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Ed Lauter
★ Acting

Ed Lauter

1938 – 2013 · Long Beach, Long Island, New York, USA · Active 1967–2017

Ed Lauter, born in 1938, was an American actor known for his commanding presence in Satan’s Triangle (1975), where he plays a pivotal role that heightens the film's eerie atmosphere. A veteran of both stage and screen, Lauter made a name for himself in various genres, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, often portraying characters that added depth to the narratives. His work in Satan’s Triangle exemplifies the era's psychological horror, cementing his status as a vital contributor to cult cinema.

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Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story

Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story

1992 ★ 5.6
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.

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Filmography

186 credits
2010s 11 credits
2017
The Beautiful Ones as Dante Gabriel Tancredi
Movie ★ 6.5
2016
Chief Zabu as Skip Keisel
Movie ★ 4.5
2014
The Town that Dreaded Sundown as Sheriff Underwood
Movie ★ 5.8
2012
Casting By as Self
Movie ★ 6.9
2012
Movie ★ 7.0
2012
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas as Jim "Big Jim" Fitzgerald
Movie ★ 6.0
2012
Movie ★ 6.5
2011
The Artist as Peppy's Butler
Movie ★ 7.4
2011
Carnal Innocence as Austin Hatinger
Movie ★ 4.6
2011
Shameless as Dick Healey
TV ★ 8.2
2010
Movie ★ 5.0
2000s 31 credits
2009
Godspeed as Mitch
Movie ★ 4.0
2009
Expecting a Miracle as Walter Enright
Movie ★ 6.2
2008
Camille as Sheriff Steiner
Movie ★ 6.2
2007
Seraphim Falls as Parsons
Movie ★ 6.4
2007
The Number 23 as Father Sebastian
Movie ★ 6.4
2007
Movie ★ 5.6
2006
Movie ★ 6.4
2006
The Lost as Ed Anderson
Movie ★ 5.4
2006
Psych as Ed Dykstra
TV ★ 7.9
2005
Purple Heart as Civilian
Movie ★ 5.2
2005
Into the Fire as Captain Dave Cutler
Movie ★ 5.0
2005
Movie ★ 6.7
2005
Brothers in Arms as Mayor Crawley
Movie ★ 3.5
2005
Grey's Anatomy as Timothy Miller
TV ★ 8.2
2005
The Office as Sam Stone, Sr.
TV ★ 8.6
2004
Movie ★ 4.5
2004
The Librarians as John Strong
Movie ★ 5.3
2004
Movie ★ 3.7
2004
Movie ★ 5.5
2004
Art Heist as Victor Boyd
Movie ★ 4.0
2003
Gentleman B. as Harry Koslow
Movie ★ 4.4
2003
Seabiscuit as Charles Strub
Movie ★ 7.1
2003
Cold Case as Shep 'Mack' McAvoy (2008)
TV ★ 7.8
2002
Go for Broke as Warden Lessen
Movie ★ 4.7
2001
Movie ★ 5.8
2000
Blast as Swenson
Movie ★ 4.8
2000
Python as Pilot
Movie ★ 5.1
2000
Thirteen Days as Gen. Marshall Carter
Movie ★ 7.0
2000
Farewell, My Love as Sergei Karpov
Movie ★ 4.2
2000
Civility as Detective Erickson
Movie ★ 4.0
2000
TV ★ 7.6
1990s 48 credits
1999
Out in Fifty as Ed Walker
Movie ★ 3.7
1999
Night of Terror as Father Connelly
