Charles Tyner

Born: 1925-06-08

Charles Tyner (June 8, 1923 – November 8, 2017) was an American film, television and stage character actor best known, principally, for his performances in the films Harold and Maude (1971), Emperor of the North Pole (1973), The Stone Killer (1973), The Longest Yard (1974), Evilspeak (1982), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) and Pulse (1988).


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Cool Hand Luke

as Boss Higgins
Released: 1967-11-01

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't...

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles

as Gus
Released: 1987-11-26

An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a...

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The Outlaw Josey Wales

as Zukie Limmer
Released: 1976-06-30

After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to...

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Jeremiah Johnson

as Robidoux
Released: 1972-09-10

A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long...

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Pete's Dragon

as Merle
Released: 1977-11-03

Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable,...

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Emperor of the North

as Cracker
Released: 1973-05-23

Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.

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Harold and Maude

as Uncle Victor
Released: 1971-12-20

The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the...

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The Cowboys

as Stonemason
Released: 1972-01-13

When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a...

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The Longest Yard

as Unger
Released: 1974-08-21

A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison...

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Fail Safe

as Jet Fighter Pilot (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1964-10-07

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of...

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Family Plot

as Wheeler
Released: 1976-04-09

Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers...

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Evilspeak

as Colonel Kincaid
Released: 1981-08-22

Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.

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The Stone Killer

as Police Psychiatrist
Released: 1973-08-08

A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian...

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The Reivers

as Edmonds
Released: 1969-12-20

In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult...

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Sometimes a Great Notion

as Les Gibbons
Released: 1971-12-17

Hank Stamper and his father, Henry, own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping...

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The Stalking Moon

as Dace
Released: 1968-12-25

While moving a group of Apaches to a Native American reservation in Arizona, an American scout...

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Best Seller

as Harold, Cleve's father
Released: 1987-09-25

Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a...

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Lawman

as Minister
Released: 1971-03-11

While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their...

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Motorama

as Dying Man
Released: 1991-09-10

A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and...

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Bad Company

as uncredited
Released: 1972-10-08

After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being...

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Pulse

as Old Man
Released: 1988-03-04

An intelligent pulse of electricity moves from house to house, terrorizing occupants through...

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Fuzz

as Pete Schroeder
Released: 1972-07-14

Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.

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The Midnight Man

as Ewing
Released: 1974-03-07

An ex-convict, and ex-cop, finds himself in the midst of drama as a murder, of a female student,...

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Monte Walsh

as Doctor
Released: 1970-10-02

Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and...

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The Cheyenne Social Club

as Charlie Bannister
Released: 1970-06-12

Two cowboys inherit a "social club" specializing in satisfying men.

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The Traveling Executioner

as Virgil
Released: 1970-10-01

Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a...

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The Moonshine War

as Mr. McClendon
Released: 1970-06-30

A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his...

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Hamburger: The Motion Picture

as Lyman Vunk
Released: 1986-01-31

Russell has been expelled from several schools for lewd, crude and nude conduct. Busterburger...

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Enid Is Sleeping

as Man at Indian Burial Site
Released: 1990-05-25

Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband...

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Young Pioneers

as Mr. Beaton
Released: 1976-03-01

Pilot for TV series of the same name released in 1978. The film told the tale of Molly and David...

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That Kind of Woman

as Young Sharecropper Father (uncredited)
Released: 1959-09-11

A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York.

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Deadly Messages

as George Clark
Released: 1985-02-21

When Laura unearths an old Ouija board in her closet, her roommate, Cindy, uses it and...

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Lassie: The New Beginning

as Asa Bluel
Released: 1978-09-01

The Stratton kids, Samantha and Chip, and their grandmother, Ada, drive to visit their Uncle...

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Winter Kill

as Charley Eastman
Released: 1974-04-15

Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith)...

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I'll Be Home for Christmas

as Isaiah Cawley
Released: 1988-12-12

The Bundy family try to have a good family Christmas, despite World War II.

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Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

as Lefty Slade
Released: 1977-11-05

A teenage boy gets a job as a Pony Express rider in the Nebraska Territory not long before the...

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Gaily, Gaily

as Dr. Lazarus
Released: 1969-12-16

After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a...

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The Sound of Anger

as Rudolph Evans
Released: 1968-12-10

Two teenagers who have been engaged in pre-marital sex become the prime suspects when the girl's...

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The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel

as Doug Slocomb
Released: 1979-01-02

A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to...

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A Matter of Life and Death

as Joy's Father
Released: 1981-01-13

The true story of a nurse who spent her life caring for terminally ill patients.

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The Greatest Gift

as Amos Goodloe
Released: 1974-11-04

Reverend Holvak, a weak rural preacher from the 1940s, fights stiff-necked church deacons along...

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Sarge: The Badge or the Cross

as Hawley
Released: 1971-02-22

After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest....

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Shadow of Fear

as uncredited
Released: 1979-01-28

A boy turns to his pets after his father dies, and on a visit to his great-uncle in the Amish...

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The Wonder Years

as Mr. Nestor
First aired: 1988-01-31

The story of Kevin Arnold facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during...

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Diagnosis: Murder

as Harry Clark
First aired: 1993-10-29

Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.

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ER

as Barry Connelly
First aired: 1994-09-19

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by...

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Little House on the Prairie

as Mr. Janes
First aired: 1974-09-11

Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael...

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Father Murphy

as uncredited
First aired: 1981-11-03

A good-hearted frontiersman poses as a priest to start an orphanage for a group of kids whose...

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The Awakening Land

as Reverend Hutchins
First aired: 1978-02-19

A lusty frontier saga about a pioneer woman and her love for her family, the man she marries,...

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