Everett McGill
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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Licence to Kill
as KilliferAfter capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent...
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A passenger train has been hijacked by an electronics expert and turned into an untraceable...
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Heartbreak Ridge
as Major Malcolm A. PowersA hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as...
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The Straight Story
as Tom the John Deere DealerA retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother...
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Silver Bullet
as Reverend LoweThe small city of Tarker's Mill is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population...
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Quest for Fire
as NaohIn the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which...
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Brubaker
as Eddie CaldwellThe new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after...
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Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
as Big Ed HurleyNinety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by...
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Twin Peaks
as Big Ed HurleyAn idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more...
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The People Under the Stairs
as ManTrapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy quickly learns the...
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My Fellow Americans
as Col. Paul TannerThey used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former...
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Yanks
as Racist GI at DanceDuring WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort....
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Iguana
as OberlusA grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on...
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Jezebel's Kiss
as Sheriff Dan RileyA young woman comes to a small town and starts to take vengeance through seduction and...
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3 On a Match
as BossA naive computer expert (Patrick Cassidy), a con artist (David Hemmings), and a tough guy (Bruce...
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Union City
as Larry LongacreA 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.
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Field of Honor
as Sergeant 'Sire' De KoningKorea 1951: After a Chinese attack Dutch mercenary sergeant De Koning is left alone by his army....
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A Time for Miracles
as The FarmerElizabeth Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity,...
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Enemies
as RyabtsovIn a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives...
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Jekyll Island
as Dalton BradfordTo Professor Alex Madison, the world's greatest jewel thief, stealing is a fine art and the...
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JAG
as Col. Bradley DunstonHarmon "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 HurleyThe 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 uncreditedThe trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
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Werewolf
as uncreditedEric Cord, a college student transformed into a werewolf undergoes a quest to rid himself of his...
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Drug Wars: The Camarena Story
as Bob RawlingsFact-based story of undercover DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena who, while stationed in...
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Against All Odds
as HostAgainst All Odds is an NBC reality series hosted by Lindsay Wagner and Everett McGill. The...
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