Biography
Ed Lauter ( October 30, 1938 – October 16, 2013) was an American actor. His films include The Last American Hero (1973), The Longest Yard (1974), King Kong (1976), Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987), School Ties (1992), True Romance (1993), Not Another Teen Movie (2001), Purple Heart (2005), Camille (2007), and A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper(2007). Lauter's TV guest appearances include performances on Psych, The X-Files, Kojak, The A-Team, Booker, Charmed, Highla...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Beautiful Ones
2017
as Dante Gabriel Tancredi
A retelling of Romeo and Juliet set within the Los Angeles underworld.
Chief Zabu
2016
as Skip Keisel
An outrageous social comedy about a New York realtor who dreams of having political influence by taking over a new Polynesian nation.

The Town that Dreaded Sundown
2014
as Sheriff Underwood
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.

Casting By
2012
as Self
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the mo...

La Classe américaine
2012
as Self
The story of the successful publicity campaign that made it possible for the French film The Artist (2011) to win five Academy Awards: an intimate loo...

Trouble with the Curve
2012
as Max
Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. A...

The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
2012
as Jim "Big Jim" Fitzgerald
The siblings of the Fitzgerald family must decide if the dad who abandoned them 20 years ago can come home for Christmas. Can the big Irish clan get p...

The Artist
2011
as Peppy's Butler
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with ...

Carnal Innocence
2011
as Austin Hatinger
A famous violinist Caroline Waverly returns to her home town. A killer is on the streets, and Caroline may be a target for murder.

The Frankenstein Syndrome
2010
as Dr. Walton
Young scientist Elizabeth Barnes (Tiffany Shepis) and her group of researchers are conducting illegal stem cell research, and discover a cell anomaly ...

Expecting a Miracle
2009
as Walter Enright
Botched directions lead a struggling couple to a small Mexican town whose residents have a positive effect on the pair's faltering marriage.

Godspeed
2009
as Mitch
Joseph McKelheer and Cory Knauf (The Hamiltons, The Violent Kind) star in this intense thriller set in the lingering light of the Alaskan midnight sun...

Camille
2008
as Sheriff Steiner
A twisted honeymoon adventure about a young couple on their way to Niagara Falls.

The Prince and the Pauper: The Movie
2007
as Pop
A modern day telling of the Mark Twain classic, The Prince and the Pauper.

The Number 23
2007
as Father Sebastian
Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between hims...

Seraphim Falls
2007
as Parsons
The Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver is on one final mission – to kill Gideon, no matter what it takes. Launched by a gunshot and prope...

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
2006
as John Hanafin (uncredited)
The fastest man on four wheels, Ricky Bobby is one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. A big, hairy American winning machine, Ricky has everyth...

The Lost
2006
as Ed Anderson
A charismatic psycho suspected of killing two innocent campers in a cold-blooded double homicide grows increasingly unstable as his suburban empire st...

Into the Fire
2005
as Captain Dave Cutler
Into the Fire follows the story of Walter Hartwig, a lieutenant in the New York City Harbor Unit, who finally comes to terms with grief and what is re...

The Longest Yard
2005
as Duane
Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the instit...

Purple Heart
2005
as Civilian
PURPLE HEART tells of a clean-up effort after a covert mission gone wrong. It is the story of Colonel Allen, the leader of a new, elite military unit ...

Nobody Knows Anything!
2004
as Gun Expert
Sarah thinks making a movie is easy. With the guidance of her screenwriter uncle, she goes on a wild journey into the world of Hollywood where she mee...

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation
2004
as General J.G. Shepherd
A group of troopers take refuge in an abandoned outpost after fighting alien bugs, failing to realize that more danger lays in wait.

Grandpa's Place
2004
as Grandpa
Jason and Grandpa are in Grandpa's basement where they enjoy an afternoon of imagination, fun and learning.

Art Heist
2004
as Victor Boyd
An art expert assists an investigation into a stolen painting in Barcelona; as more paintings are being stolen, she learns she is being framed for the...

The Librarians
2003
as John Strong
An exotic dancer enters a world of kidnapping and ransom when she tries to track down her missing sister. Soon, she's on the trail of a cruel gang tha...

Seabiscuit
2003
as Charles Strub
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation...

Gentleman B.
2003
as Harry Koslow
Nick Vincent is set up by his crime partner Manny Breen. He is sent away to prison and when he is released, he goes to Los Angeles to look for Maria, ...

Go for Broke
2002
as Warden Lessen
After their winning lottery ticket was stolen and wound up in a women’s prison, two men hatch a plan to get arrested while in drag to get it back.

Not Another Teen Movie
2001
as The Coach
On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrag...

Thirteen Days
2000
as Gen. Marshall Carter
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases establishe...

Civility
2000
as Detective Erickson
Cade Russo must reluctantly return home to Civility, Arizona to attend his father's funeral, and more importantly to him, the reading of the will. Cad...

Python
2000
as Pilot
Sleepy New Haven California is a small town with a big problem. A sixty foot slithering horror has arrived and shattered the town's tranquillity on it...

Blast
2000
as Swenson
Four high school friends believe the local myth that developer Swenson killed a kid for trespassing years earlier and got away with it. When one of th...

Farewell, My Love
2000
as Sergei Karpov
Brigit as a young girl saw her family killed by the Karpovs, a Russian crime family, she would have been dead too, if her neighbor did not come to her...

Night of Terror
1999
as Father Connelly
Two teenagers find themselves in the bad part of LA and have to resort to violence to save their own lives.

Out in Fifty
1999
as Ed Walker
A reformed ex-convict enters a love triangle and gets manipulated into being a scapegoat in a murder scheme for revenge.

Dollar for the Dead
1998
as Jacob Colby
In this tribute to the old time spaghetti westerns with a liberal dose of modern Hong Kong film-making thrown in, Emilio Estevez assumes Clint Eastwoo...

A Bright Shining Lie
1998
as General Weyand
Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advi...

Under Wraps
1997
as Kubat
A comedy-adventure in which three twelve-year-olds have a close encounter with a 3,000-year-old mummy. Marshall, Gilbert and Amy accidentally set the ...

Allie & Me
1997
as Detective Frank Richards
Beverly Hills wife Michelle catches her husband in bed with her best friend Allie, who works at Michelle's favorite beauty salon. Shortly thereafter, ...
Married to a Stranger
1997
as Harry, Megan's Father
A woman develops severe amnesia after a blow to the head, and can no longer remember her family.

Top of the World
1997
as Mel Ridgefield
In Las Vegas for a quicky divorce, a just-paroled ex-cop and his wife wander into the Top of the World Casino, run by the shady Charles Atlas. They wi...
Childhood Sweetheart?
1997
as Sheriff Bowman
After seventeen years, a missing girl returns home. But is she a long-lost friend or a cold-blooded killer?

Mercenary
1996
as Jack Cochran
Jonas Ambler is a rich businessman whose wife is killed by kidnappers, so he decides to get even. He hires a mercenary to find and kill the kidnappers...

Raven Hawk
1996
as Sheriff Daggert
A Native-American woman, who was framed for the murders of her parents years before, returns to her reservation to seek revenge.

The Sweeper
1996
as Molls
A young cop, haunted by the murder of his entire family years earlier, is recruited by a shadowy organization to hunt down criminals who are beyond th...

Mulholland Falls
1996
as Earl
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

Rattled
1996
as Murray Hendershot
A horde of rattlesnakes inexplicably descends into Eden Valley, terrorizing an isolated family and forcing them to fight for their lives.

Coyote Summer
1996
as Mitchell Foster
Teenage Callie has a wild streak. When her mother goes to London on business, she sends Callie to her sister's ranch for a dose of hard work and respo...

Leaving Las Vegas
1995
as Mobster 3
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There,...

Girl in the Cadillac
1995
as Ben Wilmer
A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find love on the run.

Digital Man
1995
as Gen Roberts
An out-of-control robot is inadvertently set loose in a small community, and a crack squad of soldiers are sent to hunt it down. Gradually, the member...

Breach of Trust
1995
as Colin Kreuger
For opposite reasons, an undercover federal agent and a small time hood join forces to take on a union of drug lords and dirty cops.

Trial by Jury
1994
as John Boyle
Valerie is a juror in the trial of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done.

Wagons East!
1994
as John Slade
After the 1860s Wild West, a group of misfit settlers - including ex-doctor Phil Taylor, prostitute Belle, and homosexual bookseller Julian - decide t...

Secret Sins of the Father
1994
as Arnold Carter
Louis (Lloyd Bridges) is a farmer in small-town Nebraska. All seems well in his quiet life until the town's spiteful sheriff, Tom (Beau Bridges), who ...

Under Investigation
1993
as Captain Maguire
Detective Keaton finds a dead woman in painter Strong's apartment.. During the investigating Keaton meets his wife Abbey and falls in love with her. B...

