Ed Lauter

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-10-30 (75 years old)

Deathday

2013-10-16

Place of Birth

Long Beach, Long Island, New York, USA

Ed Lauter

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...

Acting

1989

Gleaming the Cube

as Mr. Kelly

1986

Raw Deal

as Baker

1975

French Connection II

as General William Brian

1983

Cujo

as Joe Camber

1996

1974

The Longest Yard

as Captain Knauer

1984

Finders Keepers

as Josef Sirola

1981

The Amateur

as Anderson

1997

Allie & Me

as Detective Frank Richards

1976

Family Plot

as Joseph Maloney

2008

Camille

as Sheriff Steiner

1972

1975

Breakheart Pass

as Major Claremont

1985

Death Wish 3

as Insp. Richard S. Shriker

2009

Godspeed

as Mitch

2006

1981

Death Hunt

as Hazel

2007

Seraphim Falls

as Parsons

1978

Magic

as Duke

1989

Fat Man and Little Boy

as Whitney Ashbridge

1973

Executive Action

as Operations Chief - Team A

1991

Golden Years

as Gen. Louis Crewes

1972

1983

Eureka

as Charles Perkins

1985

2010

1986

Double Image

as Jerry Tyler

1986

Youngblood

as Murray Chadwick

1977

The White Buffalo

as Tom Custer

1983

Manimal

as Col. Hunt

2012

Casting By

as Self

2000

Blast

as Swenson

2005

Purple Heart

as Civilian

2011

The Artist

as Peppy's Butler

1984

Lassiter

as Smoke

1972

1997

Under Wraps

as Kubat

1975

Satan's Triangle

as Strickland

1996

The Sweeper

as Molls

1983

1980

2012

The Fitzgerald Family Christmas

as Jim "Big Jim" Fitzgerald

1974

2003

The Librarians

as John Strong

1973

Lolly-Madonna XXX

as Hawk Feather

1977

2002

Go for Broke

as Warden Lessen

1996

Mercenary

as Jack Cochran

1982

1974

The Godchild

as Crees

1989

Tennessee Nights

as Sheriff Williams

1972

1973

1976

King Kong

as Carnahan

1972

Rage

as Simpson

1973

Class of '63

as Dave McKay

1995

Digital Man

as Gen Roberts

1992

Judgement

as Dallas Hale

2004

1997

Childhood Sweetheart?

as Sheriff Bowman

1993

Extreme Justice

as Captain Shafer

1991

1975

Shadow in the Street

as Siggy Taylor

1997

Married to a Stranger

as Harry, Megan's Father

1999

Out in Fifty

as Ed Walker

1972

1984

The Cartier Affair

as Lyndon Dean

2004

Grandpa's Place

as Grandpa

1975

1986

The Defiant Ones

as Sheriff Leroy Doyle

1995

Breach of Trust

as Colin Kreuger

1985

Real Genius

as CIA Man Decker

1995

2017

The Beautiful Ones

as Dante Gabriel Tancredi

2014

The Town that Dreaded Sundown

as Sheriff Underwood

1996

Rattled

as Murray Hendershot

1993

1996

Raven Hawk

as Sheriff Daggert

1993

Under Investigation

as Captain Maguire

2009

Expecting a Miracle

as Walter Enright

1990

My Blue Heaven

as Underwood

1978

1994

1989

Born on the Fourth of July

as Legion Commander

1979

Undercover with the KKK

as Raleigh Porter

1986

Firefighter

as B.C. Thompson

1996

Coyote Summer

as Mitchell Foster

2006

The Lost

as Ed Anderson

2007

The Number 23

as Father Sebastian

2004

Art Heist

as Victor Boyd

1994

Trial by Jury

as John Boyle

1986

The Last Days of Patton

as Dr. Lt.Col. Paul S. Hill

2005

Into the Fire

as Captain Dave Cutler

2016

Chief Zabu

as Skip Keisel

1993

True Romance

as Police Captain Quiggle (uncredited)

1979

Love's Savage Fury

as Sgt. Weed

1980

The Jericho Mile

as Jerry Beliot

2001

2000

Python

as Pilot

1974

The Migrants

as Mr. Barlow

2011

Carnal Innocence

as Austin Hatinger

2005

1978

1994

Wagons East!

as John Slade

1984

Nickel Mountain

as W.D. Freund

2003

Gentleman B.

as Harry Koslow

1992

School Ties

as Alan Greene

2000

Thirteen Days

as Gen. Marshall Carter

1995

Leaving Las Vegas

as Mobster 3

1998

A Bright Shining Lie

as General Weyand

2000

Farewell, My Love

as Sergei Karpov

1978

Loose Shoes

as Sheriff Bob

2000

Civility

as Detective Erickson

1997

Top of the World

as Mel Ridgefield

1998

Dollar for the Dead

as Jacob Colby

2003

Seabiscuit

as Charles Strub

1986

The Thanksgiving Promise

as Coach Gruniger

1999

Night of Terror

as Father Connelly

1982

Rooster

as Jack Claggert

1990

Kojak: Flowers For Matty

as Police Armorer

1993

Murder So Sweet

as Glen Emory

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