- Films
- 41
- Avg rating
- 6.21
- Peak run
- 1996’99
- 7+ run
- 2 films
Every film, by IMDb rating
The career
Dot size shows IMDb votes. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes sit on the baseline.
As an actor, films with 1,000+ votes
W. by the numbers
Average
6.21
34 rated films
Vote weighted
6.32
bigger films count more
Median
6.3
half are better
Consistency
±0.88
rating spread
Career
34y
1991 to 2024
Total votes
3.1M
across every film
Best
7.7
Being John Malkovich
Worst
4.4
Pauly Shore Is Dead
Newest first
Filmography
| 2024 | Shirley | · | 6.3 | 3,804 |
| 2023 |  The Dead Don't Hurt | Alan Kendall | 6.4 | 10,741 |
| 2021 |  The Unforgivable | · | 7.2 | 130K |
| 2021 |  No Man of God | Warden Wilkenson | 6.4 | 10,621 |
| 2019 | American Sausage Standoff | Jimmy Jerry Lee Jones Jr. | · | 455 |
| 2019 |  The Highwaymen | Ivy Methvin | 6.9 | 115K |
| 2017 | The Legend of 420 | Self | · | 475 |
| 2016 | Spaceman | Dick Dennis | · | 660 |
| 2015 |  Black Mass | · | 6.8 | 204K |
| 2014 | Chasing Ghosts | Roger Simons | · | 458 |
| 2014 | After the Fall | · | 5.1 | 1,119 |
| 2014 |  Wild | Frank | 7.1 | 148K |
| 2014 |  Draft Day | · | 6.8 | 74,135 |
| 2013 | Brother's Keeper | Turner Monroe | · | 597 |
| 2013 |  Knights of Badassdom | Randy | 5.6 | 22,697 |
| 2013 |  A Single Shot | Puffy | 5.7 | 12,498 |
| 2013 | Beneath the Harvest Sky | · | 6.1 | 1,148 |
| 2012 |  The Sessions | Rod | 7.2 | 45,213 |
| 2012 |  The Master | · | 7.1 | 204K |
| 2010 | Bloodworth | Brady Bloodworth | 6.1 | 2,133 |
Better together?
W. Earl Brown's regulars
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers. Acting pairs here count billed roles (an actor in a director's top six, co-stars both in the top five); each duo page counts every film they made together in those roles.
Films together: Peter Spirer and W. Earl Brown movies
Takes
On W. Earl Brown
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