Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Paradise Alley | Mumbles | |
| 1981 | Wolfen | Drunken Bar Owner | uncredited |
| 1982 | One from the Heart | Trumpet player | uncredited |
| 1983 | The Outsiders | Buck Merrill | |
| Rumble Fish | Benny | ||
| 1984 | The Stone Boy | Petrified man at carnival | uncredited |
| The Cotton Club | Irving Stark | ||
| 1986 | Down by Law | Zach | |
| 1987 | Ironweed | Rudy | |
| 1988 | Greasy Lake | Narrator | video |
| Candy Mountain | Al Silk | ||
| 1989 | Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale | Silva | |
| Cold Feet | Kenny | ||
| Mystery Train | Radio D.J. (voice) | ||
| 1990 | The Two Jakes | Plainclothes Policeman | uncredited |
| 1991 | At Play in the Fields of the Lord | Wolf | |
| The Fisher King | Disabled Veteran | uncredited | |
| Queens Logic | Monte | ||
| 1992 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | R.M. Renfield | |
| 1993 | Short Cuts | Earl Piggot | |
| 1995 | Coffee and Cigarettes III | Tom | short film |
| 1999 | Mystery Men | Doc Heller | |
| 2003 | Coffee and Cigarettes | Tom | |
| 2005 | Domino | Wanderer | |
| 2005 | The Tiger and the Snow (film) | Himself | |
| 2006 | Wristcutters: A Love Story | Kneller | |
| 2009 | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Mr. Nick | |
| 2010 | The Book of Eli | Engineer | |
| 2011 | The Monster of Nix | Virgil | short film |
| Twixt | Narrator | ||
| 2012 | Seven Psychopaths | Zachariah | |
| 2014 | Pinocchio | pre-production |
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