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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 19, 1932
Died
August 28, 2009
Place of Birth
Lubbock, Texas, USA
Wayne Tippit
0.4 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.4
Cinco Supporter
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
2007
6.1
Doctor
Nurse Betty
2000
7.1
Father Conrad
Two of a Kind
1998
6.8
Keller's Grandfather
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81
1998
7.1
FBI Agent
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
7.1
Howard Mitchell
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
7.1
Elliott Whitfield
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
8.4
Detective Thompson
The X-Files
1993
6.9
Principal Matthews
The Ernest Green Story
1993
6.7
Manny Gantz
Mad About You
1992
Credits
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
as Cinco Supporter
2007
7.4
Nurse Betty
as Doctor
2000
6.1
Two of a Kind
as Father Conrad
1998
7.1
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81
as Keller's Grandfather
1998
6.8
Diagnosis: Murder
as FBI Agent
1993
7.1
Diagnosis: Murder
as Howard Mitchell
1993
7.1
Diagnosis: Murder
as Elliott Whitfield
1993
7.1
The X-Files
as Detective Thompson
1993
8.4
The Ernest Green Story
as Principal Matthews
1993
6.9
Mad About You
as Manny Gantz
1992
6.7
Melrose Place
as Palmer Woodward
1992
5.9
Honor Thy Mother
1992
2.0
JFK
as FBI Agent - Frank
1991
7.6
The Torkelsons
as Strickland
1991
7.8
Running Against Time
as FBI Agent Landry
1991
5.8
🎬
LifeStories: Steve Burdick
as Chuck McAuliffe
1990
1.5
Follow Your Heart
as Sheriff Quinn
1990
0.0
MadHouse
as Grindle
1990
5.4
Money, Power, Murder.
as Dunphy
1989
3.8
The Final Days
as Senator Edward Gurney
1989
6.8
When We Were Young
as Sam
1989
0.0
Seinfeld
as Captain
1989
8.3
Baywatch
as Thomas Hastings
1989
5.9
Quantum Leap
as Henry Mackenzie
1989
8.0
Murphy Brown
as John Q. Bryant
1988
6.5
Dear John
as Everett Sutton
1988
5.7
Jake and the Fatman
as Hugh Lawson
1987
6.0
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
as Bill Moon
1986
5.8
L.A. Law
as Leo Hackett
1986
7.1
Matlock
1986
7.1
Noon Wine
as Mr. Burleigh
1985
0.0
Tales from the Darkside
as Magistrate Thomas Branford
1984
7.2
Murder, She Wrote
as Buck Wilson
1984
7.5
Hunter
as Dick Frost
1984
7.2
Rage of Angels
as Dunninger
1983
5.5
Illusions
as Cliff
1983
5.5
Rollercoaster
as Police Captain Christie
1977
6.0
Pipe Dreams
as Mike Thompson
1976
0.0
Kate McShane
as Federal agent
1975
5.0
The Black Box Murders
1975
0.0
The Rockford Files
as Agent Dan Shore
1974
7.5
Barnaby Jones
as Wade Swanson
1973
6.9
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
as Dr. Miller
1970
5.4