An American actor. He has appeared in numerous movies and was a stand up comic before getting into acting. Lauter was born in Long Beach, Long Island, New York. His films include The Last American Hero (1973), Executive Action (1973), The Midnight Man (1974), The Longest Yard (1974), Breakheart Pass (1975), King Kong (1976), Magic (1978), Death Hunt (1981), Cujo (1983), Real Genius (1985), Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985), Death Wish 3 (1985), Youngblood (1986), Raw Deal (1986), Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987), The Rocketeer (1991), School Ties (1992), True Romance (1993), Under Wraps (1997) Not Another Teen Movie (2001), Purple Heart (2005), Camille (2007) and A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper(2007). He starred with Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, Karen Black and William Devane in the final film of director Alfred Hitchcock, Family Plot. Hitchcock was impressed by Lauter and asked him to play a major role in the romantic espionage thriller he planned as his next film; the director's failing health and eventual death in 1980 meant that The Short Night never went into production. Lauter's TV guest appearances include performances on Psych, The X-Files, Kojak, The A-Team, Booker, Charmed, Highlander: The Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation (as Lt. Cmdr. Albert in the season 5 episode "The First Duty"),The Equalizer and ER (with a recurring role as Fire Captain Dannaker). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ed Lauter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Gleaming the Cube
(Mr. Kelly)
Raw Deal
(Baker)
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation
(General J.G. Shepherd)
French Connection II
(General William Brian)
Cujo
(Joe Camber)
Mulholland Falls
(Earl)
The Longest Yard
(Captain Knauer)
Finders Keepers
(Josef Sirola)
The Amateur
(Anderson)
Allie & Me
(Detective Frank Richards)
Family Plot
(Joseph Maloney)
Camille
(Sheriff Steiner)
Bad Company
(Orin)
Breakheart Pass
(Major Claremont)
Death Wish 3
(Insp. Richard S. Shriker)
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
(Padre)
Godspeed
(Mitch)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
(John Hanafin (uncredited))
Death Hunt
(Hazel)
3:15 the Moment of Truth
(Moran)
Seraphim Falls
(Parsons)
Magic
(Duke)
Fat Man and Little Boy
(Whitney Ashbridge)
Executive Action
(Operations Chief - Team A)
Golden Years
(Gen. Louis Crewes)
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
(Scott Elliot)
Eureka
(Charles Perkins)
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
(Colonel Glenn)
The Frankenstein Syndrome
(Dr. Walton)
Double Image
(Jerry Tyler)
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
(Buzz Mussinger)
Youngblood
(Murray Chadwick)
The White Buffalo
(Tom Custer)
Manimal
(Col. Hunt)
Casting By
(Self)
Blast
(Swenson)
Purple Heart
(Civilian)
The Artist
(Peppy's Butler)
Lassiter
(Smoke)
Hickey & Boggs
(Ted)
Under Wraps
(Kubat)
Trouble with the Curve
(Max)
Satan's Triangle
(Strickland)
The Sweeper
(Molls)
The Big Score
(Parks)
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
(Gus Carpenter)
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
(Jim "Big Jim" Fitzgerald)
The Midnight Man
(Leroy)
The Librarians
(John Strong)
Lolly-Madonna XXX
(Hawk Feather)
The Chicken Chronicles
(Mr. Nastase)
Go for Broke
(Warden Lessen)
Mercenary
(Jack Cochran)
In the Custody of Strangers
(Judge Halloran)
The Godchild
(Crees)
Tennessee Nights
(Sheriff Williams)
The New Centurions
(Galloway)
Rage
(Simpson)
Class of '63
(Dave McKay)
The Last American Hero
(Burton Colt)
King Kong
(Carnahan)
Digital Man
(Gen Roberts)
Judgement
(Dallas Hale)
Nobody Knows Anything!
(Gun Expert)
Childhood Sweetheart?