True Romance
1993
as Police Captain Quiggle (uncredited)
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

Extreme Justice
1993
as Captain Shafer
Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop...

The Return of Ironside
1993
as Chief Bell
After forty years of good and faithful services, Robert T. Ironside, reprocessed police force of San Francisco, is finally on the point of tasting wit...

Murder So Sweet
1993
as Glen Emory
A hometown heartthrob (Harry Hamlin) marries the local beauties and then poisons them in this true story of a real lady killer. His ex-wife suspects t...

School Ties
1992
as Alan Greene
When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from...

Judgement
1992
as Dallas Hale
A juvenile court judge goes out of her way to try to aid a young man whom she believes has innocently gotten involved with a gang.

Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story
1992
as Lieutenant Driscoll
Story of attractive cop Laurencia Bembenek, who, in 1982, was sentenced to prison for killing her husband's ex-wife in Milwaukee, WI.

Golden Years
1991
as Gen. Louis Crewes
When an explosion at a top-secret government lab injures an elderly janitor, no one could have expected the terrifying results. Exposure to mysterious...

The Rocketeer
1991
as Fitch
A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost...

My Blue Heaven
1990
as Underwood
FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is s...

Kojak: Flowers For Matty
1990
as Police Armorer
Kojak charms his way into high society to investigate art thefts that are tied to munitions smuggling and murder.

Born on the Fourth of July
1989
as Legion Commander
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought fo...

Fat Man and Little Boy
1989
as Whitney Ashbridge
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan...

Tennessee Nights
1989
as Sheriff Williams
When entertainment lawyer Wolfgang Leighton decides to take a break from business for some fishing in Tennessee's backwoods, he ends up embroiled in a...

Gleaming the Cube
1989
as Mr. Kelly
An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone close to him die...

Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
1987
as Buzz Mussinger
The members of the Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity travel to Fort Lauderdale for a fraternity conference. They'll have to beat off the attacks of thei...

The Last Days of Patton
1986
as Dr. Lt.Col. Paul S. Hill
Gen. George S. Patton now works a desk job for the U.S. military after World War II. In the midst of dealing with the difficulty of adapting to his dr...

The Thanksgiving Promise
1986
as Coach Gruniger
A teenage boy is torn between his love for an injured Canadian goose that he has found and his agreement to fatten and kill it for an approaching Than...

Firefighter
1986
as B.C. Thompson
Cindy Fralic (Nancy McKeon) plans to become a Los Angeles County firefighter. However, in the 60-year history of the department, no woman has ever pas...

Raw Deal
1986
as Baker
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief H...

Double Image
1986
as Jerry Tyler
This film tells the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the West at the height of the Cold War in 1962.

3:15 the Moment of Truth
1986
as Moran
Violent crime is routine. Organized drug trade runs rampant in the face of powerless authority. And a vicious street gang holds dominion with a savage...

Youngblood
1986
as Murray Chadwick
A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his...

The Defiant Ones
1986
as Sheriff Leroy Doyle
Monroe and 'Joker' Johnson are two prisoners who despise each other. But after their prison transport crashes, they manage to escape chained to each o...

Death Wish 3
1985
as Insp. Richard S. Shriker
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a la...

Real Genius
1985
as CIA Man Decker
When teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn that the military wants to use it as a weapon, they d...

Girls Just Want to Have Fun
1985
as Colonel Glenn
Janey is new in town, and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general, and "Dance TV" in particular. When a competition is announc...

The Cartier Affair
1984
as Lyndon Dean
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 Three Wishes of Billy Grier
1984
as Mr. Grier
A teenager must cope with a disease that causes himself to age at an astronomical rate.

Finders Keepers
1984
as Josef Sirola
On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals a coffin and boards a train, pretending to be a soldie...

Lassiter
1984
as Smoke
A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.

The Seduction of Gina
1984
as Carl
Gina is young, recently married and bored. On a trip to Lake Tahoe she discovers the game of blackjack. Increasingly obsessed with gambling, she keeps...

Nickel Mountain
1984
as W.D. Freund
Henry Soames owns a rural diner, and has befriended Willard Freud and Callie Wells. One day Willard and Callie get the news that Callie is pregnant, a...

Manimal
1983
as Col. Hunt
Jonathan Chase is a British college professor at New York University who has the unusual ability to transform into any kind of animal he wants.

Cujo
1983
as Joe Camber
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

Eureka
1983
as Charles Perkins
After striking it rich on a large gold strike, a prospector retires to the quiet life on a Caribbean island but ends up coping with an alcoholic wife,...

The Big Score
1983
as Parks
A narcotics detective, played by Fred Williamson, lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer. After a bust gone awry, he's...

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
1982
as Padre
Lyle Swann is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a band of outlaws robs Swann of his motorcycle, he's f...

Rooster
1982
as Jack Claggert
A physically small police psychologist and a physically large insurance detective team up on an arson case.

In the Custody of Strangers
1982
as Judge Halloran
A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it. But even...

The Amateur
1981
as Anderson
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discove...

Death Hunt
1981
as Hazel
Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, buys a dog almost dead after a brutal dogfight, a ...

Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
1980
as Frank Morris
Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind the cold grey walls of "T...

The Jericho Mile
1980
as Jerry Beliot
A runner, serving a life sentence at Folsom Prison, works at becoming the world's fastest miler and wins a chance to compete for a spot on the Olympic...

The Boy Who Drank Too Much
1980
as Gus Carpenter
A high school athlete is well on the road to becoming an alcoholic like his ex-hockey pro father until his teammate and best friend commits himself to...

Undercover with the KKK
1979
as Raleigh Porter
The true story of Gary Thomas Rowe, Jr., who worked undercover for the FBI to infiltrate a Ku Klux Klan group in his Alabama hometown and later testif...

Love's Savage Fury
1979
as Sgt. Weed
During the Civil War, a self-centered, young Southern belle tries to hold onto the family estate when the Union Army takes over the area.

The Story of Noah
1978
as Ularat
A man of God follows his faith to populate a new world in 'The Story of Noah', a powerful story of devotion, courage and triumph.

Magic
1978
as Duke
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.

The Clone Master
1978
as Bender
In order to test the validity of his experiments on cloning, a scientist makes clones of himself, but it causes problems that he didn't foresee.

Loose Shoes
1978
as Sheriff Bob
Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from ...

The Chicken Chronicles
1977
as Mr. Nastase
A late-1960s teen (Steve Guttenberg) working in a chicken-takeout stand cannot get his mind off his dream-girl (Lisa Reeves).

The White Buffalo
1977
as Tom Custer
In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquel...

King Kong
1976
as Carnahan
An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.

Family Plot
1976
as Joseph Maloney
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.

Breakheart Pass
1975
as Major Claremont
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...

French Connection II
1975
as General William Brian
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.

Last Hours Before Morning
1975
as Bud Delaney
An ex-cop, now a private detective, investigating a gambler's murder finds that there may be a connection between that crime and the jewel robbery at ...

Shadow in the Street
1975
as Siggy Taylor
An ex-convict trying to straighten his life out takes a job as a parole agent in an experimental project to help former inmates.

Satan's Triangle
1975
as Strickland
The female survivor of a shipwreck and two Coast Guard helicopter pilots sent to rescue her find themselves trapped in a mysterious part of the ocean ...

The Godchild
1974
as Crees
Three Union POWs fleeing across the desert to escape both their Confederate pursuers and rampaging Apaches come across a dying woman and her infant ch...

The Longest Yard
1974
as Captain Knauer
A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw...

The Midnight Man
1974
as Leroy
An ex-convict, and ex-cop, finds himself in the midst of drama as a murder, of a female student, is commited at the university where he works as a nig...

The Migrants
1974
as Mr. Barlow
A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.

Executive Action
1973
as Operations Chief - Team A
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this specu...

The Last American Hero
1973
as Burton Colt
A young hell raiser quits his moonshine business and tries to become the best NASCAR racer the south has ever seen. Loosely based on the true story of...

Class of '63
1973
as Dave McKay
A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her old flame.

Lolly-Madonna XXX
1973
as Hawk Feather
In the early 1970s, a young woman passing through rural Tennessee unintentionally gets caught in a feud between two local neighboring clans, the Feath...

Rage
1972
as Simpson
An accidental nerve gas leak by the military kills not only a rancher's livestock, but also his son. When he tries to hold the military accountable fo...

Dirty Little Billy
1972
as Tyler
Clearly influenced by the darker, more sinister style of spaghetti westerns, Dirty Little Billy offers a unique insight into the beginnings of the not...

Bad Company
1972
as Orin
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...

Hickey & Boggs
1972
as Ted
Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl. | Al Hickey (Cosby) & Frank Boggs (Culp) are two ja...

The New Centurions
1972
as Galloway
An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he ...

The Magnificent Seven Ride!
1972
as Scott Elliot
Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers ...