Like a lot of directors, the Coen brothers have a selection of actors that they use time and time again. A repertory company if you like. Or a family. Whatever you call them they can't seem to get enough of working with the Coens. Below you will find all of the Coen brother's movies and all the actors, from this most select group, who have appeared in them. You can also sort the list by actor by clicking on the button below. Have a nice time researching the Coen genealogy.
HOLLY HUNTER - Voice, uncredited
GEORGE IVES - Mortimer Young from Forever Young Film Preservation (2001 re-issue introduction)
WILLIAM PRESTON ROBERTSON - Radio Evangelist (voice)
M. EMMET WALSH - Private Detective Loren Visser
HOLLY HUNTER - Edwina McDonnough
WARREN KEITH - Younger FBI Agent
WILLIAM PRESTON ROBERTSON - Amazing Voice (voice)
M. EMMET WALSH - Machine Shop Ear-Bender
MICHAEL BADALUCCO - Caspar's Driver
JOHN McCONNELL - Cop - Brian
FRANCES McDORMAND - Mayor's Secretary (uncredited)
JON POLITO - Johnny Caspar
SAM RAIMI - Snickering Gunman
MIKE STARR - Frankie
MARIO TODISCO - Calrence "Drop" Johnson
JOHN TURTURRO - Bernie Bernbaum
RICHARD WOODS - Mayor Dale Lavender
JOHN GOODMAN - Charlie Meadows, Karl "Madman" Mundt
I.M. HOBSON - Derek
JOHN MAHONEY - W.P. Mayhew
JON POLITO - Lou Breeze
TONY SHALHOUB - Ben Geisler
JOHN TURTURRO - Barton Fink
HARRY BUGIN - Aloysius
STEVE BUSCEMI - Beatnik Barman at Anne's 440
BRUCE CAMPBELL - Smitty, Argus Reporter
CHARLES DURNING - Waring Hudsucker
JOHN GOODMAN - Rockwell Newsreel Announcer (as Karl Mundt)
I.M. HOBSON - Board Member
JOHN MAHONEY - Chief Editor of the Manhattan Argus
JON POLITO - Mr. Bumstead
SAM RAIMI - Hudsucker Brainstormer
PETER SIRAGUSA - Newsreel Reporter
MIKE STARR - Newsroom Reporter
MARIO TODISCO - Norville's Goon
RICHARD WOODS - Board Member
STEVE BUSCEMI - Carl Showalter
BRUCE CAMPBELL - Soap Opera Actor (on TV)
WARREN KEITH - Reilly Diefenbach
FRANCES McDORMAND - Marge Gunderson
WILLIAM PRESTON ROBERTSON - Meat Dinner MC (voice, uncredited)
PETER STORMARE - Gaear Grimsrud
HARRY BUGIN - Arthur Digby Sellers
JOHN GOODMAN - Walter Sobchack
GEORGE IVES - Mortimer Young from Forever Young Film Preservation (2005 Collector's Edition DVD introduction)
WARREN KEITH - Funeral Director
JON POLITO - DaFino, the private snoop
WILLIAM PRESTON ROBERTSON - giggle, howls, marmots (voice)
PETER SIRAGUSA - Gary the Bartender
PETER STORMARE - Nihilist #1, Ulee Kunkel / Karl Hungus
JOHN TURTURRO - Jesus Quintana
MICHAEL BADALUCCO - George "Babyface" Nelson
GEORGE CLOONEY - Ulysses Everett McGill
CHARLES DURNING - Governor Menelaus "Pappy" O'Daniel
JOHN GOODMAN - Big Dan Teague
HOLLY HUNTER - Penny Wharvey McGill
JENNIFER JASON LEIGH - voice of the "Little Man" (voice, uncredited)
JOHN McCONNELL - Woolworth's Manager
STEPHEN ROOT - Radio Station Man
JOHN TURTURRO - Pete Hogwallop
MICHAEL BADALUCCO - Frank Rappo
GEORGE IVES - Lloyd Garroway (lawyer)
RICHARD JENKINS - Walter Abundas
JENNIFER JASON LEIGH - female prisoner cries (voice, uncredited)
FRANCES McDORMAND - Doris Crane
JON POLITO - Creighton Tolliver (the Pansy)
PETER SIRAGUSA - Bartender
TONY SHALHOUB - Freddy Reidenschneider
BRUCE CAMPBELL - Soap Opera Actor (on TV)
GEORGE CLOONEY - Miles Massey
GEORGE IVES - Mr. Gutman's Lawyer
RICHARD JENKINS - Freddy Bender
BILLY BOB THORNTON - Howard D Doyle
BRUCE CAMPBELL - Humane Society Worker
JOHN McCONNELL - Deputy Sheriff
STEPHEN ROOT - Mr. Gudge
J.K. SIMMONS - Garth Pancake
STEPHEN ROOT - Man Who Hires Wells
GEORGE CLOONEY - Harry Pfarrer
RICHARD JENKINS - Ted Treffon
FRANCES McDORMAND - Linda Litzke

 

 

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