Ken Swofford

Ken Swofford

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

Morte : 2018-11-01

História

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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Ken Swofford

Filmes

O Cãozinho Esperto
Officer White (voice)
Cão superinteligente sonha em ser um garoto e decide se disfarçar para frequentar a escola de seu dono.
Recreio: Missão Salvar As Ferias
Coach (voice)
Os miúdos da Escola da Rua Três estão a juntar-se para salvar as férias de verão das crianças de todo o mundo em MISSÃO: SALVAR AS FÉRIAS da Disney - uma imparável aventura cheia de música à maneira e muita diversão.
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.
Thelma & Louise
Major
Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon) é uma garçonete quarentona e Thelma (Geena Davis) é uma jovem dona de casa. Cansadas da vida monótona que levam, as amigas resolvem deixar tudo para trás e pegar a estrada. Durante a viagem, elas se envolvem em um crime e decidem fugir para o México, mas acabam sendo perseguidas pela polícia americana.
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 na Ponte de Londres
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.
Annie
Weasel
Annie é uma órfã que sonha com uma nova vida longe do orfanato. Seu desejo se torna realidade quando ela é selecionada para passar alguns dias na casa de um milionário e ele a ajuda a procurar pelos pais.
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.
O Sultão e o Astro do Rock
George Mackenzie
Um cantor de rock adolescente foge de seu empresário dominante e se encontra na ilha-fortaleza de um milionário implacável. O jovem torna-se amigo de Sultão, um tigre de bengala de 400 libras que o milionário pretende perseguir como sua presa em uma caçada assassina.
Capitão América II
Everett Bliss
Um agente do governo está à procura de um cientista desaparecido, acreditando que um líder revolucionário conhecido como Miguel (Christopher Lee) o sequestrou, e que ele está usando-o para transformar a sua fórmula em algo que pode acelerar o processo de envelhecimento. Ele envia o Capitão América (Red Brown) para encontrá-lo e resgatar o cientista, sua única pista é um produto químico que o cientista precisa para a sua fórmula. Quando ele fica mais perto da verdade, Miguel ameaça pulverizar o produto químico em uma grande cidade, a menos que suas exigências sejam atendidas. Mas o presidente não negocia com terroristas, será que o Capitão América pode salvar o dia !?
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.
As Pedras do Dominó
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.
O Pequeno Índio
Pvt. Dixon
No velho Oeste, um soldado desertor cruza seu caminho com um indiozinho, que não quer ser levado para uma reserva. Parecem dois fugitivos; um fugindo do Exército e outro da sua tribo.
Vôo 502: Em Perigo
John Bimonte
Durante um vôo de Los Angeles para Minneapolis a tensão toma conta de todos quando uma jovem, Elly Brewster (Susan Dey), vê no espelho do banheiro uma mensagem escrita com batom, dizendo que se a aeronave não mudasse seu plano de voo e fosse para Anchorage, Alasca, o autor (ou autora) da ameaça explodiria o avião. O comandante do voo, Henry "Hank" O'Hara (Charlton Heston), tenta lidar com isto da melhor maneira, pois quer evitar que alguém seja ferido. Mas a visibilidade em Anchorage é nula e este é apenas um dos problemas.
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.
O Enigma de Andrômeda
Toby (technician)
Quando praticamente todos os moradores de Piedmont, no Novo México, são encontrados mortos após a queda de um satélite espacial, o chefe do Projeto Scoop da Força Aérea dos EUA declara uma emergência. Então um grupo de cientistas, liderados pelo Dr. Jeremy Stone (Arthur Hill), vão para uma instalação ultra segura conhecida como Wildfire para tentar descobrir e isolar uma possível forma de vida extraterrestre.
The Intruders
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.
Crime Perfeito?
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.
Sombras Sobre a Terra
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.
O Suplício do Medo
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.
Papai Ganso
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!
Pavilhão 7
Patient (uncredited)
Em 1944, o capitão. Josiah J. Newman é o médico responsável pelo Pavilhão 7, a ala neuropsiquiátrica, em um hospital da Força Aérea Americana, no Arizona. O hospital está com poucos recursos e Newman surrupia o que precisa com a ajuda de sua equipe criativa, especialmente o Cabo Jake Leibowitz. Os militares, em geral, estão apenas começando a aceitar transtornos psiquiátricos como uma doença legítima e Newman geralmente tem 6 semanas para curá-los ou enviá-los para outra unidade. Há muitos pacientes na enfermaria e seus mais recentes incluem o coronel Norville Bliss que está dissociado do seu passado; o Cap. Paul Winston, que ficou quase catatônico depois de passar 13 meses escondidos em um porão por trás das linhas inimigas; e o Cabo de 20 anos de idade. Jim Tompkins que ficou severamente traumatizado após seu avião ser abatido.