Biography
Charles Lewis Napier (April 12, 1936 – October 5, 2011) was an American character actor known for playing supporting and occasional leading roles in television and films. He was frequently cast as police officers, soldiers, or authority figures, many of them villainous or corrupt. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Napier (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Shadowheart
2009
as Sheriff Sanders
James Conners comes home to the town of Legend, New Mexico in 1865 to avenge his fathers death against the ruthless Will Tunney. Along the way he re-c...

Life Blood
2009
as Sherrif Tillman
Forty years ago a supernatural force vanquished Brooke and Rhea, a sexy lipstick lesbian couple, after they committed an inconceivable murder. Now, on...

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
2009
as Dick Lewiston
Don Ready is many things, but he is best-known as an extraordinary salesman. When a car dealership in Temecula teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, he ...

One-Eyed Monster
2008
as Mohtz
In February 2007, ten people went to the remote mountains of Northern California to shoot an adult movie. What happened next was something no one expe...

Black Crescent Moon
2008
as Father Woods
A small town sheriff who's investigating a murder at the local diner ends up finding more than he bargained for in the town and in himself.

Your Name Here
2008
as Chuck
The lines between reality and perception blur in this comic journey into the life and mind (literally!) of one of sci-fi's most brilliant authors. Par...

Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: Field Trips, Permission Slips, Signs, and Weasels
2007
as Seargent Guard
In his first made-for-TV movie, Ned just wants to hang with the girl of his dreams. The only problem is he doesn't know if that girl is Suzie or Mose....

Breaking the Silence: Picture-in-Picture Commentary
2007
as Lt. Boyle
A visual commentary for "The Silence Of The Lambs" with the cast & crew in a "picture in picture" mode.

Annapolis
2006
Jake Huard, from a shipbuilders family, promised his dying mother he'ld make it to Anapolis Naval Academy. Thanks to tenaciously bugging a Congressman...

The Kid & I
2005
as Eyepatch-wearing Two Spies boss
Aaron Roman is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action movie. When his father grants Aaron his wish for his eightee...

Suits on the Loose
2005
as General Wilkins
Suits on the Loose is the story of two rebellious teens, Justin and Ty, and their breakout from a desert survival camp. When two naive Mormon missiona...

Fielder's Choice
2005
as Taco Bob
Phillip Fielder is a man who is struggling to rise up in his competitive career. Then his sister passes away leaving him custody of her 8 year old aut...

Lords of Dogtown
2005
as Nudie
The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of spor...

The Manchurian Candidate
2004
as General Sloan
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow s...

Dinocroc
2004
as Sheriff Harper
After an African dinosaur ancestor of the crocodile is found, Dr. Campbell uses its DNA to create prototypes at Paula Kennedy's Gereco lab.

The Thief & the Stripper
2002
as Face
When a former private investigator steals a briefcase from local mobsters, a stripper joins him on the run.

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
2002
as Roy (voice)
A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.

Down 'n Dirty
2001
as Capt. Jerry Teller
Dakota Smith is an experienced policeman with a problem: his partner was shot dead, and corrupt cops are responsible. Dak's investigation leads him to...

Extreme Honor
2001
as Commanding Officer #1
A highly decorated Navy Seal is forced out of retirement in order to save his son's life and bring justice to the man who destroyed his career.

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
2000
as Four Star General
The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that rever...

Very Mean Men
2000
as Detective Bailey
A bartender wants rid of an obnoxious drunk but not until the drunk has left a decent tip. So the bartender tells the story of two mobster families, t...

Never Look Back
2000
as Sheriff Dawkins
Jailed ex-fighter Donavan Wallace strikes a deal with the prison warden for early parole - he is to go into a town to pick up a mysterious crate. He f...

The Big Tease
1999
as Sen. Warren Crockett
Thinking he's competing in Los Angeles' hot Platinum Scissors contest, Scottish hairstylist Crawford leaves Glasgow with a film crew to capture the ev...

Pirates of the Plain
1999
as Grandpa
"Pirates of the Plain" details the adventure of Jezebel Jack, a pirate with a heart of gold that is sent to the future where he meets Bobby, a young b...

The Hunter's Moon
1999
as J.T. Conover
A violent and dangerous tyrant who dominates the inhabitants of a mountain sees his authority threatened by the arrival of a World War I veteran and d...

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
1999
as Gen. Hawk
When diabolical genius Dr. Evil travels back in time to steal superspy Austin Powers's ‘mojo,’ Austin must return to the swingin' '60s himself - with ...

Lima: Breaking the Silence
1999
as Padre
An intense drama based on the true story of Peruvian rebels who in 1997 kidnapped several hundred high-ranking diplomats and government officials in a...

