Ed Lauter
Date of birth: 1938-10-30
Place of birth: Long Beach, Long Island, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Edward Lauter, Edward Matthew Lauter II, 에드 로터, 艾德·劳特
Biography
Ed Lauter ( October 30, 1938 – October 16, 2013) was an American actor. His films include The Last American Hero (1973), The Longest Yard (1974), King Kong (1976), Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987), School Ties (1992), True Romance (1993), Not Another Teen Movie (2001), Purple Heart (2005), Camille (2007), and A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper(2007). 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.
Movie Credits
Gleaming the Cube
1989-01-13
An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes
Raw Deal
1986-06-06
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sher
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation
2004-05-19
A group of troopers take refuge in an abandoned outpost after fighting alien bugs, failing to realiz
French Connection II
1975-05-18
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in Ne
Cujo
1983-08-10
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small Ameri
Mulholland Falls
1996-04-26
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
The Longest Yard
1974-08-21
A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards
Finders Keepers
1984-05-18
On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals a co
The Amateur
1981-12-11
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to ave
Allie & Me
1997-10-01
Beverly Hills wife Michelle catches her husband in bed with her best friend Allie, who works at Mich
Family Plot
1976-04-09
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while
Camille
2008-04-13
A twisted honeymoon adventure about a young couple on their way to Niagara Falls.
Bad Company
1972-10-08
After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted
Breakheart Pass
1975-12-09
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission
Death Wish 3
1985-11-01
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
1982-08-27
Lyle Swann is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a ba
Godspeed
2009-01-01
Joseph McKelheer and Cory Knauf (The Hamiltons, The Violent Kind) star in this intense thriller set
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
2006-08-04
The fastest man on four wheels, Ricky Bobby, is one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. A big
3:15 the Moment of Truth
1986-01-31
Violent crime is routine. Organized drug trade runs rampant in the face of powerless authority. And
Death Hunt
1981-04-15
Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains,
Seraphim Falls
2007-01-26
The Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver is on one final mission – to kill Gideon, no mat
Magic
1978-11-08
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high
Fat Man and Little Boy
1989-10-20
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man d
Executive Action
1973-11-07
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot
Golden Years
1991-07-16
When an explosion at a top-secret government lab injures an elderly janitor, no one could have expec
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
1972-08-01
Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican
Eureka
1983-05-01
After striking it rich on a large gold strike, a prospector retires to the quiet life on a Caribbean
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
1985-04-12
Janey is new in town. She soon meets Lynne, a classmate who shares her passion for the local show 'D
The Frankenstein Syndrome
2010-10-01
Young scientist Elizabeth Barnes (Tiffany Shepis) and her group of researchers are conducting illega
Double Image
1986-04-06
This film tells the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the West
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
1987-07-10
The members of the Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity travel to Fort Lauderdale for a fraternity confer
Youngblood
1986-01-31
A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured
The White Buffalo
1977-05-01
In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in
Casting By
2012-11-01
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Ma
Blast
2000-04-07
Four high school friends believe the local myth that developer Swenson killed a kid for trespassing
Purple Heart
2005-01-01
PURPLE HEART tells of a clean-up effort after a covert mission gone wrong. It is the story of Colone
The Artist
2011-10-12
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures wil
Lassiter
1984-02-17
A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded
Hickey & Boggs
1972-10-04
Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl. |
Under Wraps
1997-10-25
A comedy-adventure in which three twelve-year-olds have a close encounter with a 3,000-year-old mumm
Trouble with the Curve
2012-09-21
Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as
Satan's Triangle
1975-01-14
The female survivor of a shipwreck and two Coast Guard helicopter pilots sent to rescue her find the
The Sweeper
1996-06-25
A young cop, haunted by the murder of his entire family years earlier, is recruited by a shadowy org
The Big Score
1983-03-17
A narcotics detective, played by Fred Williamson, lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
1980-02-06
A high school athlete is well on the road to becoming an alcoholic like his ex-hockey pro father unt
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
2012-09-09
The siblings of the Fitzgerald family must decide if the dad who abandoned them 20 years ago can com
The Midnight Man
1974-03-07
An ex-convict, and ex-cop, finds himself in the midst of drama as a murder, of a female student, is
The Librarians
2004-12-09
An exotic dancer enters a world of kidnapping and ransom when she tries to track down her missing si
Lolly-Madonna XXX
1973-02-21
In the early 1970s, a young woman passing through rural Tennessee unintentionally gets caught in a f
The Chicken Chronicles
1977-10-01
A late-1960s teen (Steve Guttenberg) working in a chicken-takeout stand cannot get his mind off his
Go for Broke
2002-06-27
After their winning lottery ticket was stolen and wound up in a women’s prison, two men hatch a plan
Mercenary
1996-10-17
Jonas Ambler is a rich businessman whose wife is killed by kidnappers, so he decides to get even. He
In the Custody of Strangers
1982-05-26
A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the h
The Godchild
1974-11-26
Three Union POWs fleeing across the desert to escape both their Confederate pursuers and rampaging A
Tennessee Nights
1989-08-06
When entertainment lawyer Wolfgang Leighton decides to take a break from business for some fishing i
The New Centurions
1972-08-03
An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctr
Class of '63
1973-03-14
A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her
The Last American Hero
1973-07-27
A young hell raiser quits his moonshine business and tries to become the best NASCAR racer the south
King Kong
1976-09-08
An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to explo
Rage
1972-11-22
An accidental nerve gas leak by the military kills not only a rancher's livestock, but also his son.
