A ruggedly handsome, blue-eyed, versatile actor, often in brooding, aggressive roles, Tom Berenger came to attention as the self-effacing Tom Selleck-like TV star in Lawrence Kasdan's "The Big Chill" (1983) and also headlined that year's "Eddie and the Cruisers", a film that subsequently acquired enough of a cult following to warrant a 1989 sequel in which he did not appear. With his classically handsome features criss-crossed by a huge ugly scar, he received acclaim and an Oscar nomination for his performance as the battle-hardened Sergeant Barnes in Oliver Stone's "Platoon" (1986) and then went on to star as a happily married NYC cop who becomes infatuated with the wealthy and beautiful woman (Mimi Rogers) he must protect from a death threat in Ridley Scott's "Someone to Watch Over Me" (1987).

Originally intending to pursue a career in journalism, Berenger began acting while attending the University of Missouri and moved to New York City to learn his craft. Working Off-Broadway and in touring companies led to a stint on the ABC daytime soap "One Life to Live". His first significant feature role as Gary Cooper White, the psychopathic killer of "Looking for Mr. Goodbar", came fast on the heels of his feature debut in "The Sentinel" (both 1977), but his first starring vehicle, "In Praise of Older Women" (1978), cast him in the underdeveloped role of a Hungarian stud recalling two decades' worth of conquests. Berenger fared better as the young Butch Cassidy in Richard Lester's "Butch and Sundance: The Early Years" (1979) and as a gentle singing cowboy in "Rustler's Rhapsody" (1985), but it would take the success of "Platoon" to really jump-start his career as a leading man.

Berenger proved forceful and properly unpredictable as the vulnerable macho white supremacist leader in Constantin Costa-Gavras' "Betrayed" (1988) before taking on the role of veteran catcher Jake Taylor in the popular baseball comedy "Major League" (1989), a part he would reprise in "Major League II" (1994). He projected the smoldering charisma of a young Brando as the half-breed Cheyenne mercenary who goes all but naked once he joins the natives in Hector Babenco's "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" (1991), adapted from the 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen, a richly involving adventure pitting modern man against the fierce and rude clarity of his primeval self. He also appeared in several Hollywood genre films working with a younger generation of leading men: Billy Zane in "Sniper" and William Baldwin in "Sliver" (both 1993).

One of Berenger's best feature performances was as Confederate General James Longstreet in the Turner Pictures presentation of "Gettysburg" (1993), and he reached back to the turn of the century to portray Teddy Roosevelt in the TNT original movie "Rough Riders" (1997), which he also produced. He played a tracker on the trail of prison escapees in "Last of the Dogmen" (1995) and a mercenary-turned-substitute teacher in "The Substitute" (1996). 1998 saw Berenger as Pete Randle in Robert Altman's "The Gingerbread Man" and as the star of "One Man's Hero", the story of a group of Irish immigrants who fled to Mexico and fought for their adopted country as the St Patrick Brigade in the Mexican-American War. He earned an Emmy nomination as the amorous plumber who claims Kirstie Alley's heart in the final two episodes of the long-running NBC comedy series "Cheers" in 1993.

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  "Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King" (2006) (mini) TV Series (pre-production) .... Richard Kinnell (segment "The Road Virus Heads North")
Firedog (2005) (filming) (voice) .... Einstein

