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Acting

Michael Shannon

Career: Active from 1976 to 1995, with up to 2 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 8
top three billing

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: Afterward
73/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 32 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Michael Shannon Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.6, average 5.4
Scare
1.4, average 2.6
Uncanny
1.4, average 2.5
Coming of Age
2.0, average 3.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Police Procedural 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

58

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

Future Cop: Cops and Robin

as Haven

2010s

4 titles · average score 56

Möbius

58

as Alice's father

The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich

69

as Judge Clifford

Dark Shadows

51

as Board Member #2

The Raven

45

as Dr. Morgan

2000s

5 titles · average score 67

You've Got a Friend

61

as Brayton Jennings

Brothers and Sisters

70

TV show · as Tom Burgess

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

76

as President's Aide

American Gun

50

as Jerry

Boston Legal

80

TV show · as Avery Wilson

1990s

16 titles · average score 60

Hostile Waters

54

as Admiral

JAG

66

TV show · as Richard Plesac

Night Watch

48

as Martin Schraeder

as Denis Prince

Space Precinct

63

TV show · as Dr. Henry Jansen

Scarlett

65

TV show · as Maxwell

Fatherland

55

as US Ambassador

Royce

57

as Senator Scanlon

Goodnight Sweetheart

73

TV show · as Ed Murrow

In Suspicious Circumstances

TV show · as Philip Yale Drew

Merlin of the Crystal Cave

TV show · as Blackbeard

Pride and Extreme Prejudice

as Chapinski

1980s

21 titles · average score 68

Out of the Shadows

as Frank Osbourne

Red Dwarf

83

TV show · as John F. Kennedy

Death of an Angel

as Bishop Holmes

Little Shop of Horrors

80

as Television Reporter

The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story

as Senator John Tunney

Dempsey and Makepeace

70

TV show · as Conrad

Sheena

37

as Phillip Ames

The A-Team

74

TV show · as Randy Anderson

Afterward

73

as Edward Boyne

We'll Meet Again

71

TV show · as Major James Kiley

Riker

TV show · as Brice Landis

Superman II

77

as President's Aide

1970s

11 titles · average score 71

The Best Place to Be

as Patrick Callahan

Cops and Robin

as John Haven

Future Cop

TV show · as Haven

Target

TV show · as Bradley

Future Cop

as Haven

The Author of Beltraffio

as James Sinclair

Rock Follies

TV show · as Carl 'Tubes' Benson

Henry James Stories

TV show · as James Sinclair

Wonder Woman

87

TV show · as Cameron

The Hanged Man

TV show · as Milton Webber

That Lucky Touch

56

as Lt. Davis