Biography
Richard D. Lineback (born February 4, 1952) is an American actor. He has performed in character roles in the films Speed, Twister and Varsity Blues. He played Deputy Dodd in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning. Lineback has appeared in many roles on the stage, with leads that include Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, C.C. Showers in The Diviners, for which he won the Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding Actor, and the title role in Mister Roberts. He has also made numerous guest appearances for telev...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Ring
2002
as Innkeeper
Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will...
King of Texas
2002
as Warnell
In this re-imagining of Shakespear's King Lear, Patrick Stewart stars as John Lear, a Texas cattle baron, who, after dividing his wealth among his thr...
Ready to Rumble
2000
as Mr. Boggs
Two slacker wrestling fans are devastated by the ousting of their favorite character by an unscrupulous promoter.
Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
1999
as Paul Jackson
The Lori Jackson Story - A civil rights campaigner, Lori Jackson, champions the the cause of a black marine convicted of rape, as she thinks he is in...
Varsity Blues
1999
as Joe Harbor
In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday ...
The Baby Dance
1998
as Al LeFauve
Six months pregnant and living in a beat-up tiny mobile home, Wanda LeFauve thinks she has found the solution to her problems when she agrees to meet ...
Meet the Deedles
1998
as Crabbe
Two surfers end up as Yellowstone park rangers and have to stop a former ranger who is out for revenge.
Hush
1998
as Hal Bentall
Jackson and Helen are in love and about to have their first child when they move in with Jackson's mother, Martha, in order to take care of the family...
The Jackal
1997
as FBI Agent McMurphy
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal prov...
The Last Hand
1997
as Slim
Aging gambler Benny Walsh dies in a suspicious car crash after the biggest poker win of his life. His son, Clyde, comes to the Nevada town in search o...
Tin Cup
1996
as Curt
A washed up golf pro working at a driving range tries to qualify for the US Open in order to win the heart of his succesful rival's girlfriend.
Twister
1996
as Father
An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma. Tornado chasers, headed by Dr. Jo Harding, attempt to release a groundbreaki...
Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
1995
as Billy Coleman
Inspired by the the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning, Miami-based journalist, Edna Buchanan, who investigates the murder of a man with ties to the Miami...
Natural Born Killers
1994
as Sonny
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Speed
1994
as Norwood
Jack Traven, an LAPD cop on SWAT detail, and veteran SWAT officer Harry Temple thwart an extortionist-bomber's scheme for a $3 million ransom. As they...
Sommersby
1993
as Timothy Fry
Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By al...
Somebody's Daughter
1992
as Fielder
A stripper and her bodyguard become involved in a murder.
Woman With a Past
1992
as Wayne
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...
Blind Vengeance
1990
as Edwin 'Ed' Rentzell
A man seeks revenge on the white supremacists acquitted in the murder of his son
Inherit the Wind
1988
as Sillers
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
Stewardess School
1986
as Sgt. Striker
A group of varied misfits (including a former prostitute/stripper and a bumbler who can't see more than 6 inches in front of his face) enter a school ...
Return to Mayberry
1986
as Wally Butler
After being away for awhile, Andy Taylor returns home to Mayberry to visit Opie, now an expectant father. While there he ends up helping Barney Fife m...
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
1985
as Deputy Dodd
Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by t...
Ghost Dancing
1983
as Brian
Farm widow Sarah Bowman has been impoverished by the siphoning of her water supply. A nearby big-city aqueduct has priority over water rights, leaving...
Hard Country
1981
as Larry
Ambitious young Jodie wants more out of life than the small Texas country town she lives in has to offer. Jodie realizes that in order to pursue her d...
Beyond the Next Mountain
1981
The story of how the Gospel of John changed the course of history for a tribe of headhunters.
Death Ray 2000
1981
as U.S. Army Enlisted Man
A flamboyant secret agent from UNIT, a secret counterespionage group, teams with a lady spy to retrieve a stolen device capable of destroying the worl...
Gideon's Trumpet
1980
as Lester Wade
True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision whic...
Joni
1979
as Steve Estes
Based on Joni Eareckson's autobiography. She becomes paralyzed after breaking her neck in a swimming accident at age 17. Trying to cope with her new l...