Everett McGill

Born: 1945-10-21

Everett McGill is an American actor who was born in Miami Beach, Florida, on October 21, 1945. He is best known for his roles in the films Quest for Fire (1981), Dune (1984), Silver Bullet (1985), Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Licence to Kill (1989), The People Under the Stairs (1991), and Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995). He also had a recurring role as "Big" Ed Hurley on the television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991). McGill began his acting career on Broadway, appearing in the award-winning plays Equus, A Texas Trilogy, and Whose Life Is It, Anyway? He made his film debut in 1975 with a small role in the film The Day of the Locust. He went on to have a number of supporting roles in films throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1981, McGill starred in the film Quest for Fire, which was a critical and commercial success. He followed this up with a starring role in the film Dune, which was also a success. McGill continued to have a successful career in the 1980s, appearing in a number of films, including Silver Bullet, Heartbreak Ridge, Licence to Kill, and The People Under the Stairs. In the 1990s, McGill's career slowed down, but he still appeared in a number of films, including Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, The Quick and the Dead, and The Faculty. He also had a recurring role on the television series Twin Peaks. McGill retired from acting in 1999, but he returned for the revival of Twin Peaks in 2017. He has since retired from acting again.


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as Stilgar
Released: 1984-12-14

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice...

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Heartbreak Ridge

as Major Malcolm A. Powers
Released: 1986-12-05

A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as...

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Licence to Kill

as Killifer
Released: 1989-06-13

After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent...

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Silver Bullet

as Reverend Lowe
Released: 1985-10-10

The small city of Tarker's Mill is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population...

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The Straight Story

as Tom the John Deere Dealer
Released: 1999-10-15

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother...

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Twin Peaks

as Big Ed Hurley
Released: 1989-09-03

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more...

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as Penn
Released: 1995-07-13

A passenger train has been hijacked by an electronics expert and turned into an untraceable...

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Yanks

as Racist GI at Dance
Released: 1979-09-01

During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort....

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Brubaker

as Eddie Caldwell
Released: 1980-06-20

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after...

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Quest for Fire

as Naoh
Released: 1981-12-16

In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which...

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The People Under the Stairs

as Man
Released: 1991-11-01

Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy quickly learns the...

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Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

as Big Ed Hurley
Released: 2014-07-16

Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by...

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Enemies

as Ryabtsov
Released: 1974-01-23

In a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives...

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My Fellow Americans

as Col. Paul Tanner
Released: 1996-12-20

They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former...

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Union City

as Larry Longacre
Released: 1980-09-26

A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.

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Iguana

as Oberlus
Released: 1988-04-01

A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on...

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Jekyll Island

as Dalton Bradford
Released: 1998-01-01

Crime Drama - Don Mogavero, Brion James, Olivia Burnette

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3 On a Match

as Boss
Released: 1987-08-02

A naive computer expert (Patrick Cassidy), a con artist (David Hemmings), and a tough guy (Bruce...

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Jezebel's Kiss

as Sheriff Dan Riley
Released: 1990-11-14

Someone runs a woman (Katherine Barrese) off a beach road; she sleeps with a developer (Malcolm...

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A Time for Miracles

as The Farmer
Released: 1980-12-21

Elizabeth Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity,...

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Field of Honor

as Sergeant 'Sire' De Koning
Released: 1986-09-26

Korea 1951: After a Chinese attack Dutch mercenary sergeant De Koning is left alone by his army....

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JAG

as Col. Bradley Dunston
First aired: 1995-09-23

Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge...

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Twin Peaks

as Big Ed Hurley
First aired: 1990-04-08

The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin...

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Tour of Duty

as uncredited
First aired: 1987-09-24

The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.

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Drug Wars: The Camarena Story

as Bob Rawlings
First aired: 1990-01-07

Fact-based story of undercover DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena who, while stationed in...

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Werewolf

as uncredited
First aired: 1987-07-11

Eric Cord, a college student transformed into a werewolf undergoes a quest to rid himself of his...

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Against All Odds

as Host
First aired:

Against All Odds is an NBC reality series hosted by Lindsay Wagner and Everett McGill. The...

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