Cypress Edge
1999
as Detective O'Reilly
Reeling from the news of his sister's suicide, Beau McCammon returns home to his family after a long absence. His father, who has just barely won anot...

Beloved
1998
as Angry Carny (uncredited)
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Belov...

Second Chances
1998
as Craig Hardy
A little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after an accident claims her father and her spirit.

Armstrong
1998
as Robert Zorkin
The Cold War has just heated up! CIA Agent Bob Taylor (Charles Napier) arrives in Moscow with his new wife Susan (Kimberley Kates) with a highly secr...

Alien Species
1998
as Sheriff Nate Culver
Huge Motherships from an alien species sneak ominously into orbit around Earth. Lethal bat-winged fighters descend on the planet. Citizens are abducte...

Centurion Force
1998
as Dunlap
No Small Ways
1997
Sarah is the daughter of a wealthy man with questionable connections. Sarah and her father never see eye to eye. In her frustration she calls on the h...

Steel
1997
as Col. David
When a renegade military reject puts new superweapons in dangerous hands, John Henry Irons becomes Steel. Wearing body armor, wielding a fearsome elec...

Hollywood Rated 'R'
1997
as Self
A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman's sci-fi and horror monster movies, 1960s beach mo...

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
1997
as Commander Gilmour
As a swinging fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy. But can he stop me...

Macon County Jail
1997
as Sheriff Dempsey
After she leaves her cheating husband, Susan Reed embarks on a cross-country road trip where she falls victim to a series of mishaps that land her beh...

Riot
1996
as Agent Devaney
An heiress is kidnapped during the chaos of a riot on Christmas Eve.

The Cable Guy
1996
as Arresting Officer
When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous ...

Limp Fangs: The Adventures of Count Malt Liquela
1996
as Adam
It's the late 20th Century. The streets are crawling with young, nubile women, ready to be "consumed"... But what can a 450 year-old blood-suckin' sou...

Original Gangstas
1996
as Mayor
A violent street gang, the Rebels, rule the streets of Gary, Indiana. The Rebels shoot Marvin Bookman, a store-keeper, for giving the police informati...

Expert Witness
1996
A ‘forensic psychologist/detective’ called Bill Wilder gets increasingly involved with characters with pretty shady pasts

Billy Lone Bear
1996
An honest cop named Billy Bear hides from the IRA in an Indian reservation. The problem is, the IRA's assassin is a bad cop. On the reservation, Billy...

Hard Justice
1995
as Warden Pike
When A.T.F. agent Nick Adams goes undercover in a prison to unravel the mystery of a fellow agents death there. Warden Pike and his pet goons are invo...

Max Is Missing
1995
as Becker
A boy and his dad take a trip to Peru, but when they are accidentally separated he is given a mysterious mask that makes him a target for ruthless tom...

Jury Duty
1995
as Jed
When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a mur...

3 Ninjas Knuckle Up
1995
as Jack
Rocky, Colt and TumTum must battle an evil wealthy toxic waste dumper in order to save a local Indian tribe and their friend Joe. The 3 Ninjas must he...

Ballistic
1995
as Underwood
Jesse Gavin is an undercover cop, part of an elite police team and highly skilled in lethal martial arts! She is suspended from the force after a witn...

Fatal Pursuit
1995
as Herbert
A rugged P.I. and a gorgeous insurance investigator search for diamonds stolen in a brutal robbery

Ripper Man
1995
as Harry
A former cop who now working as a hypnotist is approached by a stranger who asks him to bring out his other identity, Jack the Ripper.

Twisted Fate
1995
as Nolan Gobal
A FBI agent going back to his home town. He have to decide if he should be true to his job or take care of his brother who is on the wrong side of the...

Felony
1994
as Detective Duke
A reality cop show films a police raid on a drug ring that goes awry and results in the massacre of 11 policemen. All of this gets taped by the camera...

Savage Land
1994
as Cole
Two women and two kids are stranded in the Old West when bad guys (posing as Indians) try to snag the stagecoach's cargo. Pitted against nature, time,...

Jailbreakers
1994
as Charlie, the Horse Connection
A 1950s high school cheerleader meets a leather clad rebel biker and goes out on the town with him. When he steals an item of jewellery he gets thrown...

Silk Degrees
1994
as Schultz
After she witnesses a mob murder, a woman hides out in a cabin in the woods under the protection of a pair of hardboiled federal agents.

Raw Justice
1994
as Mayor David Stiles
The mayor of a small town hires a bounty hunter to find his daughter's killer, but it turns out to be a very dangerous job.

