Biography
Joseph Whipp was born on July 12, 1941 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is an actor, known for A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Scream (1996) and Escape from Alcatraz (1979).
Known For
Complete Filmography

Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
2011
as Self
A year in the making, Still Screaming is the definitive documentary on the making of the iconic Scream movies. Dive into the fascinating success story...

Scream: The Inside Story
2011
as Self
In 1996, the horror master Wes Craven unleashed Scream, a slasher movie aimed at a whole new generation of teenage movie-goers.

World's End
2010
as Hungry Joe
Wes Keller is a young man living in a world where oil has collapsed, the food supply has been wiped out, and cancer rates for women have skyrocketed, ...

The Gold Bracelet
2008
When tragedy strikes on 9/11, Arjun Singh (Kavi Raz) and his family -- devout Sikhs who emigrated from India to the suburbs of Los Angeles -- suddenly...

The Job
2003
as The Man
CJ is a sexy, cold-blooded assassin who wants to quit the business. She agrees to carry out one last hit, but for the first time in her career as an a...

Par 6
2002
as Fat Henry
A cynical man returns to his family's homestead in Texas and starts up a golf course with his brothers and sisters.

A Place Called Truth
1998
as Sheriff Roy
Love, pride and jealousy are aroused when a ranch owner's daughter, called Lizzie, has an affair with a cowboy. Meanwhile a mysterious woman seduces t...

Get a Job
1998
as Pops
Jay is a young slacker who has to get a job in order to receive his inheritance. Rather than physically work, he fabricates an imaginary job in order ...

Scream
1996
as Sheriff Burke
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part o...

The Tomorrow Man
1996
as Security Chief
The android Kent is programmed to travel back in time and save humanity from its future. His way leads to earth, which is going to be destroyed by a g...

A Message from Holly
1992
Kate is a high-powered, workaholic executive who discreetly takes time off from her work to live with her artist friend Holly, who reveals she has ter...

The Nutt House
1992
as Doctor Foster
Two identical twins, separated since infancy, meet after 30 years causing a series of mistaken identity and crisis for all involved.

Switched at Birth
1991
as Dr. Peter Ter Horst
This is the story of the two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later when one of the girls gets sick and tests revealed that she was not ...

Absolute Strangers
1991
as Doctor #2
A husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hearing about this, anti-abortion protesters start a l...

Death Spa
1988
as Dr. Lido Moray
Michael's health club is beseiged with a series of terrible murders involving killer saunas and other grisly devices. Michael's wife killed herself a ...

The Hidden
1987
as Dr. Rogers
When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behavior and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck is tasked with helping young F...

Rampage
1987
as Dr. George Mahon
Liberal district attorney decides to seek the death penalty for a man who slaughtered a family at Christmastime, then drank their blood. He escapes, t...

Police Story: The Freeway Killings
1987
as Gene Benson
Thriller/Drama about LAPD detectives tracking down two serial killers who are murdering hookers.

Amazons
1986
as Kalungo
An epic from the dark ages about the legendary lost tribe of warrior women! The girls fly into danger, come up against fierce tribes, fall prey to sor...

Chiller
1985
as Detective
A wealthy industrialist arranges for his body to be kept on ice in a high-tech cryonic chamber. When the instructions are not followed properly, he em...

A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984
as Sergeant Parker
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, t...

Body Rock
1984
as Donald
A disco owner lures a New York breakdancer away from his rapping and dancing friends.

Second Thoughts
1983
Lawyer Amy finds herself courted by two very different men: her client, a roguish street musician named Will, and her ex John Michael. A curious trian...

Please Don't Hit Me, Mom
1983
as Coach Egan
A babysitter realizes that one of the children she looks after is being physically abused by his mother.

Wrong Is Right
1982
as John Brown
Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in th...

Between Two Brothers
1982
as Sergeant
Bob Frazer is a prominent attorney who compulsively tries to make amends with his younger, less polished brother, Russ, who runs the family business a...

Advice to the Lovelorn
1981
as Tom Moore
A failed pilot for a series centering on Maggie Dale, an advice columnist. This was somewhat in the tradition of shows like Fantasy Island. When she r...

Rage!
1980
as Resident #8
In an attempt to be rehabilitated, a rapist goes to therapy while in prison.

Escape from Alcatraz
1979
as Guard
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one...

Magnum Force
1973
as Nick Royale
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When sha...