William Atherton’s career has spanned motion pictures, Broadway and television. He first achieved international recognition as the lead in Steven Spielberg’s debut feature The Sugarland Express and next starred in John Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust, Robert Wise’s The Hindenburg and Richard Brooks’ Looking For Mr. Goodbar. He is known worldwide for what have become his signature film characters: the TV reporter, Dick Thornburg in Die Hard I and 2; the EPA official, Walter Peck in Ghostbusters; Professor Hathaway in Real Genius and the mad scientist, Dr. Faulkner in Bio-Dome. Among his more than 30 feature films are co-starring roles in John Landis’s Oscar, Bill Duke’s Hoodlum, Richard Pearce’s No Mercy, Alan J. Pakula’s The Pelican Brief, Costa Gravas’ Mad City and Ed Zwick’s The Last Samurai.