James Franco filmography

James Franco is smiling towards the camera.
Franco at the Austin Film Festival in 2011

James Franco is an American actor and filmmaker. He began acting on television, guest-starring in Pacific Blue (1997). He landed his breakthrough role in the comedy-drama television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000).[1] After his film debut in Never Been Kissed (1999),[2] Franco won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film and was nominated for Screen Actors Guild Award and Primetime Emmy Award in the same categories for playing the eponymous actor in the 2001 television biopic James Dean.[3] He went on to play Harry Osborn in the superhero film Spider-Man (2002), and reprised the role in its sequels Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007). For the last of the three, he garnered a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor.[4] His only screen appearance of 2003 was in the ballet film The Company. Franco directed and starred in the comedy The Ape (2005).

After playing one of the title roles in the romantic drama Tristan & Isolde (2006), Franco starred in the Tony Bill-directed war drama Flyboys (2006). Two years later, he played against type in the action-comedy film Pineapple Express, and earned critical acclaim for portraying Scott Smith in the biographical film Milk alongside Sean Penn.[5][6] For the former, he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Comedy.[7] Franco portrayed the trapped canyoneer Aron Ralston in 127 Hours (2010), a survival drama, which earned him nominations for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award, all for Best Actor.[8] Franco appeared in four films in 2011, including the poorly-received fantasy film Your Highness,[9] and the science fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), a critical and commercial success.[10]

Franco had six roles in 2012 none of which had much success except the crime-comedy film Spring Breakers, in which he played a gangster to highly positive reviews.[11] The following year, Franco played the title role in the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful, and the disaster film This Is the End saw him play a fictional version of himself. For the first one, he was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor - Fantasy.[12] Also in 2013, he directed and starred in the drama As I Lay Dying. He starred in the action thriller Good People (2014), an adaptation of Marcus Sakey's 2008 novel of the same name.[13] In the 2014 controversial satirical comedy The Interview, he was seen as a journalist instructed to assassinate a North Korean leader.[14] He had nine film releases in 2015, most of which failed financially except the animated film The Little Prince, a modest commercial success.[15] In 2017, Franco directed and starred in The Disaster Artist as Tommy Wiseau, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Film

Key
† Denotes works that have not yet been released

As actor

Year Title Role Notes Ref(s)
1999 Never Been Kissed Jason Way [16]
2000 Whatever It Takes Chris Campbell [17]
If Tomorrow Comes Devin [18]
2001 Mean People Suck Casey Mitchell Short film [19]
2002 Spider-Man Harry Osborn [20]
Deuces Wild Tino Verona [21]
Mother Ghost Skateboarder Guy [22]
Sonny Sonny Phillips [23]
City by the Sea Joey LaMarca [24]
2003 The Company Josh Williams [25]
2004 Spider-Man 2 Harry Osborn [26]
2005 The Ape Harry Walker [25]
The Great Raid Cpt. Robert Prince [27]
Fool's Gold Brent [28]
2006 Tristan & Isolde Prince Tristan [29]
Annapolis Jake Huard [30]
The Wicker Man Bar Guy #1 [27]
Flyboys Blaine Rawlings [31]
The Dead Girl Derek [32]
The Holiday Himself Uncredited cameo [33]
2007 An American Crime Andy Gordon [34]
Interview Voice on phone Voice, cameo [35]
Finishing the Game Rob Force [36]
Knocked Up Himself Uncredited cameo [37]
Spider-Man 3 Harry Osborn / New Goblin [38]
Good Time Max Max [39]
In the Valley of Elah Sergeant Dan Carnelli [40]
2008 Camille Silas Parker [41]
Pineapple Express Saul Silver [42]
Nights in Rodanthe Dr. Mark Flanner Uncredited [43]
Milk Scott Smith [44]
2010 Howl Allen Ginsberg [45]
Date Night Tom "Taste" Felton [46]
Shadows and Lies William Vincent [47]
Eat Pray Love David Piccolo [48]
127 Hours Aron Ralston [49]
Love & Distrust Travis Segment: "Grasshopper" [50]
2011 The Green Hornet Danny "Crystal" Clear Uncredited cameo [51]
Your Highness Prince Fabious [52]
The Broken Tower Hart Crane [53]
Rise of the Planet of the Apes Will Rodman [54]
Sal Milton Katselas [55]
2012 About Cherry Francis [56]
Maladies James [57]
The Iceman Marty Freeman [58]
Spring Breakers Alien [59]
The Letter Tyrone [60]
The Color of Time (aka Tar) C. K. Williams [61]
2013 Interior. Leather Bar. Himself [62]
Lovelace Hugh Hefner [63]
Oz the Great and Powerful Oscar Diggs [64]
As I Lay Dying Darl Bundren [65]
This Is the End Himself [66]
Palo Alto Mr. B Based on his own book [67]
Child of God Jerry [68]
Third Person Richard "Rick" Weiss [69]
Homefront Morgan "Gator" Bodine [70]
2014 Veronica Mars Himself Uncredited cameo [71]
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Will Rodman [72]
Good People Tom Wright [73]
The Sound and the Fury Benjy Compson [74]
The Interview Dave Skylark [75]
2015 Don Quixote:
The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha 		Pasamonte [76]
True Story Christian Longo [77]
Yosemite Phil [78]
I Am Michael Michael Glatze [79]
Queen of the Desert Henry Cadogan [80]
Every Thing Will Be Fine Tomas Eldan [81]
Wild Horses Ben Briggs [82]
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards Conrad [83]
The Adderall Diaries Stephen Elliott [84][85][86]
The Little Prince The Fox Voice [87]
Memoria Mr. Wyckoff [88]
The Night Before Himself
2016 Goat Mitch
Sausage Party Druggie Voice [89]
King Cobra Joseph "Joe" Kerekes [90]
Burn Country Lindsay [91]
The Caged Pillows David Del Rosario Voice, short film [92]
In Dubious Battle Mac McLeod [93][94]
Why Him? Laird Mayhew [95]
2017 The Labyrinth Narrator Voice [96]
The Institute Dr. Cairn [97]
Actors Anonymous Jake Lamont [98]
The Show Male Host [99]
The Disaster Artist Tommy Wiseau [100]
Alien: Covenant – Prologue: Last Supper Jacob Branson Short film [101]
Alien: Covenant Uncredited cameo [102]
Don't Come Back from the Moon Roman Smalley [103]
The Vault Ed Maas [104]
The Mad Whale Edward Fry [105]
2018 Future World The Warlord [106]
Kin Taylor Balik [107]
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Cowboy Segment: "Near Algodones" [108]
The Pretenders Maxwell [109]
2019 Zeroville Ike "Vikar" Jerome [110][111]
Arctic Dogs Lemmy Voice [112]
2024 The Price of Money: A Largo Winch Adventure Ezio Burntwood