Movie ★ 6.0
1998
A Bright Shining Lie as General Weyand
Movie ★ 5.8
1998
Dollar for the Dead as Jacob Colby
Movie ★ 5.7
1998
Charmed as Sutter
TV ★ 8.2
1998
TV ★ 6.6
1997
Allie & Me as Detective Frank Richards
Movie ★ 3.4
1997
Under Wraps as Kubat
Movie ★ 5.5
1997
Childhood Sweetheart? as Sheriff Bowman
Movie ★ 4.8
1997
Married to a Stranger as Harry, Megan's Father
Movie ★ 5.7
1997
Top of the World as Mel Ridgefield
Movie ★ 5.2
1996
Movie ★ 6.0
1996
The Sweeper as Molls
Movie ★ 4.6
1996
Mercenary as Jack Cochran
Movie ★ 5.7
1996
Rattled as Murray Hendershot
Movie ★ 7.0
1996
Raven Hawk as Sheriff Daggert
Movie ★ 4.0
1996
Coyote Summer as Mitchell Foster
Movie ★ 6.0
1996
Millennium as Warden Kellard
TV ★ 7.7
1995
Digital Man as Gen Roberts
Movie ★ 4.9
1995
Breach of Trust as Colin Kreuger
Movie ★ 4.9
1995
Movie ★ 4.8
1995
Leaving Las Vegas as Mobster 3
Movie ★ 7.3
1995
The Tuskegee Airmen as General Stevenson
Movie ★ 7.1
1995
TV ★ 6.5
1994
Movie ★ 3.5
1994
Trial by Jury as John Boyle
Movie ★ 5.4
1994
Wagons East! as John Slade
Movie ★ 4.9
1994
ER as Fire Captain Dannaker
TV ★ 7.8
1993
Extreme Justice as Captain Shafer
Movie ★ 5.0
1993
Movie ★ 5.1
1993
Under Investigation as Captain Maguire
Movie ★ 2.6
1993
True Romance as Police Captain Quiggle (uncredited)
Movie ★ 7.5
1993
Murder So Sweet as Glen Emory
Movie ★ 6.0
1993
TV ★ 6.7
1993
Walker, Texas Ranger as Silas Bedoe
TV ★ 7.0
1993
The X-Files as Col. Marcus Aurelius Belt
TV ★ 8.4
1993
TV ★ 8.1
1992
Judgement as Dallas Hale
Movie ★ 4.1
1992
School Ties as Alan Greene
Movie ★ 6.5
1992
Movie ★ 4.4
1992
Highlander: The Series as Avery Hoskins
TV ★ 7.4
1992
Renegade as Jack Barnell
TV ★ 6.7
1991
Golden Years as Gen. Louis Crewes
Movie ★ 5.8
1991
Movie ★ 6.5
1991
Golden Years as Gen. Louis Crewes
TV ★ 6.2
1990
My Blue Heaven as Underwood
Movie ★ 6.1
1990
Kojak: Flowers For Matty as Police Armorer
Movie ★ 5.8
1990
Law & Order as Defense Counsel Glick
TV ★ 7.3
1980s 53 credits
1989
Gleaming the Cube as Mr. Kelly
Movie ★ 6.0
1989
Fat Man and Little Boy as Whitney Ashbridge
Movie ★ 6.2
1989
Tennessee Nights as Sheriff Williams
Movie ★ 5.6
1989
Born on the Fourth of July as Legion Commander
Movie ★ 7.0
1989
Booker as Kendall
TV ★ 5.3
1988
Monsters as Malcolm
TV ★ 7.1
1987
Movie ★ 5.6
1987
TV ★ 8.4
1986
Raw Deal as Baker
Movie ★ 5.8
1986
Movie ★ 5.6
1986
Double Image as Jerry Tyler
Movie ★ 5.4
1986
Youngblood as Murray Chadwick
Movie ★ 6.2
1986
The Defiant Ones as Sheriff Leroy Doyle
Movie ★ 5.1
1986
Firefighter as B.C. Thompson
Movie ★ 7.0
1986
The Last Days of Patton as Dr. Lt.Col. Paul S. Hill
Movie ★ 6.5
1986
The Thanksgiving Promise as Coach Gruniger
Movie ★ 5.8
1985
Death Wish 3 as Insp. Richard S. Shriker
Movie ★ 6.2
1985
Movie ★ 6.1
1985
Real Genius as CIA Man Decker
Movie ★ 6.6
1985
The Equalizer as Walter Rowan
