David Huddleston

David Huddleston

1930-09-17 Vinton, Virginia, USA 61 Credits

Biography

David William Huddleston (September 17, 1930 – August 2, 2016) was an American actor. An Emmy Award nominee, Huddleston had a prolific television career, and appeared in many films, including Rio Lobo, Blazing Saddles, Crime Busters, Santa Claus: The Movie, and The Big Lebowski.

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Locker 13

Locker 13

2014

as Floyd Marley

6.5
Acting

The story of Skip, a young ex-convict who takes a position as a night janitor at an old-west theme park. His supervisor Archie, teaches him the ropes,...

A Very Sunny Christmas

A Very Sunny Christmas

2009

as Eugene Hamilton

8.1
Acting

Dennis and Dee decide to teach Frank a lesson "A Christmas Carol"-style, and Mac and Charlie learn some shocking things about their childhood Christma...

Saving Grace B. Jones

Saving Grace B. Jones

2009

as Radio Announcer (voice)

5.8
Acting

In a 1950s-era Missouri town the life of a couple is thrown into chaos when the husband's sister is released from the local asylum and comes to live w...

Postal

Postal

2007

as Peter

4.6
Acting

The story begins with a regular Joe who tries desperately to seek employment, but embarks on a violent rampage when he teams up with cult leader Uncle...

The Producers

The Producers

2005

as Judge

6.2
Acting

Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming wealthy old biddies to invest in a production many times...

The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski

1998

as The Big Lebowski

7.8
Acting

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelc...

The Man Next Door

The Man Next Door

1997

as Sheriff Dawkins

3.0
Acting

A community is shocked to learn that their new neighbor is a convicted sex offender who has been paroled.

Joe's Apartment

Joe's Apartment

1996

as P.I. Smith

5.8
Acting

A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.

Something to Talk About

Something to Talk About

1995

as Jack "Mad Dog" Pierce (uncredited)

5.7
Acting

Grace King Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie is deceiving her with another woman. After confronting...

Life with Mikey

Life with Mikey

1993

as Herr Corcoran

5.7
Acting

Michael Chapman, a former child TV star, runs a struggling talent agency specilizing in child acts. When a young girl off the street puts on a real pe...

James Cagney: Top of the World

James Cagney: Top of the World

1992

as Self

10.0
Acting

Documentary on the life and career of James Cagney

Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White

1989

as Remis

Acting

A biographical account of pioneering photographer Margaret Bourke-White's career.

The Tracker

The Tracker

1988

as Lane Crawford

5.7
Acting

After a series of vicious crimes by a renegade group of cowboys, led by "Red Jack" Stilwell, a legendary tracker, Noble Adams is pulled out of retirem...

Frantic

Frantic

1988

as Peter

6.7
Acting

The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicat...

Spot Marks the X

Spot Marks the X

1986

as Doc Ross

4.0
Acting

A dog trained to be a thief is the only member of a gang of bank robbers who knows where a quarter of a million dollars is hidden.

When the Bough Breaks

When the Bough Breaks

1986

as Vicar McCaffrey

5.5
Acting

A Los Angeles psychiatrist testifies for the prosecution in the trial of an accused child molester. Later the defendant, who is out on bail, is found ...

Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie

Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie

1985

as Santa Claus

5.0
Acting

This behind-the-scenes documentary follows Team Salkind as they set out to bring Santa's "true" story to the screen. Dudley Moore (Patch) hosts; David...

Santa Claus: The Movie

Santa Claus: The Movie

1985

as Santa Claus

6.3
Acting

In ancient times, a man named Claus, who delivers toys in his small village, fulfils his destiny to become Santa Claus after meeting an expert toy-mak...

Finnegan Begin Again

Finnegan Begin Again

1985

as Jack Archer

6.3
Acting

A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.

The Act

The Act

1984

as Corky

2.0
Acting

Blackmail, a complex heist, and political snakery collide into a complicated caper full of disguises and surprises, where it's never clear who's reall...

M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers

M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers

1983

as Steve Blankenship

7.0
Acting

A mother relentlessly tries to spearhead a movement for national anti-drunk driver legislation after her own daughter becomes the victim of a hit-and-...

Go for It

Go for It

1983

as Tiger, Chef des C. I. A.

7.0
Acting

After Doug picks up hitchhiking Rosco with his truck, they are mistaken for two bank robbers by the traffic police. They manage to escape only to be ...

Amy and the Angel

Amy and the Angel

1982

as Edgar Watson

5.5
Acting

Amy, a depressed seventeen year old high school girl, is visited by her guardian angel Oliver after wishing she had never been born. Oliver shows Amy ...

Computercide

Computercide

1982

as Chief Sorrenson

6.0
Acting

The year is 1995 and Michael Stringer is the only private eye left on Earth. One day, he is assigned by a woman to investigate Eden Isle, a complex fo...

Family Reunion

Family Reunion

1981

as Sen. Chester Winfield

8.0
Acting

Elizabeth Winfield is a retired teacher, who desperately tries to keep her family together. While she's traveling through the country and meeting her...

The Oklahoma City Dolls

The Oklahoma City Dolls

1981

as J.D. Hines

1.0
Acting

Susan Blakey plays Sally Jo Purkey, a factory worker who leads a rebellion among her co-workers for equal rights by forming a company football team fo...

Smokey and the Bandit II

Smokey and the Bandit II

1980

as John Conn

5.5
Acting

The Bandit goes on another cross-country run, transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas. And, once again, Sheriff Buford T. Justice is on his tai...

Gorp

Gorp

1980

as Walrus

3.3
Acting

Pranksters cause trouble at a summer camp for rich kids.

Zero to Sixty

Zero to Sixty

1978

as Harold Finch

4.7
Acting

A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.

Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid

Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid

1978

as Sheriff

5.0
Acting

A turn-of-the-century investigator named Kate Bliss goes to the wide-open spaces of the wild west to capture a gang of outlaws led by a charming "Robi...

The World's Greatest Lover

The World's Greatest Lover

1977

as Bakery Owner

5.6
Acting

When frustrated movie studio mogul Adolph Zitz announces a talent search for a romantic leading man to rival the great Rudolph Valentino, thousands of...

Capricorn One

Capricorn One

1977

as Hollis Peaker

6.8
Acting

In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing....

The Greatest

The Greatest

1977

as Cruikshank

5.7
Acting

Muhammad Ali's life story up to the late 1970s, which includes his Olympic boxing triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of th...

Crime Busters

Crime Busters

1977

as Captain McBride

7.0
Acting

An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.

Sherlock Holmes in New York

Sherlock Holmes in New York

1976

as Inspector Lafferty NYPD

5.8
Acting

An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old ne...

Shark Kill

Shark Kill

1976

as Bearde

5.0
Acting

Two adventurers set sail to find a giant man-eating great white shark.

Breakheart Pass

Breakheart Pass

1975

as Dr. Molyneux

6.6
Acting

At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passeng...

The Klansman

The Klansman

1974

as Mayor Hardy Riddle

5.7
Acting

A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young white woman has been raped by a black man. When young black man Garth witnesses the K...

Nightmare Honeymoon

Nightmare Honeymoon

1974

as Pete Carroll aka Barnett

5.0
Acting

A newlywed couple seek revenge after narrowly surviving a savage attack in rural Louisiana.

The Gun and the Pulpit

The Gun and the Pulpit

1974

as Mr. Ross

5.9
Acting

In the days of the "Wild West," a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush. F...

Billy Two Hats

Billy Two Hats

1974

as Copeland

5.7
Acting

After a bank robbery, runaway Scottish outlaw Arch Deans and his young half-breed Kiowa partner Billy Two Hats develop a father-son relationship, but ...

Blazing Saddles

Blazing Saddles

1974

as Olson Johnson

7.2
Acting

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his h...

Heatwave!

Heatwave!

1974

as Arnold Brady

5.9
Acting

A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by escaping to a mountain resort town.

McQ

McQ

1974

as Pinky

6.1
Acting

Police Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated dr...

Brock's Last Case

Brock's Last Case

1973

as Jack Dawson

4.0
Acting

A New York City cop who has retired to a small Western town is drawn into the local case of an Indian who is accused of murdering a sheriff.

Country Blue

Country Blue

1973

as Angus Wages

4.3
Acting

Bobby Lee (Jack Conrad) has just been released from jail and wants to make a better life for he and girlfriend Ruthie (Rita George).

Bad Company

Bad Company

1972

as Big Joe

6.5
Acting

After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with...

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

1971

as Sheriff Ep Bridges

7.2
Acting

It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in th...

Brian's Song

Brian's Song

1971

as Ed McCaskey

7.2
Acting

Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.

Something Big

Something Big

1971

as Malachi Morton

5.2
Acting

Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wa...

Suddenly Single

Suddenly Single

1971

as Bennie

1.0
Acting

A newly divorced man finds it difficult to get used to the single world.

The Priest Killer

The Priest Killer

1971

as Harrison Davis

Acting

A police chief who is confined to a wheelchair and a former cop who is now a priest team up to discover who has been committing a series of murders of...

Fools' Parade

Fools' Parade

1971

as Homer Grindstaff

6.8
Acting

When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a general store using money Mattie has saved during his ...

Sarge: The Badge or the Cross

Sarge: The Badge or the Cross

1971

as Tyler

Acting

After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he me...

Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo

Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo

1970

as Self

Acting

George Plimpton got a job playing one of the bad guys in the Howard Hawks-directed John Wayne Western "Rio Lobo." In this special we see him talking t...

Norwood

Norwood

1970

as Uncle Lonnie

5.6
Acting

A Vietnam veteran returns to his Texas home but feels restless and decides to become a radio singer.

Rio Lobo

Rio Lobo

1970

as Dr. Ivor Jones

6.4
Acting

After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.

Slaves

Slaves

1969

as Holland

5.7
Acting

A Kentucky slave (Davis) fights for his freedom from a cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins him and the other slaves in their revolt.

A Lovely Way to Die

A Lovely Way to Die

1968

as Man in Bar (uncredited)

4.5
Acting

A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's mu...

Black Like Me

Black Like Me

1964

5.9
Acting

Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.

All the Way Home

All the Way Home

1963

as Small Part (uncredited)

6.5
Acting

In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure t...