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
2014
as Floyd Marley
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
2009
as Eugene Hamilton
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
2009
as Radio Announcer (voice)
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
2007
as Peter
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
2005
as Judge
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
1998
as The Big Lebowski
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
1997
as Sheriff Dawkins
A community is shocked to learn that their new neighbor is a convicted sex offender who has been paroled.

Joe's Apartment
1996
as P.I. Smith
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
1995
as Jack "Mad Dog" Pierce (uncredited)
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
1993
as Herr Corcoran
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
1992
as Self
Documentary on the life and career of James Cagney

Margaret Bourke-White
1989
as Remis
A biographical account of pioneering photographer Margaret Bourke-White's career.

The Tracker
1988
as Lane Crawford
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
1988
as Peter
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
1986
as Doc Ross
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
1986
as Vicar McCaffrey
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
1985
as Santa Claus
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
1985
as Santa Claus
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
1985
as Jack Archer
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
1984
as Corky
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
1983
as Steve Blankenship
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
1983
as Tiger, Chef des C. I. A.
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
1982
as Edgar Watson
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
1982
as Chief Sorrenson
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
1981
as Sen. Chester Winfield
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
1981
as J.D. Hines
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
1980
as John Conn
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
1980
as Walrus
Pranksters cause trouble at a summer camp for rich kids.

Zero to Sixty
1978
as Harold Finch
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
1978
as Sheriff
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
1977
as Bakery Owner
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
1977
as Hollis Peaker
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
1977
as Cruikshank
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
1977
as Captain McBride
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
1976
as Inspector Lafferty NYPD
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
1976
as Bearde
Two adventurers set sail to find a giant man-eating great white shark.

Breakheart Pass
1975
as Dr. Molyneux
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
1974
as Mayor Hardy Riddle
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
1974
as Pete Carroll aka Barnett
A newlywed couple seek revenge after narrowly surviving a savage attack in rural Louisiana.

The Gun and the Pulpit
1974
as Mr. Ross
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
1974
as Copeland
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
1974
as Olson Johnson
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!
1974
as Arnold Brady
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
1974
as Pinky
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
1973
as Jack Dawson
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
1973
as Angus Wages
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
1972
as Big Joe
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
1971
as Sheriff Ep Bridges
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
1971
as Ed McCaskey
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
1971
as Malachi Morton
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
1971
as Bennie
A newly divorced man finds it difficult to get used to the single world.

The Priest Killer
1971
as Harrison Davis
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
1971
as Homer Grindstaff
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
1971
as Tyler
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
1970
as Self
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
1970
as Uncle Lonnie
A Vietnam veteran returns to his Texas home but feels restless and decides to become a radio singer.

Rio Lobo
1970
as Dr. Ivor Jones
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.

Slaves
1969
as Holland
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
1968
as Man in Bar (uncredited)
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
1964
Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.

All the Way Home
1963
as Small Part (uncredited)
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...