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Charles Napier

Charles Napier
Charles Napier
Born: Apr 12, 1936 in Scottsville, Kentucky
Occupation: Actor,
Active: '70s-2000s
Major Genres: Action, Comedy
Career Highlights: Miami Blues, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Suits on the Loose
First Major Screen Credit: Cherry, Harry and Raquel (1969)
44 Videos for Charles Napier
Shadowheart (2009) Jury Duty (1995) Maniac Cop 2 (1990)
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) Max Is Missing (1995) Miami Blues (1990)
Lords of Dogtown (2005) Skeeter (1994) The Grifters (1990)
DinoCroc (2004) Body Bags (1993) One Man Force (1989)
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) Hit List (1988)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) Philadelphia (1993) Married to the Mob (1988)
The Big Tease (1999) Raw Justice (1993) Kidnapped (1987)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) Silk Degrees (1993) The Night Stalker (1987)
Macon County Jail (1997) Center of the Web (1992) Instant Justice (1986)
Steel (1997) Eyes of the Beholder (1992) Something Wild (1986)
Alien Species (1996) Homicidal Impulse (1992) Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Original Gangstas (1996) Indio 2: La Rivolta (1991) In Search of a Golden Sky (1984)
Riot (1996) Lonely Hearts (1991) The Cartier Affair (1984)
The Cable Guy (1996) Soldier's Fortune (1991) The Blues Brothers (1980)
3 Ninjas Knuckle Up (1995) The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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Biography:

Towering blonde American character actor Charles Napier has the distinction of being one of the few actors to transcend a career start in nudies and sustain a successful mainstream career. Napier, clothed and otherwise, was first seen in such Russ Meyer gropey-feeley epics as Cherry, Harry and Raquel (1969) and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970).

Graduating from this exuberant tawdriness, Napier became a dependable film and TV villain. Even when he wasn't totally nasty, he was at least dishonest, as witness his comically bigamous truck driver in Handle With Care (1977) Not only were Napier's characters mean, they were often foolhardy; look what happeded to him when he double-crossed Sylvester Stallone in Rambo (1984).

Some of Napier's more recent credits include The Blues Brothers (1980), Married to the Mob (1990), Ernest Goes to Jail (1991) and the-Oscar winning Silence of the Lambs (1991) (as Lt. Boyle). TV also served Napier well, allowing him recurring roles on such series as The Oregon Trail and Outlaws, and at least one bonafide heroic title role in the TV movie Big Bob Johnson's Fantastic Speed Circus (1978), in which he played a barnstorming aerialist.

He was also a most imposing Adam in the 1969 Star Trek episode The Way to Eden. In 1994, a most atypical Charles Napier could be seen as the incorruptible judge in Philadelphia, compassionately trying a homosexual-discrimination case with nary a sneer or scowl on his weatherbeaten countenance. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.