Editing James Spader (section)

== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
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!Year
!Title 
!Role
!Notes 
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| 1978 || ''Team Mates'' || Jimmy || Acting debut
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| 1981 || ''[[Endless Love (1981 film)|Endless Love]]'' || Keith Butterfield || Credited as Jimmy Spader
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| rowspan="2" | 1985 || ''[[Tuff Turf]]'' || Morgan Hiller ||
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| ''[[The New Kids]]'' || Eddie "Dutra" Dutra ||
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| 1986 || ''[[Pretty in Pink]]'' || Steff ||
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| rowspan="4" | 1987 || ''[[Mannequin (1987 film)|Mannequin]]'' || Richards ||
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| ''[[Baby Boom (film)|Baby Boom]]'' || Ken Arrenberg ||
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| ''[[Less than Zero (film)|Less than Zero]]'' || Rip ||
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| ''[[Wall Street (1987 film)|Wall Street]]'' || Roger Barnes ||
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| rowspan="2" | 1988 || ''[[Greasy Lake & Other Stories#Media adaptations|Greasy Lake]]'' || Digby || Short film
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| ''[[Jack's Back]]'' || John / Rick Westford || 
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| rowspan="2" | 1989 || ''[[Sex, Lies, and Videotape]]'' || Graham Dalton || 
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| ''[[The Rachel Papers]]'' || Deforest || 
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| rowspan="2" | 1990 || ''[[Bad Influence (1990 film)|Bad Influence]]'' || Michael Boll ||
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| ''[[White Palace (film)|White Palace]]'' || Max Baron ||
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| 1991 || ''[[True Colors (film)|True Colors]]'' || Tim Gerrity ||
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| rowspan="2" | 1992 || ''[[Storyville (film)|Storyville]]'' || Cray Fowler ||
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| ''[[Bob Roberts]]'' || Chuck Marlin ||
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| rowspan="2" | 1993 || ''[[The Music of Chance (film)|The Music of Chance]]'' || Jack Pozzi ||
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| ''[[Dream Lover (1993 film)|Dream Lover]]'' || Ray Reardon ||
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| rowspan="2" | 1994 || ''[[Wolf (1994 film)|Wolf]]'' || Stewart Swinton || 
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| ''[[Stargate (film)|Stargate]]'' || [[Daniel Jackson (Stargate)|Dr. Daniel Jackson]] ||
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| rowspan="2" | 1996 || ''[[Crash (1996 film)|Crash]]'' || James Ballard ||
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| ''[[2 Days in the Valley]]'' || Lee Woods ||
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| rowspan="3" | 1997 || ''[[Keys to Tulsa]]'' || Ronnie Stover ||
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| ''Driftwood'' || The Man ||
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| ''[[Critical Care (film)|Critical Care]]'' || Dr. Werner Ernst ||
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| 1998 || ''[[Curtain Call (1998 film)|Curtain Call]]'' || Stevenson Lowe ||
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| rowspan="3" | 2000 || ''[[Supernova (2000 film)|Supernova]]'' || Nick Vanzant ||
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| ''[[The Watcher (2000 film)|The Watcher]]'' || Joel Campbell ||
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| ''[[Slow Burn (2000 film)|Slow Burn]]'' || Marcus ||
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| 2001 || ''[[Speaking of Sex]]'' || Dr. Roger Klink ||
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| rowspan="2" | 2002 || ''[[Secretary (2002 film)|Secretary]]'' || E. Edward Grey ||
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| ''[[The Stickup]]'' || John Parker ||
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| rowspan="2" | 2003 || ''[[I Witness]]'' || Douglas Draper ||
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| ''[[Alien Hunter]]'' || Julian Rome ||
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| 2004 || ''Shadow of Fear'' || William Ashbury ||
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| 2009 || ''[[Shorts (2009 film)|Shorts]]'' || Carbon Black ||
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| 2012 || ''[[Lincoln (film)|Lincoln]]'' || [[William Bilbo]] || 
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| 2014 || ''[[The Homesman]]'' || Aloysius Duffy ||
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| 2015 || ''[[Avengers: Age of Ultron]]'' || [[Ultron]] || Voice and motion-capture
|}

=== Television ===
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! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
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| rowspan="4" | 1983 || ''Diner'' || Fenwick || Television short
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| ''[[The Family Tree (TV series)|The Family Tree]]'' || Jake Nichols || 6 episodes
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| ''[[Cocaine: One Man's Seduction]]'' || Buddy Gant || rowspan="4" | Television film
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| ''[[A Killer in the Family]]'' || Donny Tison 
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| 1984 || ''[[Family Secrets (1984 film)|Family Secrets]]'' || Lowell Everall 
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| 1985 || ''Starcrossed'' || Joey Callaghan 
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| 1994 || ''[[Frasier]]'' || Steven || Voice; episode: "Slow Tango in South Seattle"
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| 1997 || ''[[Seinfeld]]'' || Jason "Stanky" Hanky || Episode: "[[The Apology (Seinfeld)|The Apology]]"
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| 2003 || ''[[The Pentagon Papers (film)|The Pentagon Papers]]'' || [[Daniel Ellsberg]] || Television film
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| 2003–2004 || ''[[The Practice]]'' || Alan Shore || 22 episodes
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| 2004–2008 || ''[[Boston Legal]]'' || Alan Shore || 101 episodes
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| 2006 || ''[[Discovery Atlas]]'' || Narrator || Voice; episode: "China Revealed"
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| 2011–2012 || ''[[The Office (American TV series)|The Office]]'' || [[Robert California]] || 20 episodes 
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| 2013–2023 || ''[[The Blacklist]]'' || Raymond "Red" Reddington || 218 episodes; also executive producer
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| 2026 || ''[[Vision Quest (miniseries)|Vision Quest]]'' || [[Ultron]] || Voice and motion-capture; Filming
|}