(Sheriff Bowman)
Extreme Justice
(Captain Shafer)
The Rocketeer
(Fitch)
Shadow in the Street
(Siggy Taylor)
Married to a Stranger
(Harry, Megan's Father)
Out in Fifty
(Ed Walker)
Dirty Little Billy
(Tyler)
The Cartier Affair
(Lyndon Dean)
Grandpa's Place
(Grandpa)
Last Hours Before Morning
(Bud Delaney)
The Defiant Ones
(Sheriff Leroy Doyle)
Breach of Trust
(Colin Kreuger)
Real Genius
(CIA Man Decker)
Girl in the Cadillac
(Ben Wilmer)
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
(Sheriff Underwood)
The Beautiful Ones
(Dante Gabriel Tancredi)
Rattled
(Murray Hendershot)
The Return of Ironside
(Chief Bell)
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
(Frank Morris)
Raven Hawk
(Sheriff Daggert)
Under Investigation
(Captain Maguire)
Expecting a Miracle
(Walter Enright)
My Blue Heaven
(Underwood)
The Clone Master
(Bender)
Secret Sins of the Father
(Arnold Carter)
Born on the Fourth of July
(Legion Commander)
The Three Wishes of Billy Grier
(Mr. Grier)
Undercover with the KKK
(Raleigh Porter)
Firefighter
(B.C. Thompson)
Coyote Summer
(Mitchell Foster)
The Lost
(Ed Anderson)
The Number 23
(Father Sebastian)
Art Heist
(Victor Boyd)
Trial by Jury
(John Boyle)
The Last Days of Patton
(Dr. Lt.Col. Paul S. Hill)
Into the Fire
(Captain Dave Cutler)
Chief Zabu
(Skip Keisel)
True Romance
(Police Captain Quiggle (uncredited))
Love's Savage Fury
(Sgt. Weed)
The Jericho Mile
(Jerry Beliot)
Not Another Teen Movie
(The Coach)
Python
(Pilot)
The Migrants
(Mr. Barlow)
Carnal Innocence
(Austin Hatinger)
The Longest Yard
(Duane)
The Story of Noah
(Ularat)
Wagons East!
(John Slade)
The Seduction of Gina
(Carl)
Nickel Mountain
(W.D. Freund)
Gentleman B.
(Harry Koslow)
School Ties
(Alan Greene)
Thirteen Days
(Gen. Marshall Carter)
Leaving Las Vegas
(Mobster 3)
The Prince and the Pauper: The Movie
(Pop)
A Bright Shining Lie
(General Weyand)
Farewell, My Love
(Sergei Karpov)
Loose Shoes
(Sheriff Bob)
Civility
(Detective Erickson)
Top of the World
(Mel Ridgefield)
La Classe américaine
(Self)
Dollar for the Dead
(Jacob Colby)
Seabiscuit
(Charles Strub)
The Thanksgiving Promise
(Coach Gruniger)
Night of Terror
(Father Connelly)
Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story
(Lieutenant Driscoll)
Rooster
(Jack Claggert)
Kojak: Flowers For Matty
(Police Armorer)
St. Elsewhere
(Stan Morgen)
Murder, She Wrote
(Sheriff Orville Yates)
Magnum, P.I.
(Captain Quintin)
Hardcastle and McCormick
(Rick Vetromile)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
(Barclay Tobin)
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
(Lars Paladin)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
(Lt. Cmdr. Albert)
The A-Team
(Sheriff Hank Thomson)
Miami Vice
(Capt. Cahill)
Simon & Simon
(Col. Lawrence Grayson)
Hawaii Five-O
(Jonas Halloran)
Cold Case
(Shep 'Mack' McAvoy (2008))
Charmed
(Sutter)
The Streets of San Francisco
(Doctor Joseph Ford)
Baretta
(Ed Borgue)
Manimal
(Col. Hunt)
Walker, Texas Ranger
(Silas Bedoe)
Charlie's Angels
(Lt. Howard Fine)
Mannix
(Sergeant)
Kojak
(Floyd)
The X-Files
(Col. Marcus Aurelius Belt)
The Equalizer
(Walter Rowan)
Millennium
(Warden Kellard)
Cannon
(Deputy)
Homicide: Life on the Street
(Gruszynski)
The Waltons
(Hyder Rudge)
Ironside
(Sergeant)
ER
(Fire Captain Dannaker)
Crazy like a Fox
(Lanslow)
Police Story
(Ralph Coleman / Joseph Kinsella)
Booker
(Kendall)
Automan
(Michael Hagedorn)
The Magnificent Seven
(Hank Conley)
Nero Wolfe
(Clay Baylor)
Psych
(Ed Dykstra)
Grey's Anatomy
(Timothy Miller)
Law & Order
(Defense Counsel Glick)
Shameless
(Dick Healey)
Golden Years
(Gen. Louis Crewes)
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
(Jim Jones, Sr.)
Kodiak
(Brook Spencer)
The Rockford Files
(Joseph Bloomberg)
The A-Team
(Major Douglas Kyle)
Highlander: The Series
(Avery Hoskins)
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
(Frank Morris)
The Office
(Sam Stone, Sr.)
The Equalizer
(Robert Nichols)
Renegade
(Jack Barnell)
Kate McShane
(Phil Baines)