Wayne Tippit
Born: 1932-12-19 in Lubbock, Texas, USA
Died: 2009-08-28
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2007
- Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! as Cinco Supporter
2000
- Nurse Betty as Doctor
1998
- Two of a Kind as Father Conrad
- Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 as Keller's Grandfather
1993
- The X-Files as Detective Thompson
- Diagnosis: Murder as FBI Agent
- The Ernest Green Story as Principal Matthews
1992
- Melrose Place as Palmer Woodward
- Mad About You as Manny Gantz
- Honor Thy Mother
1991
- JFK as FBI Agent - Frank
- The Torkelsons as Strickland
- Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story as Tillman
- Running Against Time as FBI Agent Landry
1990
- MadHouse as Grindle
- LifeStories: Steve Burdick as Chuck McAuliffe
- Follow Your Heart as Sheriff Quinn
1989
- Seinfeld as Captain
- Baywatch as Thomas Hastings
- Quantum Leap as Henry Mackenzie
- Money, Power, Murder. as Dunphy
- The Final Days as Senator Edward Gurney
- When We Were Young as Sam
1988
- Murphy Brown as John Q. Bryant
- Dear John as Everett Sutton
1987
- Jake and the Fatman as Hugh Lawson
1986
- Matlock as Sen. David Hopkins
- L.A. Law as Leo Hackett
- Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo as Bill Moon
1985
- Noon Wine as Mr. Burleigh
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Buck Wilson
- Hunter as Dick Frost
- Tales from the Darkside as Magistrate Thomas Branford
1983
- Illusions as Cliff
- Rage of Angels as Dunninger
1977
- Rollercoaster as Police Captain Christie
1976
- Pipe Dreams as Mike Thompson
1975
- Kate McShane as Federal agent
- The Black Box Murders
1974
- The Rockford Files as Agent Dan Shore
1973
- Barnaby Jones as Wade Swanson
1970
- Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon as Dr. Miller