Ken Swofford

Ken Swofford

出生 : 1933-07-25, DuQuoin - Illinois - USA

死亡 : 2018-11-01

略歴

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ken Swofford (July 25, 1933 - November 1, 2018) was an American film and television actor noted for his red hair and ruddy complexion. He was often cast as "everyman", villains, or policemen. Between 1962 and 1995, Swofford's film credits included The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson, Thelma and Louise, Black Roses and The Andromeda Strain, while his TV career during the same period was prolific. Appearing repeatedly as a guest and/or in recurring roles, he is best remembered as Quentin Morlock in Fame, Lt. Griffin in Switch, Cutler in The Oregon Trail, Al Barber in Rich Man, Poor Man Book II, Lt. Catalano in Murder, She Wrote and columnist Frank Flanagan in Ellery Queen.

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Teacher's Pet
Officer White (voice)
Meet Spot, a clever little dog with big dreams of becoming a real boy. When Spot finds out that a crazy scientist can make his wish come true, he takes a cross-country trek with Leonard, his best friend and master, and their mom. However, Dr. Krank's experiments are a little less than perfect, and it will take Leonard and his pet pals to right this genetic wrong.
Recess: School's Out
Coach (voice)
The school year is finally ending, and T.J. Detweiler is looking forward to summer. But boredom quickly sets in when his friends leave for camp — until T.J. uncovers an evil plot to do away with summer vacation! A crazy former principal, Dr. Benedict, is planning to use a laser beam to alter the weather and create permanent winter. Faced with the dire threat of year-round school, T.J. rounds up the RECESS gang and bands together with some unexpected allies — Miss Finster and Principal Prickly — in a nonstop adventure to save everyone's summer break. As the kids discover the heroes inside themselves, a platoon of wacky characters, far-out music, and sci-fi surprises turn this madcap mission into a major victory for fun!
Cops n Roberts
The Taking of Beverly Hills
Coach
A chemical spill has caused the occupants of Beverly Hills to be forcibly evacuated. A retiring football player left behind, finds that the toxic gas emulating from the spill is a bogus front for a heist set up by fired police officers out to plunder the city of all its valuables. Finding himself siding with a corrupt cop who was once apart of the plan until he discovered the city's mayor had just been blown away, by one of the chief crooks in charge. Now both on the run with no help in sight...both must do whatever they can to stop these murderous looters.
Murder in High Places
Van Stamp
A small Colorado mountain town elects as its mayor a writer whom some residents consider "eccentric" and others don't care for because he's a former hippie. Complications ensue when soon after the election, a dead body crashes through the skylight of a local building, and the body turns out to be the new mayor's ex-wife.
テルマ&ルイーズ
Major
「もっと人生を楽しめ」2人は、そんな決まり文句を実践した。リドリー・スコット監督によるロードムービーでは、2人の友人、専業主婦として退屈な日々を送るテルマ(ジーナ・デイヴィス)と、気の強いウェイトレスのルイーズ(スーザン・サランドン)が、日常から逃れるために、1966年型のサンダーバードに乗り、山へと週末の釣り旅行に出かける。ところが、憂さ晴らししようと、途中で立ち寄ったバーで、テルマがレイプされそうになる。するとルイーズが38口径で男に発砲。何が何だか分からぬまま、2人は逃亡するはめに。全国指名手配犯となった2人は、決意を新たに、無謀な行動に。グランドキャニオンを背景にしたラストシーンで、絶対的な自由を手にした彼女たちの描写が印象的だ。
Black Roses
Mayor Farnsworth
Teens in a small conservative town are turned into evil demons thanks to the music of the titular heavy metal band.
The Stepford Children
Frank Gregson
Steven and Laura Harding, along with their kids David and Mary, have moved to the quiet community of Stepford. Steven joins the men's club, which is still assimilating their wives into robots. This time, they have begun to turn their out of control teens into robots as well. Once they are assimilated, they are obedient, homework loving, big band dancing droids. Laura, David, and Mary stumble onto this mystery, and they must avoid Steven's plans to turn them into robots.
Hunter's Blood
Al Coleman
Five "city boys" travel to the country to relax by doing some hunting, drinking Bud, and generally having good time. However, the local inbred backwoods psychos turn the hunters to be the hunted, and they need all the ammo and wits they have to get out of the woods alive.
Terror at London Bridge
Ed Nebel
London Bridge, London, England, 1888: Jack the Ripper dies in the Thames river. London Bridge, Lake Havasu, Arizona, 1985: the last original stone used to rebuild London Bridge is laid and all the city is happy...but then some strange murders start happening. Policeman Don Gregory has some suspects, but when he develops a theory that Jack the Ripper has been resurrected, no one believes him.
The Gambler II: The Adventure Continues
Witchita Pike
Brady Hawkes, Billy Montana, and Jeremiah Hawkes are on a train bound for a huge gambling event when the train is taken over by a gang of vicious killers in search of money. As ransom, the gang takes young Jeremiah hostage. Brady and Billy embark on a quest to rescue him and form a small gang of their own along the way.
アニー
Weasel
1930年代、大恐慌下のアメリカ。身寄りのない少女アニーは、児童養護施設に暮らしながら、いつか両親が迎えに来ることを信じていた。そんなある日、施設に大富豪ウォーバックスの秘書というグレースが現われる。ウォーバックスは、世間から金の亡者と批判されがちな悪いイメージを改善するため、週末に施設の子どもをひとり屋敷に招こうというのだ。グレースは、一目見るなり気に入ったアニーを招待客に選ぶ。
All God's Children
Capt. Sam Pierce
Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career. The friendship between two families -- one white, one black -- and their sons, who are buddies, provides the microcosm of this major social issue that has been argued for several decades.
Sultan and the Rock Star
George Mackenzie
