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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Noble Henry Willingham, Jr. (August 31, 1931 — January 17, 2004) was an American television and film actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Noble Willingham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Complete Filmography

Blind Horizon
2003
as Deputy Shirl Cash
Left for dead in the remote Southwest, Frank is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. As he recovers, ominous memories begin to flash back...

The Corndog Man
1999
as Ace Barker
A foul-mouthed and bigoted boat salesman in rural South Carolina is targeted for ruthless and never-ending telephone terrorism by a mysterious man cla...

Up Close & Personal
1996
as Buford Sells
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tap...

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
1994
as Clay Stone
Mitch Robbins' 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Neverthel...

Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion
1994
as C.D. Parker
An experienced member of Texas Rangers, a special police unit, arrives to compete in a pistol shooting tournament, but so does a hitman who's planing ...

The Hudsucker Proxy
1994
as Zebulon Cardozo
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

Guarding Tess
1994
as Sheriff Janson (uncredited)
Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle—the widow of a former U.S. President, and a close p...

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994
as Riddle
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to e...

Men Don't Tell
1993
as Riley
This movie shows another side to spousal abuse that not too many people thought is possible--the husband being abused and the wife the abuser.

Fire in the Sky
1993
as Blake Davies
After clearing brush for the government, a group of men return to town claiming their friend was abducted their friend. Despite no apparent motive or ...

The Distinguished Gentleman
1992
as Zeke Bridges
A Florida con man uses the recent death of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a last name with, to get elected ...

Of Mice and Men
1992
as The Boss
Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.

Article 99
1992
as Inspector General
Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliv...

Woman With a Past
1992
as Chairman
A woman lives a normal life with her second husband and her two sons of the first marriage. One day she is caught by her past and the film reveales in...

The Last Boy Scout
1991
as Sheldon Marcone
When the girl that detective Joe Hallenback is protecting gets murdered, the boyfriend of the murdered girl attempts to investigate and solve the case...

Sweet Poison
1991
as Sheriff
A convict on the run from the law kidnaps a couple who are on their way to a funeral. He finds that he got more than he bargained for when he realizes...

City Slickers
1991
as Clay Stone
Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.

Career Opportunities
1991
as Roger Roy McClellan
Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalize...

Pastime
1990
as Clyde Bigby
A veteran minor league pitcher in 1957 tutors a young phenomenon.

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
1990
A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.

The Heist
1989
as Stuckey
Ex-con Neal Skinner seeks revenge against track owner Ebbet Berens for framing him in an emerald smuggling deal.

Blind Fury
1989
as MacCready
A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.

The Road Raiders
1989
as Crankcase
Filled with anachronisms and rip offs from "The 'A' Team" and "The Dirty Dozen" - It's 1942 in Manila and an American saloon owner organizes a misfit ...

Unconquered
1989
as Bear Bryant
In 1962 in Montgomery, Alabama, State Attorney Richmond Flowers, Sr. is one of few willing to fight racial injustices even if it costs him his family'...
Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story
1988
as Ted Simonsen
Film that tells the story of Los Gatos (California) high school football coach Charlie Wedemeyer. At 31, onetime football pro Wedemeyer is living the ...

A Stoning in Fulham County
1988
as Judge Manning
Religious beliefs clash with the law when an Amish infant is killed in a rural community.

Shooter
1988
as Rizzo
"Shooter," aka Matt Thompson aka Gruwald is a photographer in 1967 Saigon, Vietnam. Working out of a news agency for a major magazine, Thompson gets i...

Splash, Too
1988
as Karl Hooten
A sequel to the popular romantic mermaid drama, in which Allen and Madison return to New York - one to save his business, the other to save a Dolphin ...

Longarm
1988
A showdown is staged between a U.S. deputy marshal and the outlaw gang that raised him in the New Mexico Territory of 1887.

Good Morning, Vietnam
1987
as Gen. Taylor
A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his h...

The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
1987
as Dr. Pollard
Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett defend the Alamo against overwhelming Mex...

Born in East L.A.
1987
as Border Patrol Sergeant
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As hi...

La Bamba
1987
as Howard
Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his g...

Summer Heat
1987
as Strother
The young wife of a tobacco farmer falls in love with their handsome hired hand.

Badge of the Assassin
1985
as Airport Guard
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police dete...

Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
1983
as Dr. Graham
TV movie based on the singer's life, under his mother's thumb, competing with the ghost of one of the most famous singers in C&W music history, and as...

Independence Day
1983
as Andy Parker
Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but...

Missing Children: A Mother's Story
1982
as Lander Hughes
A young mother hands her children into what she thinks is a childcare center while she finds a new home, but returns to find that they have been adopt...

The Children Nobody Wanted
1981
as McNaulty
True story of Tom Butterfield and his crusade to provide family life for homeless children, becoming not only the first bachelor caretaker, but the yo...

Coward of the County
1981
as Car-Wash
A lifelong yellow-belly who made a deathbed promise to his father to be a pacifist seeks bloody revenge on the men who gang-raped his wife.

First Monday in October
1981
as Nebraska Attorney
For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.

Harry's War
1981
as Major Andrews
After his aunt dies of a heart attack while fighting the IRS, Harry Johnson decides to take up the cause.

The Howling
1981
as Charlie Barton
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they s...

The Georgia Peaches
1980
as Jarvis Wheeler
A Southern gal who runs her family's auto repair shop, her aspiring country singer sister, and their stock-car racing friend who runs moonshine on the...

Brubaker
1980
as Dr. Fenster
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

The Gambler
1980
as Conductor
This Western adventure, inspired by Kenny Rogers' hit song, tells how fictional gambler Brady Hawkes, going in search of a young son he never knew he ...

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
1979
as Captain Prewitt
Before the adventures that made them legends, they were charming mastermind Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, and crack-shot outlaw Harry Alon...

Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider
1979
as Pop Bauer
A World War I deserter competes in the first long-distance motorcycle race.

Norma Rae
1979
as Leroy Mason
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumpt...

Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story
1979
as 1st Doctor
Based on the life of Kitty O'Neil, a young girl who overcame her deafness to become one of the top stuntwomen in Hollywood, and the holder of the wome...

Just Me and You
1978
as Gas Station Owner
A salesman travels cross country with a quirky New Yorker.

Cindy
1978
as Sergeant
A revisionist twist on Cinderella with an all-black cast and set in Harlem during WWII. Cindy is a country bumpkin who moves from South Carolina to li...

Thaddeus Rose and Eddie
1978
as Judge
The adventures of two good old boys from Texas, no-account buddies who are finally forced to face reality for themselves and for their girlfriends.

The Boys in Company C
1978
as Sergeant Curry
Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own c...

Greased Lightning
1977
as Billy Joe Byrnes
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.
Liza’s Pioneer Diary
1976
as Mr. Dunster
The story of a gentle, unsure young woman who grows in maturity and self-reliance as she travels across the American plains in 1848 in a wagon train w...

Fighting Mad
1976
as Senator Hingle
An evil corporation tries to pressure a bunch of Arkansas farmers and ranchers to sell their land so they can strip-mine it for coal. The fiercely pro...

Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
1975
as Principal
Sheila Levine – an innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual – arrives in New York City to take an apartment with a partygoing roommate...

Aloha, Bobby and Rose
1975
as Uncle Charlie
Bobby and Rose, two youngsters who are in love, have to run away from home when they are falsely accused to have committed a robbery and an assassinat...

Black Bart
1975
as Fern Malaga
A television series titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Andrew Bergman's original story for Blazing Saddles (Black Bart was the movie's or...

Where Have All the People Gone
1974
as Jim Clancy
A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects. Anim...

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

Chinatown
1974
as Councilman
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to inve...
Evel Knievel
1974
as Jack Decataur
Pilot for an adventure/comedy series starring Sam Elliott as the title character and Gary Barton as his sidekick. In the pilot Evel Knievel must compe...

Sunshine
1973
as Bartender
A young woman living in the woods with her husband, a struggling musician, and her young daughter, discovers she has terminal cancer. She begins to ta...

Hit!
1973
as Warden Springer
A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose li...

Paper Moon
1973
as Mr. Robertson
During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partn...

The Girls of Huntington House
1973
as Harry, Sara's Father
An unmarried teacher in a school for unwed mothers finds herself becoming too emotionally attached to her students and their problems.

The Last Picture Show
1971
as Chester
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having ...

My Sweet Charlie
1970
as Grady
A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they ...