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Royal Edward Dano (November 16, 1922 – May 15, 1994) was an American film and television character actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Royal Dano, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Dark Half
1993
as Digger Holt
Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides...

Spaced Invaders
1990
as Wrenchmuller
A crew of Martians overhears a radio broadcast of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" coming from Earth, and, thinking the Martian fleet is attacking Ea...

Once Upon a Texas Train
1988
as Nitro Jones
Captain Hayes of the mighty law enforcement squad named the Texas Rangers reached the pinnacle of his career when he captured the notorious John Henry...

Killer Klowns from Outer Space
1988
as Farmer Gene Green
Aliens disguised as clowns crash land on Earth in a rural town to capture unsuspecting victims in cotton candy cocoons for later consumption.

Ghoulies II
1987
as Uncle Ned
Ghoulies II picks up a short time after the first movie, a few of the little nasties stow away on an amusement park ride and bring big bucks to a dyin...

House II: The Second Story
1987
as Gramps
Jesse moves into an old family property where his parents were mysterious murdered years before. He soon finds himself with unexpected guests in the f...

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

Red Headed Stranger
1986
as Larn Claver
Reverend Julian Shay (Willie Nelson) strode into the saloon, pulled out his six-shooter, and killed his adulterous wife (Morgan Fairchild) and the man...

Cocaine Wars
1985
as Bailey
Miami DEA agent Cliff Adams is in South America working undercover for Gonzalo Reyes, the biggest cocaine exporter in South America. Cliff's fiancée, ...

Teachers
1984
as Ditto Stiles
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still canno...

The Right Stuff
1983
as Minister
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history b...

Joe Dancer III: The Big Trade
1983
as Cow John
The last of Robert Blake's three "Joe Dancer movies" finds the private investigator framed for manslaughter as he tries to uncover a Hollywood scandal...

Something Wicked This Way Comes
1983
as Tom Fury
In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can...

Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983
as Ernest Farmer
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.

Hammett
1982
as Pops
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living...

Take This Job and Shove It
1981
as Beeber
A junior executive is ordered to boost output in the hometown brewery where his old friends work.

A Dream Called Walt Disney World
1981
as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
The perfect way to reminisce about your Walt Disney World vacation! It's all here, exquisitely photographed and fully narrated. From Liberty Square to...

Back to the Planet of the Apes
1980
as Farrow
Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes. The men befriend a chimp named Galen who helps t...

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
1979
as Pa Dalton
A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years leading up to it as the brothers form themselves into a ...
In Search of Historic Jesus
1979
as Prophet #1
Re-created Biblical tableaux mixed with interviews.

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
1979
as Mr. Willis
A woman, who had left home 20 years previously under acrimonious circumstances, finds out that she is terminally ill. She returns home and tries to re...

The Crash of Flight 401
1978
True story recounting the crash of Eastern Airlines, Flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades while on approach to Miami in December 1972. Accurate...

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
1978
as Sutter
A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach Ca...

Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell
1978
as Will Hays
Tycoon Howard Hughes and actress Jean Harlow have an affair while making his 1930 "Hell's Angels."

Bad Georgia Road
1977
as Arthur Pennyrich
New York City woman inherits a moonshine farm in the South.

The Killer Inside Me
1976
as Father
Haunted by visions from his abusive childhood, Montana deputy sheriff Lou Ford gradually exhibits the signs of a homicidal schizophrenic.

The Captive: The Longest Drive 2
1976
During a Cavalry massacre at an Indian village, two brothers, searching for their captured sister, rescue a white woman long ago kidnapped by the Chey...

Drum
1976
as Zeke Montgomery
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.

The Outlaw Josey Wales
1976
as Ten Spot
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - ...

Messiah of Evil
1975
as Joseph Lang
A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dume, which seems to be under the influence o...

Capone
1975
as Anton J. Cermak
Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his...

Huckleberry Finn
1975
as Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by ...

The Wild Party
1975
as Tex
An aging silent movie comic star throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career.

Big Bad Mama
1974
as Reverend Johnson
Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.

Cahill: United States Marshal
1973
as MacDonald
J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boy's want...

Electra Glide in Blue
1973
as Coroner
A short Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to Homicide following the mysterious murder of a hermit. He is forced to confront his ill...

Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
1973
as Jake
The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his eleven-year-old son Rodger with him as he goes from to...

Moon of the Wolf
1972
as Tom Sr.
After several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf.

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
1972
as Gustavson
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but things do not go as planned.

The Culpepper Cattle Co.
1972
as Cattle Rustler
Working as an assistant on a long cattle drive, the young Ben Mockridge contends between his dream of being a cowboy and the harsh truth of the Old We...

The Man Hunter
1972
as Pa Bocock
A professional hunter is brought in to track a bank robbery suspect through a Louisiana swamp, and winds up getting romantically involved with the sus...

Skin Game
1971
as John Brown
Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in...

