Arliss Howard

 ( 1954 Births ) 

Leslie Richard " Arliss" Howard (born October 18, 1954) is an American actor, screenwriter, and film director. He is known for his roles in the films Full Metal Jacket (1987), Tequila Sunrise (1988), (1997), The Time Traveler's Wife (2009), Moneyball (2011), and Mank (2020).

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Early life and education Howard is a native of Independence, Missouri. He received an English literature degree from Columbia College. Before committing to acting, Howard worked in the Wyoming oil industry, on a New Mexico ranch, and lived in Hawaii.

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Career Howard established his career with roles in the films Full Metal Jacket, Men Don't Leave, Ruby, and Natural Born Killers. He was nominated for two for his roles in the television films Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture and The Man Who Captured Eichmann, winning for the former.

In 1997, Howard portrayed billionaire John Hammond's evil nephew Peter Ludlow in the film , and U.S. Vice President John C. Calhoun in the film Amistad; both films were directed by Steven Spielberg.

Howard has had a recurring role in the NBC weekly drama thriller series Medium and has directed several episodes. He also starred in and directed the films Big Bad Love and Dawn Anna, both co-written with James Howard, his brother. Howard's wife, Debra Winger, starred in both films. In 2010, he played Kale Ingram, a benignly duplicitous supervisor at an American intelligence agency, in the TV series Rubicon, which was canceled by AMC after 13 episodes. The following year, Howard appeared in the feature Moneyball.

Howard has extensive stage credits, including a role in the 2009 revival of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone on Broadway. He has appeared in several productions at the American Repertory Theater (ART) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, including Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive, with Winger, and Bertolt Brecht's In the Jungle of the Cities, directed by Robert Woodruff. Howard was also seen as Mikhail Lvovich Astrov in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, and Nikolai Ivanov in Chekhov's Ivanov, with Winger playing the role of Anna.

Howard joined the cast of a CBS political drama pilot titled Ways & Means with Patrick Dempsey in June 2020.

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Personal life Howard is married to actress Debra Winger. He has two sons, Sam (born 1987) from his previous marriage to talent agent Karen Sellars, and Gideon "Babe" (born 1997) with Winger.

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Filmography

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Film

Lead role
Uncredited
	Owen Traft, Mickey & Mallory's Guardian Angel / The Demon
Short film
Re-release of "Wet" as a segment
Also director and writer
Segment: "Still Life"; also director and writer
Post-production

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Television

Episode: "The Disciple"
Episode: "September of '53/Together Again"
TV movie
	Tom Cooper
Episode: "Bangladesh Slowly"
Episode: "Healer/Children's Zoo/Kentucky Rye"
TV movie
Miniseries (uncredited)
TV movie
	Vincent Bugliosi
	Simon
	Ricky Eaton
	Peter Malkin
	Keith O'Brien
	J.J. Taylor
	Wiley
	Dr. Howard Archie
	J.D. Runnells
TV movie; also director
4 episodes
13 episodes
Season 6, main cast
Episode: "Part IV"
Main cast
2 episodes

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