Jason Patric

John Anthony Miller III (born June 17, 1966), better known by his stage name Jason Patric is an American film, television and stage actor. His father was actor/playwright Jason Miller, and his maternal grandfather was actor/comedian Jackie Gleason. He made his acting debut in the TV movie Toughlove (1985), with Lee Remick, Bruce Dern, and Piper Laurie; followed by his theatrical debut in Solarbabies (1986), with Richard Jordan, Jami Gertz, Lukas Hass, James LeGros, Peter DeLuise, Adrian Pasdar, Sarah Douglas, and Charles Durning. His other known films of the 1980s include Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys (1987), with Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, Gertz, Corey Feldman, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Billy Wirth, Brooke McCarter, Alex Winter, Jamison Newlander, and Barnard Hughes; and The Beast (1988), with George Dzundza, Steven Bauer, Stephen Baldwin, Don Harvey, and Erick Avari.

Films in the early 1990s include Denial (1990), with Robin Wright, Barry Primus, Christine Harnos, Rae Dawn Chong, Elizabeth Bracco, Rosalind Chao, Chris Mulkey, David Duchovny, and Justin Whalin; After Dark, My Sweet (1990), with Rachel Ward, Dern, and George Dickerson; Roger Corman’s Frankenstein Unbound (1990), with John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda, Catherine Rabett, Michael Hutchence, and Nick Brimble; Rush (1991), with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sam Elliott, Max Perlich, Gregg Allman, and Tony Frank; Walter Hill’s Geronimo: An American Legend (1993), with Wes Studi, Robert Duvall, Gene Hackman, Matt Damon, Kevin Tighe, Mark Boone Junior, Scott Wilson, and Stephen McHattie; and John Duigan’s The Journey of August King (1995), with Thandiwe Newton, Larry Drake, and Sam Waterston.

Films in the mid to late 1990s include Barry Levinson’s Sleepers (1996), with Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Bruno Kirby, Brad Pitt, Brad Renfro, Minnie Driver, and Vittorio Gassman; Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997), with Sandra Bullock, Willem Dafoe, Temuera Morrison, and Glenn Plummer; John Badham’s Incognito (1997), with Irene Jacob, Ian Richardson, Rod Steiger, and Ian Holm; and Neil LaBute’s Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), with Amy Brenneman, Aaron Eckhart, Catherine Keener, Nastassja Kinski, and Ben Stiller.

Films in the 2000s include Joe Carnahan’s Narc (2002), with Ray Liotta, Chi McBride, and Busta Rhymes; John Lee Hancock’s The Alamo (2004), with Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Patrick Wilson, Jordi Mollà, and Emilio Echevarría; Walker Payne (2006), with Drea de Matteo, KaDee Strickland, Sam Shepard, and Dern; Expired (2007), with Samantha Morton, Illeana Douglas, and Teri Garr; and uncredited appearance in Shortcut to Happiness (2007), with Alec Baldwin (who also directed), Jennifer Love Hewitt, Anthony Hopkins, Dan Aykroyd, Kim Cattrall, and Amy Poehler; In the Valley of Elah (2007), with Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Susan Sarandon, Jonathan Tucker, James Franco, Josh Brolin, Frances Fisher, and Zoe Kazan; Downloading Nancy (2008), with Maria Bello, Rufus Sewell, and Brenneman; and Nick Cassavetes’s My Sister’s Keeper (2009, with Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Baldwin, Sofia Vassilieva, and Joan Cusack.

Films in the 2010s include The Losers (2010), with Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Evans, Zoe Saldaña, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, and Óscar Jaenada; Guy Maddin’s Keyhole (2011), with Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier, Kevin McDonald, and Brooke Palsson; Cavemen (2013), with Skylar Astin, Camilla Belle, Chad Michael Murray, Dayo Okeniyi, Alexis Knapp, and Kenny Wormald; The Outsider (2014), with Fairbrass, James Caan, Shannon Elizabeth, Melissa Ordway, and Johnny Messner; The Prince (2014), with Bruce Willis, John Cusack, Rain, Jessica Lowndes, Johnathon Schaech, Gia Mantegna, and 50 Cent; short film The Weight of Blood and Bones (2015), with Danny Trejo, Rose McGowan, Keith David, and Martin Copping; and. The Abandoned (2015), with Louisa Krause and Mark Margolis.

Films in the mid to late 2010s include Home Invasion (2016), with Scott Adkins, Natasha Henstridge, William Dickinson, Kyra Zagorsky, and Michael Rogers; Lost & Found (2016), with Justin Kelly, Benjamin Stockham, and Cary Elwes; The Yellow Birds (2017), with Tye Sheridan, Alden Ehrenreich, Toni Collette, Jack Huston, and Jennifer Aniston; Gangster Land (2017), with Sean Faris, Milo Gibson, Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Peter Facinelli; TV movie The Girl in the Bathtub (2018), with Caitlin Stasey, Kate Craven, and Linda Ko; Runt (2019), with Cameron Boyce, Nicole Elizabeth Berger, Aramis Knight, Cyrus Arnold, Tichina Arnold, Brianna Hildebrand, and Aydin Etehadi; and Big Kill (2019), with Christopher Sanders, Michael Paré, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Trejo.