Digital Man
1995-09-05
An out-of-control robot is inadvertently set loose in a small community, and a crack squad of soldie
Judgement
1992-08-05
A juvenile court judge goes out of her way to try to aid a young man whom she believes has innocentl
Nobody Knows Anything!
2004-08-24
Sarah thinks making a movie is easy. With the guidance of her screenwriter uncle, she goes on a wild
Childhood Sweetheart?
1997-03-18
After seventeen years, a missing girl returns home. But is she a long-lost friend or a cold-blooded
Extreme Justice
1993-06-26
Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to
The Rocketeer
1991-06-21
A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forc
A Shadow in the Streets
1975-01-28
An ex-convict trying to straighten his life out takes a job as a parole agent in an experimental pro
Married to a Stranger
1997-09-28
A woman develops severe amnesia after a blow to the head, and can no longer remember her family.
Out in Fifty
1999-06-22
A reformed ex-convict enters a love triangle and gets manipulated into being a scapegoat in a murder
Dirty Little Billy
1972-11-01
Clearly influenced by the darker, more sinister style of spaghetti westerns, Dirty Little Billy offe
The Cartier Affair
1984-11-03
Curt Taylor is a convict and owes Phil Drexler the number 1 convict in the prison. Now to settle his
Grandpa's Place
2004-02-14
Jason and Grandpa are in Grandpa's basement where they enjoy an afternoon of imagination, fun and le
Last Hours Before Morning
1975-04-19
An ex-cop, now a private detective, investigating a gambler's murder finds that there may be a conne
The Defiant Ones
1986-01-05
Monroe and 'Joker' Johnson are two prisoners who despise each other. But after their prison transpor
Breach of Trust
1995-01-01
For opposite reasons, an undercover federal agent and a small time hood join forces to take on a uni
Real Genius
1985-08-07
When teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn tha
Girl in the Cadillac
1995-10-24
A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find lo
The Beautiful Ones
2017-07-14
A retelling of Romeo and Juliet set within the Los Angeles underworld.
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
2014-10-16
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer str
Rattled
1996-02-14
A horde of rattlesnakes inexplicably descends into Eden Valley, terrorizing an isolated family and f
The Return of Ironside
1993-05-04
After forty years of good and faithful services, Robert T. Ironside, reprocessed police force of San
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
1980-11-05
Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handfu
Raven Hawk
1996-07-20
A Native-American woman, who was framed for the murders of her parents years before, returns to her
Under Investigation
1993-11-17
Detective Keaton finds a dead woman in painter Strong's apartment.. During the investigating Keaton
Expecting a Miracle
2009-01-10
Botched directions lead a struggling couple to a small Mexican town whose residents have a positive
My Blue Heaven
1990-08-17
FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Ant
The Clone Master
1978-09-14
In order to test the validity of his experiments on cloning, a scientist makes clones of himself, bu
Secret Sins of the Father
1994-01-09
Louis (Lloyd Bridges) is a farmer in small-town Nebraska. All seems well in his quiet life until the
Born on the Fourth of July
1989-12-20
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist
The Three Wishes of Billy Grier
1984-10-31
A teenager must cope with a disease that causes himself to age at an astronomical rate.
