Dennis Lipscomb
Date of birth: 1942-03-01
Place of birth: Westbury, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
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Biography
Dennis Lipscomb (March 1, 1942 - July 30, 2014) was an American actor. Lipscomb's first feature film was Union City (1980). From the early 1980s to the 1990s, Lipscomb appeared in key roles in various motion pictures including Love Child (1982), WarGames (1983), Eyes of Fire (1983), The Day After (1983), A Soldier's Story (1984), Crossroads (1986), Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987), Retribution (1987), Sister, Sister (1987), The First Power (1990) and Under Siege (1992). Lipscomb also had a recurring role as mayor of the fictitious town of Sparta, Mississippi in the first season of In the Heat of the Night (1988). In more recent years, Lipscomb has guest starred on television commercials and shows, including WKRP In Cincinnati, T.J. Hooker, and Wiseguy (1987; CBS) as Sid Royce/Elvis Prim. To a younger audience he is perhaps best known as DCI Peter Sterling in Spycraft: The Great Game.
Movie Credits
WarGames
1983-06-03
High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a compute
Le Grand Silence
1977-05-01
Preparing for an evening out, the sexual tension between Armande and Benny turns sour, Benny's ulter
The Day After
1983-12-10
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residen
A Soldier's Story
1984-09-14
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local
Without Warning
1994-10-30
A television program is interupted by a news network announcing that three meteors have hit the Unit
Crossroads
1986-03-14
A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.
Call to Glory
1984-08-13
Colonel Raynor Sarnac has to balance his family and his duty as head of a flight group facing the po
Retribution
1987-10-01
After a depressed artist miraculously survives a suicide attempt, a series of horrific murders leads
Eyes of Fire
1983-10-21
In 1750, an adulterous preacher is ejected from a small British colony with his motley crew of follo
Love Child
1982-10-15
The true-story of Terry Jean Moore, a young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "fiv
Union City
1980-09-26
A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.
The Force
1994-02-21
When a police officer is killed in the line of duty, his soul enters into the body of a young office
Sister, Sister
1987-09-13
Sisters Charlotte and Lucy Bonnard live together in the gloomy Louisiana family mansion that they’ve
Undercover Blues
1993-09-10
When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a specia
The Medicine Show
2001-10-10
A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
1987-02-03
This is the story of Lenell Geter, an engineer who was accused and convicted of armed robbery. Becau
Automatic
1995-04-08
Robgen industries newest security system is "The J Series Automatic", an android model designed and
The First Power
1990-04-06
A dedicated L.A. police detective and a female psychic must stop a demonic serial killer who was giv
The Blue Yonder
1985-11-10
A young boy, who dreams of meeting the grandfather he never knew gets his chance, when an inventor f
Apollo 11: First Steps on the Moon
1996-11-17
Fearful that the Russians would continue their lead in the space race and be the first to put a man
She Knows Too Much
1989-01-29
In this comedy-drama set in Washington, D.C., an ex-burglar and a dumbbell detective must team up to
Slow Burn
1986-06-29
Jacob Asch is hired by Gerald McMurty to find his ex-wife Laine and their son in Palm Springs. Jacob
Curaçao
1993-06-27
Cornelius Wettering and Stephen Guerin are expatriates living in Curaçao. They're bound together by
Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit
1987-05-24
Jordan White, a publisher friend of Perry, is called to a hotel where a guest, famous horror writer
Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
1991-05-14
David Katz is a world famous magician and he comes to Denver with his group to perform for a charity
Farrell: For the People
1982-10-18
Adventures of the DA's new lady assistant.
Penitentiary II
1982-04-02
An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when
Under Siege
1992-10-08
A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battle
Prime Target
1989-09-29
A homicide detective assigned to investigate the serial killings of New York policewomen begins to s
Rewrite for Murder
1991-09-14
Unaired CBS television pilot from 1991 starring George Clooney and Pam Dawber was an attempt at a br
Mystery Kids
2000-01-04
Twelve-year-old mystery writer Geneva is putting her detective skills to work on a real-live case. W