Filmography

A complete list of Johnny's filmography, including main roles and supporting roles.

Included are the supporting cast, the director, the year, and the premiere date.

Many people like to suggest that he plays the same character, or that all he has ever been in is Pirates...this list is here to clearly disprove that.

Take a look at how impressive and diverse his work has been.

"With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying."

PotC: Dead Men Tell No Tales

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2017

Captain Jack Sparrow searches for the trident of Poseidon while being pursued by an undead sea captain and his crew.

Character: Captain Jack Sparrow

Co-Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Javier Bardem

Director: Joachim Ronning, Espen Sandberg

Murder on the Orient Express

2017

When a murder occurs on the train on which he's travelling, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.

Character: Edward Rachett

Co-Stars: Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Sherlock Gnomes

2018

Garden gnomes, Gnomeo & Juliet, recruit renowned detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.

Character: Sherlock Gnomes

Co-Stars: James McAvoy, Emily Blunt

Director: John Stevenson

Started/Finished and Unreleased

The Professor

City of Lies

Waiting for the Barbarians

Minamata

Planned Projects

Fortunately, The Milk

Affected Principal's Companion

Attica

Caliber

Desperate Hours

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

Happy Days

Inamorata

In the Hand of Dante

Mortimer Wintergreen

Rex Mundi

The Ginger Man

The Night Stalker

The Secret World

The Thin Man

The Vault

Tom's Dad

Torched

True Crime Addict

His IMDB Page

Nightmare On Elm Street

1984

A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree.

Character: Glen Lantz

Co-Stars: Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp

Director: Wes Craven

Private Resort

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1985

The story of two adolescent boys who are guests at a Florida resort for the week-end. Their only interest is, of course, chasing girls, but fate has much more in store for them.

Character: Jack

Co-Stars: Rob Morrow, Emily Longstreth

Director: George Bowers

Lady Blue

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1985

Katy Mahoney patrols the grittier streets of Chicago, dispatching the seamier elements before reporting to her boss Terry McNichol. Katy's intensity about her job interfered with her social life.

Character: Lionel Viland

Co-Stars: Jamie Rose, Danny Aiello

Director: Rob Marshall

Platoon

1986

A young soldier in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Character: Lerner

Co-Stars: Tom Berenger, Keith David

Director: Oliver Stone

Cry - Baby

1990

In 1950s Baltimore, a bad boy with a heart of gold wins the love of a good girl, whose boyfriend sets out for revenge.

Character: Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker

Co-Stars: Ricki Lake, Amy Locane

Director: John Waters

21 Jumpstreet

1987-1990

The cases of an undercover police unit composed of young looking officers specializing in youth crime.

Character: Officer Tom Hanson

Co-Stars: Peter DeLuise, Dustin Nguyen

Director: Various

Edward Scissorhands

1990

An artificial man, who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for hands, leads a solitary life. Then one day, a suburban lady meets him and introduces him to her world.

Character: Edward

Co-Stars: Winona Ryder, Dianna West

Director: Tim Burton

Arizona Dream

1993

A young New Yorker goes to Arizona where he finds freedom to both love and dream.

Character: Axel Blackmar

Co-Stars: Jerry Lewis, Faye Dunaway

Director: Emir Kusturica

Benny and Joon

1993

A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

Character: Sam

Co-Stars: Mary Masterson, Aidan Quinn

Director: Jeremiah Chechik

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

1993

After his father's death, Gilbert has to care for his mentally-disabled brother, Arnie, and his morbidly obese mother. This situation is suddenly challenged though, when love unexpectedly walks into his life.

Character: Gilbert Grape

Co-Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis

Director: Lasse Hallstrom

Ed Wood

1994

Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams, despite his lack of talent.

Character: Ed Wood

Co-Stars: Martin Landau, Sarah Parker

Director: Rob Marshall

Don Juan DeMarco

1994

A psychiatrist must cure a young patient that presents himself as Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world.

Character: Don Juan DeMarco

Co-Stars: Marlon Brando, Faye Dunaway

Director: Jeremy Leven

Dead Man

1995

On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

Character: William Blake

Co-Stars: Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover

Director: Jim Jarmusch

Nick of Time

1995

An unimpressive, every-day man is forced into a situation where he is told to kill a politician to save his kidnapped daughter.

Character: Gene Watson

Co-Stars: Christopher Walken

Director: John Badham

Donnie Brasco

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1997

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one.

Character: Joe Pistone

Co-Stars: Al Pacino, Michael Madsen

Director: Mike Newell

The Brave

1997

A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.

Character: Raphael

Co-Stars: Marlon Brando, Marshall Bell

Director: Johnny Depp

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

1998

An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.

Character: Raoul Duke

Co-Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Tobey Maguire

Director: Terry Gilliam

The Ninth Gate

1999

A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones.

Character: Dean Corso

Co-Stars: Frank Langella, Lena Olin

Director: Roman Polanski

The Astronaut's Wife

1999

After an explosion in space and subsequent two-minute radio-out period, two astronauts return home to their wives. Slightly it's revealed that they're not the same as they were.

