Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | The Face of Rage | Fred | TV film |
| Chiefs | Newt 'Tub' Murray | Miniseries | |
| Heart of Steel | Raymond Bohupinsky | TV film | |
| 1987 | Murder Ordained | Hugh Rayburn | |
| The Equalizer | Harold Winter | Episode: "Re-Entry" | |
| Moonlighting | Donald Chase | Episode: "Come Back Little Shiksa" | |
| 1988–1997 | Roseanne | Dan Conner | 221 episodes Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series – Comedy/Musical (1993) American Comedy Award for Funniest Male Performer in a TV Series (Leading Role) (1989,1990) Nominated, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (1989–1995) Nominated, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy (1989–1991) Nominated, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series (1994) |
| 1995 | Kingfish | Huey P. Long | TV Film |
| 1996 | Muppets Tonight | Himself | Season 1, Episode 4 |
| 1999 | Now and Again | Michael Wiseman | Episode: "Origins" |
| 1999 | The Simpsons | Meathook (voice) | Episode: "Take My Wife, Sleaze" |
| 1999 | Futurama | Robot Santa (voice) | Episode: "Xmas Story" |
| 2000 | Normal, Ohio | William "Butch" Gamble | 13 Episodes |
| 2001 | When Dinosaurs Roamed America | Narrator | Discovery Channel Documentary |
| 2003–2004 | The West Wing | Glen Allen Walken | Four Episodes |
| 2004 | Father of the Pride | Larry | 15 episodes |
| 2004–2005 | Center of the Universe | John Barnett | 10 episodes |
| 2006 | Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip | Judge Bobby Bebe | Episodes: "Nevada Day: Part I & II" Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series |
| 2007 | King of the Hill | Tommy | Episode: "SerPUNt" |
| 2010 | You Don't Know Jack | Neal Nicol | Nominated – Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Mini Series or Movie Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie |
| 2010–2011 | Treme | Creighton Bernette | 11 episodes |
| 2011 | Damages | Howard T. Erickson | Season 4 |
| 2011-2012 | Community | Vice Dean Robert Laybourne | 6 episodes |
| 2012 | Dancing on the Edge | TBA | |
| SpongeBob SquarePants | Santa Claus (voice) | Episode: "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" |
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)
“Addison DeWitt: Your next move, it seems to me, should be toward television.
Miss Caswell: Tell me this. Do they have auditions for television?
Addison DeWitt: That’s all television is, my dear. Nothing but auditions.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)
“His [O.J. Simpson’s] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see the photographs of the crime scene and the great blackening pools of blood seeping into the sidewalk? Did battered women watch all this on television and realize more vividly than ever before that their lives were cheap and their pain inconsequential?”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)