James Tolkan
演员
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电影
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电视节目
Fiery, forceful and intimidating character actor James Tolkan carved out a nice little niche for himself in both movies and television alike as a formidable portrayer of fierce and flinty hard-boiled tough guy types. James Stewart Tolkan was born on June 20, 1931 in Calumet, Michigan. His father, Ralph M. Tolkan, was a cattle dealer. James attended the University of Iowa, Coe College and Eastern Arizona College. After serving a year-long stint in the United States Navy, Tolkan went to New York and studied acting with both Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler at the Actors Studio. Short and bald, with beady, intense eyes, a wiry, compact, muscular build, a gruff, jarring, high-decibel voice, and an aggressive, confrontational, blunt-as-a-battle-ax, rough-around-the-edges demeanor, Tolkan has been often cast as rugged, cynical no-nonsense cops, mean, domineering authority figures, and various ruthless and dangerous criminals.
Tolkan first began acting in movies in the late 1960s and was highly effective in two pictures for Sidney Lumet: He was a rabidly homophobic police lieutenant in the superbly gritty Serpico (1973) and a sneaky district attorney in the equally excellent Prince of the City (1981). Best known as the obnoxiously overzealous high school principal Gerard Strickland in the Back to the Future films, Tolkan's other most memorable roles include Napolean in Woody Allen's Love and Death (1975), a ramrod army officer in WarGames (1983), mayor Robert Culp's mordant, wisecracking assistant in Turk 182 (1985), the hard-nosed Stinger in Top Gun (1986), the choleric Detective Lubric in Masters of the Universe (1987), meek mob accountant Numbers in Dick Tracy (1990), and Wesley Snipes' bullish superior in Boiling Point (1993).
作为演员/演员
均衡器
Ruger
División Miami
Mason Mather
Hill Street Blues
He-Man Y Los Amos Del Universo (Masters of the Universe)
Lubic
Los años maravillosos
Coach Silva
El Diario del Destino
Coach Philips
The Pretender
FBI Special Agent Korkos
Naked City
Evan Humbolt, Mail Clerk
Las reglas del juego
Dean Chesny
地穴的故事
Sgt. McClaine ("segment "The Trap")
Volver al Futuro
Mr. Strickland
雷明顿斯蒂尔
Norman Keyes
贝莱尔新鲜王子
Dr. Oates
Top Gun: Pasión y gloria
Stinger
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
Special Agent In Charge Richard Wragg
Volver al Futuro 2
斯特里克兰
无处可去的人
Cyrus Quinn
Juegos de guerra
Wigan
回到未来3
Marshal Strickland
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Kennel Master
Frontera caníbal (Bone Tomahawk)
Pianist
Serpico
Steiger
The Hat Squad
Mike Ragland
Dick Tracy
Numbers
El Horror De Amityville
验尸官
Mi Pobre Diablillo 2
Mr. Thron
Armados y peligrosos
Lou Brackman
玛丽
Lester Mintz
Phil Spector
Judge Fidler
Cobra
Dallas Cassel