To Die, to Sleep
1994
as Father
Although it appears that Phil lives the life that every teenager dreams of - endless amounts of cash, a sweet ride, and a big house he almost always h...

Body Shot
1994
as Leon
Paparazzi photographer Mickey Dane is obsessed with elusive pop singer Chelsea, and his attempts to capture her on film often land him in trouble.

Silent Fury
1994
After his friend is caught and killed by some drug dealers, a former commander of special forces search revenge.

Philadelphia
1993
as Judge Garnett
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes...

Skeeter
1993
as Ernie Buckle
As the result of a corrupt businessman's illegal toxic waste dumping, a small desert town is beset by a deadly swarm of huge bloodthirsty mutant mosqu...

Body Bags
1993
as Manager
A woman working the late shift at a gas station while a killer is on the loose; a man who can't stand the thought of losing his hair; a baseball playe...

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
as Interrogator
An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. Two cops partner to find and stop the fiends before the...

Killer Instinct
1992
as John Doogan
An up and coming lawyer gets turned over for a case he'd been working on for a long while. The D.A.'s niece then decides to help the young lawyer by f...

Frogtown II
1992
as Capt. Delano
In the sequel to Hell Comes to Frogtown, the Mutant-Frog leader of Frogtown kidnaps a professor and forces him to make a serum that will turn everyone...

Mean Tricks
1992
as Brian Hornsby
Charles Napier plays Hornsby, a recently retired FBI agent that goes to South America to find his former partner Mendoza. Rumor has it that Mendoza ha...

Center of the Web
1992
as Agent Williams
An actor is wrongly taken as a professional killer by a band planning to murder the Governor. Then he is hired by the Security Dept. to try to unmask ...

Treacherous Crossing
1992
In 1947, a passenger on an ocean liner says her husband went missing right after they boarded together, but all evidence shows she's traveling alone.

Eyes of the Beholder
1992
as Det. Wilson
A crazed escaped mental patient holds 2 couples hostage and terrorizes them in a Malibu beach home during a stormy night.

Lonely Hearts
1991
as Robby Ross
Alma, a lonely woman, falls for the conman who steals her money after seducing her. Frank doesn't want Alma around him, but he cannot do anything abou...

Soldier's Fortune
1991
as Col. Blair
A rich young girl is kidnapped by masked terrorists. Her mother's ex-husband, a former mercenary, gathers some of his former comrades and goes off to ...

After the Condor
1991
A hotshot, wisecracking New York newspaper reporter, teams up with his crippled Army buddy Steve and sexy pilot Anne in Argentina to find an airplane ...

Indio 2 - The Revolt
1991
as IMC President
A corporation building a highway through the rainforest hires a gang of mercenaries to get rid of the local Indians, who don't want the highway built ...

The Silence of the Lambs
1991
as Lt. Boyle
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatri...

Under Surveillance
1991
as Troy
Two insurance investigators try to find out why the ex-partner of one of them was murdered.

The Grifters
1990
as Gloucester Hebbing
A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own a...

Future Zone
1990
as Mickland
John Tucker's son travels back in time 30 years to save his father from being killed by thugs he is currently pursuing back in 1990.

Maniac Cop 2
1990
as Lew Brady
After being framed by corrupt superiors and brutally assaulted in prison, Officer Matt Cordell teams up with a vicious serial killer to track down tho...

Dragonfight
1990
as Moochow
In the future, large corporations earn millions of dollars by staging gladiatorial fights to the death that are shown on worldwide television. One day...

Miami Blues
1990
as Sergeant Bill Henderson
After Junior is released from prison, he plans on starting a new life in Miami. But when he kills a man in the airport, he flees the scene and finds S...

Ernest Goes to Jail
1990
as Warden
Bumbling bank janitor Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, and soon finds himself in trouble when he is covertly switched with a look-a-like cr...

The Last Match
1990
as American Consul
The daughter of a star quarterback is falsely accused of drug smuggling while visiting a small Caribbean island. After his attempts to get her out of...

Cop Target
1990
as John Granger
Farley Wood is hired to escort a rich widow of a DEA agent and her kid to the tropical island of San Cristobal. The widow needs protection from a gang...

Alien from the Deep
1989
as Colonel Kovacks
Two members of Greenpeace discover that a local factory sheds radioactive waste into an active volcano, which has created a terrifying creature that w...

One Man Force
1989
as Dante
In this action packed film, an L.A. cop speeds off to get revenge upon the dirty drug-dealing dogs who killed his partner

Hit List
1989
as Tom Mitchum
A family man and a mob witness hunt for a hit-man who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.

