William McNamara
Highest Rated: 90% Opera (1987)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
Birthday: Mar 31, 1965
Birthplace: Dallas, Texas, USA
With his wholesome good looks, the stage-trained McNamara has often played baby-faced 'boy-next-door' types in features and on TV. His parents sent him to boarding school in an effort to stymie his interest in acting, but McNamara won out. He spent a summer as an intern at the prestigious Williamstown Theater Festival before landing his first feature role in the youth-oriented drama "The Beat" (1987). He went on to appear as a younger version of Mark Harmon in "Stealing Home" (1988), Trini Alvarado's suitor in "Stella" and Jeff Bridges' chip-off-the-block profligate son in "Texasville" (both 1990) and a pivotal role in "Copycat" (1995). McNamara appears as a Hollywood star who, after joining the R.A.F. as a publicity stunt, is captured and held in an Irish prisoner of war camp in the WWII-era drama "The Brylcreem Boys," and as an adoptee who seeks revenge on his birth parents in "Natural Enemy" (both scheduled for release in 1996).
Photos
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Epitaph | Nick (Character) | - | 2025 |
0% | 24% | Dead Man's Hand | Johnny (Character) | - | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Angels Fallen: Warriors of Peace | Roman (Character) | - | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mojave Diamonds | Jason David (Character) | - | 2023 |
20% | 38% | Blowback | Unknown (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Raunch and Roll | Don (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nowheresville | Agent Gallagher (Character) | - | 2020 |
0% | 11% | The 2nd | Jalil (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Christmas High Note | Brad (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wrong Stepfather | Mr. Crane (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Honeymoon in Paradise | Ben Shalks (Character) | - | 2020 |
17% | 82% | Rottentail | Jake Mulligan (Character) | $3.4K | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wrong Tutor | Mr. Lloyd (Character) | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wrong Cruise | Pat (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Wedding for Christmas | Frank (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 0% | Left for Dead | Dean (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Imagination Land | Victor (Voice) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 82% | Opus of an Angel | Stephen (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 40% | Nun | Dr. Ernest Hancock (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Bradshaw (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 90% | I Believe | Robert (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 0% | Space Guardians | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Jungle Tales | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Down on the Farm | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 0% | Easter Bunny Adventure | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 17% | The Wrong Student | Detective Andrade (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 20% | Running Away | Richard (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 12% | The Wrong Roommate | Mark (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 16% | The Secrets of Emily Blair | Mr. Regan (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Star Paws | General Ruff (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Enemy Within | Solano (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 60% | Fishes 'n Loaves: Heaven Sent | Jimmy Watkins (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 74% | Last Man Club | Joe Scanlin (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Medusa | Dr. Gleason (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 96% | Beyond the Farthest Star | Calvin Clayman (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dry | Dr. Brown (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Truth | Luke Mezrich (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | 15% | High School Exorcism | Reverend Young (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | 48% | Cut! | Bryan Wolff (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | 13% | Day of the Mummy | Jack Wells (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | 14% | Doc Holliday's Revenge | Doc Holliday (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Devil's Dozen | Unknown (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Stepbrother Is a Vampire? | Gordon (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 11% | Ambushed | Agent Waters (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 7% | The Bleeding | Dan Williams (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | April Moon | David (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Dance for Bethany | James Fisher (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Iron Man | Gerard (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 60% | American Black Beauty | Wilford (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McBride: Murder Past Midnight | Tony Harriman (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 17% | Time Lapse | Clayton Pirce (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 60% | Trapped | C. Whitmore Evans (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Knockout | Michael DeMarco (Character) | $127.9K | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Just Sue Me | Daniel (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paper Bullets | Laurence McCoy (Character) | - | 1999 |
0% | No Score Yet | Implicated | Tom Baker (Character) | - | 1998 |
21% | 18% | Ringmaster | Troy Davenport (Character) | $9.2M | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Something to Believe In | Mike (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | 66% | Sweet Jane | Stan Bleeker (Character) | $967 | 1998 |
No Score Yet | 36% | The Deli | Kevin (Character) | - | 1997 |
40% | 38% | Stag | Jon DiCapri (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Glam | Sonny Daye (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | 39% | Natural Enemy | Jeremy Harper (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | 59% | Dead Girl | Damon (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Snitch | Unknown (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Brylcreem Boys | Sam Gunn (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | 43% | Storybook | Prince Arthur (Character) | - | 1995 |
76% | 64% | Copycat | Peter Foley (Character) | $31.3M | 1995 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story | Unknown (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girl in the Cadillac | Rick Davis (Character) | - | 1995 |
33% | 21% | Chasers | Eddie Devane (Character) | $1.3M | 1994 |
No Score Yet | 38% | Radio Inside | Matthew Anderson (Character) | - | 1994 |
32% | 48% | Surviving the Game | Derek Wolfe Jr (Character) | $7.7M | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sworn to Vengeance | Michael Burke (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Doing Time on Maple Drive | Matt Carter (Character) | - | 1992 |
22% | 67% | Aspen Extreme | Todd Pounds (Character) | $7.9M | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Honor Thy Mother | Chris (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Wildflower | Sammy Perkins (Character) | - | 1991 |
29% | 76% | Stella | Pat Robbins (Character) | $20.1M | 1990 |
59% | 46% | Texasville | Dickie Jackson (Character) | $1.9M | 1990 |
9% | 67% | Dream a Little Dream | Joel (Character) | $5.0M | 1989 |
20% | 79% | Stealing Home | Teenage Billy Wyatt (Character) | $7.3M | 1988 |
90% | 79% | Opera | Stefano (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Beat | Billy Kane (Character) | $4.6K | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Secret of the Sahara | Philip (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Amber Road | James (Character) | - | 0000 |
TV
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47% | 80% | The Astronaut Wives Club | Robert Kennedy (Guest Star) | 2015 |
83% | 93% | NYPD Blue | Richard Pencava (Guest Star) | 2005 |
78% | 81% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Detective Sam Bishop (Guest Star) | 2003 |
62% | No Score Yet | Beggars and Choosers | Brad Advail (Character) | 1999-2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hunger | Unknown (Character) | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Outer Limits | Kimble (Guest Star) | 1999 |
35% | 80% | Brimstone | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Welcome to Paradox | Unknown (Character) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perversions of Science | Unknown (Character) | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story | Montgomery Clift (Character) | 1995 |