Known for Acting
Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American actor and writer. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gordie LaChance in the film Stand by Me and Joey Trotta in Toy Soldiers. As a writer, he is best known for his blog, Wil Wheaton Dot Net.
Born
July 29, 1972 (age 54)
Birthplace
Burbank, California, USA
Filmography
64 films, 75 shows


For the Love of Star Trek
2026 · 43m
country: Unknown
This documentary explores how one bold TV series became a global phenomenon, inspiring generations and reimagining the future as a place of hope. Tune in for archival TVO interviews with the show’s creator, Gene Roddenberry, and stars of the original series, to hear the stories behind the starship and how the show changed television forever.


The Moof Milkers
2026 · 2h 36m
country: United States
With a packed house, deep-cut fandom energy, and wildly committed performances, the evening turned a familiar script into something fast, chaotic, and genuinely hilarious-a fully unhinged celebration of Star Wars on stage.


DIY: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Punk
2025 · 51m
country: Unknown
D.I.Y. is an extrospective dissection of Pop-Punk; from the SoCal garages of the 80’s to the enduring impact the genre has had on music, fashion, and culture.


Attack of the Doc!
2023 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Before the rise of big tech, social media and Marvel movies, Attack of the Show! chronicled the rise of nerd culture. G4TV's flagship show launched the careers of hosts Olivia Munn and Kevin Pereira and was beloved by fans! But what really happened?


In Search of Tomorrow
2022 · 5h 6m
country: United Kingdom
A nostalgic journey through ’80s Sci-Fi-films, exploring their impact and relevance today, told by the artists who made them and by those who were inspired to turn their visions into reality.


Rent-A-Pal
2020 · 1h 48m
country: United States
Set in 1990, a lonely bachelor named David searches for an escape from the day-to-day drudgery of caring for his aging mother. While seeking a partner through a video dating service, he discovers a strange VHS tape called Rent-A-Pal. Hosted by the charming and charismatic Andy, the tape offers him much-needed company, compassion, and friendship. But Andy's friendship comes at a cost, and David desperately struggles to afford the price of admission.


Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
2020 · 1h 41m
country: Unknown
A small town video game store clerk must go from zero to hero after accidentally unleashing the forces of evil from a cursed Colecovision game.


Showbiz Kids
2020 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A documentary chronicling the shared experiences of prominent former child stars and the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a child.


Pooka Lives!
2020 · 1h 20m
country: United States
A group of thirty-something friends from high school create their own Creepypasta about Pooka for laughs, but are shocked when it becomes so viral on the internet that it actually manifests more murdererous versions of the creature.


Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary
2019 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A feature-length documentary about the film Galaxy Quest and its legacy, celebrating its milestone 20th anniversary.


Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
2018 · 1h 24m
country: United States
All the major DC superheroes are starring in their own films, all but the Teen Titans, so Robin is determined to remedy this situation by getting over his role as a sidekick and becoming a movie star. Thus, with a few madcap ideas and an inspirational song in their hearts, the Teen Titans head to Hollywood to fulfill their dreams.


Transformers: Power of the Primes
2018 · 1h 42m
country: United States
In the aftermath of the Titans' conflict that concluded into Optimus Prime's death, the rest of the Transformers must stand together in order to stop Megatronus from wiping out their species forever. During their search for the Requiem Blaster, more mysteries about Cybertron’s past will be uncovered, and a new Prime will be chosen.


Transformers: Titans Return
2017 · 1h 57m
country: United States
After the Combiner Wars ended, Cybertron started to be rebuilt. However, an undead Starscream has been reincarnated as Trypticon, wreaking havoc around him. To combat this menace, Windblade gathers up a ragtag team of Transformers, including Optimus Prime and Megatron, to resurrect an ancient ally. And while some may be forever changed by the events, others may not emerge with their sparks intact.


Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously
2016 · 1h 14m
country: United States
Neil Gaiman is one of the most beloved storytellers in the world today, a medium-jumping legend who opened a new era of comics with Sandman, scared a generation of young readers with Coraline and The Graveyard Book, and has thrilled his fans with years of live readings and signings. Recently, Neil embarked on his final signing tour, one last chance to talk to the fans who love his work and show his appreciation for their years of support. Now you're along for the ride! The film offers unprecedented access to Neil, chronicling his journey from myth-loving child to one of the most popular writers in the world. In addition to Neil, the film also features Amanda Palmer, George RR Martin, Grant Morrison, Bill Hader, Wil Wheaton, Michael Sheen, Karen Berger, and many more.


Enter the Battlefield: Life on the Magic - The Gathering Pro Tour
2016 · 1h 5m
country: United States
Magic: The Gathering is the most popular collectible card game in the world. At Magic's Pro Tour, players from around the globe compete to prove who is the best. They are writers, game theorists, jewelry apprentices, female pioneers, and teenage geniuses.


To Be Takei
2014 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Over seven decades, actor and activist George Takei journeyed from a World War II internment camp to the helm of the Starship Enterprise, and then to the daily news feeds of five million Facebook fans. Join George and his husband, Brad, on a wacky and profound trek for life, liberty, and love.


Sharknado 2: The Second One
2014 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A freak weather system turns its deadly fury on New York City, unleashing a Sharknado on the population and its most cherished, iconic sites - and only Fin and April can save the Big Apple.


Video Games: The Movie
2014 · 1h 41m
country: United States
From executive producer Zach Braff and director Jeremy Snead, "Video Games: The Movie" is an epic feature length documentary chronicling the meteoric rise of video games from nerd niche to multi-billion dollar industry. Narrated by Sean Astin and featuring in-depth interviews with the godfathers who started it all, the icons of game design, and the geek gurus who are leading us into the future, "Video Games: The Movie" is a celebration of gaming from Atari to Xbox and an eye-opening look at what lies ahead.


Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds
2013 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
The Enterprise has a deadly encounter with the Borg, resulting in Picard's kidnap, while Commander Riker encounters a beautiful rival with an eye on his job.


Reunification - 25 Years After Star Trek: The Next Generation
2012 · 1h 1m
country: Unknown
Reunification: 25 Years After Star Trek – The Next Generation is a 61-minute documentary celebrating the 25th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation.


Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts
2011 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts is a feature-length documentary that takes an in depth look at the life, career and mind of the British comic book writer Warren Ellis. The film combines extensive interviews with Ellis with insights from his colleagues and friends, as well as ambient visual re-creations of his prose and comics work.


Underground Entertainment: The Movie
2011 · 2h 5m
country: United States
On the 20th anniversary of their edgy little 90's cable show Underground Entertainment, the authors, along with many SF, horror and B celebrities in cameos, remember how they pushed the envelope, shocked, entertained, but also introduced the audience to many movies, comics and conventions.


Star Trek
2009 · 2h 7m
country: United States
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.


Kyle + Rosemary
2009 · 7m
country: United States
Kyle's a hopeless geek and Rosemary's a shy goth, but when playing the online fantasy MMORPG 'Questworld', their true personalities shine through. When their characters meet online, its love at first pixel - but will they have the courage to connect in the real world?


Americanizing Shelley
2007 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A wannabe Hollywood player sets out to Americanize an Indian girl from the Himalayas.


Neverland
2003 · 1h 23m
country: United States
Damion Dietz's NEVERLAND is a dark, modernized, and highly original retelling of the childhood classic PETER PAN. In this version, Peter (Rick Sparks) is a juvenile delinquent, Tinkerbell (Kari... Damion Dietz's NEVERLAND is a dark, modernized, and highly original retelling of the childhood classic PETER PAN. Peter takes Wendy to Neverland — a burnt-out suburban amusement park populated by drag queens, drug addicts, prostitutes and such — the ultimate fantasy-adventure becomes a fascinating nightmare in this bold retelling of the Peter Pan story.


