As Actor
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | The Silver Chalice | Basil | |
| 1955 | Producer's Showcase: Our Town | George Gibbs | |
| 1956 | Somebody Up There Likes Me | Rocky Graziano | Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Foreign Actor |
| The Rack | Capt. Edward W. Hall Jr. | ||
| 1957 | The Helen Morgan Story | Larry Maddux | |
| Until They Sail | Capt. Jack Harding | ||
| 1958 | The Long, Hot Summer | Ben Quick | Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival) |
| The Left Handed Gun | Billy the Kid | ||
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Brick Pollitt | Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—Golden Laurel Award Top Male Dramatic Performance |
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| Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! | Harry Bannerman | ||
| 1959 | The Young Philadelphians | Anthony Judson Lawrence | |
| 1960 | From the Terrace | David Alfred Eaton | |
| Exodus | Ari Ben Canaan | ||
| 1961 | The Hustler | Eddie Felson | BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Golden Laurel Award Top Male Dramatic Performance Mar del Plata Film Festival Best Actor Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama |
| Paris Blues | Ram Bowen | ||
| 1962 | Sweet Bird of Youth | Chance Wayne | Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama |
| Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man | Ad Francis, "The Battler" | Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture | |
| 1963 | Hud | Hud Bannon | Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama |
| A New Kind of Love | Steve Sherman | ||
| The Prize | Andrew Craig | ||
| 1964 | What a Way to Go! | Larry Flint | |
| The Outrage | Juan Carrasco | ||
| 1965 | Lady L | Armand Denis | |
| 1966 | Harper | Lew Harper | |
| Torn Curtain | Prof. Michael Armstrong | directed by Alfred Hitchcock | |
| 1967 | Hombre | John Russell | |
| Cool Hand Luke | Luke Jackson | Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama Nominated—Golden Laurel Award Top Male Dramatic Performance |
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| 1968 | The Secret War of Harry Frigg | Pvt. Harry Frigg | |
| 1969 | Winning | Frank Capua | |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Butch Cassidy | Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—Golden Laurel Award Top Male Dramatic Performance |
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| 1970 | WUSA | Rheinhardt | |
| 1971 | Sometimes a Great Notion | Hank Stamper | |
| Once Upon a Wheel (1971 TV program) | Himself | Winner: World Television Festival Award,
Winner: Best International Sports Documentary |
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| 1972 | Pocket Money | Jim Kane | |
| The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | Judge Roy Bean | ||
| 1973 | The Mackintosh Man | Joseph Rearden | |
| The Sting | Henry Gondorff | ||
| 1974 | The Towering Inferno | Doug Roberts | |
| 1975 | The Drowning Pool | Lew Harper | |
| 1976 | Silent Movie | Himself | |
| Buffalo Bill and the Indians | William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody | ||
| 1977 | Slap Shot | Reggie "Reg" Dunlop | |
| 1979 | Quintet | Essex | |
| 1980 | When Time Ran Out... | Hank Anderson | |
| 1981 | Fort Apache, The Bronx | Murphy | |
| Absence of Malice | Michael Colin Gallagher | Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor | |
| 1982 | Come Along with Me | TV | |
| The Verdict | Frank Galvin | David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama |
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| 1984 | Harry & Son | Harry Keach | |
| 1986 | The Color of Money | Fast Eddie Felson | Academy Award for Best Actor National Board of Review Award for Best Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor |
| 1989 | Fat Man and Little Boy | Gen. Leslie R. Groves | |
| Blaze | Gov. Earl K. Long | ||
| 1990 | Mr. and Mrs. Bridge | Walter Bridge | |
| 1993 | La Classe américaine | Dave | in redubbed archive footage only |
| 1994 | The Hudsucker Proxy | Sidney J. Mussburger | |
| Nobody's Fool | Donald J. "Sully" Sullivan | Silver Berlin Bear Award for Best Actor (Berlin) National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role |
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| 1998 | Twilight | Harry Ross | |
| 1999 | Message in a Bottle | Dodge Blake | Nominated—Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actor – Drama/Romance |
| 2000 | Where the Money Is | Henry Manning | |
| 2001 | "The Blunder Years" (The Simpsons episode) | Himself | voice |
| 2002 | Road to Perdition | John Rooney | Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture |
| 2003 | Our Town | Stage Manager | Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie |
| 2005 | Empire Falls | Max Roby | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or a Movie Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television |
| Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D | Dave Scott | voice | |
| 2006 | Cars | Doc Hudson/Hudson Hornet | voice |
| 2007 | Dale | Narrator | voice |
| 2008 | The Meerkats | Narrator | voice |
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