William Lucking (June 17, 1941 – October 18, 2021) was an American film, television, and stage actor best known for his role as Piney Winston in the FX series "Sons of Anarchy" and for portraying Col. Lynch in the 1980s TV show "The A-Team". His long career included playing tough bikers, cowboys, and military or police officers in films such as "The Magnificent Seven Ride!," "Stripes," "The Limey," "Erin Brockovich," and "The Rundown". He appeared in numerous TV shows including "Mission: Impossible," "The Waltons," "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," "The X-Files," and "West Wing". A UCLA and Pasadena Playhouse graduate, Lucking co-founded the Santa Paula Theater Center where he served as artistic director and produced various stage works. He was married twice and passed away at the age of 80 in Las Vegas.

Filmography

• 2012Contraband — Bud Farraday
• Switched at Birth — Bill Kennish
• Sons of Anarchy — Piermont 'Piney' Winston
• The Mentalist — Judge Hildred
• Smith
• Commander in Chief — Harry McHenry
• Night Stalker — Gorn
• 2005The World's Fastest Indian — Rolly Free
• Hustle — Harry Doyle
• Cold Case — Tom McCree
• 2003The Rundown — Walker
• 2002Red Dragon — Byron Metcalf
• 2001K-PAX — Sheriff
• Star Trek: Enterprise — Harrad-Sar
• The Division — Gus Evans
• 2000Erin Brockovich — Bob Linwood
• 1999The Last Best Sunday — Sheriff Weaks
• 1999The Limey — Warehouse Foreman
• The West Wing — Bobby Russo
• 1998Judas Kiss — Wally
• Martial Law — Patrick Rafferty
• 1998The Christmas Path — Santa Claus
• Mike Hammer, Private Eye
• 1996Her Last Chance — Detective #1
• Millennium — Detective Thomas
• Pacific Blue — Larson
• Profiler — Gibson
• The Pretender — Lt. Chomsky
• 1996The Rich Man's Wife — Detective (uncredited)
• 1996The Trigger Effect — Pharmacist
• 1995A Father for Charlie — Argus
• JAG — Harry Drax, Stu Pope
• 1995Sleepstalker — Detective Bronson Worth
• ER — Kenny Brannigan
• 1994The Man Who Wouldn't Die — Captain (uncredited)
• 1994The River Wild — Frank
• Vanishing Son — Charlie Garbett
• 1993Extreme Justice — Cusak
• 1993Murder So Sweet — Detective Sandy Harris
• 1993Rescue Me — Kurt
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Furel
• The X-Files — Roky Crikenson
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Capt. Shankley
• Renegade
• 1991Babe Ruth — Brother Matthias
• 1991Hell Hath No Fury
• Silk Stalkings — Director
• 1990False Identity — Frank Calovich
• 1990Parker Kane — Chuck Dumby
• 1990Sparks: The Price of Passion — Cam Wilson
• 1989Naked Lie — Webster
• 1989The Forgotten — Colonel Jack Westford
• 1988Ladykillers — Capt. Bucholtz
• Jake and the Fatman
• 1986Kung Fu: The Movie — Deputy Wyatt
• Outlaws — Harland Pike
• 1986That Secret Sunday
• 1985J.O.E. and the Colonel — Colonel H.C. 'Hard Core' Fleming
• Hunter — Jack Chance
• Murder, She Wrote — Bo Dixon, Lt. Roy Quinlan, Sheriff Barnes, Charles Foret, Sheriff Leland Waterman
• 1983M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers — Officer McKnight
• The A-Team — Col. Lynch
• Knight Rider — Redmond
• Matt Houston
• Newhart — Corrections Officer
• T. J. Hooker — Jack Clayton
• Tales of the Gold Monkey
• The Blue and the Gray — Captain Potts
• Voyagers!
• Shannon — Det. Norm White
• Simon & Simon — Police Det. Frank Lunden
• 1981Stripes — Recruiter
• The Greatest American Hero — Robert Alan Kline
• 1980Coast to Coast — Jules
• Hagen
• Magnum, P.I. — Sam Hunter
• Power — Sham Murphy
• 1980The Last Song — Det. Colin
• 1980The Mountain Men — Jim Walter
• 1980The Ninth Configuration — Highway Patrolman
• 197910 — Policeman
• 1979Captain America II: Death Too Soon — Stader
• Hart to Hart — Vince
• The French Atlantic Affair — Don Crawford
• 1978Colorado C.I. — Niles
• 1978Dr. Scorpion — Whitey Ullman
• 1978Happily Ever After — Lewis Gordon
• Vega$
• Big Hawaii — Oscar Kalahani
• CHiPs
• 1977Danger in Paradise — Oscar
• How the West Was Won — Kenyon
• Lou Grant
• The Incredible Hulk — Harlen Bates
• 1977The San Pedro Bums — Turk
• 1976Birch Interval — Charlie
• 1976Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence — George
• 1976The Return of a Man Called Horse — Tom Gryce
• 1975Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze — Col. John 'Renny' Renwick
• 1975Force Five — Vic Bauer
• 1975Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley — The Captain
• S.W.A.T.
• Chopper One — Deetzer
• 1974Hog Wild — Vern
• Kodiak — Dave
• Police Woman — Charlie Joe Lightfoot
• 1974The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder — Harmer
• The Rockford Files — Pete Kolodny
• 1973Blood Sport — Dennis Birdsong
• 1973Oklahoma Crude — Marion
• Kung Fu — Quade
• M*A*S*H — Urbancic
• 1972The Magnificent Seven Ride! — Walt Drummond
• The Rookies
• The Waltons
• Columbo — Dominic Doyle
• 1971Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You — Lt. Summers
• 1971The Todd Killings
• 1971Wild Rovers — Ruff
• The Partridge Family — Sweeney
• 1969Hell's Belles — Gippo
• Lancer
• The Name of the Game — Gruber
• Ironside — Thomas Flagg
• Mannix — Jimmy Cousins
• The High Chaparral — Gait
• The Second Hundred Years — Workman #2
• Gunsmoke — Esau Wakefield
• The Wonderful World of Disney — Vern

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2008Dreaming Slipstream Dream — Self