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Brian Markinson

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Biography

Brian Markinson (born 1 September 1961, Brooklyn, New York) is an American-Canadian actor and producer. He is best known as Police Chief Bill Jacobs on Da Vinci's Inquest (1998–2005) and Da Vinci's City Hall (2005–2006), and for roles in Mad Men (2013), Painkiller (2023), and Fargo. In film, he has appeared in Apollo 13 (1995), Enemy of the State (1998), Shooter (2007), and three Woody Allen films. On stage, he performed in Lost in Yonkers on Broadway. He lives in Vancouver, BC.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Wolf

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Shooter

As Attorney General Russert

10.5

As Daniel

As Garry Moiphine

Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome

As Silas Nash

A Dog's Way Home

As Gunter

Sweet and Lowdown

As Bill Shields

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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The Hypnotic Gaze

From Woody Allen's comic hypnosis to the chilling mechanics of control, this chain traces cinema's fascination with the mind's susceptibility.

8 films

Fur and Fangs

From the eerie moors of England to the neon streets of Tokyo, this chain of eight films reveals the werewolf as a creature of endless reinvention, embodying hor...

8 films

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