TV ★ 7.1
1985
The Equalizer as Robert Nichols
TV ★ 7.1
1985
Screen Two as Jerry Tyler
TV ★ 7.1
1984
Finders Keepers as Josef Sirola
Movie ★ 5.4
1984
Lassiter as Smoke
Movie ★ 5.4
1984
The Cartier Affair as Lyndon Dean
Movie ★ 4.7
1984
Movie ★ 5.0
1984
Movie ★ 5.8
1984
Nickel Mountain as W.D. Freund
Movie ★ 4.2
1984
Murder, She Wrote as Sheriff Orville Yates
TV ★ 7.5
1984
Miami Vice as Capt. Cahill
TV ★ 7.5
1984
TV ★ 7.2
1983
Cujo as Joe Camber
Movie ★ 6.2
1983
Eureka as Charles Perkins
Movie ★ 5.3
1983
Movie ★ 6.0
1983
Hardcastle and McCormick as Rick Vetromile
TV ★ 6.5
1983
The A-Team as Sheriff Hank Thomson
TV ★ 7.5
1983
Manimal as Col. Hunt
TV ★ 7.3
1983
Automan as Michael Hagedorn
TV ★ 7.8
1983
The A-Team as Major Douglas Kyle
TV ★ 7.5
1982
Movie ★ 5.4
1982
Movie ★ 6.4
1982
Rooster as Jack Claggert
Movie ★ 4.5
1982
St. Elsewhere as Stan Morgen
TV ★ 5.7
1981
The Amateur as Anderson
Movie ★ 5.4
1981
Death Hunt as Hazel
Movie ★ 6.6
1981
Simon & Simon as Col. Lawrence Grayson
TV ★ 6.7
1981
Nero Wolfe as Clay Baylor
TV ★ 7.5
1980
Movie ★ 4.7
1980
Movie ★ 5.5
1980
The Jericho Mile as Jerry Beliot
Movie ★ 6.0
1980
Magnum, P.I. as Captain Quintin
TV ★ 7.3
1980
TV ★ 7.3
1980
TV ★ 5.0
1970s 40 credits
1979
Undercover with the KKK as Raleigh Porter
Movie ★ 5.2
1979
Movie ★ 5.3
1978
Magic as Duke
Movie ★ 6.8
1978
Movie ★ 6.0
1978
Movie ★ 2.0
1978
Loose Shoes as Sheriff Bob
Movie ★ 3.9
1977
The White Buffalo as Tom Custer
Movie ★ 6.0
1977
Movie ★ 3.5
1976
Family Plot as Joseph Maloney
Movie ★ 6.8
1976
King Kong as Carnahan
Movie ★ 6.3
1976
Charlie's Angels as Lt. Howard Fine
TV ★ 6.7
1975
French Connection II as General William Brian
Movie ★ 6.8
1975
Breakheart Pass as Major Claremont
Movie ★ 6.6
1975
Satan's Triangle as Strickland
Movie ★ 5.4
1975
Movie ★ 6.0
1975
Movie ★ 4.5
1975
Baretta as Ed Borgue
TV ★ 6.5
1975
Kate McShane as Phil Baines
TV ★ 6.0
1974
The Longest Yard as Captain Knauer
Movie ★ 6.8
1974
Movie ★ 5.5
1974
Movie ★ 6.0
1974
The Migrants as Mr. Barlow
Movie ★ 6.1
1974
Kodiak as Brook Spencer
TV ★ 6.5
1974
The Rockford Files as Joseph Bloomberg
TV ★ 7.6
1973
Executive Action as Operations Chief - Team A
Movie ★ 6.5
1973
Lolly-Madonna XXX as Hawk Feather
Movie ★ 6.0
1973
Class of '63 as Dave McKay
Movie ★ 6.0
1973
Movie ★ 5.7
1973
The Moviemakers as Self (uncredited)
Movie ★ 10.0
1973
Kojak as Floyd
TV ★ 7.1
1973
Police Story as Ralph Coleman / Joseph Kinsella
TV ★ 7.0
1972
Movie ★ 6.4
1972
Movie ★ 5.5
1972
Movie ★ 5.9
1972
Movie ★ 6.6
1972
Rage as Simpson
Movie ★ 6.7
1972
Movie ★ 5.0
1972
The Streets of San Francisco as Doctor Joseph Ford
TV ★ 7.0
1972
The Waltons as Hyder Rudge
TV ★ 7.2
1971
Cannon as Deputy
TV ★ 6.7
1960s 3 credits
1968
Hawaii Five-O as Jonas Halloran
TV ★ 7.2
1967
Mannix as Sergeant
TV ★ 6.8
1967
Ironside as Sergeant
TV ★ 6.9