Wayne Tippit
Acting • Born 1932-12-19 – Died 2009-08-28
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.
Filmography
46 credits
Rollercoaster
Movie • 1977
Police Captain Christie
Honor Thy Mother
Movie • 1992
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Movie • 1970
Dr. Miller
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
Movie • 1986
Bill Moon
Illusions
Movie • 1983
Cliff
Money, Power, Murder.
Movie • 1989
Dunphy
Follow Your Heart
Movie • 1990
Sheriff Quinn
The Ernest Green Story
Movie • 1993
Principal Matthews
Pipe Dreams
Movie • 1976
Mike Thompson
The Black Box Murders
Movie • 1975
Running Against Time
Movie • 1991
FBI Agent Landry
When We Were Young
Movie • 1989
Sam
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81
Movie • 1998
Keller's Grandfather
JFK
Movie • 1991
FBI Agent - Frank
Nurse Betty
Movie • 2000
Doctor
MadHouse
Movie • 1990
Grindle
LifeStories: Steve Burdick
Movie • 1990
Chuck McAuliffe
The Final Days
Movie • 1989
Senator Edward Gurney
Noon Wine
Movie • 1985
Mr. Burleigh
Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story
Movie • 1991
Tillman
Diagnosis: Murder
TV • 1993
FBI Agent
Tales from the Darkside
TV • 1984
Magistrate Thomas Branford
Diagnosis: Murder
TV • 1993
Howard Mitchell
Diagnosis: Murder
TV • 1993
Elliott Whitfield
Rage of Angels
TV • 1983
Dunninger
The X-Files
TV • 1993
Detective Thompson
Quantum Leap
TV • 1989
Henry Mackenzie
Baywatch
TV • 1989
Thomas Hastings
Melrose Place
TV • 1992
Palmer Woodward
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
TV • 2007
Cinco Supporter
Seinfeld
TV • 1989
Captain
The Torkelsons
TV • 1991
Strickland
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Agent Dan Shore
Dear John
TV • 1988
Everett Sutton
Murphy Brown
TV • 1988
John Q. Bryant
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
Leo Hackett
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Buck Wilson
Hunter
TV • 1984
Dick Frost
Mad About You
TV • 1992
Manny Gantz
Two of a Kind
TV • 1998
Father Conrad
Kate McShane
TV • 1975
Federal agent
Jake and the Fatman
TV • 1987
Hugh Lawson
Matlock
TV • 1986
Sen. David Hopkins
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Wade Swanson
Matlock
TV • 1986
Assistant D.A. Jerry Carlisle
Chicago Hope
TV • 1994
Walter Emmons