By the close of 2005, William Fichtner was seen in seven feature films. This May, he starred in "Empire Falls" for HBO Films opposite Paul Newman and Ed Harris and in Paramount's The Longest Yard starring Adam Sandler and Chris Rock. Fichtner had two films premiere at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival: Rodrigo Garcia's Nine Lives, and Dreamworks' "The Chumscrubber", and starred alongside Jeff Bridges in The Moguls which closed the Santa Barbara Film Festival. He will also be seen this year in Sony's "Ultraviolet."

Other credits include Ridley Scott's "Black Hawk Down, "What's the Worst That Could Happen," Wolfgang Peterson's "The Perfect Storm," "Drowning Mona," "Passion of Mind," "Armageddon," Michael Mann's "Heat," "Contact" alongside Jodie Foster, Doug Liman's Go, Steven Soderbergh's The Underneath, Agnieszka Holland's Julie Walking Home, Equilibrium, The Settlement alongside John C. Reilly and Kevin Spacey's directorial debut "Albino Alligator."

On television, he was recently seen on NBC's "The West Wing," and played Dr. Bruce Kellerman on ABC's "M.D.s."

His theatre work includes "The Fiery Furnace," directed by Norman Rene; "Raft of the Medusa" at the Minetta Lane Theatre; "The Years," at the Manhattan Theatre Club; "Clothes for a Summer Hotel," at the Williamstown Theatre and "Machinal" at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre.