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Wayne Tippit 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.
Born
Monday, 19 December 1932
Died
Friday, 28 August 2009
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! | Cinco Supporter | 2007 |
| Nurse Betty | Doctor | 2000 |
| Two of a Kind | Father Conrad | 1998 |
| Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 | Keller's Grandfather | 1998 |
| Dark Skies | J. Edgar Hoover | 1996 |
| Something So Right | Iverson | 1996 |
| New York Daze | Howard Miller | 1995 |
| The Client | Maurice Duffin | 1995 |
| Chicago Hope | Walter Emmons | 1994 |
| In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness | Dan Donaldson | 1994 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! | Cinco Supporter | 2007 |
| Nurse Betty | Doctor | 2000 |
| Two of a Kind | Father Conrad | 1998 |
| Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 | Keller's Grandfather | 1998 |
| Dark Skies | J. Edgar Hoover | 1996 |
| Something So Right | Iverson | 1996 |
| New York Daze | Howard Miller | 1995 |
| The Client | Maurice Duffin | 1995 |
| Chicago Hope | Walter Emmons | 1994 |
| In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness | Dan Donaldson | 1994 |
| Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man | (voice) | 1994 |
| Diagnosis Murder | Elliott Whitfield / FBI Agent / Howard Mitchell | 1993 |
| The X-Files | Detective Thompson | 1993 |
| Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter | William Burton | 1992 |
| Mad About You | Manny Gantz | 1992 |
| Love & War | Bub Kellogg | 1992 |
| Melrose Place | Palmer Woodward | 1992 |
| JFK | FBI Agent - Frank | 1991 |
| Homefront | Walter Lemo | 1991 |
| The Torkelsons | Strickland | 1991 |
| Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story | Tillman | 1991 |
| Dark Shadows | Dr. Hiram Fisher | 1991 |
| Running Against Time | FBI Agent Landry | 1990 |
| Lifestories | Chuck McAuliffe | 1990 |
| Equal Justice | Paul Hauge | 1990 |
| Madhouse | Grindle | 1990 |
| The Final Days | Senator Edward Gurney | 1989 |
| Mancuso, FBI | Tarnworth | 1989 |
| When We Were Young | 1989 | |
| Seinfeld | Captain | 1989 |
| Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North | Boxing coach | 1989 |
| Baywatch | Senator Thomas Hastings | 1989 |
| The Dream Team | Captain Lewitt | 1989 |
| Quantum Leap | Henry Mackenzie | 1989 |
| Murphy Brown | John Q. Bryant | 1988 |
| Dear John | Everett Sutton | 1988 |
| Jake and the Fatman | Hugh Lawson | 1987 |
| Wiseguy | Flanagan | 1987 |
| Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo | Bill Moon | 1986 |
| Crime Story | Ambassador Morgan | 1986 |
| L.A. Law | Leo Hackett | 1986 |
| Matlock | Assistant D.A. Jerry Carlisle / Sen. David Hopkins | 1986 |
| Brass | Police Commissioner Haines | 1985 |
| Murder, She Wrote | Buck Wilson | 1984 |
| Hunter | Dick Frost | 1984 |
| Tales from the Darkside | Magistrate Thomas Branford | 1983 |
| Rage of Angels | Dunninger | 1983 |
| American Playhouse | Mr. Burleigh / Robert Stripling | 1982 |
| Taps | Mst. Sgt. Kevin Moreland | 1981 |
| Rollercoaster | Christie / Police Captain Christie | 1977 |
| Pipe Dreams | Mike Thompson | 1976 |
| Petrocelli | Det. Will Lewis | 1974 |
| The Rockford Files | Agent Dan Shore | 1974 |
| Barnaby Jones | Wade Swanson | 1973 |
| The Bob Newhart Show | Pilot | 1972 |
| Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon | Dr. Miller | 1970 |
| The Horror of Party Beach | Drunk Killed by Monster | 1964 |
| The Doctors | Kyle Wilson / Kyle Wilson (credit only) | 1963 |
| The Secret Storm | Jerry Ames | 1954 |
