| Year | Film | Role |
| 2006 | A Prairie Home Companion | Axeman |
| 1988 | April Morning | Moses Cooper |
| 1981 | Back Roads | Elmore Pratt |
| 1980 | Barn Burning | Ab Snopes |
| 1995 | Batman Forever | Harvey Dent/Two-Face |
| 1986 | Black Moon Rising | Quint |
| 1994 | Blown Away | Ryan Gaerity |
| 1994 | Blue Sky | Maj. Henry ‘Hank’ Marshall |
| 1987 | Broken Vows | Pater Joseph McMahon |
| 2011 | Captain America: The First Avenger | Colonel Phillips |
| 1985 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Brick Pollitt |
| 1976 | Charlie’s Angels | Aram Kolegian |
| 1980 | Coal Miner’s Daughter | Doolittle ‘Mooney’ Lynn aka ‘Doo’ |
| 1994 | Cobb | Ty Cobb |
| 1999 | Double Jeopardy | Travis Lehman |
| 1975 | Eliza’s Horoscope | Tommy Lee |
| 1978 | Eyes of Laura Mars | John Neville |
| 1976 | Family | David Needham |
| 1990 | Fire Birds | Brad Little |
| 1988 | Gotham | Eddie Mallard |
| 2008 | Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 | Himself |
| 1993 | Heaven & Earth | Steve Butler |
| 1993 | House of Cards | Jake Beerlander |
| 2009 | In the Electric Mist | Dave Robicheaux |
| 2007 | In the Valley of Elah | Hank Deerfield |
| 1976 | Jackson County Jail | Coley Blake |
| 1991 | JFK | Clay Shaw/Clay Bertrand |
| 1973 | Life Study | Gus |
| 1989 | Lonesome Dove | Woodrow F. Call |
| 1970 | Love Story | Hank Simpson |
| 2005 | Man of the House | Roland Sharp |
| 1997 | Men in Black | Kevin Brown/Agent K |
| 2002 | Men in Black II | Kevin Brown/Agent K |
| 2012 | Men in Black III[12] | Kevin Brown/Agent K |
| 1983 | Nate and Hayes | Captain Bully Hayes |
| 1994 | Natural Born Killers | Warden Dwight McClusky |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men | Ed Tom Bell |
| 1971 | One Life to Live | Dr. Mark Toland |
| 1977 | Rolling Thunder | Corporal Johnny Vohden |
| 2000 | Rules of Engagement | Col. Hayes ‘Hodge’ Hodges |
| 1998 | Small Soldiers | Chip Hazard |
| 1976 | Smash-Up on Interstate 5 | Officer Hutton |
| Space Cowboys | William “Hawk” Hawkins | |
| 1988 | Stormy Monday | Cosmo |
| 1988 | Stranger on My Land | Bud Whitman |
| 1977 | The Amazing Howard Hughes | Howard Hughes |
| 1978 | The Betsy | Angelo Perino |
| 1987 | The Big Town | George Cole |
| 1994 | The Client | ‘Reverend’ Roy Foltrigg |
| 2010 | The Company Men | Gene McClary |
| 1981 | The Executioner’s Song | Gary Mark Gilmore |
| 1993 | The Fugitive | Marshal Samuel Gerard |
| 1995 | The Good Old Boys | Hewey Calloway |
| 2003 | The Hunted | L.T. Bonham |
| 2003 | The Missing | Samuel Jones/Chaa-duu-ba-its-iidan |
| 1989 | The Package | Thomas Boyette |
| 1986 | The Park is Mine | Mitch |
| The Rainmaker | Starbuck | |
| 1984 | The River Rat | Billy |
| 2005 | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | Pete Perkins |
| 1998 | U.S. Marshals | Chief Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard |
| 1992 | Under Siege | William Strannix |
| 1997 | Volcano | Mike Roark |
| 1986 | Yuri Nosenko, KGB | Steve Daley |