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7	->''"There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play."''
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9	Bruce [=MacLeish=] Dern (born June 4, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor who is probably best known for playing characters who are psychopaths or SchmuckBait.
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11	Creator/LauraDern is his daughter, whom he had with his second wife Creator/DianeLadd.
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14	!!Filmography:
15	* His early film roles include ''Film/{{Marnie}}'' (where he's fatally assaulted with a fireplace poker) and ''Film/HushHushSweetCharlotte'', (where he's [[AxCrazy chopped up with an axe]]).
16	* He's probably most famous for his role in the adaptation of ''Literature/BlackSunday'', playing Michael Lander, the Vietnam Vet who becomes a terrorist and plans to blow up the UsefulNotes/SuperBowl.
17	* He also kills people to keep his space ship from being taken from forestry service in the movie ''Film/SilentRunning''.
18	* He's Creator/TomHanks' paranoid ex-military neighbor in ''Film/TheBurbs''.
19	* If you watched ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' in high school, there's a good chance it was the [[Film/TheGreatGatsby1974 1974 version]] with Dern as Tom Buchanan.
20	* He also plays a cuckolded husband to Creator/JaneFonda who has an affair with a crippled veteran in the movie ''Film/ComingHome''.
21	** And a decade earlier he and Fonda appeared together as '30s dance-marathon contestants in ''Film/TheyShootHorsesDontThey''.
22	* In 1972's ''Film/TheCowboys'', he's one of the few people to [[spoiler:kill a Creator/JohnWayne character]].
23	* In 1975's ''Film/{{Smile\|1975}}'', he plays Big Bob Freelander, used car dealer and beauty pageant judge.
24	* In ''Film/Posse1975'', he is the charismatic train robber who opposes Creator/KirkDouglas' politically ambitious USMarshal.
25	* In 1982, Dern starred in the historical film ''Film/HarryTracy'' as the title character.
26	* In the movie ''Film/MiddleAgeCrazy'' he plays a taco stand construction company owner who has fantasies of breaking out of his hum-drum life - including having sex with a wife who yells 'Bingo!' [[CallingYourOrgasms every time she climaxes]] - until he does, leasing an expensive sportscar and engaging in various flings.
27	* In Creator/AlfredHitchcock's final film, ''Film/FamilyPlot'', he's legman to a PhonyPsychic as they tangle with a kidnapper.
28	* He plays Uncle Bob in neo-FilmNoir ''Film/AfterDarkMySweet'', which is on the Roger Ebert Great Movies List.
29	* In ''Film/TheDriver'', he's the cop out to catch the titular Driver.
30	* He's the voice of Yoshio Onodera in the English dub of ''Anime/FromUpOnPoppyHill''.
31	* He featured in all five series of ''Series/BigLove'' as Bill Henrickson's abusive father, Frank.
32	* In 2013, at the age of 77, he starred in the Creator/AlexanderPayne film ''Film/{{Nebraska}}''. His performance was highly praised and earned him an Oscar nomination, as well as the Best Actor award at Cannes.
33	* At the age of 79, he played Stanford Smithers in Creator/QuentinTarantino's ''Film/TheHatefulEight''.
34	* He teamed up with Tarantino again in ''Film/OnceUponATimeInHollywood'' as George Spahn, a rancher who rented his property out to numerous western films, and then agreed to house the notorious Manson Family. He replaced Creator/BurtReynolds, who passed away shortly before filming started.
35	* In ''Film/Freaks2018'', he plays Alan, aka Mr. Snowcone, as Chloe's grandfather who introduces her to the Abnormal war

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