Template:Realworld Charles Napier (born 12 April 1936; age 88) is an American actor from Scottsville, Kentucky who played two distinctive Star Trek characters in episodes which were made more than a quarter of a century apart. These roles were Adam in the Original Series episode "The Way to Eden" and Lieutenant General Rex Denning in the Deep Space Nine episode "Little Green Men".
Napier also played Cmdr. Gilmour in the Austin Powers films with Clint Howard, Tucker McElroy in The Blues Brothers (with Henry Gibson) and Lt. Boyle in The Silence of the Lambs (with Dan Butler, Tracey Walter, and Brent Hinkley). He most recently appeared as Sheriff Bates in the Monk episode "Mr. Monk Bumps His Head". (with Stanley Kamel).
He lent his voice to the film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron along with James Cromwell, Adam Paul, Richard McGonagle and Matt Levin, and played the role of Duke Phillips in The Critic. He now voices several military type roles in The Simpsons.
Napier has also guest starred in Mission: Impossible, Kojak, The Rockford Files, Knight Rider, The Dukes of Hazzard and Murder, She Wrote.
External Links
- Charles Napier at Wikipedia
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