Married to the Mob
1988
as Angela's Hairdresser
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affa...

Kidnapped
1988
as Lt. O'Bryan
A woman's sister is kidnapped on her 16th Birthday and forced into filming pornography. A policeman helps the woman rescue her teenage sister from the...

The Incredible Hulk Returns
1988
as Mike Fouche
Dr. David Banner meets a former student, who has a magical hammer that summons Thor, a Norse god who is prevented from entering Valhalla. When the two...

Deep Space
1988
as Det. Ian McLemore
Secretly engineered and blasted into space by government scientists, a vile monster crash-lands back on Earth and begins killing everyone it encounter...

Bush Shrink
1988
as Kingsley
In an unstable African country, US psychiatrist Martin Cypher teams up with a street-smart poacher to save his patient and her uncle Kingsley, who run...

Something Wild
1986
as Irate Chef
A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.

Body Count
1986
as Sheriff Charlie
A bodybuilder, a junk-food addict and a wild blonde nymph and their friends are stalked by a terrifying figure. An horrific tale of murder as a fun-lo...

Instant Justice
1986
as Maj. Davis
Scott is a US Marine who travels Spain to see his sister Kim, after many years of separation. But she is dead, and there is nothing else to arrive him...

The Night Stalker
1986
as Sgt. J.J. Striker
A tough homicide cop is assigned to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.

Rambo: First Blood Part II
1985
as Marshall Murdock
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of V...

The Cartier Affair
1984
as Morgan Carroll
Curt Taylor is a convict and owes Phil Drexler the number 1 convict in the prison. Now to settle his debt Drexler sends Curt to be the secretary for C...

The Outlaws
1984
as Captain Striker
Eugene Griswold is an average, suburban nine-to-five guy tired of working long hours for his income. Then Eugene gets mixed up in his inventor friend ...

Swing Shift
1984
as Moon Willis
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft p...

China Lake
1983
as Donnelly
China Lake tells the story of motorcycle cop Donnelly, a man who spends his vacation time driving around on his Harley in the desert highways still dr...

Wacko
1982
as Chief O'Hara
Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookou...

Gridlock
1980
as Sonny
A series of freak accidents on the Los Angeles freeway traps a cast-load of familiar TV faces in an astounding traffic tie-up, with the entire system ...

Melvin and Howard
1980
as Ventura
The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

The Blues Brothers
1980
as Tucker McElroy
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.

Last Embrace
1979
as Dave Quittle
Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum,...

Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus
1978
as Big Bob Johnson
A stunt car racing team gets involved in a madcap cross-country auto race that is supposed to determine the disposition of a family fortune.

Thunder and Lightning
1977
as Jim Bob
A young man who hauls liquor for moonshiners comes up against a competing gang of moonshiners who intend to get rid of him and take over his operation...

Ransom for Alice!
1977
as Pete Phelan
In 1890s Seattle, a deputy marshal and his female partner set out to bust up a ring that kidnaps teenage girls and sells them into prostitution.

Citizens Band
1977
as Chrome Angel
The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.

The Flying Misfits
1976
as Maj. Red Buell
The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron. The fil...

Supervixens
1975
as Harry Sledge
Clint must flee after his wife is killed by a psychopathic cop, who tries to pin the murder on him.

Supervixens
1975
Associate Producer
Clint must flee after his wife is killed by a psychopathic cop, who tries to pin the murder on him.
Moonfire
1973
as Robert W. Morgan
Truckers battle a Nazi who has hidden out in Mexico. Subplot involves the disappearance of a reclusive billionaire.

The Seven Minutes
1971
as Officer Iverson
To help with an upcoming election, a bookstore clerk is indicted for selling obscene material. The defense attorneys need to find the mystery of the o...
Love and Kisses
1971
Sex, sadism and snowmobiles in a wild weekend of skiing and swinging in Aroostook County, Maine, with action in the ski slopes but even more action in...

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
1970
as Baxter
An all-girl rock band moves to Hollywood in the hope of achieving success, only to fall into a whirlpool of wickedness and decadence.

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
1970
Associate Producer
An all-girl rock band moves to Hollywood in the hope of achieving success, only to fall into a whirlpool of wickedness and decadence.

Cherry, Harry & Raquel!
1969
as Harry
In a small border town, a sheriff and his 'associate', involved in an operation in which they divert marijuana through the border, must kill another s...

The House Near the Prado
1969
Marsha Jordan stars in this tell all tale about being a madam.
The Hanging of Jake Ellis
1969
as Jake Ellis
Square-Jawed future Russ Meyer regular Charles Napier stars as a cattle driver in this nudie western.