An American actor. He has appeared in numerous movies and was a stand up comic before getting into acting. Lauter was born in Long Beach, Long Island, New York. His films include The Last American Hero (1973), Executive Action (1973), The Midnight Man (1974), The Longest Yard (1974), Breakheart Pass (1975), King Kong (1976), Magic (1978), Death Hunt (1981), Cujo (1983), Real Genius (1985), Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985), Death Wish 3 (1985), Youngblood (1986), Raw Deal (1986), Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987), The Rocketeer (1991), School Ties (1992), True Romance (1993), Under Wraps (1997) Not Another Teen Movie (2001), Purple Heart (2005), Camille (2007) and A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper(2007). He starred with Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, Karen Black and William Devane in the final film of director Alfred Hitchcock, Family Plot. Hitchcock was impressed by Lauter and asked him to play a major role in the romantic espionage thriller he planned as his next film; the director's failing health and eventual death in 1980 meant that The Short Night never went into production. 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).
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Movies
Gleaming the Cube
Mr. Kelly
Raw Deal
Baker
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation
General J.G. Shepherd
Cujo
Joe Camber
French Connection II
General William Brian
Mulholland Falls
Earl
The Longest Yard
Captain Knauer
Finders Keepers
Josef Sirola
The Amateur
Anderson
Family Plot
Joseph Maloney
Camille
Sheriff Steiner
Bad Company
Orin
Breakheart Pass
Major Claremont
Death Wish 3
Insp. Richard S. Shriker
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
Padre
Godspeed
Mitch
Death Hunt
Hazel
3:15 the Moment of Truth
Moran
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
John Hanafin (uncredited)
Seraphim Falls
Parsons
Magic
Duke
Executive Action
Operations Chief - Team A
Golden Years
Gen. Louis Crewes
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
Scott Elliot
Eureka
Charles Perkins
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Colonel Glenn
The Frankenstein Syndrome
Dr. Walton
Double Image
Jerry Tyler
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
Buzz Mussinger
Youngblood
Murray Chadwick
The White Buffalo
Tom Custer
Blast
Swenson
The Artist
Peppy's Butler
Purple Heart
Civilian
Lassiter
Smoke
Hickey & Boggs
Ted
Under Wraps
Kubat
Trouble with the Curve
Max
Satan's Triangle
Strickland
Rage
Simpson
The Sweeper
Molls
The Big Score
Parks
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
Gus Carpenter
Lolly-Madonna XXX
Hawk Feather
The Librarians
John Strong
The Jericho Mile
Jerry Beliot
The Chicken Chronicles
Mr. Nastase
Go for Broke
Warden Lessen
In the Custody of Strangers
Judge Halloran
Mercenary
Jack Cochran
The Godchild
Crees
Tennessee Nights
Sheriff Williams
Class of '63
Dave McKay
Nobody Knows Anything!
Gun Expert
Digital Man
Gen Roberts
Judgement
Dallas Hale
Childhood Sweetheart?
Sheriff Bowman
The New Centurions
Galloway
The Rocketeer
Fitch
Extreme Justice
Captain Shafer
Out in Fifty
Ed Walker
The Cartier Affair
Lyndon Dean
Girl in the Cadillac
Ben Wilmer
Breach of Trust
Colin Kreuger
The Defiant Ones
Sheriff Leroy Doyle
Real Genius
CIA Man Decker
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
Sheriff Underwood
The Beautiful Ones
Dante Gabriel Tancredi
Rattled
Murray Hendershot
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
Frank Morris
Raven Hawk
Sheriff Daggert
Under Investigation
Captain Maguire
Expecting a Miracle
Walter Enright
The Midnight Man
Leroy
My Blue Heaven
Underwood
Secret Sins of the Father
Arnold Carter
Born on the Fourth of July
Legion Commander
The Three Wishes of Billy Grier
Mr. Grier
Coyote Summer
Mitchell Foster
The Lost
Ed Anderson
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
Jim "Big Jim" Fitzgerald
The Number 23
Father Sebastian
Art Heist
Victor Boyd
Trial by Jury
John Boyle
The Last Days of Patton
Dr. Lt.Col. Paul S. Hill
The Last American Hero
Burton Colt
Into the Fire
Captain Dave Cutler
Chief Zabu
Skip Keisel
True Romance
Police Captain Quiggle
Love's Savage Fury
Sgt. Weed
Python
Pilot
Not Another Teen Movie
The Coach
The Migrants
Mr. Barlow
King Kong
Carnahan
The Clone Master
Bender
Carnal Innocence
Austin Hatinger
The Longest Yard
Duane
Wagons East!
John Slade
The Story of Noah
Ularat
The Seduction of Gina
Carl
Nickel Mountain
W.D. Freund
Gentleman B.
Harry Koslow
School Ties
Alan Greene
Thirteen Days
Gen. Marshall Carter
Leaving Las Vegas
Mobster 3
The Prince and the Pauper: The Movie
Pop
A Bright Shining Lie
General Weyand
Farewell, My Love
Sergei Karpov
Loose Shoes
Sheriff Bob
Civility
Detective Erickson
Top of the World
Mel Ridgefield
La Classe américaine
Self
Dollar for the Dead
Jacob Colby
Seabiscuit
Charles Strub
The Thanksgiving Promise
Coach Gruniger
Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story
Lieutenant Driscoll
Night of Terror
Father Connelly
Rooster
Jack Claggert
Kojak: Flowers For Matty
Police Armorer
Fat Man and Little Boy
Whitney Ashbridge
Manimal
Col. Hunt
Casting By
Self
Shadow in the Street
Siggy Taylor
Dirty Little Billy
Tyler
Last Hours Before Morning
Bud Delaney
The Return of Ironside
Chief Bell
Undercover with the KKK
Raleigh Porter
Allie & Me
Detective Frank Richards
Married to a Stranger
Harry, Megan's Father
Grandpa's Place
Grandpa
Firefighter
B.C. Thompson
Shows
Hardcastle and McCormick
Rick Vetromile
Miami Vice
Capt. Cahill
Charmed
Sutter
Hawaii Five-O
Jonas Halloran
The Streets of San Francisco
Doctor Joseph Ford
Mannix
Sergeant
Walker, Texas Ranger
Silas Bedoe
The Equalizer
Walter Rowan
Homicide: Life on the Street
Gruszynski
ER
Fire Captain Dannaker
Police Story
Ralph Coleman / Joseph Kinsella
The Magnificent Seven
Hank Conley
St. Elsewhere
Stan Morgen
Murder, She Wrote
Sheriff Orville Yates
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Lars Paladin
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Lt. Cmdr. Albert
Magnum, P.I.
Captain Quintin
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Barclay Tobin
The A-Team
Sheriff Hank Thomson
Simon & Simon
Col. Lawrence Grayson
Cold Case
Shep 'Mack' McAvoy (2008)
Baretta
Ed Borgue
Manimal
Col. Hunt
Charlie's Angels
Lt. Howard Fine
Kojak
Floyd
The X-Files
Col. Marcus Aurelius Belt
Millennium
Warden Kellard
Cannon
Deputy
Ironside
Sergeant
The Waltons
Hyder Rudge
Law & Order
Defense Counsel Glick
Crazy like a Fox
Lanslow
Booker
Kendall
Automan
Michael Hagedorn
Nero Wolfe
Clay Baylor
Golden Years
Gen. Louis Crewes
Psych
Ed Dykstra
Shameless
Dick Healey
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Jim Jones, Sr.
The Rockford Files
Joseph Bloomberg
The A-Team
Major Douglas Kyle
Highlander: The Series
Avery Hoskins
The Office
Sam Stone, Sr.
The Equalizer
Robert Nichols
Grey's Anatomy
Timothy Miller
Kodiak
Brook Spencer
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
Frank Morris