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Best Kurtwood Smith movies

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TOP 25: Broken Arrow

Kurtwood Smith as: Secretary of Defense Baird
Genre: Action
Release: 1996
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.


TOP 24: Fortress

Kurtwood Smith as: Prison Director Poe
Genre: Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
Release: 1992
In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause pain or death. John (Christopher Lambert) and his illegally pregnant wife Karen (Loryn Locklin) are locked inside "The Fortress" but are determined to escape before the birth of their baby.

TOP 23: Rambo III

Kurtwood Smith as: Griggs
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, War
Release: 1988
Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.


TOP 22: Turbo

Kurtwood Smith as: Indy CEO
Genre: Animation, Family
Release: 2013
The tale of an ordinary garden snail who dreams of winning the Indy 500.


TOP 21: Deep Impact

Kurtwood Smith as: Otis Hefter
Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction
Release: 1998
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.

TOP 20: Flashpoint

Kurtwood Smith as: Carson
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 1984
Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. Before they decide whether to keep the money or report it, they privately investigate the clues and unravel a decades old mystery.


TOP 19: True Believer

Kurtwood Smith as: Robert Reynard
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 1989
Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.


TOP 18: Oscar

Kurtwood Smith as: Lt. Toomey, Chicago PD
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1991
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise.

TOP 17: Hitchcock

Kurtwood Smith as: Geoffrey Shurlock
Genre: Drama
Release: 2012
Following his great success with "North by Northwest," director Alfred Hitchcock makes a daring choice for his next project: an adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel "Psycho." When the studio refuses to back the picture, Hitchcock decides to pay for it himself in exchange for a percentage of the profits. His wife, Alma Reville, has serious reservations about the film but supports him nonetheless. Still, the production strains the couple's marriage.


TOP 16: The Crush

Kurtwood Smith as: Cliff Forrester
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 1993
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.


TOP 15: To Die For

Kurtwood Smith as: Earl Stone
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime
Release: 1995
Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.

TOP 14: Citizen Ruth

Kurtwood Smith as: Norm Stoney
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Release: 1996
"Citizen Ruth" is the story of Ruth Stoops, a woman who nobody even noticed -- until she got pregnant. Now, everyone wants a piece of her. The film is a comedy about one woman caught in the ultimate tug-of-war: a clash of wild, noisy, ridiculous people that rapidly dissolves into a media circus.


TOP 13: Quick Change

Kurtwood Smith as: Russ Crane / Lombino
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Release: 1990
With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out of the city and to the airport. It sounds simple enough, but it seems that fate deserts them immediately after the bank heist. One mishap after another conspires to keep these robbers from reaching freedom.


TOP 12: Prefontaine

Kurtwood Smith as: Curtis Cunningham
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1997
It's the true-life story of legendary track star Steve Prefontaine, the exciting and sometimes controversial "James Dean of Track," whose spirit captured the heart of the nation! Cocky, charismatic, and tough, "Pre" was a running rebel who defied rules, pushed limits ... and smashed records ...


TOP 11: Shadows and Fog

Kurtwood Smith as: Vogel's Follower
Genre: Thriller, Comedy
Release: 1991
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

TOP 10: Last of the Dogmen

Kurtwood Smith as: Sheriff Deegan
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Release: 1995
A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him. Later with a female Native Indian history professor, he returns to find some answers.


TOP 9: 12:01 PM

Kurtwood Smith as: Myron Castleman
Genre: Science Fiction
Release: 1990
12:01 PM is a 1990 short film directed by Jonathan Heap and starring Kurtwood Smith. It follows Myron Castleman, an everyman who keeps repeating the same hour of his life, from 12:01 PM to 1:00 PM. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.


TOP 8: Green Lantern: First Flight

Kurtwood Smith as: Kanjar Ro (voice)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Release: 2009
Test pilot Hal Jordan finds himself recruited as the newest member of the intergalactic police force, The Green Lantern Corps.


TOP 7: Heart and Souls

Kurtwood Smith as: Patterson (uncredited)
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Romance
Release: 1993
A businessman is reunited with the four lost souls who were his guardian angels during childhood, all with a particular purpose to joining the afterlife.


TOP 6: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Kurtwood Smith as: Federation President
Genre: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release: 1991
After years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an apparent attack from the Enterprise. Both worlds brace for what may be their dealiest encounter.

TOP 5: RoboCop

Kurtwood Smith as: Clarence Boddicker
Genre: Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
Release: 1987
In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.


TOP 4: A Time to Kill

Kurtwood Smith as: Stump Sisson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1996
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.


TOP 3: Girl, Interrupted

Kurtwood Smith as: Dr. Crumble
Genre: Drama
Release: 1999
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.


TOP 2: Regular Show: The Movie

Kurtwood Smith as: Gene
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction, TV Movie
Release: 2015
To save the universe, and their friendship, Mordecai and Rigby must defeat an evil volleyball coach.


TOP 1: Dead Poets Society

Kurtwood Smith as: Mr. Perry
Genre: Drama
Release: 1989
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

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