Bill Camp on screen and stage
American actor
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Bill Camp is an American actor of the stage and screen. He is known for his extensive character actor roles since 1989 acting in a revival of William Shakespeare's romance Twelfth Night at the Public Theater. He made his film acting debut in the legal thriller Reversal of Fortune (1990).
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Camp continued to take roles in films such as the drama Rounders (1998), the crime drama Public Enemies (2009), the independent drama Compliance (2012), the prohibition drama Lawless (2012), the historical drama Lincoln (2012), the historical drama 12 Years a Slave (2013), the musical drama Love & Mercy (2015), the drama Black Mass (2015), the historical drama Loving (2016), the action film Jason Bourne (2016), the psychological drama The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), the crime thriller Molly's Game (2017), the drama Wildlife (2018), the political satire Vice (2018), the superhero film Joker (2019), the western News of the World (2020), and the drama Passing (2021).
On television, he started his career with recurring roles in the NBC police procedural series Law & Order (1999–2004), the FX legal drama Damages (2006), the drama series Manhattan (2014–2015), and the HBO supernatural drama series The Leftovers (2015–2017). For his role as a Detective Sergeant in the HBO crime drama miniseries The Night Of (2016), he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award. He played a custodian and chess mentor in the Netflix period drama miniseries The Queen's Gambit (2020) he was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award.
Recently he had recurring roles in the Hulu miniseries The Looming Tower (2018), the HBO horror-crime series The Outsider (2020), the Netflix legal drama miniseries A Man in Full (2024), the Apple TV+ legal drama series Presumed Innocent (2024), the Netflix political miniseries Zero Day (2025), and the Netflix melodrama miniseries Sirens (2025). In 2025 he portrayed J. P. Morgan in the HBO period drama series The Gilded Age.
Film
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Great Performances | Marcellus / Sailor / Player | Episode: "Hamlet" |
| 1994 | New York Undercover | Bronski | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 1995 | New York News | Performer | Episode: "Past Imperfect" |
| 1999–2004 | Law & Order | Denny Rogis / Barney Rade | 2 episodes |
| 2000 | The Great Gatsby | Wilson | TV movie |
| 2003 | Joan of Arcadia | Painter God | Episode: "St. Joan" |
| 2005 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Mickey | Episode: "Acts of Contrition" |
| 2008 | Brotherhood | Agent Jarvis | 3 episodes |
| 2011 | Boardwalk Empire | Glenmore | Episode: "Gimcrack & Bunkum" |
| 2011 | The Good Wife | Daniel Clove | Episode: "Parenting Made Easy" |
| 2012 | Damages | Samurai Seven/Hacker | 6 episodes |
| 2014–15 | Manhattan | William Hogarth | 5 episodes |
| 2015–17 | The Leftovers | David Burton | 4 episodes |
| 2016 | The Night Of | Dennis Box | Miniseries, 8 episodes |
| 2018 | The Looming Tower | Robert Chesney | Miniseries, 8 episodes |
| 2018 | The First | Aaron Shultz | Episode: "Collisions" |
| 2020 | The Outsider | Howard Salomon | Miniseries, 10 episodes |
| 2020 | Forensic Files II | Narrator | Succeeding Peter Thomas |
| 2020 | Monsterland | Stan | Episode: "New York, New York" |
| 2020 | The Queen's Gambit | Mr. Shaibel | Miniseries, 4 episodes |
| 2021 | American Rust | Henry English | Main role, 9 episodes |
| 2024 | A Man in Full | Harry Zane | Miniseries, 6 episodes |
| 2024 | Presumed Innocent | Raymond Horgan | 8 episodes |
| 2025 | Zero Day | Director Jeremy Lasch | Miniseries, 5 episodes |
| 2025 | Sirens | Bruce DeWitt | Miniseries, 5 episodes |
| 2025 | The Gilded Age | J. P. Morgan | 3 episodes |
| 2025 | The American Revolution | Capt. Jabez Fitch (voice) | Episode: "The Times That Try Men's Souls (July 1776 - January 1777)" |
Theatre
| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Walter | Delacorte Theatre, Off-Broadway | [3] |
| 1989 | Titus Andronicus | Chiron | Delacorte Theatre, Off-Broadway | [3] |
| 1990 | Hamlet | Marcellus/Lord/Sailor | The Public Theatre, Off-Broadway | [3] |
| 1991 | Light Shining in Buckinghamshire | Performer | Perry Street Theatre, Off-Broadway | [3] |
| 1992 | The Seagull | Konstantin Treplev (understudy) | Lyceum Theatre, Broadway | [3] |
| 1993 | Saint Joan | Gilles de Rais | Lyceum Theatre, Broadway | [3] |
| 1995 | Troilus and Cressida | Paris | Delacorte Theatre, Off-Broadway | [3] |
| 1996 | Measure for Measure | Duke | Theatre at St. Clement's, Off-Broadway | [3] |
| 1997 | One Flea Spare | Bunce | The Public Theatre, Off-Broadway | [3] |
| 1997 | The Devils | Performer | New York Theatre Workshop, Off-Broadway | [3] |
| 1997–98 | Jackie | Various | Belasco Theatre, Broadway | [3] |
| 2000 | Lydie Breeze, Parts I & II | Joshua Hickman | New York Theatre Workshop, Off-Broadway | [3] |
| 2001 | Homebody/Kabul | Quango Twistleton | New York Theatre Workshop, Off-Broadway | [3] |
| 2006 | Soar Throats | Jack | Duke on 42nd Street, Off-Broadway | [3] |
| 2006 | Heartbreak House | Boss Mangan | American Airlines Theatre, Broadway Revival | [3] |
| 2007 | Coram Boy | Otis Gardner | Imperial Theatre, Broadway | [3] |
| 2007 | The Misanthrope | Alceste | New York Theatre Workshop, Off-Broadway | [3] |
| 2007 | 4 Beckett Shorts | Performer | New York Theatre Workshop, Off-Broadway | [3] |
| 2009 | Still Life | Voice | Lucille Lortel Theatre, Off-Broadway | [3] |
| 2011 | The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide | Adam | The Newman Theatre, Off-Broadway | [3] |
| 2012 | Death of a Salesman | Charley | Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway | [3] |
| 2016 | The Crucible | Reverend John Hale | Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway | [3] |
| 2022 | Long Day's Journey into Night | James Tyrone Sr. | Minetta Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway | [4] |