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James Franco

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Spider-Man 2

2004
as Harry Osborn

Spider-Man

2002
as Harry Osborn

Spider-Man 3

2007
as Harry Osborn / New Goblin

11.22.63

2016
as Jake Epping

The Deuce

2017
as Vincent & Frankie Martino

The Holiday

2006
as Himself

This Is the End

2013
as Himself

Eat Pray Love

2010
as David

Sausage Party

2016
as Druggie (voice)

The Disaster Artist

2017
as Tommy Wiseau

Freaks and Geeks

1999
as Daniel Desario

127 Hours

2010
as Aron Ralston

Why Him?

2016
as Laird Mayhew

Knocked Up

2007
as Himself

The Little Prince

2015
as The Fox (voice)

The Interview

2014
as Dave Skylark

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

2018
as Cowboy (segment "Near Algodones")

Homefront

2013
as Gator

Pineapple Express

2008
as Saul Silver

Date Night

2010
as Taste

The Green Hornet

2010
as Danny Crystal Cleer

True Story

2015
as Christian Longo

Whatever It Takes

2000
as Chris Campbell

Palo Alto

2014
as Mr. B

Nights in Rodanthe

2008
as Mark Flanner

Milk

2008
as Scott Smith

The Adderall Diaries

2016
as Stephen Elliott

A Fuller Life

2013
as Himself - Reader (segment "Copy Boy")

The Wicker Man

2006
as Bar Guy #1

The Sound and the Fury

2015
as Benjy Compson

Shadows & Lies

2010
as William Vincent

Interview

2007
as Boyfriend on Phone (voice)

Saturday Night

2010
as Himself

In Dubious Battle

2017
as Mac McLeod

I Am Michael

2015
as Michael Glatze

The Institute

2017
as Dr. Cairn

The Vault

2017
as Ed Mass

Burn Country

2016
as Lindsay

Yosemite

2016
as Phil

Francophrenia

2012
as Franco

Playtime

2013
as The Art Dealer

High School Lover

2017
as Rick Winters

Erased James Franco

2009
as James Franco

Queen of the Desert

2015
as Henry Cadogan

Maladies

2013
as James

Obituaries

2014
as Felix Mitchum

Goat

2016
as Mitch

The Company

2003
as Josh

Camille

2008
as Silias

Mother Ghost

2002
as Skateboarder guy

The Long Home

as Dallas Hardin

Annapolis

2006
as Jake Huard

Tristan & Isolde

2006
as Tristan

Blind Spot

2003
as Danny

Howl

2010
as Allen Ginsberg

Deuces Wild

2002
as Tino

The Color of Time

2012
as C.K. Williams (age 40)

The Ape

2005
as Harry Walker

The Dead Girl

2006
as Derek

What is Cinema?

2013
as James Franco

James Dean

2001
as James Dean

About Cherry

2012
as Francis

Actors Anonymous

2017
as Jake Lamont

Flyboys

2006
as Blaine Rawlings

Wild Horses

2015
as Ben Briggs

Zeroville

2019
as Vikar

The Letter

2012
as Tyrone

King Cobra

2016
as Joe Kerekes

Sal

2011
as Milton Katselas

14 Actors Acting

2010
as James Franco

F for Franco

2015
as James Franco

Lovelace

2013
as Hugh Hefner

Future World

2018
as Warlord

Your Highness

2011
as Fabious

Vanity Fair: Killers Kill, Dead Men Die

2007
as The Unsuspecting Husband

Killing Animals

2015
as Mr. Hurston

The Iceman

2012
as Marty Freeman

The Broken Tower

2012
as Hart Crane

The Great Raid

2005
as Captain Prince

Kin

2018
as Taylor Balik

Lennon or McCartney

2014
as Himself (archive footage)

At Any Cost

2000
as Mike

Sonny

2002
as Sonny

In the Valley of Elah

2007
as Sergeant Carnelli

Call Me Lucky

2015
as Himself

Bunny-Man

2025
as Austin Boyd

As I Lay Dying

2013
as Darl Bundren

Blood Ride

2017
as Billy

Good People

2014
as Tom Reed

Child of God

2014
as Jerry

Third Person

2013
as Rick

The Labyrinth

2017
as Narrator (voice)

Arctic Dogs

2019
as (voice)

Memoria

2016
as Mr. Wyckoff

Pretenders

2019
as Maxwell

Blood Heist

2017
as Farmer Simon

Director

Movie The Disaster Artist 2017
Movie The Sound and the Fury 2015
Movie Tenn 2017
Movie Black Dog, Red Dog 2017
Movie Saturday Night 2010
Episode The Deuce
They Can Never Go Home
2019
Episode 11.22.63
The Truth
2016
Movie In Dubious Battle 2017
Movie The Institute 2017
Episode The Deuce
This Trust Thing
2019
Movie Francophrenia 2012
Movie Venice 70: Future Reloaded 2013
Movie The Long Home
Movie The Ape 2005
Movie The Clerk's Tale 2010
Episode The Deuce
The Principle Is All
2017
Movie I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel 2014
Movie Good Time Max 2008
Movie Herbert White 2010
Movie My Own Private River 2011
Episode The Deuce
Au Reservoir
2017
Movie Zeroville 2019
Movie Sal 2011
Movie Interior. Leather Bar. 2013
Movie Future World 2018
Movie The Broken Tower 2012
Movie 42 One Dream Rush 2010
Movie The Feast of Stephen 2009
Movie As I Lay Dying 2013
Movie Child of God 2014
Movie Pretenders 2019
Movie Masculinity & Me 2010

