Arliss Howard

{{Short description|American actor, screenwriter, and film director (born 1954)}}

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| name = Arliss Howard

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| birth_name = Leslie Richard Howard

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|10|18}}

| birth_place = Independence, Missouri, U.S.

| other_names = Less R. Howard

| education = {{Plainlist|

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| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|screenwriter|film director}}

| years_active = 1983–present

| spouse = {{Plainlist|

Karen Mary Sellars (divorced)
{{Marriage|Debra Winger|1996}}

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| children = 2

| relatives = James Howard (brother)

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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), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), The Time Traveler's Wife (2009), Moneyball (2011), and Mank (2020).

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.{{cite news |title=Arliss Howard follows the road to Broadway |last1=Trussell |url=https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1519360&crid=f5a76c67-87cd-4350-bfae-1210bda2e588&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fnews%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A7VS6-MB70-Y9F2-50NF-00000-00&pdcontentcomponentid=145214&pdteaserkey=sr1&pditab=allpods&ecomp=gwmyk&earg=sr1&prid=e79f2c30-7dcd-49b2-845d-d6a009c1a39e |first1=Robert |work=The Kansas City Star |date=May 24, 2009 |accessdate=March 24, 2024}}

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 CableACE Awards for his roles in the television films Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture and The Man Who Captured Eichmann, winning for the former.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

In 1997, Howard portrayed billionaire John Hammond's evil nephew Peter Ludlow in the film The Lost World: Jurassic Park, 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 CBS weekly drama 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.{{cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2010/11/11/amc-cancels-rubicon/71726 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101114055323/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2010/11/11/amc-cancels-rubicon/71726 |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 14, 2010 |title=Rubicon Cancelled By AMC |website=TV by the Numbers |access-date=March 14, 2012}} The following year, Howard appeared in the feature Moneyball.{{IMDb name| id=0397124}}

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 Theatre (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.{{cite web|last=Koch |first=John |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8491019.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025201624/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8491019.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |title=Winger, Howard to appear at ART |work=The Boston Globe |date=August 5, 1998 |access-date=March 14, 2012}}{{cite web |url=http://www.amrep.org/people/arliss.html |title=Profile |website=AmRep |date=July 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011143008/http://www.amrep.org/people/arliss.html |archive-date=October 11, 2007 }} Howard was also seen as Mikhail Lvovich Astrov in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya,{{cite web |url=http://americanrepertorytheater.org/person/arliss-howard |website=American Repertory Theater |title=Arliss Howard}} and Nikolai Ivanov in Chekhov's Ivanov, with Winger playing the role of Anna.{{cite web |url=http://americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/ivanov |website=American Repertory Theater |title=Ivanov}}

Howard joined the cast of a CBS political drama pilot titled Ways & Means with Patrick Dempsey in June 2020.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2020/06/pilot-season-2020-cbs-tv-studios-pay-casts-extend-options-on-pilots-suspended-covid-19-1202954656/|title=Pilot Season 2020: CBS TV Studios Is Latest To Pay Casts & Extend Options On Pilots Suspended Due To COVID-19|date=June 9, 2020|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|work=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=June 9, 2020}}

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.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}

Filmography

= Film =

Year	Title	Role	Notes
class="wikitable" \| title= Notable Roles
1983	The Prodigal	Scott Stuart
1985	The Lightship	Eddie
1987	Full Metal Jacket	Sergeant 'Cowboy' Evans
rowspan=2\|1988	Tequila Sunrise	Gregg Lindroff
\| Plain Clothes	Nick Dunbar	Lead role
1990	Men Don't Leave	Charles Simon
1991	For the Boys	Dixie's Husband Sergeant Michael Leonard
rowspan=2\|1992	CrissCross	Joe
\| Ruby	Maxwell
rowspan=2\|1993	Wilder Napalm	Wilder Foudroyant
\| The Sandlot	Older Scotty Smalls	rowspan=2\|Uncredited
1994	Natural Born Killers	Owen Traft, Mickey & Mallory's Guardian Angel / The Demon
rowspan=2\|1995	To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar	Virgil
\| Wet	Bruce Lomann	Short film
rowspan=2\|1996	Johns	John Cardoza
\| Tales of Erotica	Bruce Lomann	Re-release of "Wet" as a segment
rowspan=2\|1997	Amistad	John C. Calhoun
\| The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Peter Ludlow
1998	The Lesser Evil	Ivan Williams
1999	A Map of the World	Paul Reverdy
2001	Big Bad Love	Barlow	Also director and writer
rowspan=2\|2004	Dandelion	Luke Mullich
\| Birth	Bob
2006	Weapons	Mikey's Uncle
2007	Awake	Dr. Jonathan Neyer
2009	The Time Traveler's Wife	Richard DeTamble
2011	Moneyball	John Henry
2015	Concussion	Dr. Joseph Maroon
2017	The Boy Downstairs	Diana's Father
rowspan=2\|2020	Lapsis	Dr. Mangold
\| Mank	Louis B. Mayer
2021	With/In: Volume 2		Segment: "Still Life"; also director and writer
2023	The Killer	Henderson "Clay" Claybourne, the Client
2024	The Thicket		Post-production

= Television =

Year	Title	Role	Notes
class="wikitable" \| title= Notable Roles
1979	The Incredible Hulk	Policeman	Episode: "The Disciple"
rowspan=3\|1983	AfterMASH	Danny Madden	Episode: "September of '53/Together Again"
\| A Killer in the Family	John Lyons	rowspan=2\|TV movie
\| The Day After	Tom Cooper
1984	Hill Street Blues	Phil Platt	Episode: "Bangladesh Slowly"
1985	The Twilight Zone	Stranger	Episode: "Healer/Children's Zoo/Kentucky Rye"
1987	Hands of a Stranger	Felix Lyttle	TV movie
1989	I Know My First Name Is Steven	Kenneth Parnell	Miniseries (uncredited)
1990	Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture	Raymond Eames	rowspan=10\|TV movie
rowspan=2\|1992	Till Death Us Do Part	Vincent Bugliosi
\| Those Secrets	Simon
1995	The Infiltrator	Ricky Eaton
rowspan=2\|1996	The Man Who Captured Eichmann	Peter Malkin
\| Beyond the Call	Keith O'Brien
1997	Old Man	J.J. Taylor
1999	You Know My Name	Wiley
2001	The Song of the Lark	Dr. Howard Archie
2003	Word of Honor	J.D. Runnells
2005	Dawn Anna	Physical Therapist	TV movie; also director
2005–2007	Medium	Captain Kenneth Push	4 episodes
2010	Rubicon	Kale Ingram	13 episodes
2013	True Blood	Truman Burrell	Season 6, main cast
2017	When We Rise	Theodore Olson	Episode: "Part IV"
2020	Manhunt: Deadly Games	Earl Embry	Main cast
2021	Mr. Corman	Larry	2 episodes

References

External links

{{IMDb name|0397124|Arliss Howard}}
{{cite news |first=Bob |last=Strauss |date=March 3, 2002 | url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/TERMS+OF+ENDURANCE+A+STRONG+MARRIAGE+HELPED+DEBRA+WINGER+AND+ARLISS...-a083463566 |title= Terms of Endurance | work=Los Angeles Daily News | publisher=via the TheFreeLibrary.com |access-date=July 25, 2016}}

Category:1954 births

Category:20th-century American male actors

Category:21st-century American male actors

Category:American male film actors

Category:American male television actors

Category:Columbia College (Missouri) alumni

Category:Living people

Category:Male actors from Missouri

Category:Writers from Independence, Missouri