Biography
Dennis Lipscomb (March 1, 1942 - July 30, 2014) was an American actor. Lipscomb's first feature film was Union City (1980). From the early 1980s to the 1990s, Lipscomb appeared in key roles in various motion pictures including Love Child (1982), WarGames (1983), Eyes of Fire (1983), The Day After (1983), A Soldier's Story (1984), Crossroads (1986), Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987), Retribution (1987), Sister, Sister (1987), The First Power (1990) and Under Siege (1992). Lipscomb also had a recurr...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Medicine Show
2001
as Dr. Votkiff
A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and w...
Mystery Kids
2000
as Book Collector
Twelve-year-old mystery writer Geneva is putting her detective skills to work on a real-live case. With her best friend, Tommy, the super-sleuths work...
Apollo 11: First Steps on the Moon
1996
as George Low
Fearful that the Russians would continue their lead in the space race and be the first to put a man on the moon, NASA felt an enormous pressure to pus...
Automatic
1995
as Raymond Hammer
Robgen industries newest security system is "The J Series Automatic", an android model designed and programmed to protect humans from violent attacks....
Without Warning
1994
as Dr. Richard Pearson
A television program is interupted by a news network announcing that three meteors have hit the United States, France and China. At first it seems nat...
The Force
1994
as Sykes
When a police officer is killed in the line of duty, his soul enters into the body of a young officer to seek revenge for his murder. However, when th...
Undercover Blues
1993
as Foster
When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decid...
Curaçao
1993
as Henry Rawlings
Cornelius Wettering and Stephen Guerin are expatriates living in Curaçao. They're bound together by an understanding that each is hiding from a danger...
Under Siege
1992
as Trenton
A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've plann...
Rewrite for Murder
1991
as Nelson Reiderman
Unaired CBS television pilot from 1991 starring George Clooney and Pam Dawber was an attempt at a breezy comedy/mystery in the style of Moonlighting a...
Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
1991
as Max LeMar
David Katz is a world famous magician and he comes to Denver with his group to perform for a charity gala for disabled children. Also there is Perry a...
The First Power
1990
as Commander Perkins
A dedicated L.A. police detective and a female psychic must stop a demonic serial killer who was given the powers of resurrection, teleportation and p...
Prime Target
1989
as Officer Rodney
A homicide detective assigned to investigate the serial killings of New York policewomen begins to suspect that the serial killer might be a fellow po...
She Knows Too Much
1989
as Ivan Fletcher
In this comedy-drama set in Washington, D.C., an ex-burglar and a dumbbell detective must team up to solve several puzzling murders.
Retribution
1987
as George Miller
After a depressed artist miraculously survives a suicide attempt, a series of horrific murders leads him to realize he may have been possessed by the ...
Sister, Sister
1987
as Cleve Doucet
Sisters Charlotte and Lucy Bonnard live together in the gloomy Louisiana family mansion that they’ve turned into a boarding house. But when a mysterio...
Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit
1987
as Michael Light
Jordan White, a publisher friend of Perry, is called to a hotel where a guest, famous horror writer David Hall, has cleared out the hotel for a weeken...
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
1987
as Lieutenant Hutchison
This is the story of Lenell Geter, an engineer who was accused and convicted of armed robbery. Because he had such faith in the system, he thought tha...
Slow Burn
1986
as Ron McDonald
Jacob Asch is hired by Gerald McMurty to find his ex-wife Laine and their son in Palm Springs. Jacob finds Laine and a teenager named Donnie who may o...
Crossroads
1986
as Lloyd
A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.
The Blue Yonder
1985
as Finch
A young boy, who dreams of meeting the grandfather he never knew gets his chance, when an inventor friend constructs a time machine. After arriving in...
A Soldier's Story
1984
as Captain Taylor
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also...
Call to Glory
1984
as Child Psychologist
Colonel Raynor Sarnac has to balance his family and his duty as head of a flight group facing the political tensions of the early 60's. Actual histori...
The Day After
1983
as Reverend Walker
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue thei...
Eyes of Fire
1983
as Rev. Will Smythe
In 1750, an adulterous preacher is ejected from a small British colony with his motley crew of followers, who make their way downriver to establish a ...
WarGames
1983
as Watson
High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwitt...
Farrell: For the People
1982
as Jed Carter
Adventures of the DA's new lady assistant.
Love Child
1982
as Arthur Brady
It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on accou...
Penitentiary II
1982
as Announcer
An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when one of his prison enemies escapes and kills his g...
Union City
1980
as Harlan
A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.
Le Grand Silence
1977
as Benny Lansing
Preparing for an evening out, the sexual tension between Armande and Benny turns sour, Benny's ulterior motives for their union subtley apparent.