| Worked with father in Texas oil fields before entering Harvard |
1960 | Won a scholarship to attend St. Mark's prep school in Dallas, TX |
1969 | Landed first acting job on Broadway ten days after arriving in New York City in John Osborne's play "A Patriot For Me" |
1969 | Starred in Sal Mineo's controversial off-Broadway production "Fortune and Men's Eyes" |
1970 | Feature film debut, "Love Story" |
1971 | Appeared in the Broadway production "Four on a Garden" with Carol Channing and Sid Caesar |
1971 | Played Dr. Mark Toland on the ABC daytime serial drama "One Life to Live" |
1972 | Played a leading role in the low-budget Canadian feature "Eliza's Horoscope" |
1974 | Cast as Stephen Daedalus in "Ulysses in Nighttown" co-starring Zero Mostel |
1976 | First lead in a Hollywood feature, "Jackson County Jail" |
1976 | TV-movie debut, the pilot for the ABC-TV series "Charlie's Angels" |
1977 | First TV miniseries, "The Amazing Howard Hughes" (CBS), in which he played the title role |
1982 | Played the lead role of convicted killer Gary Gillmore in acclaimed NBC miniseries "The Executioner's Song" |
1982 | Returned to TV after five years in feature films to act in an HBO production of the play "The Rainmaker" |
1989 | First film with director Andrew Davis, "The Package" |
1989 | Played Woodrow F. Call in the four-part CBS miniseries "Lonesome Dove" |
1991 | Renewed his prominence in Hollywood features after his performance in the controversial Oliver Stone-directed hit film "JFK" |
1993 | Offered an Academy Award-winning performance as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in "The Fugitive" |
1994 | Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
1995 | Debut as director and screenwriter (written with J T Allen), the TV-movie, "Good Old Boys" (TNT); also starred |
1997 | Teamed with Will Smith for smash hit "Men in Black" |
1998 | Reprised "Fugitive" role of Sam Gerard in "U.S. Marshals" |
1999 | Appeared as a parole officer to Ashley Judd in the hit "Double Jeopardy" |
2000 | Starred with Samuel L Jackson in "Rules of Engagement" |
2002 | Reprised role of Agent K opposite Smith in sequel "Men in Black II" |
2003 | Starred in the action feature "The Hunted" |
2005 | Feature directing debut, "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada"; also starred and co-produced |
2006 | Cast in Robert Altman's ensemble feature "A Prairie Home Companion," based on Garrison Keilor's radio program |
2007 | Played a Local Sheriff in the Coen brothers' "No Country For Old Men" |
2007 | Played a father whose son, a soldier who recently returned from Iraq, mysteriously goes missing in "In the Valley of Elah" |
2010 | Cast alongside Ben Affleck in the recession drama "The Company Men," directed by John Wells |
2011 | Cast as Col. Chester Phillips in "Captain America: The First Avenger" |
2011 | Directed, produced, and co-starred with Samuel L. Jackson in an adaptation of "The Sunset Limited" for HBO |
2012 | Co-starred with Meryl Streep as a couple trying to bring some spark back to their marriage in "Hope Springs" |
2012 | Portrayed Pennsylvania representative Thaddeus Stevens opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" |
2012 | Reprised his role of Agent K in "Men in Black III"; re-teamed with director Barry Sonnenfeld and co-star Smith |
