After moving from Detroit to Los Angeles in 1959 to launch his acting career, he co-founded the Met Theatre with James Gammon and appeared in nearly two dozen films and TV series, many westerns. He is best known for playing Texas Ranger-turned-cowboy Pea Eye Parker in acclaimed 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove and its 1993 sequel Return to Lonesome Dove, roles later recast for 1995 follow-up Streets… Read more
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Known for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 Footloose 1984 Fried Green Tomatoes 1991 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Series ★ 8 Little House on the Prairie 1974
Lonnie Younger ★ 7.7 Fried Green Tomatoes 1991
Smokey Lonesome Series ★ 7.9 Lonesome Dove 1989
Pea Eye Parker Series ★ 7.3 The Jeffersons 1975
Series ★ 7.4 The Green Hornet 1966
Honey Boy ★ 7 Gettysburg 1993
Lieut. Gen. Richard S. Ewell Series ★ 7.5 Roots: The Next Generations 1979
Alvin Peacock Series ★ 7.2 Petrocelli 1974
Gus Series ★ 6.9 Mannix 1967
Walter Series ★ 7 Daniel Boone 1964
Phelps Series ★ 7 Return to Lonesome Dove 1993
Pea Eye Parker ★ 7 The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez 1983
Sheriff Morris Series ★ 7 Police Story 1973
Ray Prosser Series ★ 6.8 Land of the Giants 1968
Trilling Series ★ 6.5 Baretta 1975
Series ★ 6.5 Hardcastle and McCormick 1983
Brady Series ★ 6.5 Man from Atlantis 1977
Caine Series ★ 6.5 T. J. Hooker 1982
Whit ★ 6 The Ballad of Josie 1967
Klugg ★ 5.9 Lolly-Madonna XXX 1973
Skylar Feather Series ★ 6.2 The Big Valley 1965
Benjamin ★ 5.9 Macon County Line 1974
Lon Hawkins ★ 6.1 Eye of the Tiger 1986
Deputy ★ 6 Motorpsycho! 1965
Slick ★ 6.5 Annie 1982
Staff Member (uncredited) ★ 5.7 Chattahoochee 1990
Harley ★ 5.2 Love Me Deadly 1973
Fred McSweeney ★ 6.1 The Way West 1967
Middle Henry ★ 6.2 A Chorus Line 1985
Boy with Headband ★ 6.1 Blue Sky 1994
Ned Owens ★ 5.7 Clean Slate 1994
Stanley ★ 6.1 The Electric Horseman 1979
Leroy ★ 5.3 Eureka 1983
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