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.

Filmography

• 2017The Beautiful Ones — Dante Gabriel Tancredi
• 2016Chief Zabu — Skip Keisel
• 2014The Town that Dreaded Sundown — Sheriff Underwood
• 2012The Fitzgerald Family Christmas — Jim "Big Jim" Fitzgerald
• 2012Trouble with the Curve — Max
• 2011Carnal Innocence — Austin Hatinger
• Shameless — Dick Healey
• 2011The Artist — Peppy's Butler
• 2010The Frankenstein Syndrome — Dr. Walton
• 2009Expecting a Miracle — Walter Enright
• 2009Godspeed — Mitch
• 2008Camille — Sheriff Steiner
• 2008Something's Wrong in Kansas — Amos
• 2007Seraphim Falls — Parsons
• 2007The Number 23 — Father Sebastian
• 2007The Prince and the Pauper: The Movie — Pop
• Psych — Ed Dykstra
• 2006Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby — John Hanafin (uncredited)
• 2006The Lost — Ed Anderson
• 2005Brothers in Arms — Mayor Crawley
• Grey's Anatomy — Timothy Miller
• 2005Into the Fire — Captain Dave Cutler
• 2005Purple Heart — Civilian
• 2005The Longest Yard — Duane
• The Office — Sam Stone, Sr.
• 2004Art Heist — Victor Boyd
• 2004Grandpa's Place — Grandpa
• 2004Nobody Knows Anything! — Gun Expert
• 2004Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation — General J.G. Shepherd
• 2004The Librarians — John Strong
• Cold Case — Shep 'Mack' McAvoy (2008)
• 2003Gentleman B. — Harry Koslow
• 2003Seabiscuit — Charles Strub
• 2002Go for Broke — Warden Lessen
• 2001Not Another Teen Movie — The Coach
• 2000Blast — Swenson
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Barclay Tobin
• 2000Civility — Detective Erickson
• 2000Farewell, My Love — Sergei Karpov
• 2000Python — Pilot
• 2000Thirteen Days — Gen. Marshall Carter
• 1999Night of Terror — Father Connelly
• 1999Out in Fifty — Ed Walker
• 1998A Bright Shining Lie — General Weyand
• Charmed — Sutter
• 1998Dollar for the Dead — Jacob Colby
• The Magnificent Seven — Hank Conley
• 1997Allie & Me — Detective Frank Richards
• 1997Childhood Sweetheart? — Sheriff Bowman
• 1997Married to a Stranger — Harry, Megan's Father
• 1997Top of the World — Mel Ridgefield
• 1997Under Wraps — Kubat
• 1996Coyote Summer — Mitchell Foster
• 1996Mercenary — Jack Cochran
• Millennium — Warden Kellard
• 1996Mulholland Falls — Earl
• 1996Rattled — Murray Hendershot
• 1996Raven Hawk — Sheriff Daggert
• 1996The Sweeper — Molls
• 1995Breach of Trust — Colin Kreuger
• Can't Hurry Love — Officer
• 1995Digital Man — Gen Roberts
• 1995Girl in the Cadillac — Ben Wilmer
• 1995Leaving Las Vegas — Mobster 3
• 1995The Tuskegee Airmen — General Stevenson
• ER — Fire Captain Dannaker
• 1994Secret Sins of the Father — Arnold Carter
• 1994Trial by Jury — John Boyle
• 1994Wagons East! — John Slade
• 1993Extreme Justice — Captain Shafer
• Homicide: Life on the Street — Gruszynski
• Kung Fu: The Legend Continues — Lars Paladin
• 1993Murder So Sweet — Glen Emory
• 1993The Return of Ironside — Chief Bell
• The X-Files — Col. Marcus Aurelius Belt
• 1993True Romance — Police Captain Quiggle (uncredited)
• 1993Under Investigation — Captain Maguire
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Silas Bedoe
• 1992Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story — Lieutenant Driscoll
• Highlander: The Series — Avery Hoskins
• 1992Judgement — Dallas Hale
• Renegade — Jack Barnell
• 1992School Ties — Alan Greene
• 1991Golden Years — Gen. Louis Crewes
• Golden Years — Gen. Louis Crewes
• 1991The Rocketeer — Fitch
• 1990Kojak: Flowers For Matty — Police Armorer
• Law & Order — Defense Counsel Glick
• 1990My Blue Heaven — Underwood
• Booker — Kendall
• 1989Born on the Fourth of July — Legion Commander