[113]

Hey Joe † Dean Barry
TBA Kill the Czar † TBA Post-production
The Long Home † Dallas Hardin Post-production
Alina: La Hija Rebelde † Fidel Castro Post-production

[114][115]

The Policeman † TBA Post-production [116]

As director

Year Title Credited as Notes Ref(s)
Director Writer Producer
2005 The Ape Yes Yes Executive [25]
Fool's Gold Yes Yes No [28]
2007 Good Time Max Yes Yes No [117]
2009 The Feast of Stephen Yes Yes No Short film [118]
2010 Saturday Night Yes No No Documentary [119]
2011 The Broken Tower Yes Yes Yes Also editor, created for Franco's thesis project at NYU. [53][120]
Sal Yes Story No [55]
My Own Private River Yes No No Re-contextualized version of My Own Private Idaho
Also editor and composer 		[121]
2013 Interior. Leather Bar. Yes No Yes Co-directed with Travis Mathews
Also cinematographer 		[62]
As I Lay Dying Yes Yes No [122]
Child of God Yes Yes No [123]
2014 The Sound and the Fury Yes No No [74]
2016 In Dubious Battle Yes No Yes [93][94]
2017 The Institute Yes No Executive Co-directed with Pamela Romanowsky [97]
The Disaster Artist Yes No Yes [100]
2018 Future World Yes No Yes Co-directed with Bruce Thierry-Chung [106]
The Pretenders Yes No No [109]
2019 Zeroville Yes No No [110][111]
TBA The Long Home † Yes No Yes [124][125]
Bukowski † Yes Yes No Post-production [126]

As producer

Year Title Notes Ref(s)
2013 Kink Documentary [127]
2014 The Interview Executive producer [75]
2015 Yosemite [128]
I Am Michael [79]
The Adderall Diaries [129][85][86]
2016 Goat [130]
King Cobra [90]
Why Him? Executive producer [95]
L.A. Series [131]
2017 The Labyrinth [76]
Actors Anonymous [98]
Don't Come Back from the Moon [103]
The Mad Whale [105]

Television

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1997 Pacific Blue Brian Episode: "Matters of the Heart" [16]
1998 To Serve and Protect Kristin Carter Television film [16]
1999 Profiler Stevie Episode: "Three Carat Crisis" [132]
1999–2000 Freaks and Geeks Daniel Desario 18 episodes [16]
2000 At Any Cost Mike Roberts Television film [133]
2001 James Dean James Dean [134]
The X-Files Officer No. 2 Episode: "Surekill" [135]
2007–2008 General Hospital: Night Shift Franco 13 episodes [136]
2009–2012 General Hospital 20 episodes [137]
2008, 2009,
2014, 2017 		Saturday Night Live Himself / Host 4 episodes [138][139][140]
2009 81st Academy Awards Saul Silver Television special [141]
2010 30 Rock Himself Episode: "Klaus and Greta" [142]
2011 83rd Academy Awards Himself / Co–host Television special [143]
2012 FCU: Fact Checkers Unit James Episode: "James Franco Is Preggers" [144]
Hollywood Heights Osborne "Oz" Silver Recurring role [145]
2013 The Mindy Project Dr. Paul Leotard 2 episodes [146]
Comedy Central Roast of James Franco Roastee Television special [147]
2014 Naked and Afraid Himself Television special [148]
2015 Deadbeat Johnny Penis Episode: "The Polaroid Flasher" [149]
2016 Angie Tribeca Sgt. Eddie Pepper 6 episodes [150]
11.22.63 Jake Epping 8 episodes; also producer and directed episode: "The Truth" [151]
Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? Play Director Television film; also writer
2017 High School Lover Rick Winters Television film; also executive producer [152]
2017–2019 The Deuce Vincent Martino / Frankie Martino 25 episodes; also executive producer and directed 4 episodes [153]

Video games

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2007 Spider-Man 3 Harry Osborn / New Goblin [154]

Music videos

Year Title Artist Role Ref.
2013 "City of Angels" Thirty Seconds to Mars Himself [155]
2016 "Only in America" Riff Raff Riff Raff [156]

Web

Title Role Notes Ref.
2014–2015 Making a Scene with James Franco Himself / Various characters [157]

See also

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