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Luke Askew

Highest Rated: 93% Will Penny (1968)

Lowest Rated: 14% South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000)

Birthday: Mar 26, 1932

Birthplace: Macon, Georgia, USA

Since the 1960s, Luke Askew has made a career out of playing ruthless bad guys on television and in films. His long hair was an anomaly when he made his first appearance in 1967's "Hurry Sundown," so the director, Otto Preminger, required him to hide it under a hat for the role. Later that year, he made an impression as the aggressive chain gang guard, Boss Paul, who roughs up Paul Newman's title character in the prison drama "Cool Hand Luke." The following year he appeared as Sergeant Albert C. Provo, in the war film "The Green Berets" alongside John Wayne. It was his role as a communal-living hitchhiker in the 1969 generation-defining hit "Easy Rider," starring Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda as two bikers crossing the country in pursuit of freedom, that brought him to the public's attention and virtually ensured his cult status. His first television role came two years later on an episode of the Western classic "Bonanza," which starred Lorne Greene as a rancher. Since then, he has appeared on many other classic TV programs, including the private detective program "The Rockford Files," the fantasy-drama "Fantasy Island," and the action program "The Six Million Dollar Man." In 2007, he took on a recurring role as Hollis Greene, the leader of a cutthroat polygamist group, on the program "Big Love," which is centered on a fictional Mormon family in Utah.

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Highest-Rated Movies

93% 75% Will Penny
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84% 82% Easy Rider Watchlist
80% 77% Rolling Thunder
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79% 51% Traveller
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75% 78% Frailty
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73% 44% The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
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67% 52% Posse
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59% 82% Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
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57% 68% The Devil's Brigade
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23% 61% The Green Berets
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Frailty 75% 78% 2002 Sheriff Smalls Actor South of Heaven, West of Hell 14% 26% 2000 Leland Henry Actor Vendetta 61% 1999 William Parkerson Actor Traveller 79% 51% 1997 Boss Jack Costello Actor Savage 20% 1995 Capt. Rohmer Actor Frank and Jesse 20% 54% 1995 Lone Rider Actor Father & Son: Dangerous Relations 1993 The Warden Actor Dune Warriors 12% 1991 William Actor No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers 55% 1990 Atteron Actor Back to Back 1989 Wade Duro Actor Bulletproof 28% 1988 Gen. Gallo Actor Legend of the white Horse 1986 Frank Brown Actor Kung Fu: The Movie 50% 1986 Sheriff Mills Actor The Warrior and the Sorceress 31% 1984 Zeg the Tyrant Actor The Beast Within 18% 34% 1982 Dexter Ward Actor Wanda Nevada 37% 1979 Ruby Muldoon Actor Rolling Thunder 80% 77% 1977 Automatic Slim Actor The Invasion of Johnson County 1976 Deputy Sheriff Brookes Actor The Quest 25% 1976 Crane Actor MacKintosh and T.J. 80% 1975 Cal Actor Part 2, Walking Tall 64% 1975 Pinky Dobson Actor Posse 67% 52% 1975 Krag Actor Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan 1975 Aaron Cord Actor A Matter of Wife... and Death 1975 Snell Actor This Is the West That Was 1974 Oscar Wellman Actor
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