Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor - Drama Series

This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, and Outstanding Guest Supporting Actor. The category for guest supporting actor was withdrawn after and only one award in 1977.

Award winners

;Outstanding Guest Actor;1970s
*1975: Patrick McGoohan – ""
*1976: Gordon Jackson – "Upstairs, Downstairs"
*1977: Louis Gossett Jr. – "Roots"
*1978: Barnard Hughes – "Lou Grant"

;1980s
*1986: John Lithgow – "Amazing Stories"
*1987: "no award"
*1988: "no award"
*1989: Joe Spano – "Midnight Caller"

;1990s
*1990: Patrick McGoohan – ""
*1991: David Opatoshu – "Gabriel's Fire"
*1992: "no award"
*1993: Laurence Fishburne – "Tribeca"
*1994: Richard Kiley – "Picket Fences"
*1995: Paul Winfield – "Picket Fences"
*1996: Peter Boyle – "The X-Files"
*1997: Pruitt Taylor Vince – "Murder One"
*1998: John Larroquette – "The Practice"
*1999: Edward Herrmann – "The Practice"

2000s

* 2000: James Whitmore – "The Practice"
** Alan Alda – "ER"
** Paul Dooley – "The Practice"
** Kirk Douglas – "Touched by an Angel"
** Henry Winkler – "The Practice"

* 2001: Michael Emerson – "The Practice"
** Rene Auberjonois – "The Practice"
** James Cromwell – "ER"
** Patrick Dempsey – "Once and Again"
** Oliver Platt – "The West Wing"

* 2002: Charles S. Dutton – "The Practice"
** Mark Harmon – "The West Wing"
** John Larroquette – "The Practice"
** Tim Matheson – "The West Wing"
** Ron Silver – "The West Wing"

* 2003: Charles S. Dutton – "Without a Trace"
** Don Cheadle – "ER"
** James Cromwell – "Six Feet Under"
** Tim Matheson – "The West Wing"
** Matthew Perry – "The West Wing"
** James Whitmore – "Mister Sterling"

* 2004: William Shatner – "The Practice"
** James Earl Jones – "Everwood"
** Martin Landau – "Without a Trace"
** Bob Newhart – "ER"
** Matthew Perry – "The West Wing"

* 2005: Ray Liotta – "ER"
** Red Buttons – "ER"
** Ossie Davis – "The L Word"
** Charles Durning – "NCIS"
** Martin Landau – "Without a Trace"

* 2006: Christian Clemenson – "Boston Legal"
** Kyle Chandler – "Grey's Anatomy"
** Henry Ian Cusick – "Lost"
** Michael J. Fox – "Boston Legal"
** James Woods – "ER"

* 2007: John Goodman – "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"
** Christian Clemenson – "Boston Legal"
** Tim Daly – "The Sopranos"
** David Morse – "House"
** Eli Wallach – "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"
** Forest Whitaker – "ER"

* 2008: Glynn Turman – "In Treatment"
** Charles Durning – "Rescue Me"
** Robert Morse – "Mad Men"
** Oliver Platt – "Nip/Tuck"
** Stanley Tucci – "ER"
** Robin Williams – "