harron, Lisa Cholodenko, and Mira Nair. By the end of the '90s, Sage was guest-starring on popular television series such as "Sex and the City" (HBO 1998-2004) and "Melrose Place" (Fox 1992-99), and his film career would soon include playing an FBI agent in the drama "Boiler Room" (2000) and a small part in Harron's adaptation of "American Psycho" (2000). This led to being cast in Gregg Araki's "Mysterious Skin" (2004) as a sexually-abusive baseball coach, and a few years later in the Oscar-nominated "Precious" (2009) which also dealt with child abuse. During this time, Sage continued to alternate between film and television work. The sci-fi movie "The Scientist" (2010) offered him a rare opportunity to play a leading man, while he also enjoyed recurring roles on the series "Nurse Jackie" (Showtime 2009-2015) and "Boardwalk Empire" (HBO 2010-14). Other leading roles in the horror film "We Are What We Are" (2013) and "The Blackout" (2014) were followed by a reunion with Hartley for "Ned Rifle" (2015), the conclusion of the trilogy started by "Henry Fool" (1996). He returned to television with a co-starring role in gritty thriller "Hap and Leonard" (Sundance 2016- ).

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Highest rated movies

93% 56% AWOL Watchlist
92% 89% Simple Men
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88% 72% Electrick Children
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86% 89% Mysterious Skin
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86% 72% The Archer
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85% 50% We Are What We Are
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83% 81% The Price Watchlist
82% 56% Handsome Harry
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78% 55% Ned Rifle
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76% 77% High Art
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 100% Hayseed Leo Hobbins (Character) - 2023
No Score Yet 19% Payback Randy (Character) - 2021
64% 61% Wrong Turn Venable (Character) $1.3M 2021
43% 76% The Dinner Party Carmine (Character) - 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Catch Tom McManus (Character) - 2020
45% 62% The Pale Door Dodd (Character) - 2020
68% 62% The Wave Jonas (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet 46% The Big Take Jack Girardi (Character) - 2018
20% 52% All Summers End Mr. Turner (Character) - 2017
83% 81% The Price John Kocher (Character) - 2017
86% 72% The Archer Bob Patrice (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Delinquent Rich (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet 45% Welcome to Willits Brock (Character) - 2016
93% 56% AWOL Roy (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet 41% Fender Bender Driver (Character) - 2016
78% 55% Ned Rifle Bud (Character) - 2015
11% 61% The Preppie Connection Mike Hammel (Character) - 2015
67% 38% The Boy Sheriff Deacon Whit (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ascent to Hell Mr. Browning (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 25% Then There Was Frank (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 11% Shockwave Darkside Dalton (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 80% Born to Race: Fast Track Frank (Character) - 2014
56% 50% Blumenthal Interviewer (Character) - 2013
85% 50% We Are What We Are Frank Parker (Character) $76.6K 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Surviving Family Jerry Malone (Character) - 2012
88% 72% Electrick Children Tim (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet 14% Bad Parents Dan (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet 58% Sweet Little Lies Roach (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet 44% The Green Leo (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Scientist Dr. Marcus Ryan (Character) - 2010
57% 62% Boy Wonder Terry Donovan (Character) - 2010
82% 56% Handsome Harry Pauley (Character) $22.9K 2009
50% 20% The New Twenty Robert Cameron (Character) $16.1K 2009
35% 54% Tennessee Roy (Character) - 2008
37% 0% If I Didn't Care Unknown (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet 63% Heavens Fall Thomas Knight, Jr. (Character) - 2006
41% 33% The Girl From Monday Jack (Character) - 2005
No Score Yet 67% Shooting Vegetarians Prosecutor (Character) - 2005
86% 89% Mysterious Skin Coach (Character) $697.2K 2004
No Score Yet 73% The Maldonado Miracle Lyle (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 21% Sin Cal Brody (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 73% Stray Dogs Myers Carter (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet 20% Grownups Chuck (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet 70% Evenhand Officer Ted Morning (Character) - 2002
33% 55% Desert Saints Agent Davis (Character) - 2000
14% 45% Double Parked Karl Severson (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 11% On the Borderline Dean (Character) - 2000
73% 71% Urbania Chuck (Character) $1.0M 2000
68% 85% American Psycho David Van Patten (Character) $15.0M 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet American Psycho (Uncut Version) Unknown (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rock the Boat Jon (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Getting Off Matt Devlin (Character) - 1998
76% 77% High Art Arnie (Character) $1.9M 1998
No Score Yet 43% Somewhere in the City Justin (Character) $7.0K 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cost of Living Converse (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Hunt for CM24 Jacob Hoffstader (Character) - 1997
15% 26% Boys Officer Bill Martone (Character) $513.8K 1996
73% 72% Flirt Unknown (Character) $271.8K 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Affair Play Unknown (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 56% Two Plus One Mark (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rift Tom (Character) - 1993
92% 89% Simple Men Dennis McCabe (Character) $141.6K 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Theory of Achievement Unknown (Character) - 1991

TV

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No Score Yet 61% Bull Thomas Krenell (Guest Star) 2022
No Score Yet 84% Magnum P.I. Elliot Hamler (Guest Star) 2021
81% 81% Power Sammy (Guest Star) 2017
95% 89% Elementary Jake Picardo (Guest Star) 2014
78% 83% Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Bobby Masconi (Guest Star) 2014
96% 93% White Collar Unknown (Guest Star) 2013
92% 78% Person of Interest Reddy (Guest Star) 2012
81% 88% Nurse Jackie Bill (Guest Star) 2010-2011
No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Unknown (Guest Star) 2009
No Score Yet 84% NCIS Reed Talbot (Guest Star) 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cashmere Mafia Unknown (Guest Star) 2008
No Score Yet 93% Numb3ers Scott Winnard (Guest Star) 2006
No Score Yet 72% Third Watch Unknown (Guest Star) 2004
No Score Yet 72% Law & Order: Criminal Intent Unknown (Guest Star) 2004
73% No Score Yet The Handler Unknown (Guest Star) 2003
No Score Yet 80% CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Frank McBride (Guest Star) 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Strange World Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Melrose Place Drew Mackenzie (Guest Star) 1998
70% 80% Sex and the City Kurt Harrington (Guest Star) 1998