• 1989Fat Man and Little Boy — Whitney Ashbridge
• 1989Gleaming the Cube — Mr. Kelly
• 1989Tennessee Nights — Sheriff Williams
• Monsters — Malcolm
• 1987Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise — Buzz Mussinger
• Star Trek: The Next Generation — Lt. Cmdr. Albert
• 19863:15 the Moment of Truth — Moran
• 1986Double Image — Jerry Tyler
• 1986Firefighter — B.C. Thompson
• 1986Raw Deal — Baker
• 1986The Defiant Ones — Sheriff Leroy Doyle
• 1986The Last Days of Patton — Dr. Lt.Col. Paul S. Hill
• 1986The Thanksgiving Promise — Coach Gruniger
• 1986Youngblood — Murray Chadwick
• 1985Death Wish 3 — Insp. Richard S. Shriker
• 1985Girls Just Want to Have Fun — Colonel Glenn
• 1985Real Genius — CIA Man Decker
• Screen Two — Jerry Tyler
• The Equalizer — Walter Rowan, Robert Nichols
• Crazy like a Fox — Lanslow
• 1984Finders Keepers — Josef Sirola
• 1984Lassiter — Smoke
• Miami Vice — Capt. Cahill
• Murder, She Wrote — Sheriff Orville Yates
• 1984Nickel Mountain — W.D. Freund
• 1984The Cartier Affair — Lyndon Dean
• 1984The Seduction of Gina — Carl
• 1984The Three Wishes of Billy Grier — Mr. Grier
• Automan — Michael Hagedorn
• 1983Cujo — Joe Camber
• 1983Eureka — Charles Perkins
• Hardcastle and McCormick — Rick Vetromile
• Manimal — Col. Hunt
• The A-Team — Sheriff Hank Thomson, Major Douglas Kyle
• 1983The Big Score — Parks
• 1982In the Custody of Strangers — Judge Halloran
• 1982Rooster — Jack Claggert
• St. Elsewhere — Stan Morgen
• 1982Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann — Padre
• 1981Death Hunt — Hazel
• Nero Wolfe — Clay Baylor
• Simon & Simon — Col. Lawrence Grayson
• 1981The Amateur — Anderson
• 1980Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story — Frank Morris
• Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story — Frank Morris
• Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones — Jim Jones, Sr.
• Magnum, P.I. — Captain Quintin
• 1980The Boy Who Drank Too Much — Gus Carpenter
• 1980The Jericho Mile — Jerry Beliot
• 1979Love's Savage Fury — Sgt. Weed
• 1979Undercover with the KKK — Raleigh Porter
• 1978Loose Shoes — Sheriff Bob
• 1978Magic — Duke
• 1978The Clone Master — Bender
• 1978The Story of Noah — Ularat
• 1977The Chicken Chronicles — Mr. Nastase
• 1977The White Buffalo — Tom Custer
• Charlie's Angels — Lt. Howard Fine
• 1976Family Plot — Joseph Maloney
• 1976King Kong — Carnahan
• 1975A Shadow in the Streets — Siggy Taylor
• Baretta — Ed Borgue
• 1975Breakheart Pass — Major Claremont
• 1975French Connection II — General William Brian
• Kate McShane — Phil Baines
• 1975Last Hours Before Morning — Bud Delaney
• 1975Satan's Triangle — Strickland
• Kodiak — Brook Spencer
• 1974The Godchild — Crees
• 1974The Longest Yard — Captain Knauer
• 1974The Midnight Man — Leroy
• 1974The Migrants — Mr. Barlow
• The Rockford Files — Joseph Bloomberg
• 1973Class of '63 — Dave McKay
• 1973Executive Action — Operations Chief - Team A
• Kojak — Floyd
• 1973Lolly-Madonna XXX — Hawk Feather
• Police Story — Ralph Coleman / Joseph Kinsella
• 1973The Last American Hero — Burton Colt
• 1972Bad Company — Orin
• 1972Dirty Little Billy — Tyler
• 1972Hickey & Boggs — Ted
• 1972Rage — Simpson
• 1972The Magnificent Seven Ride! — Scott Elliot
• 1972The New Centurions — Galloway
• The Streets of San Francisco — Doctor Joseph Ford
• The Waltons — Hyder Rudge
• Cannon — Deputy
• Hawaii Five-O — Jonas Halloran
• Ironside — Sergeant
• Mannix — Sergeant

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2012Casting By — Self
• 2012La Classe américaine — Self
• 1973The Moviemakers — Self (uncredited)
• Film '72 — Self