Writer

Movie Black Dog, Red Dog 2017
Movie Yosemite 2016
Movie Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? 2016
Movie The Clerk's Tale 2010
Movie The Ape 2005
Movie Good Time Max 2008
Movie Herbert White 2010
Movie Sal 2011
Movie Actors Anonymous 2017
Movie Mississippi Requiem 2018
Movie Killing Animals 2015
Movie The Broken Tower 2012
Movie The Feast of Stephen 2009
Movie As I Lay Dying 2013
Movie Child of God 2014
Movie Masculinity & Me 2010
Movie Age of the Moon 2016

Producer

Movie Why Him? 2016
Movie The Interview 2014
Movie The Disaster Artist 2017
Movie The Director 2013
Movie Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha 2015
Movie The Labyrinth 2017
Movie The Adderall Diaries 2016
Movie I Am Michael 2015
Movie Yosemite 2016
Movie In Dubious Battle 2017
Movie The Institute 2017
Movie High School Lover 2017
Movie Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? 2016
Movie Goat 2016
Movie A Walk in Winter 2015
Movie The Ape 2005
Movie The Color of Time 2012
Movie Kink 2013
Movie King Cobra 2016
Movie Interior. Leather Bar. 2013
Movie Mississippi Requiem 2018
Movie Future World 2018
Movie The Broken Tower 2012
Movie Miss Famous 2015
Movie Almost Not Beautiful 2015

Guest Star

Episode The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
James Franco, Meghan McCain, Far East Movement and Jaywalk!
2010
Episode Pacific Blue
Matters of the Heart
1997
Episode Durch die Nacht mit...
James Franco und Frank Bidart
2011
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
James Franco, Kendall Jenner, Pete Townshend, Alfie Boe
2017
Episode MTV After Hours
Sundance Film Festival Bloopers w/ Lena Dunham, Sarah Silverman & More
2014
Episode Angie Tribeca
Organ Trail
2016
Episode Angie Tribeca
Boyz II Dead
2016
Episode Saturday Night Live
James Franco/Muse
2009
Episode Late Show with David Letterman
James Franco, Royal Bangs
2011
Episode Late Show with David Letterman
James Franco; Andrew Borracchini; Ed Sheeran
2013
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
James Franco, Michael Stipe, Gad Elmaleh
2016
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
James Franco, Octavia Spencer, Brooklynn Prince, BTS
2017
Episode Deadbeat
The Polaroid Flasher
2015
Episode Variety: Actors on Actors
Episode 3
2018
Episode Angie Tribeca
The Coast Is Fear
2016
Episode Naked and Afraid
Franco and Rogen
2014
Episode Today
December 14, 2010
2010
Episode Saturday Night Live
James Franco/SZA
2017
Episode Conan (2010)
A Time to Kill Time
2013
Episode Epic Meal Time
Korean BBQ Lasagna
2014
Episode The Academy Awards
The 83rd Academy Awards 2011
2011
Episode Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
James Franco
2013
Episode The Colbert Report
James Franco
2013
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
James Franco, Niall Horan
2017
Episode The Colbert Report
James Franco
2011
Episode The Mindy Project
All My Problems Solved Forever…
2013
Episode The Mindy Project
The Other Dr. L
2013
Episode Late Show with David Letterman
James Franco, Dianna Agron, Christina Perri
2011
Episode The X-Files
Surekill
2001
Episode 30 Rock
Klaus and Greta
2010
Episode Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Spring Break Anthem
2013
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
James Franco, Dave Franco, Hanson
2017
Episode Late Show with David Letterman
Ray Romano; James Franco
2013
Episode Saturday Night Live
James Franco/Nicki Minaj
2014
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
James Franco, Chadwick Boseman, Jenny Lewis
2014
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
James Franco; Nigella Lawson; Fall Out Boy
2013
Episode The ONE Show
James and Dave Franco
2017
Episode Conan (2010)
And The Wind Whispered “Balls”
2011
Episode Today
August 1, 2011
2011
Episode Conan (2010)
The One Where Andy Goes Full-On Rob Ford
2013
Episode Late Show with David Letterman
James Franco, Bruce McCall, The Allstarz
2008
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
James Franco; Snoop Lion
2013
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
James Franco, Andy Cohen, Larry Webster, Jake Bugg
2014
Episode The Daily Show
James Franco
2011
Episode Hamish and Andy's Gap Year
Episode 2
2011
Episode Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars
2014
Episode Saturday Night Live
James Franco/Kings of Leon
2008
Episode The Colbert Report
James Franco
2014