Undercover with the KKK
1979-10-23
The true story of Gary Thomas Rowe, Jr., who worked undercover for the FBI to infiltrate a Ku Klux K
Firefighter
1986-09-23
Cindy Fralic (Nancy McKeon) plans to become a Los Angeles County firefighter. However, in the 60-yea
Coyote Summer
1996-01-01
Teenage Callie has a wild streak. When her mother goes to London on business, she sends Callie to he
The Lost
2006-03-11
A charismatic psycho suspected of killing two innocent campers in a cold-blooded double homicide gro
The Number 23
2007-02-23
Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written abo
Art Heist
2004-01-01
An art expert assists an investigation into a stolen painting in Barcelona; as more paintings are be
Trial by Jury
1994-09-09
Valerie is a juror in the trial of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no o
The Last Days of Patton
1986-12-15
Gen. George S. Patton now works a desk job for the U.S. military after World War II. In the midst of
Into the Fire
2005-09-23
Into the Fire follows the story of Walter Hartwig, a lieutenant in the New York City Harbor Unit, wh
Chief Zabu
2016-10-28
An outrageous social comedy about a New York realtor who dreams of having political influence by tak
True Romance
1993-09-09
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, wh
Love's Savage Fury
1979-05-20
During the Civil War, a self-centered, young Southern belle tries to hold onto the family estate whe
The Jericho Mile
1980-10-31
A runner, serving a life sentence at Folsom Prison, works at becoming the world's fastest miler and
Not Another Teen Movie
2001-12-07
On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into
Python
2000-08-09
After a military plane crashes outside of a small American town, its cargo — a genetically engineere
The Migrants
1974-02-03
A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.
Carnal Innocence
2011-06-13
A famous violinist Caroline Waverly returns to her home town. A killer is on the streets, and Caroli
The Longest Yard
2005-05-27
Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulat
The Story of Noah
1978-11-19
A man of God follows his faith to populate a new world in 'The Story of Noah', a powerful story of d
Wagons East!
1994-08-16
After the 1860s Wild West, a group of misfit settlers - including ex-doctor Phil Taylor, prostitute
The Seduction of Gina
1984-01-17
Gina is young, recently married and bored. On a trip to Lake Tahoe she discovers the game of blackja
Nickel Mountain
1984-01-01
Henry Soames owns a rural diner, and has befriended Willard Freud and Callie Wells. One day Willard
Gentleman B.
2003-02-19
Nick Vincent is set up by his crime partner Manny Breen. He is sent away to prison and when he is re
School Ties
1992-09-18
When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feel
Thirteen Days
2000-12-25
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc
Leaving Las Vegas
1995-10-27
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arri
The Prince and the Pauper: The Movie
2007-09-25
A modern day telling of the Mark Twain classic, The Prince and the Pauper.
A Bright Shining Lie
1998-05-30
Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views bei
Farewell, My Love
2000-02-15
Brigit as a young girl saw her family killed by the Karpovs, a Russian crime family, she would have
Loose Shoes
1978-09-01
Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects a
Civility
2000-10-08
Cade Russo must reluctantly return home to Civility, Arizona to attend his father's funeral, and mor
Top of the World
1997-05-01
In Las Vegas for a quicky divorce, a just-paroled ex-cop and his wife wander into the Top of the Wor
La Classe américaine
2012-10-05
The story of the successful publicity campaign that made it possible for the French film The Artist
Dollar for the Dead
1998-10-11
In this tribute to the old time spaghetti westerns with a liberal dose of modern Hong Kong film-maki
Seabiscuit
2003-07-22
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of
The Thanksgiving Promise
1986-11-23
A teenage boy is torn between his love for an injured Canadian goose that he has found and his agree
Night of Terror
1999-07-01
Two teenagers find themselves in the bad part of LA and have to resort to violence to save their own
Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story
1992-05-18
Story of attractive cop Laurencia Bembenek, who, in 1982, was sentenced to prison for killing her hu
Rooster
1982-08-19
A physically small police psychologist and a physically large insurance detective team up on an arso
Kojak: Flowers For Matty
1990-01-04
Kojak charms his way into high society to investigate art thefts that are tied to munitions smugglin
Murder So Sweet
1993-02-02
A hometown heartthrob (Harry Hamlin) marries the local beauties and then poisons them in this true s
The Moviemakers
1973-01-01
A promotional short for Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973).