Luke Askew
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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Luke Askew
Filmography
Movies
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75% |
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Frailty | Sheriff Smalls (Character) | $13.1M | 2002 |
14% |
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South of Heaven, West of Hell | Leland Henry (Character) | $26.4K | 2000 |
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Vendetta | William Parkerson (Character) | - | 1999 |
79% |
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Traveller | Boss Jack Costello (Character) | $500.6K | 1997 |
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Savage | Capt. Rohmer (Character) | - | 1995 |
20% |
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Frank and Jesse | Lone Rider (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Father & Son: Dangerous Relations | The Warden (Character) | - | 1993 |
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Dune Warriors | William (Character) | - | 1991 |
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No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers | Atteron (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Back to Back | Wade Duro (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Legend of the white Horse | Frank Brown (Character) | - | 1986 |
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Kung Fu: The Movie | Sheriff Mills (Character) | - | 1986 |
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The Warrior and the Sorceress | Zeg the Tyrant (Character) | - | 1984 |
17% |
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The Beast Within | Dexter Ward (Character) | - | 1982 |
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Wanda Nevada | Ruby Muldoon (Character) | - | 1979 |
80% |
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Rolling Thunder | Automatic Slim (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Invasion of Johnson County | Deputy Sheriff Brookes (Character) | - | 1976 |
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The Quest | Crane (Character) | - | 1976 |
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MacKintosh and T.J. | Cal (Character) | - | 1975 |
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Part 2, Walking Tall | Pinky Dobson (Character) | - | 1975 |
67% |
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Posse | Krag (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Matter of Wife... and Death | Snell (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan | Aaron Cord (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | This Is the West That Was | Oscar Wellman (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night Games | D.D. Franklin (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Manhunter | Max Chabriol (Character) | - | 1974 |
59% |
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | Eno (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Slipstream | Mike Mallard (Character) | - | 1973 |
73% |
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The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid | Jim Younger (Character) | - | 1972 |
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The Magnificent Seven Ride! | Mark Skinner (Character) | - | 1972 |
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The Culpepper Cattle Company | Luke (Character) | - | 1972 |
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The Glass House | Bibleback (Character) | - | 1972 |
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Angel Unchained | Jonathan Tremaine (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nest of Vipers | Luke (Character) | - | 1969 |
84% |
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Easy Rider | Stranger on highway (Character) | - | 1969 |
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Flareup | Alan Moris (Character) | - | 1969 |
23% |
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The Green Berets | Sgt. Provo (Character) | - | 1968 |
57% |
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The Devil's Brigade | Pvt. Hubert Hixon (Character) | - | 1968 |
93% |
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Will Penny | Foxy (Character) | - | 1968 |
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The Happening | Second Motorcycle Officer (Character) | - | 1967 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 95% | Cold Case | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
93% | No Score Yet | Everwood | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Walker, Texas Ranger | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kung Fu: The Legend Continues | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Noah Harwood (Guest Star) | 1989 1991 |
No Score Yet | 70% | MacGyver | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Airwolf | Tony (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fall Guy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Knight Rider | Ron Austin (Guest Star) | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978-1979 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | B.J. and the Bear | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hart to Hart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Six Million Dollar Man | Banner (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Blue Knight | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rockford Files | Al (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Story | Nicholson (Character) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Ben Zelko (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Longstreet | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The High Chaparral | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Greatest American Hero | Matt (Guest Star) |