"Into the West" (2005) (mini) TV Series .... Colonel J. Chivington
Detective (2005) (TV) .... Malcolm Ainslie
... aka Arthur Hailey's Detective (USA: complete title)
Sniper 3 (2004) (V) .... Thomas J. Beckett
Capital City (2004) (TV) .... Sen. Foxworthy
"Peacemakers" (2003) TV Series .... Marshal Jared Stone
Sniper 2 (2002) (TV) .... Thomas Beckett
... aka Sniper II (USA: video box title)
The Junction Boys (2002) (TV) .... Paul 'Bear' Bryant
"Johnson County War" (2002) (mini) TV Series .... Cain Hammett
D-Tox (2002) .... Hank
... aka D-Tox (Australia)
... aka Eye See You (USA: video title)
... aka Im Auge der Angst (Germany)
True Blue (2001) .... Rem Macy
The Hollywood Sign (2001) .... Tom Greener
... aka Himmel von Hollywood, Der (Germany)
Training Day (2001) .... Stan Gursky
Watchtower (2001) .... Art Stoner
... aka Cruel and Unusual (Australia) (USA: DVD title)
... aka Aux aguets (Canada: French title)
Cutaway (2000) (TV) .... Red Line
Takedown (2000) .... McCoy Rollins
... aka Track Down (USA: DVD box title)
Fear of Flying (2000) .... Robert Sikes
... aka Turbulence II: Fear of Flying (UK) (USA: closing credits title)
... aka Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying (UK: cable TV title)

In the Company of Spies (1999) (TV) .... Kevin Jefferson
Diplomatic Siege (1999) .... Gen. Buck Swain
One Man's Hero (1999) .... Sgt./Lt./Capt. John Riley
... aka Batallón de San Patricio, El (Mexico)
... aka Héroes sin patria (Spain)
... aka Herois sense pàtria (Spain: Catalan title)
A Murder of Crows (1999) (V) .... Clifford Dubose
Shadow of Doubt (1998) .... ADA Jack Campioni
... aka Reasonable Doubt
The Gingerbread Man (1998) .... Pete Randle
Rough Riders (1997) (TV) .... Theodore Roosevelt
An Occasional Hell (1996) .... Dr. Ernest Dewalt
The Substitute (1996) .... Jonathan Shale
Last of the Dogmen (1995) .... Lewis Gates
Body Language (1995) (TV) .... Gavin St. Claire
The Avenging Angel (1995) (TV) .... Miles Utley
Chasers (1994) .... Rock Reilly
Major League II (1994) .... Jake Taylor
Gettysburg (1993) .... Lt. Gen. James Longstreet
Sliver (1993) .... Jack Lansford
... aka Sliver - Gier der Augen
Sniper (1993) .... Thomas Beckett
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991) .... Lewis Moon
Shattered (1991) .... Dan Merrick
The Field (1990) .... Peter, 'The Yank'
Love at Large (1990) .... Harry Dobbs

Born on the Fourth of July (1989) .... Recruiting Gunnery Sgt. Hayes
Major League (1989) .... Jake Taylor
Last Rites (1988) .... Father Michael Pace
Betrayed (1988) .... Gary Simmons
Shoot to Kill (1988) .... Jonathan Knox
... aka Deadly Pursuit (UK)
Someone to Watch Over Me (1987) .... Det. Mike Keegan
Platoon (1986) .... SSgt. Bob Barnes
"If Tomorrow Comes" (1986) (mini) TV Series .... Jeff Stevens
Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985) .... Rex O'Herlihan
... aka Esos locos cuatreros (Spain)
Fear City (1984) .... Matt Rossi
... aka Border
... aka Ripper
Eddie and the Cruisers (1983) .... Frank Ridgeway
The Big Chill (1983) .... Sam
Oltre la porta (1982) .... Matthew
... aka Behind the Door
... aka Beyond Obsession (USA: video title)
... aka Beyond the Door (USA)
... aka Jail Bird
... aka The Secret Beyond the Door
The Dogs of War (1981) .... Drew

Flesh & Blood (1979) (TV) .... Bobby Fallon
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979) .... Butch Cassidy/aka Robert Leroy Parker
In Praise of Older Women (1978) .... Andras Vayda
... aka En hommage aux femmes de trente ans (Canada: French title)
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye (1977) (TV) .... Billy Sutton
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) .... Gary
The Sentinel (1977) .... Man at end
Rush It (1976) .... Richard Moore
"One Life to Live" (1968) TV Series .... Timothy "Timmy/Tim" Seigel #2 (1975-1976)