Acting

2024

as Jack Torrance

2023

as Self (archive footage)

2022

as Self (archive footage)

2021		Mr. Saturday Night
2021		Untold: Deal with the Devil as Self (archive footage)

2020		Kubrick by Kubrick as Self (archive footage)
2020		Joker: Put on a Happy Face as Self
2020		40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic as Self (archive footage)

2019

as Self (archive footage)

2018		Basketball: A Love Story (2 episodes) as Self (archive footage)
2018		Always at The Carlyle as Self (archive footage)

2017

as Self

2015		The Chickening as Jack (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015		Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special as Self

2014

as Self (archive footage)

2012

as Self (archive footage)

2011

as Self - Actor

2010		How Do You Know as Charles
2010		Soul Searching in 'Five Easy Pieces' as Self
2010		America Lost and Found: The BBS Story as Self
2010		Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom as Self
2010		BBStory: An American Film Renaissance as Self
2010		Stardust as Self (uncredited)
2010		I'm Still Here as Jack Nicholson
2010		Mulholland Drive - Ein Hollywood-Mythos as Self

2008		Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired as Self / Jake Gittes (archive footage)
2008		Notes on an American Film Director at Work as Self

2007		The Bucket List as Edward Periman Cole
2007		Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick as Self
2007		The Visions of Stanley Kubrick as Self
2007		View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' as Self
2007		My Spy Family (20 episodes)

2006		Witness to 'Reds' as Self
2006		The Departed as Francis 'Frank' Costello

2005

as Presenter

2003		Something's Gotta Give as Harry Sanborn
2003		Celebrities Uncensored (1 episode) as Self
2003		Anger Management as Dr. Buddy Rydell

2002		About Schmidt as Warren Schmidt
2002		Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. as Self
2002		The Kid Stays in the Picture as Self (archive footage)

2001		America: A Tribute to Heroes as Self
2001		Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures as Self
2001		The Pledge as Jerry Black

1999

as Johnny Varron (young) (archive footage)

1997

as Melvin Udall

1996		The Evening Star as Garrett Breedlove
1996		Mars Attacks! as President Dale / Art Land
1996		Blood and Wine as Alex
1996		Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels as Self (archive footage)

1995		The Crossing Guard as Freddy Gale
1995		The Rolling Stones - Totally Stripped as Self
1995		The Rolling Stones: Stripped as Self

1994

as Will Randall

1992		Hoffa as James R. 'Jimmy' Hoffa
1992		A Few Good Men as Col. Nathan R. Jessep
1992		Man Trouble as Harry Bliss

1990		The Two Jakes as J.J. "Jake" Gittes
1990		Star Life (1 episode) as Self

1989

as Joker / Jack Napier

1987		Ironweed as Francis Phelan
1987		Broadcast News as Bill Rorich
1987		Creepy Classics as Rexford Bedlo - (archive footage)
1987		The Witches of Eastwick as Daryl Van Horne
1987		Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories as Narrator

1986		Barbra Streisand: One Voice as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
1986		The Elephant's Child as Narrator (voice)
1986		Heartburn as Mark

1985		Live Aid as Self
1985		Prizzi's Honor as Charley Partanna

1983

as Garrett Breedlove

1982

as Charlie Smith

1981		Reds as Eugene O'Neill
1981		The Postman Always Rings Twice as Frank Chambers

1980		Making 'The Shining' as Self
1980		The Shining as Jack Torrance

1978		The Kennedy Center Honors (1 episode) as Self
1978		Goin' South as Henry Moon

1976		The Last Tycoon as Brimmer
1976		The Missouri Breaks as Tom Logan
1976		TVTV Looks at the Oscars as Self

1975		One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Randle Patrick McMurphy
1975		Saturday Night Live (1 episode) as Self (2 episodes) as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975		The Fortune as Oscar 'Dix' Sullivan
1975		Tommy as The Specialist
1975		The Passenger as David Locke

1974

as J.J. 'Jake' Gittes

1973

as SM1 Billy 'Bad Ass' Buddusky

1972		The King of Marvin Gardens as David Staebler
1972		Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here as Self

1971		A Safe Place as Mitch
1971		Carnal Knowledge as Jonathan
1971		Drive, He Said as Annoyed Bearded Guy

1970		Five Easy Pieces as Robert Eroica Dupea
1970		On a Clear Day You Can See Forever as Tad Pringle
1970		Rebel Rousers as Bunny

1969

as George Hanson

1968		Head as Jack Nicholson (uncredited)
1968		Psych-Out as Stoney
1968		The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage)

1967		The Guns of Will Sonnett (1 episode) as Tom Murdock
1967		The St. Valentine's Day Massacre as Gino, Hit Man (uncredited)
1967		Hells Angels on Wheels as Poet

1966		Ride in the Whirlwind as Wes
1966		The Shooting as Billy Spear
1966		Goldene Kamera Verleihung (1 episode) as Self

1964		Back Door to Hell as Burnett
1964		Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1 episode)
1964		Flight to Fury as Jay Wickham
1964		Ensign Pulver as Yeoman Dolan

1963		The Terror as Lt. Andre Duvalier
1963		The Raven as Rexford Bedlo

1962		The Broken Land as Will
1962		Little Amy (1 episode) as Jefferson City Coach

1961

(191 episodes) as Jaime Angel

1960		The Andy Griffith Show (1 episode) as Marvin Jenkins (1 episode) as Mr. Garland
1960		The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1 episode) as Bud
1960		Studs Lonigan as Weary Reilly
1960		The Little Shop of Horrors as Wilbur Force
1960		The Wild Ride as Johnny Varron
1960		Too Soon to Love as Buddy

1959		Mr. Lucky (1 episode) as Martin
1959		Hawaiian Eye (1 episode) as Tony Morgan

1958		Bronco (1 episode) as Bob Doolin
1958		The Cry Baby Killer as Jimmy Wallace
1958		Sea Hunt (1 episode) as John Stark

1955

(1 episode) as Musician's Son

1953

(9 episodes) as Self