Films in the 2020s include The Vanished (2020), with Thomas Jane, Anne Heche, and Facinelli (who also directed); Becoming (2020), with Toby Kebbell and Penelope Mitchell; Burning at Both Ends (2021), with Elwes, Greer Grammer, Sebastian Roché, Judd Hirsch, Mira Furlan, and Gilles Marini; Nightshade (2022), with Lou Ferrigno Jr., Dina Meyer, Thyme Lewis, James Duval, Tim Russ, and B.J. Britt; MK Ultra (2022), with Anson Mount, Jaime Ray Newman, Alon Aboutboul, and Jen Richards; City of Dreams (2023), with Ari Lopez, Renata Vaca, Alfredo Castro, Paulina Gaitan, Diego Calva, and Samm Levine; Shrapnel (2023), with Cam Gigandet; Til Death Do Us Part (2023), with Gigandet, Natalie Burn, Orlando Jones, and Ser’Darius Blain; and a voice role in Strange Darling (2023), with Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Madisen Beaty, Steven Michael Quezada, Ed Begley Jr., and Barbara Hershey.

More films in the 2020s include Murder at Hollow Creek (2024), with Mickey Rourke, Penelope Ann Miller, Casper Van Dien, Perry Reeves, Kelli Price, Jack Kesy, Tiffany Hines, and Jessica Lotd; A Circus Tale & a Love Song (2024), with Demián Bichir (who also directed), Eva Longoria, Stefanie Sherk, Diane Kruger, and Jorge Perugorría; Damien Leone’s Terrifier 3 (2024), with David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Elliott Fullam, and Samantha Scaffidi; Armor (2024), with Sylvester Stallone, Josh Wiggins, and Dash Mihok; and A Line of Fire (2025), with David A.R. White, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Katrina Bowden.

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

Toughlove (1985) – directed by Glenn Jordan – TV movie
Solarbabies (1986) – directed by Alan Johnson
The Lost Boys (1987)** – directed by Joel Schumacher
The Beast (1988) – directed by Kevin Reynolds
Denial (1990) – directed by Erin Dignam
After Dark, My Sweet (1990) – directed by James Foley
Frankenstein Unbound (1990) – directed by Roger Corman
Rush (1991) – directed by Lili Fini Zanuck
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) – directed by Walter Hill
The Journey of August King (1995) – directed by John Duigan
Sleepers (1996) – directed by Barry Levinson
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) – directed by Jan de Bont
Incognito (1997) – directed by John Badham
Your Friends & Neighbors (1998) – directed by Neil LaBute – also producer
Narc (2002) – directed by Joe Carnahan
Three Days of Rain (2002) – directed by Michael Meredith – uncredited extra
The Alamo (2004) – directed by John Lee Hancock
Walker Payne (2006) – directed by Matt Williams
Expired (2007) – directed by Cecilia Miniucchi
Shortcut to Happiness (2007) – directed by Alec Baldwin – uncredited
In the Valley of Elah (2007) – directed by Paul Haggis
Downloading Nancy (2008) – directed by Johan Renck
My Sister’s Keeper (2009) – directed by Nick Cassavetes
The Losers (2010)* – directed by Sylvain White
Keyhole (2011) – directed by Guy Maddin
Cavemen (2013) – directed by Herschel Faber
The Outsider (2014) – directed by Brian A. Miller
The Prince (2014) – directed by Brian A. Miller
The Weight of Blood and Bones (2015) – directed by Chris Ekstein – short
The Abandoned (2015) – directed by Eytan Rockaway
Home Invasion (2016) – directed by David Tennant
Lost & Found (2016) – directed by Joseph Itaya
The Yellow Birds (2017) – directed by Alexandre Moors
Gangster Land (2017) – directed by Timothy Woodward Jr.
Jitters (2018) – directed by Otoja Abit – short
The Girl in the Bathtub (2018) – directed by Karen Moncrieff – TV movie
Runt (2019) – directed by William Coakley
Big Kill (2019) – directed by Scott Martin
The Vanishing (2020) – directed by Peter Facinelli
Becoming (2020) – directed by Omar Naim
Burning Both Ends (2021) – directed by Matthew Hill & Landon Johnson
Nightshade (2022) – directed by Landon Williams
Void (2022) – directed by Jon Munoz – short
MK Ultra (2022) – directed by Joseph Sorrentino
City of Dreams (2023) – directed by Mohit Ramchandani
Shrapnel (2023) – directed by William Kaufman
Strange Darling (2023) – directed by JT Mollner – voice cameo
Murder at Hollow Creek (2024) – directed by Jason Lipper
A Circus Tale & a Love Song (2024) – directed by Demián Bichir
Terrifier 3 (2024) – directed by Damien Leone
Armor (2024) – directed by Justin Routt
A Line of Fire (2025) – directed by Matt Shapira
Man of War (2026) – directed by William Kaufman

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