Charles Tyner
Charles Tyner had been acting on Broadway for only two years when, in 1959, he worked with Paul Newman in Tennessee Williams's "Sweet Bird of Youth." For the next decade, Tynan struggled to break into the film industry, taking on measly uncredited parts in movies like "Fail-Safe" and "Lilith." But his friendship with the movie star proved to be fortuitous when Newman wrangled him into the role of good ol' boy Boss Higgs in the counterculture touchstone "Cool Hand Luke." Tynan became a prolific character actor, particularly in Westerns such as "The Stalking Moon," with Gregory Peck; "The Cowboys," with John Wayne; and "The Outlaw Josey Wales," with Clint Eastwood. In Hal Ashby's cult classic "Harold and Maude," Tyner was given a memorable bit as Bud Cort's jingoistic uncle. And his Southern accent never got a reprieve; he whistled Dixie in "The Reivers," from a book by William Faulkner, and was on the other side of the law from Boss Higgs in "The Longest Yard," a galumphing football comedy in which Tyner played a prisoner.
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Charles Tyner
Filmography
Movies
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Enid Is Sleeping | Man at Indian Burial Site (Character) | - | 1990 |
64% |
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Pulse | Old Man Holger (Character) | $23.6K | 1988 |
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Hamburger... The Motion Picture | Lyman Vunk (Character) | - | 1986 |
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Deadly Messages | George Clark (Character) | - | 1985 |
50% |
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Evilspeak | Colonel Kincaid (Character) | - | 1981 |
56% |
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Pete's Dragon | Merle Gogan (Character) | - | 1977 |
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Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion | Lefty Slade (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Young Pioneers | Mr. Beaton (Character) | - | 1976 |
92% |
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Family Plot | Wheeler (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Winter Kill | Charley Eastman (Character) | - | 1974 |
76% |
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The Longest Yard | Unger (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Greatest Gift | Amos Goodloe (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Midnight Man | Ewing (Character) | - | 1974 |
60% |
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The Stone Killer | Police Psychiatrist (Character) | - | 1973 |
63% |
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Emperor of the North | Cracker (Character) | - | 1973 |
83% |
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Bad Company | Egg Farmer (Character) | - | 1972 |
75% |
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The Cowboys | Stonemason (Character) | - | 1972 |
91% |
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Jeremiah Johnson | Robidoux (Character) | - | 1972 |
86% |
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Harold and Maude | Uncle Victor (Character) | - | 1971 |
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The Moonshine War | Mr. McClendon (Character) | - | 1970 |
89% |
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Monte Walsh | Doctor (Character) | - | 1970 |
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The Cheyenne Social Club | Charlie Bannister (Character) | - | 1970 |
100% |
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Sometimes a Great Notion | Les Gibbons (Character) | - | 1970 |
40% |
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The Stalking Moon | Dace (Character) | - | 1968 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Diagnosis Murder | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 88% | The Wonder Years | Mr. Nestor (Guest Star) | 1990-1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Guns of Paradise | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1988 |
97% | 85% | Hill Street Blues | Al DiPiano (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Highway to Heaven | Caleb Fish (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Jeffersons | Bellboy (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Father Murphy | Mr. Rodman (Character) | 1981-1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little House on the Prairie | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1983 |
No Score Yet | 74% | Incredible Hulk | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dukes of Hazzard | Claude Billings (Guest Star) | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barnaby Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | How the West Was Won | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie's Angels | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McCloud | William Lang (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mannix | Jonah (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Waltons | Graham Foster (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Kung Fu | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alias Smith and Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The High Chaparral | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Valley | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |