William Atherton

7 films on Best Blurays4 in 4K3 in HD

William Atherton Knight (born July 30, 1947) is an American actor, best known for portraying Richard Thornburg in Die Hard and its sequel and Walter Peck in Ghostbusters.

Biography from Wikipedia via TMDB

By format

List

4 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)

Leading role · Director: Richard Brooks

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray

3.6

Real Genius (1985)

Supporting role · Director: Martha Coolidge

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

(small caveat: the OG 2.0 track has not been cleaned up)

3.5

Ghostbusters (1984)

Supporting role · Director: Ivan Reitman

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2022 Sony Ultimate Collection 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Only 2022 'Ultimate Collection' has dolby vision. 2022 ‘Ultimate Collection’ also has a higher average bitrate.

Best Audio:

1989 Criterion LaserDisc

Die Hard (1988)

Supporting role · Director: John McTiernan

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

70mm Six-track mix: THX AC3 or DTS LaserDisc

3 in HD

Blu-ray or HD streaming

The Sugarland Express (1974)

Leading role · Director: Steven Spielberg

4K · Worse Than BD

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2015 Universal Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

The new Universal 4K is AI upscaled https://slow.pics/c/5jD2BjKT and sharpened, see discussion on BR https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=377660&page=9

3.5

Mad City (1997)

Supporting role · Director: Costa-Gavras

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.0

The Last Samurai (2003)

Small role · Director: Edward Zwick

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Brazilian/Hong Kong/Polish/Korea/Thai Warner Bros Blu-ray for the TrueHD track

3.8

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