Character: Spencer Armacost

Co-Stars: Charlize Theron, Joe Morton

Director: Rand Ravich

Sleepy Hollow

1999

Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people, with the culprit being the legendary apparition, The Headless Horseman.

Character: Ichabod Crane

Co-Stars: Christina Ricci, Michael Gambon

Director: Tim Burton

The Man Who Cried

2000

A young refugee traveling from Russia to America in search of her lost father falls for a gypsy horseman.

Character: Cesar

Co-Stars: Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett

Director: Sally Porter

Before Night Falls

2000

The life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.

Character: Bon Bon/ Lt. Victor

Co-Stars: Javier Bardem

Director: Julian Schnabel

Chocolat

2000

A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.

Character: Roux

Co-Stars: Julliette Binoche, Alfred Molina

Director: Lasse Hallstrom

Blow

2001

The story of how George Jung, along with the Medellín Cartel headed by Pablo Escobar, established the American cocaine market in the 1970s in the United States.

Character: George Jung

Co-Stars: Penelope Cruz, Franka Potente

Director: Ted Demme

From Hell

2001

In Victorian-era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders of Jack the Ripper.

Character: Frederick Abberline

Co-Stars: Heather Graham, Ian Holm

Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes

PotC: The Curse of the Black Pearl

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2003

Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.

Character: Captain Jack Sparrow

Co-Stars: Kiera Knightley, Orlando Bloom

Director: Gore Verbinski

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

2003

Hitman "El Mariachi" becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general.

Character: Agent Sands

Co-Stars: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Secret Window

2004

A successful writer in the midst of a painful divorce is stalked at his remote lake house by a would-be scribe who accuses him of plagiarism.

Character: Mort Rainey

Co-Stars: Maria Bello, John Turturro

Director: David Koepp

Finding Neverland

2004

The story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.

Character: J.M. Barrie

Co-Stars: Kate Winslet, Julie Christie

Director: Marc Foster

The Libertine

2004

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.

Character: John Wilmot

Co-Stars: Samantha Morton, John Malkovich

Director: Laurence Dunmore

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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2005

A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.

Character: Willy Wonka

Co-Stars: Freddie Highmore, David Kelly

Director: Tim Burton

The Corpse Bride

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2005

When a shy groom practices his wedding vows in the inadvertent presence of a deceased young woman, she rises from the grave assuming he has married her.

Character: Victor Van Dort

Co-Stars: Helena Bonham Carter

Director: Tim Burton, Mike Johnson

PotC: Dead Man's Chest

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2006

Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.

Character: Captain Jack Sparrow

Co-Stars: Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom

Director: Gore Verbinski

PotC: At World's End

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2007

Captain Barbossa, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann must sail off the edge of the map, navigate treachery and betrayal, find Jack Sparrow, and make their final alliances for one last decisive battle.

Character: Captain Jack Sparrow

Co-Stars: Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom

Director: Gore Verbinski

Sweeney Todd

2007

The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, aka Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.

Character: Sweeney Todd

Co-Stars: Helena Bonham Carter

Director: Tim Burton

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

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2009

A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.

Character: Tony 1

Co-Stars: Heath Ledger, Jude Law

Director: Terry Gilliam

Public Enemies

2009

The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.

Character: John Dillinger

Co-Stars: Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard

Director: Michael Mann

Alice in Wonderland

2010

Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror.

Character: The Mad Hatter

Co-Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Alan Rickman

Director: Tim Burton

The Tourist

2010

Revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path.

Character: Frank Tupelo

Co-Stars: Paul Bettany, Angelina Jolie

Director: Florian Henckel

Rango

2011

Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.

Character: Rango

Co-Stars: Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant

Director: Gore Verbinski

PotC: On Stranger Tides

2011

Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.

Character: Captain Jack Sparrow

Co-Stars: Penelope Cruz, Ian McShane

Director: Rob Marshall

The Rum Diary

2011

American journalist Paul Kemp takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1960s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the expatriates who live there.

Character: Paul Kemp

Co-Stars: Giovanni Ribisi, Aaron Eckhart

Director: Bruce Robinson

Dark Shadows

2012

An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.

Character: Barnabas Collins

Co-Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green

Director: Tim Burton

The Lone Ranger

2013

Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.

Character: Tonto

Co-Stars: Armie Hammer, William Fichtner

Director: Gore Verbinski

Transcendence

2014

A scientist's drive for artificial intelligence, takes on dangerous implications when his consciousness is uploaded into one such program.

Character: Will Caster

Co-Stars: Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall

Director: Wally Pfister

Into the Woods

2014

A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree.

Character: The Wolf

Co-Stars: Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep

Director: Rob Marshall

Mortdecai

2015

Juggling angry Russians, the British Mi5, and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part-time rogue Charlie Mortdecai races to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain a code that leads to lost gold.

Character: Charlie Mortdecai

Co-Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor

Director: David Koepp

Black Mass

2015

The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

Character: James "Whitey" Bulger

Co-Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch

Director: Scott Cooper

2016

Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to help the Mad Hatter.

Character: Hatter Tarrant Hightopp

Co-Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway

Director: Tim Burton

Alice Through The Looking Glass