Portrait of Ed Lauter

Ed Lauter

Acting

Biography

Ed Lauter ( October 30, 1938 – October 16, 2013) was an American actor. His films include The Last American Hero (1973), The Longest Yard (1974), King Kong (1976), Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987), School Ties (1992), True Romance (1993), Not Another Teen Movie (2001), Purple Heart (2005), Camille (2007), and A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper(2007). Lauter's TV guest appearances include performances on Psych, The X-Files, Kojak, The A-Team, Booker, Charmed, Highlander: The Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation (as Lt. Cmdr. Albert in the season 5 episode "The First Duty"),The Equalizer and ER (with a recurring role as Fire Captain Dannaker). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ed Lauter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: October 30, 1938

Place of Birth: Long Beach, Long Island, New York, USA

Filmography

2017
The Beautiful Ones

as Dante Gabriel Tancredi

2014
The Town that Dreaded Sundown

as Sheriff Underwood

2012
Casting By

as Self

2012
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas

as Jim "Big Jim" Fitzgerald

2011
The Artist

as Peppy's Butler

2011
Carnal Innocence

as Austin Hatinger

2011
Shameless

as Dick Healey

2010
2009
Expecting a Miracle

as Walter Enright

2009
Godspeed

as Mitch

2008
Camille

as Sheriff Steiner

2007
The Number 23

as Father Sebastian

2007
Seraphim Falls

as Parsons

2006
2006
Psych

as Ed Dykstra

2006
The Lost

as Ed Anderson

2005
Into the Fire

as Captain Dave Cutler

2005
2005
Grey's Anatomy

as Timothy Miller

2005
The Office

as Sam Stone, Sr.

2005
Purple Heart

as Civilian

2004
The Librarians

as John Strong

2004
2004
Grandpa's Place

as Grandpa

2004
Art Heist

as Victor Boyd

2003
Cold Case

as Shep 'Mack' McAvoy (2008)

2003
Seabiscuit

as Charles Strub

2003
Gentleman B.

as Harry Koslow

2002
Go for Broke

as Warden Lessen

2001
2000
Thirteen Days

as Gen. Marshall Carter

2000
Civility

as Detective Erickson

2000
2000
Python

as Pilot

2000
Blast

as Swenson

2000
Farewell, My Love

as Sergei Karpov

1999
Night of Terror

as Father Connelly

1999
Out in Fifty

as Ed Walker

1998
Dollar for the Dead

as Jacob Colby

1998
Charmed

as Sutter

1998
A Bright Shining Lie

as General Weyand

1998
The Magnificent Seven

as Hank Conley

1997
Under Wraps

as Kubat

1997
Allie & Me

as Detective Frank Richards

1997
Top of the World

as Mel Ridgefield

1996
Millennium

as Warden Kellard

1996
Mercenary

as Jack Cochran

1996
Raven Hawk

as Sheriff Daggert

1996
The Sweeper

as Molls

1996
1996
Rattled

as Murray Hendershot

1996
Coyote Summer

as Mitchell Foster

1995
Leaving Las Vegas

as Mobster 3

1995
1995
1995
Digital Man

as Gen Roberts

1995
Breach of Trust

as Colin Kreuger

1994
ER

as Fire Captain Dannaker

1994
Trial by Jury

as John Boyle

1994
Wagons East!

as John Slade

1994
1993
Under Investigation

as Captain Maguire

1993
The X-Files

as Col. Marcus Aurelius Belt

1993
True Romance

as Police Captain Quiggle (uncredited)

1993
Extreme Justice

as Captain Shafer

1993
1993
Walker, Texas Ranger

as Silas Bedoe

1993
Murder So Sweet

as Glen Emory

1992
Highlander: The Series

as Avery Hoskins

1992
Renegade

as Jack Barnell

1992
School Ties

as Alan Greene

1992
Judgement

as Dallas Hale

1991
Golden Years

as Gen. Louis Crewes

1991
Golden Years

as Gen. Louis Crewes

1991
1990
Law & Order

as Defense Counsel Glick

1990
My Blue Heaven

as Underwood

1990
Kojak: Flowers For Matty

as Police Armorer

1989
Born on the Fourth of July

as Legion Commander

1989
Fat Man and Little Boy

as Whitney Ashbridge

1989
Booker

as Kendall

1989
Tennessee Nights

as Sheriff Williams

1989
Gleaming the Cube

as Mr. Kelly

1987
1986
The Last Days of Patton

as Dr. Lt.Col. Paul S. Hill

1986
The Thanksgiving Promise

as Coach Gruniger

1986
Firefighter

as B.C. Thompson

1986
Raw Deal

as Baker

1986
Double Image

as Jerry Tyler

1986
Youngblood

as Murray Chadwick

1986
The Defiant Ones

as Sheriff Leroy Doyle

1985
Death Wish 3

as Insp. Richard S. Shriker

1985
The Equalizer

as Walter Rowan

1985
The Equalizer

as Robert Nichols

1985
Real Genius

as CIA Man Decker

1985
1984
1984
The Cartier Affair

as Lyndon Dean

1984
Murder, She Wrote

as Sheriff Orville Yates

1984
Miami Vice

as Capt. Cahill

1984
Finders Keepers

as Josef Sirola

1984
Lassiter

as Smoke

1984
Nickel Mountain

as W.D. Freund

1983
Automan

as Michael Hagedorn

1983
Manimal

as Col. Hunt

1983
Hardcastle and McCormick

as Rick Vetromile

1983
Cujo

as Joe Camber

1983
Eureka

as Charles Perkins

1983
1983
The A-Team

as Sheriff Hank Thomson

1983
The A-Team

as Major Douglas Kyle

1982
St. Elsewhere

as Stan Morgen

1982
Rooster

as Jack Claggert

1982
1981
Nero Wolfe

as Clay Baylor

1981
The Amateur

as Anderson

1981
Simon & Simon

as Col. Lawrence Grayson

1981
Death Hunt

as Hazel

1980
Magnum, P.I.

as Captain Quintin

1980
The Jericho Mile

as Jerry Beliot

1980
1979
Undercover with the KKK

as Raleigh Porter

1979
Love's Savage Fury

as Sgt. Weed

1978
1978
Magic

as Duke

1978
1978
Loose Shoes

as Sheriff Bob

1977
1977
The White Buffalo

as Tom Custer

1976
Charlie's Angels

as Lt. Howard Fine

1976
King Kong

as Carnahan

1976
Family Plot

as Joseph Maloney

1975
Breakheart Pass

as Major Claremont

1975
Kate McShane

as Phil Baines

1975
French Connection II

as General William Brian

1975
1975
1975
Baretta

as Ed Borgue

1975
Satan's Triangle

as Strickland

1974
The Godchild

as Crees

1974
The Rockford Files

as Joseph Bloomberg

1974
Kodiak

as Brook Spencer

1974
The Longest Yard

as Captain Knauer

1974
1974
The Migrants

as Mr. Barlow

1973
Executive Action

as Operations Chief - Team A

1973
Kojak

as Floyd

1973
1973
Police Story

as Ralph Coleman / Joseph Kinsella

1973
Class of '63

as Dave McKay

1973
Lolly-Madonna XXX

as Hawk Feather

1973
The Moviemakers

as Self (uncredited)

1972
Rage

as Simpson

1972
1972
1972
1972
The Streets of San Francisco

as Doctor Joseph Ford

1972
The Waltons

as Hyder Rudge

1972
1972
1971
Cannon

as Deputy

1968
Hawaii Five-O

as Jonas Halloran

1967
Mannix

as Sergeant

1967
Ironside

as Sergeant