Book of Days
2003 · 1h 29m
country: Unknown
A grief-struck life insurance salesman rails at God for not stepping in to save his bride; but the tables are turned when a mysterious book is delivered to him, an ancient volume listing names and death dates, dates which are yet to occur.


Star Trek: Nemesis
2002 · 1h 56m
country: United States
En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon, who claims to seek peace with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. Once in enemy territory, the captain and his crew make a startling discovery: Shinzon is human, a slave from the Romulan sister planet of Remus, and has a secret, shocking relationship to Picard himself.


Fish Don't Blink
2002 · 1h 29m
country: United States
A desperate young couple, on the run from the mob, drop anchor at a remote rundown restaurant in the middle of the desert named the Nautilus. At first, it seems like a great place to hideout but soon they find themselves smack dab in the centre of a family that gives a whole new definition to the word crazy and makes them think that maybe they'd be better off with the mob.


Jane White Is Sick & Twisted
2002 · 1h 33m
country: United States
For Jane White, life itself is a television program, and she dreams of becoming a star on the small screen. Convincing herself that Gerry King, a popular talk show host, is her birth father, she sets out on an adventurous road trip — aided by her equally looney boyfriend, Dick — to confront her "father" on the air, and, just maybe, make a splash on reality television.


The Flintstones: On the Rocks
2002 · 1h 25m
country: Canada
With their marriage on the rocks, Fred and Wilma take a holiday together to rekindle the fire in their relationship.


Foreign Correspondents
2001 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Equal parts romance, fable, ghost story, character study, and cinematic puzzle, Foreign Correspondents ties two seemingly unrelated stories together into one drama, revealing hidden parallels between these lost young people as they tell lies, pursue fantasies, step into dangerous emotional territory... and try to find love in a world that has all but forgotten them.
The Good Things
The Good Things
2001 · 26m
country: Unknown
A young toll-booth worker is torn between leaving home to see the world or staying in the small Kansas town where he grew up.


Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000 · 37m
country: United States
A unique look at the making of Stand by Me including interviews from Stephen King, Rob Reiner, Kiefer Sutherland, Richard Dreyfuss, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell.


Python
2000 · 1h 39m
country: United States
After a military plane crashes outside of a small American town, its cargo — a genetically engineered, sixty-foot-long python — begins stalking and killing the locals.


Deep Core
2000 · 1h 20m
country: United States
A powerful laser machine rips the core of the earth causing earthquakes and tsunamis, and only one man and his team can save the planet from destruction. Will they succeed?
The Girls' Room
The Girls' Room
2000 · 1h 41m
country: United States
Two college roommates -- prim and proper Grace (Cat Taber) and wild and woolly Casey (Soleil Moon Frye) -- find themselves in a tense rivalry when Casey's conduct almost destroys Grace's engagement to preppie heartthrob Charlie (Wil Wheaton). Not too high-minded to seek revenge, Grace cozies up to Casey's pal Joey (Gary Wolf), setting off a cycle of envy and mistrust that may destroy both women's lives in director Irene Turner's well-paced indie.


Fag Hag
1998 · 1h 13m
country: United States
Destiny Rutt is a pathological liar and the last-place shoe-in for the first annual Miss Hope Springs Pageant. When she meets Scott Bushey – a gay drifter whose ambition is to make it big as the world’s first white HIV-positive rap star “T-Cell”, the two make fast friends and resolve “to take this town of outdated gay guys by storm!”


The Day Lincoln Was Shot
1998 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A dramatization of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Based on the book by Jim Bishop.


Flubber
1997 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third wedding, Professor Brainard creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air.


Trekkies
1997 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Denise Crosby takes a first look at the huge fans of "Star Trek" from around America and how the series has affected and shaped their lives.


Pie in the Sky
1996 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A young man obsessed with traffic patterns attempts to reunite with his first love.


It Was Him or Us
1995 · 1h 35m
country: United States
When her daughter's lover begins exhibiting signs of becoming a dangerous abuser, a mother attempts to intervene.


