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Charles Napier
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 13
Top works
- War in Syria Complete
- War in Syria Volume II
- War in Syria, Volume 2
- Account of the War in Portugal Between Don Pedro and Don Miguel 2 Volume Set
- A Bridge to English Intermediate - CD Ilaveli
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Film & TV
Acting · Scottsville, Kentucky, USA
Charles Lewis Napier (April 12, 1936 – October 5, 2011) was a prolific American actor known for his many supporting and occasional leading roles in television and film. Born near Scottsville, Kentucky, Napier served in the U.S. Army before pursuing higher education, earning a degree in art from Western Kentucky University. He initially worked as a sports coach and art teacher before dedicating…
Known for
- Life Blood — Sherrif Tillman2009
- The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard — Dick Lewiston2009
- Shadowheart — Sheriff Sanders2009
- Archer — Dr. Speltz (voice)2009
- One-Eyed Monster — Mohtz2008
- Black Crescent Moon — Father Woods2008
- Your Name Here — Chuck2008
- Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: Field Trips, Permission Slips, Signs, and Weasels — Seargent Guard2007
- Annapolis2006
- Suits on the Loose — General Wilkins2005
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1936
- Active to
- 2011
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 14
- Total plays
- 112
Charles Lewis Napier (April 12, 1936 – October 5, 2011) was an American character actor and voice actor in film and television, known for his prolific career playing memorable supporting and leading roles in genre cinema, often in the role of a cop, soldier, or authority figure. After leaving his Kentucky hometown to serve in the army, he graduated college and worked as a sports coach and art teacher before settling on acting as a career. Napier established himself in character roles and worked
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,397x
- The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research
· 1989 · cited 29,170x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 23,703x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,379x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,832x
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Quotes
- “Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.”
- “the great receipt for quieting a country is a good thrashing first and great kindness afterwards: the wildest chaps are thus tamed.”
- “The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.”
- “Come here instantly. Come here at once and make your submission, or I will in a week tear you from the midst of your village and hang you.”
- “War is detestable and not to be desired by a nation’, adding, 'It falls not so heavily upon soldiers – it is our calling; but its horrors alight upon the poor, upon the miserable, upon the unhappy, upon those who feel the expense and the suffering, but have not the glory.”
- “Manchester is the chimney of the world. Rich rascals, poor rogues, drunken ragamuffins and prostitutes form the moral; soot made into paste by rain the physique, and the only view long chimney: what a place! The entrance to hell realised!”
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Key facts
- Born
- Charles Lewis Napier , ( 1936-04-12 ) April 12, 1936, Mt. Union, Kentucky , U.S.
- Died
- October 5, 2011 (2011-10-05) (aged 75), Bakersfield, California , U.S.
- Resting place
- Bakersfield National Cemetery
- Alma mater
- Western Kentucky University
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1968–2011
- Spouse
- Dee Napier ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1980s</span>"}]]}'>1980 )
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Encyclopedic overview
Charles Lewis Napier (April 12, 1936 – October 5, 2011) was an American actor who was known for playing supporting and occasional leading roles in television and films. He was frequently cast as police officers, soldiers, or authority figures, many of them villainous or corrupt. After leaving his Kentucky hometown to serve in the Army, he graduated from college and worked as a sports coach and art teacher before settling on acting as a career. His first prominent role in a film was in Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1969), which was the first of four films he would do with director Russ Meyer. Napier established himself in character roles and worked steadily for the next 35 years. He made numerous collaborations with director Jonathan Demme, including roles in Something Wild (1986), Married to the Mob (1988), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Philadelphia (1993), Beloved (1998), and The Manchurian Candidate (2004).
Other notable roles include the short-tempered country singer Tucker McElroy in The Blues Brothers (1980), gruff army Commander Gilmour in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), General Hawk in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), and bureaucratic CIA officer Marshall Murdock in Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985). On television, he appeared as the space hippie named Adam in the Star Trek episode "The Way to Eden" (S3, E20). He also had numerous voiceover roles in television, most notably Duke Phillips on the prime time animated sitcom The Critic and Zed, the leader of the eponymous group in Men in Black: The Series.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Charles Napier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.