Petersen, William Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

  2012, role: actor , character name: Trucker
• Play in Full Screen Detachment

  2011, role: actor , character name: Mr. Sarge Kepler
• Play in Full Screen The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
• Play in Full Screen De 'Los Serrano' a 'Cuenta atrás'

  2007, role: actor , character name: Gil Grissom
• Play in Full Screen The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter: Best Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy
• Play in Full Screen The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen This Old Cub

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Just the Facts

  2004, role: actor , character name: Cast of 'C.S.I.'
• Play in Full Screen The 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
• Play in Full Screen Blue Neon Night: Michael Connelly's Los Angeles

  2004, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen CBS at 75

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself - Co-Presenter: Outstanding Miniseries
• Play in Full Screen The GQ Men of the Year Awards

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 54th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 53rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards

  2001, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen 3rd Annual TV Guide Awards

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself - Winner
• Play in Full Screen Wrigley Field: Beyond the Ivy

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Haven

  2001, role: actor , character name: Jackson Connolly
• Play in Full Screen Inside 'Manhunter'

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Contender

  2000, role: actor , character name: Jack Hathaway
• Play in Full Screen The Skulls

  2000, role: actor , character name: Ames Levritt
• Play in Full Screen Kiss the Sky

  1998, role: actor , character name: Jeff
• Play in Full Screen The Rat Pack

  1998, role: actor , character name: John F. Kennedy
• Play in Full Screen Gunshy

  1998, role: actor , character name: Jake Bridges
• Play in Full Screen The Staircase

  1998, role: actor , character name: Joad
• Play in Full Screen 12 Angry Men

  1997, role: actor , character name: Juror #12
• Play in Full Screen The Beast

  1996, role: actor , character name: Whip Dalton
• Play in Full Screen Fear

  1996, role: actor , character name: Steve Walker
• Play in Full Screen Mulholland Falls

  1996, role: actor , character name: Jack Flynn, Mafia Mobster
• Play in Full Screen Present Tense, Past Perfect

  1995, role: actor , character name: Jack
• Play in Full Screen In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King

  1995, role: actor , character name: Tony C.
• Play in Full Screen Curacao

  1993, role: actor , character name: Stephen Guerin
• Play in Full Screen Keep the Change

  1992, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Keep the Change

  1992, role: actor , character name: Joe Starling
• Play in Full Screen Passed Away

  1992, role: actor , character name: Frank Scanlan
• Play in Full Screen Hard Promises

  1991, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Hard Promises

  1991, role: actor , character name: Joey
• Play in Full Screen The Kennedys of Massachusetts

  1990, role: actor , character name: Joseph P. Kennedy
• Play in Full Screen Young Guns II

  1990, role: actor , character name: Patrick Floyd 'Pat' Garrett
• Play in Full Screen Cousins

  1989, role: actor , character name: Tom
• Play in Full Screen Long Gone

  1987, role: actor , character name: Cecil 'Stud' Cantrell
• Play in Full Screen Amazing Grace and Chuck

  1987, role: actor , character name: Russell
• Play in Full Screen Manhunter

  1986, role: actor , character name: Will Graham
• Play in Full Screen To Live and Die in L.A.

  1985, role: actor , character name: Richard Chance
• Play in Full Screen Thief

  1981, role: actor , character name: Katz & Jammer Bartender

Famous quotes by William Petersen:

"I assume that part of it is due to the quality of the show and the characters and their chemistry. People like the way it twists and turns on itself. Each week is a puzzle, a really well-done puzzle."

"We thought we would have a niche audience of loyal viewers like 'X-Files' or 'West Wing.' But we have a huge audience that crosses all kinds of boundaries. It's unique. It's bizarre."

"I get a lot of stuff from Germany - stuffed bugs and tarantulas."

"I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall."

"Maybe they know my name, maybe they don't, but we're going to get that damned play on, even if I have to hit a liquor store."

"I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years."

"Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else."

"We're getting to the age when we're starting to see that responsibility isn't such a bad thing, when we see maturity as the key to sustenance."

"Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds."

"Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity."

"The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater."

"When we get involved in the ratings, then we're doing the network's job. We need to focus on our work."

"One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility."

"If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor."

"I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either."

"Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work."

"Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone."

"If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people."

"Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem."