Charles Tyner
Acting
Biography
Charles Tyner (June 8, 1923 – November 8, 2017) was an American film, television and stage character actor best known, principally, for his performances in the films Harold and Maude (1971), Emperor of the North Pole (1973), The Stone Killer (1973), The Longest Yard (1974), Evilspeak (1982), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) and Pulse (1988).
Born: June 8, 1925
Place of Birth: Danville, Virginia, USA
Known For
The Wonder Years
The story of Kevin Arnold facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during the 1960s and 70s. Told through narration from an adult Kevin, Kevin faces the difficulties of maintaining relationships and friendships on his enthralling journey into adulthood.
Father Murphy
A good-hearted frontiersman poses as a priest to start an orphanage for a group of kids whose homes have been destroyed by an evil mining manager.
Little House on the Prairie
When the big woods of Wisconsin becomes a difficult spot for hunting, Charles Ingalls reluctantly decides to move his family, pioneering west. Their life on the farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s is full of adventure, tragedy, and triumph. Based on the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
ER
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
Fail Safe
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.
Cool Hand Luke
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
Kung Fu
The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
Harold and Maude
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.
The Outlaw Josey Wales
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
Jeremiah Johnson
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-on-one combat on the early frontier.
Filmography
as Barry Connelly
as Harry Clark
as Dying Man
as Man at Indian Burial Site
as Isaiah Cawley
as Old Man
as Mr. Nestor
as Harold, Cleve's father
as E.J. Metcalf
as Lyman Vunk
as George Clark
as Christopher Samus Payne
as Colonel Kincaid
as Joy's Father
as Doug Slocomb
as Asa Bluel
as Reverend Hutchins
as Lefty Slade
as Merle
as Zukie Limmer
as Wheeler
as Mr. Beaton
as Amos Goodloe
as Mr. Janes
as Unger
as Charley Eastman
as Ewing
as Police Psychiatrist
as Cracker
as Larraby
as Robidoux
as Pete Schroeder
as Stonemason
as Uncle Victor
as Les Gibbons
as Minister
as Hawley
as Virgil
as Doctor
as Mr. McClendon
as Charlie Bannister
as Edmonds
as Dr. Lazarus
as Dace
as Rudolph Evans
as Boss Higgins
as Jet Fighter Pilot (voice) (uncredited)
as Young Sharecropper Father (uncredited)