Decisions! Decisions!
1971
as Tex
A salesman and a sexologist have misadventures with plot development determined by the votes of the studio audience.

Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns
1971
as Zach
A Mexican bandit and his gang are offered a pardon and a cash reward if he will cross the border into America and bring back a gang of murderous gold ...

Run, Simon, Run
1970
as Sheriff Tacksberry
A Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.

The Undefeated
1969
as Major Sanders
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through st...

Backtrack!
1969
as Faraway (archive footage)
Sent to Mexico to buy a bull, a Wyoming cowhand (Doug McClure) teams up with three Texas Rangers to solve a robbery/murder.

Death of a Gunfighter
1969
as Arch Brandt
In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When h...

If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
1968
as Carl Blair
James Lake (Raymond St. Jacques) is an escaped black convict imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. Leslie Whitlock (Kevin McCarthy) offers James m...

Day of the Evil Gun
1968
as Dr. Eli Prather
Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!

The Last Challenge
1967
as Pretty Horse
An upstart outlaw baits a legendary gunslinger, now a marshal in love with a saloon keeper.

Welcome to Hard Times
1967
as John Bear
A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.

The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones
1966
as Otto
A dying marshal deputizes a drifter to deliver the two killers in his custody to prison. However, the new deputy must elude a pair of bounty hunters w...

Gunpoint
1966
as Ode
A young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped woman into New Mexico.

7 Faces of Dr. Lao
1964
as Carey
An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao's mys...

Savage Sam
1963
as Pack Underwood
Travis, Arliss, and Lisbeth are captured by Apaches while Old Yeller's son, Sam, tracks their trail.

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
1962
as Marley's Ghost (voice)
In this animated musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", Ebenezer Scrooge - via Mr. Magoo's starring performance in a stage productio...

King of Kings
1961
as Peter
Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet th...

Posse from Hell
1961
as Uncle Billy
Banner Cole is a tough sheriff's deputy who forms a small posse to go after 4 death cell escapees who killed the sheriff , along with 3 other men, and...

Cimarron
1960
as Ike Howes
The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1960
as Harlan
From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.

Hound-Dog Man
1959
as Fiddling Tom Waller
A rustic drama set in the early 20th century, Hound Dog Man is the simple story of a young man, Spud Kinney constantly in hot water for disobeying his...

Face of Fire
1959
as Jake Winter
A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.

The Boy and the Bridge
1959
as Evangelist
A very slight tale based on an original American story by Leon Ware centered on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. This adaptation is set on the...

These Thousand Hills
1959
as Carmichael
A cowboy tries for easy money with his partner, then tries ranching with a saloon hostess's money.

Never Steal Anything Small
1959
as Words Cannon
Director Charles Lederer's 1959 musical stars James Cagney as an unscrupulous longshoreman who'll resort to every dirty trick in the book to win his u...

Man of the West
1958
as Trout
Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley...

Handle with Care
1958
as Al Lees
A law student working on a class project discovers a real-life crime.

Saddle the Wind
1958
as Clay Ellison
Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the ...

Man in the Shadow
1957
as Aiken Clay
In a modern cow town, the powerful ranch owner’s henchmen kill a ranch hand, prompting the sheriff to investigate despite facing strong opposition. He...

All Mine to Give
1957
as Howard Tyler
This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850s. They work very hard and become wel...

Trooper Hook
1957
as Mr. Trude
When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escape...

Crime of Passion
1956
as Capt. Charlie Alidas
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburb...

Tension at Table Rock
1956
as Harry Jameson
When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place.

Santiago
1956
as Lobo
Two American gun runners at odds with each other and looking to sell guns to the rebels during the Cuban War of Independence navigate a boat to Cuba. ...

Moby Dick
1956
as Elijah
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a s...

Tribute to a Bad Man
1956
as Abe
Jeremy Rodock is a tough horse rancher who strings up rustlers soon as look at them. Fresh out of Pennsylvania, Steve Miller finds it hard to get used...

The Trouble with Harry
1955
as Calvin Wiggs
When a local man's corpse appears on a nearby hillside, no one is quite sure what happened to him. Many of the town's residents secretly wonder if the...

Johnny Guitar
1954
as Corey
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Anothe...

The Far Country
1954
as Luke
During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work fo...

Mr. Lincoln
1952
as Abraham Lincoln
A five-part biographic series about Abraham Lincoln for the educational TV series Omnibus, filmed on location in Hodgenville, Kentucky.

Bend of the River
1952
as Long Tom
Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...

Flame of Araby
1951
as Basra
An Arabian-nights princess and a Bedouin chief contend over possession of a stallion, but unite to oppose the Corsair Lords.

The Red Badge of Courage
1951
as The Tattered Man
Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement, Henry flees the battlefield in fear. When he lea...

Under the Gun
1951
as Sam Nugent, trustee-gunner
A convicted racketeer becomes prison trustee when an inmate whom he persuaded to escape is killed.

Undercover Girl
1950
as The Moocher
After her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers.