Geoffrey Lewis

Born: 1935-07-31 in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA

Died: 2015-04-07

Known For: Acting

Biography

Geoffrey Bond Lewis (July 31, 1935 – April 7, 2015) was an American character actor. His filmography includes television shows such as Law & Order: Criminal Intent and My Name is Earl, as well as films such as Down in the Valley, alongside Edward Norton, The Butcher, alongside Eric Roberts, Maverick, alongside Mel Gibson, and When Every Day Was the Fourth of July alongside Dean Jones. In 1979, Lewis co-starred as a gravedigger turned vampire in the cult classic made-for-television movie Salem's Lot. Lewis has worked frequently with actor-director Clint Eastwood in several films including Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Pink Cadillac, Any Which Way You Can, Bronco Billy, Every Which Way But Loose, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot and High Plains Drifter. Lewis is the father of actress Juliette Lewis. Description above from the Wikipedia article Geoffrey Lewis (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2026

Brothers Broken as self

2018

High & Outside: A Baseball Noir as Len Harding

2012

Mommy's Little Monster as Stanley Melnick
Retreat! as Sullivan

2007

Moving McAllister as Crazy Old Martin
Cold Ones as Felton Jones

2006

Voodoo Moon as Old Man #1
Wicked Little Things as Harold Thompson
Wild Hearts as Hank
Fingerprints as Keeler

2005

Criminal Minds as Coroner
My Name Is Earl as Gwen's Dad
The Devil's Rejects as Roy Sullivan
Fat Actress as Kirstie's Father
Down in the Valley as Sheridan
The Fallen Ones as Gus
30 Days in Hell: The Making of 'The Devil's Rejects' as Self

2004

House as Older Man
The Mountain
Blueberry as Greg Sullivan
Patients as God
Plainsong as Raymond McPheron

2003

Cold Case as Nathan 'Jonesy' Jones (2004)
Nip/Tuck as Dr. Marcus Grayson
Las Vegas as Pops Castille
Mind Games as Melvin Reeves
A Painted House as Mr. Spruill
Brazilian Brawl as Bolton

2002

The New Guy as Principal Zaylor
A Light in the Darkness as Stanley Melnick

2001

Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Butch Perkins
The Guardian as Mr. Copeland
Sunstorm as Browner
Vampire Resurrection as Geoff, Morgue Attendant

2000

Titus as Calvin
The Huntress
The Way of the Gun as Abner Mercer
The Prophet's Game as Guest #1
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows as Self
Highway 395 as Dilbert Quintana

1999

Five Aces as Sloan

1998

Dawson's Creek as Uncle Bill Braxton

1997

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil as Luther Driggers
American Perfekt as Willy

1996

Trilogy of Terror II as Stubbs
An Occasional Hell as Draper Jewett

1995

Land's End as Willis P. Dunleevy
Kansas as J.D.
The Janitor as The Janitor (voice)
When the Dark Man Calls as Parmenter

1994

Maverick as Matthew Wicker / Eugene, Banker
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf as Heath
National Lampoon's Last Resort as Rex Carver
Day of Reckoning as Matt Corman
The Dragon Gate as Shin'ichi

1993

The X-Files as Alfred Fellig
Walker, Texas Ranger as Sheriff Beau Langley
Point of No Return as Drugstore Owner
Only the Strong as Kerrigan
The Man Without a Face as Chief Wayne Stark
Joshua Tree as Sheriff Cepeda

1992

The Lawnmower Man as Terry McKeen
Wishman as Hitchcock the Genie

1991

Double Impact as Frank Avery

1990

Shades of L.A.
Disturbed as Michael Kahn
Matters of the Heart as Frank Harper
Gunsmoke: The Last Apache as Bodine

1989

Tango & Cash as Captain Schroeder (uncredited)
Pink Cadillac as Ricky Z
Fletch Lives as KKK Leader
Catch Me... If You Can as Mr. Johnson
Desperado: The Outlaw Wars as Oliver Ostrow

1988

Out of the Dark as Dennis
Pancho Barnes as Ben Catlin
Time Out as Mr. Steve Smith

1987

1986

Designing Women as Dr. Davis Jackson
Sidekicks
Dallas: The Early Years as Ed Porter
Spot Marks the X as Dirty Jerry
Annihilator as Prof. Alan Jeffries

1985

MacGyver as David Crane
The Golden Girls as Chuck
Amazing Stories as Dan
Shadow Chasers as Cooper
Wildside
Lust in the Dust as Hard Case Williams
Stitches as Ralph Rizzo
Stormin' Home as Scooter Lee

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Lester Grimshaw
Highway to Heaven
Blue Thunder as Sheriff Kyle C. Tenney
Night of the Comet as Carter
Hot Pursuit as Sheriff Ford

1983

The A-Team as Colonel Mack Stoddard
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Mama's Family
10 to Midnight as Dave Dante
Gun Shy as Amos Tucker
The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair as Janus
Travis McGee as John Tuckerman
September Gun as Sheriff Johnson

1982

The Shadow Riders as Major Cooper Ashbury, Comanchero Leader
I, the Jury as Joe Butler
Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice as Captain Charley Rawlins

1981

Falcon Crest as Lucas Crosby
Bret Maverick
Skyward Christmas as Koup

1980

Magnum, P.I. as Lloyd DeWitt
Heaven's Gate as Trapper Fred
Flo
Any Which Way You Can as Orville Boggs
Belle Starr as Reverend Meeks
Bronco Billy as John Arlington
Tom Horn as Walter Stoll
The Jericho Mile as Dr. Bill Jankowski

1979

Salem's Lot as Mike Ryerson
B. J. and the Bear
Human Experiments as Doctor Kline
Samurai as Harold Tigner
Tilt as Truck Driver

1978

Mork & Mindy as Deputy Tilwick
Centennial as Sheriff Bogardus
The Amazing Spider-Man
Every Which Way but Loose as Orville Boggs
When Every Day Was the Fourth of July as Albert Cavanaugh - The Snowman
Silver Saddle as 2 Strike Snake
Shoot the Sun Down as Scalphunter

1977

Lou Grant as Sheriff
Hunter
The Hunted Lady as Mr. Eckert
The Deadly Triangle as Red Bayliss

1976

Alice
Laverne & Shirley
Monster Squad as The Skull
City of Angels
The Return of a Man Called Horse as Zenas
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe as Dutton
The Great Houdinis as Dr. Crandon

1975

Starsky & Hutch as Monk
S.W.A.T.
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan as Ed Duncan
The Great Waldo Pepper as Newt
The Wind and the Lion as Samuel Gummere
Lucky Lady as Lt. Aaron Mosely
Smile as Wilson
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan as Ed Duncan

1974

Little House on the Prairie as Cole Younger
The Six Million Dollar Man as Charlie Wynn
Police Woman as Officer Akers
Harry O as Senator John Elton
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot as Eddie Goody
Macon County Line as Hamp
Honky Tonk as Roper
The Gun and the Pulpit as Jason McCoy
The Great Ice Rip-Off as Archie

1973

Barnaby Jones as Earl
High Plains Drifter as Stacey Bridges
My Name Is Nobody as Leader of the Wild Bunch
Dillinger as Harry Pierpont
The Baggs as Cop

1972

1971

Cannon
Alias Smith and Jones
The Todd Killings as Mr. Carpenter's Son
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys as Francis Rapture

1970

McCloud
Dan August as Jerry

1969

Then Came Bronson as Gus Arlington

1968

Hawaii Five-O as Commander Chris Nolan
The Name of the Game as Bates
The Mod Squad

1967

Mannix as Ernest
The High Chaparral as Bum

1966

Mission: Impossible as Proctor

1963

The Fat Black Pussycat as Man in Park (uncredited)

1961

A for Andromeda as Doctor Geers

1955

Gunsmoke as Lafitte Bonner

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Raymond McPheron

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee