Name
Wayne Tippit
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1932-12-19
Deathday
2009-08-28 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Lubbock, Texas, USA
Biography
Wayne Tippit (December 19, 1932 – August 28, 2009) was an American television and stage character actor. He was best known to television audiences for playing Ted Adamson on the 1970s and 1980s CBS soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, for five years. He later portrayed Palmer Woodward, the father of Heather Locklear's character, Amanda Woodward, on the Fox primetime soap opera, Melrose Place, during the 1990s.
Known For
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A young terrorist kills and injures patrons of a Norfolk amusement park by placing homemad...
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Hoping to prevent his brother's Vietnam death and to prevent the JFK assassination, a time...
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The story of three wildly neurotic characters: a facially disfigured girl, a homosexual pa...
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Four guys, best friends, have grown up together in DANCER, TEXAS POP. 81, a tiny town in W...
- 1977 Rollercoaster as Police Captain Christie
- 1992 Honor Thy Mother
- 1970 Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon as Dr. Miller
- 1986 Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo as Bill Moon
- 1983 Illusions as Cliff
- 1989 Money, Power, Murder. as Dunphy
- 1990 Follow Your Heart as Sheriff Quinn
- 1993 The Ernest Green Story as Principal Matthews
- 1976 Pipe Dreams as Mike Thompson
- 1975 The Black Box Murders
- 1991 Running Against Time as FBI Agent Landry
- 1989 When We Were Young as Sam
- 1998 Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 as Keller's Grandfather
- 1991 JFK as FBI Agent - Frank
- 2000 Nurse Betty as Doctor
- 1990 MadHouse as Grindle
- 1990 LifeStories: Steve Burdick as Chuck McAuliffe
- 1989 The Final Days as Senator Edward Gurney
- 1985 Noon Wine as Mr. Burleigh
- 1991 Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story as Tillman
- 1993 Diagnosis: Murder ( 1 episode ) as FBI Agent
- 1984 Tales from the Darkside ( 1 episode ) as Magistrate Thomas Branford
- 1993 Diagnosis: Murder ( 1 episode ) as Howard Mitchell
- 1993 Diagnosis: Murder ( 1 episode ) as Elliott Whitfield
- 1983 Rage of Angels ( 2 episodes ) as Dunninger
- 1993 The X-Files ( 1 episode ) as Detective Thompson
- 1989 Quantum Leap ( 1 episode ) as Henry Mackenzie
- 1989 Baywatch ( 1 episode ) as Thomas Hastings
- 1992 Melrose Place ( 13 episodes ) as Palmer Woodward
- 2007 Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! ( 1 episode ) as Cinco Supporter
- 1989 Seinfeld ( 1 episode ) as Captain
- 1991 The Torkelsons ( 1 episode ) as Strickland
- 1974 The Rockford Files ( 3 episodes ) as Agent Dan Shore
- 1988 Dear John ( 1 episode ) as Everett Sutton
- 1988 Murphy Brown ( 1 episode ) as John Q. Bryant
- 1986 L.A. Law ( 3 episodes ) as Leo Hackett
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Buck Wilson
- 1984 Hunter ( 1 episode ) as Dick Frost
- 1992 Mad About You ( 1 episode ) as Manny Gantz
- 1998 Two of a Kind ( 1 episode ) as Father Conrad
- 1975 Kate McShane ( 1 episode ) as Federal agent
- 1987 Jake and the Fatman ( 1 episode ) as Hugh Lawson
- 1986 Matlock ( 1 episode ) as Sen. David Hopkins
- 1973 Barnaby Jones ( 1 episode ) as Wade Swanson
- 1986 Matlock ( 1 episode ) as Assistant D.A. Jerry Carlisle
- 1994 Chicago Hope ( 1 episode ) as Walter Emmons
- 1991 Dark Shadows ( 2 episodes ) as Dr. Hiram Fisher
- 1972 The Bob Newhart Show ( 1 episode ) as Pilot
- 1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Burleigh