Mr. Stitch
1995 · 1h 34m
country: France
Doctor Rue Wakeman and his team create a young man with skin and organs taken from other men and women. The creature (Lazarus) reads a lot of books and learns all about the humans. But when he meets fascinating doctor Elizabeth English his life changes: he decides to escape from the laboratory.


The Liars' Club
1994 · 1h 35m
country: United States
The loyalty of a tight group of friends is put to the test when there's a date rape within the circle.


December
1991 · 1h 33m
country: United States
In December of 1941, five teenage boys at a New England prep school hear the news of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and realize their lives are going to be changed forever.


Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special
1991 · 1h 33m
country: United States
This documentary is hosted by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy and they take us through the history of Star Trek. We also get to see bloopers from the original series and the current space program and how progression has been in reality, hosted by LeVar Burton.


The Last Prostitute
1991 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Two 60s teenagers find work rather than pleasure when it turns out that the prostitute they desire now owns a horse farm.


Toy Soldiers
1991 · 1h 52m
country: United States
After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms a prep school and takes its students hostage. They rebel against the armed intruders and try to take back their academy by any means necessary.


Nickelodeon Studios Opening Day Celebration!
1990 · 3h 3m
country: Unknown
Hosted by Marc Summers of Super Sloppy Double Dare.


My Dad Can't Be Crazy... Can He?
1989 · 1h
country: United States
Teenage boy is unable to deal with his schizophrenic father.


Dare to Say No!
1988 · 15m
country: United States
Shows children various reasons why they need to resist peer pressure, refuse drugs, and refuse to follow the crowd just to fit in


She's Having a Baby
1988 · 1h 46m
country: United States
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.


The Curse
1987 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
Nathan Hayes is a religious man trying to hold onto his farm and keep his family in line. A real estate developer is trying to buy most of the farm property in the area, including Mr. Hayes’ family farm, in the hope that the Tennesse Valley Authority will choose the town for the site of a new dam and recreational area. The night of a terrible storm, an unidentified, glowing object crashes on the Hayes farm and with it comes a horrible curse for the family and other members of the community.


The Man Who Fell to Earth
1987 · 1h 40m
country: United States
An alien lands on Earth, and decides that he needs to a job in order to raise money to build a spaceship so he can return to his home planet.


Young Harry Houdini
1987 · 2h
country: Unknown
This biographical movie depicts the youth of the magician Harry Houdini (1874 - 1926). As a boy his name was Eric Weiss and his father wanted him to become a locksmith. But he ran away and joined the traveling show of Dr. Grimaldi, where he learned the tricks of a magician and a little mystery from his Indian assistant, too.


Stand by Me
1986 · 1h 29m
country: United States
After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys decide to go see the body. Gordie, Vern, Chris, and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, but they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.


Long Time Gone
1986 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A "world-class screw-up" private eye finds his world and his attention changed when he is reunited with his estranged 11-year old son.


The Defiant Ones
1986 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Monroe and 'Joker' Johnson are two prisoners who despise each other. But after their prison transport crashes, they manage to escape chained to each other.


The Last Starfighter
1984 · 1h 41m
country: United States
Video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering the video game The Last Starfighter, only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best Starfighters to defend their world from the attack.


The Buddy System
1984 · 1h 50m
country: United States
A school truant officer uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake his residential address and subsequently befriends the kid and his mother.


Hambone and Hillie
1983 · 1h 29m
country: United States
An elderly woman searches for her lost dog. Director Roy Watts' 1984 drama stars Lillian Gish, Timothy Bottoms, Candy Clark, O. J. Simpson, Alan Hale Jr. and Jack Carter.


The Secret of NIMH
1982 · 1h 23m
country: United States
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.


A Long Way Home
1981 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A married teenager sets out to find his long-lost brother and sister years after all three had been placed with different families following their abandonment by their migrant worker parents. Luckily, he finds a compassionate social worker who, at first reluctantly, decides to help him cut through the bureaucratic red tape.