Paul Winters, a rock star burnout, flees his fame and ends up by chance on an island where he comes face to face with Sultan, a domesticated Bengal tiger left there to be hunted by a wealthy businessman. He then befriends the animal and decides to do everything to save him...
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
Everett Bliss
Crimefighting Captain America rights more wrongs by doing battle with a fanatical terrorist who uses his deadly drug that causes accelerated aging to finance his world revolution.
To Kill a Cop
Lt. Fitzgerald
Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are on a crime spree including the killing of a police officer. He is also trying to battle with a mayor and police commissioner that want him out of his job.
Crisis in Sun Valley
Thorndike
Semi-follow up to "The Deadly Triangle" dealing with a sheriff and his deputy in a sleepy ski town involved with a group of urbanites planning a dangerous mountain climb as well as investigating sabotage in a condominium development.
Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
Greenway
The story of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's older brother Joseph, who undertakes a dangerous mission during World War II.
The Domino Principle
Ditcher
Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he will be released if he agrees to carry out a dangerous assignment.
Scott Free
Ed McGraw
A professional gambler finds himself on the run from the mob, the federal government, and a band of Indians, all of whom have an interest in a piece of land he won in a poker game.
Man on the Outside
Lt. Matthews
A retired police captain storms angrily out of retirement when his son is shot down before his eyes and his grandson is kidnapped by a syndicate killer in this pilot for Lorne Greene's brief "Griff" series, which went off the air 18 months before this film was aired.
Sky Heist
Deputy Pat Connelly
A husband and wife come up with a plan to steal $10 million in gold, using the hijacking of a police helicopter as a diversion.
Switch [Pilot]
Capt. Griffin
In this pilot film that led to the series, an ex-con and a retired cop, partners in a private investigation agency, try to prove that a safecracker has been framed for a diamond robbery.
A Cry for Help
Paul Church
A talk-radio host, who specializes in abusing and insulting his audience, gets a call from a disturbed teenage girl who says she is going to commit suicide. After first encouraging her, he has a change of heart and frantically tries to get his listeners to help find the girl before she makes good on her threat.
A Case of Rape
Det. Riley
When she was raped, Ellen thought it was the worst thing to ever happen to her. What was worse, was the treatment by the hospital staff, police and the court system, when she reported it, and the man was caught.
One Little Indian
Pvt. Dixon
An Army deserter (James Garner) flees by camel across the desert with a white boy (Clay O'Brien) raised by Indians.
Skyjacked
John Bimonte
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.
Bless the Beasts & Children
Wheaties
A group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.
アンドロメダ…
Toby (technician)
アメリカ中西部の小さな町に人工衛星が墜落。機体に付着した未知のウイルスが原因で、住人は生まれたばかりの赤ん坊と、アル中の老人を除いて全滅。遺体の血液は全て粉末状に変化していた。細菌汚染の拡大を恐れた軍部は、科学者の中から各分野のスペシャリストを召集。ストーン博士をリーダーとする研究班を組織して、砂漠の地下施設へと送り込むが・・・。
荒野の侵略者
Pomerantz
The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost both his nerve and his gun skills, to stop them.
The Lawyer
Charlie O'Keefe
Tony Petrocelli, a bright young lawyer practicing in the rich cattle town of Baker, becomes embroiled in a murder case.
Cutter's Trail
Clay Wooten
The Marshal of Santa Fe returns home to find his town almost wiped out by Mexican bandits and enlists the help of a young Mexican boy and his mother to track them down.
Shadow on the Land
Private
Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA.
Common Law Cabin
Barney Rickert
After stealing a fortune in unclaimed jewelry, ex-detective Barney Rickert arrives at a run-down dude ranch in Arizona to hide out. When the owner, Dewey Hoople, refuses to sell the land to Rickert, he proceeds to win over the female inhabitants by seducing them one by one which leads to one refusing his advances and a dangerous game played out in which Rickert ruthlessly sets out to get what he wants.
First to Fight
O'Brien
Jack is the sole survivor of a Japanese attack on his squad at Guadalcanal. Because of his heroism and the fact that he is still alive, he becomes a Medal of Honor hero. He returns to train new recruits for the Marines and falls for a girl named Peggy. When training and marriage leave him with an empty feeling, he decides on a transfer back to the front lines. Soon he will find that marriage and life will change his outlook on the grueling battles that lie ahead.
がちょうのおやじ
Helmsman, Submarine USS Sailfin
During World War II, South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to spy on planes passing over his island. He gets more than he bargained for as schoolteacher Catherine Frenau arrives on the run from the Japanese with her pupils in tow!
Captain Newman, M.D.
Patient (uncredited)
In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, especially Cpl. Jake Leibowitz. The military in general is only just coming to accept psychiatric disorders as legitimate and Newman generally has 6 weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility. There are many patients in the ward and his latest include Colonel Norville Bliss who has dissociated from his past; Capt. Paul Winston who is nearly catatonic after spending 13 months hiding in a cellar behind enemy lines; and 20 year-old Cpl. Jim Tompkins who is severely traumatized after his aircraft was shot down. Others come and go, including Italian prisoners of war, but Newman and team all realize that their success means the men will return to their units.