Portrait of Wayne Tippit

Wayne Tippit

Acting

Biography

Wayne Tippit (December 19, 1932 – August 28, 2009) was an American television and stage character actor. He was best known to television audiences for playing Ted Adamson on the 1970s and 1980s CBS soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, for five years. He later portrayed Palmer Woodward, the father of Heather Locklear's character, Amanda Woodward, on the Fox primetime soap opera, Melrose Place, during the 1990s.

Born: December 19, 1932

Place of Birth: Lubbock, Texas, USA

Filmography

2000
Nurse Betty

as Doctor

1998
Two of a Kind

as Father Conrad

1998
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81

as Keller's Grandfather

1993
Diagnosis: Murder

as FBI Agent

1993
Diagnosis: Murder

as Howard Mitchell

1993
Diagnosis: Murder

as Elliott Whitfield

1993
The X-Files

as Detective Thompson

1993
The Ernest Green Story

as Principal Matthews

1992
Mad About You

as Manny Gantz

1992
Melrose Place

as Palmer Woodward

1991
JFK

as FBI Agent - Frank

1991
The Torkelsons

as Strickland

1991
Running Against Time

as FBI Agent Landry

1990
Follow Your Heart

as Sheriff Quinn

1990
MadHouse

as Grindle

1989
The Final Days

as Senator Edward Gurney

1989
Seinfeld

as Captain

1989
Baywatch

as Thomas Hastings

1989
Quantum Leap

as Henry Mackenzie

1988
Murphy Brown

as John Q. Bryant

1988
Dear John

as Everett Sutton

1987
Jake and the Fatman

as Hugh Lawson

1986
L.A. Law

as Leo Hackett

1985
Noon Wine

as Mr. Burleigh

1984
Murder, She Wrote

as Buck Wilson

1984
Tales from the Darkside

as Magistrate Thomas Branford

1984
Hunter

as Dick Frost

1983
Rage of Angels

as Dunninger

1983
Illusions

as Cliff

1977
Rollercoaster

as Police Captain Christie

1976
Pipe Dreams

as Mike Thompson

1975
Kate McShane

as Federal agent

1974
The Rockford Files

as Agent Dan Shore

1973
Barnaby Jones

as Wade Swanson