Clu Gulager
- Highest Rated: The Last Picture Show (1971)
- Lowest Rated: Piranha 3DD (2012)
- Birthday: Nov 16, 1928
- Birthplace: Not Available
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Actor Clu Gulager started out as the latest in a long line of Brando/Dean "method" types in the late 1950s. Gulager's searing interpretation of Mad Dog Coll on a 1959 episode of The Untouchables, coupled with his multi-faceted portrayal of Billy the Kid on the TV western series The Tall Man (1960-62) gained him a brief fan following. He was also quite impressive as Lee Marvin's fellow hit man in The Killers (1964), which would have been the very first made-for-TV movie had not its excessive violence necessitated a theatrical release. Turning prematurely gray in the late 1960s, Gulager went on to play flinty authority figures on such weekly series as The Survivors (1969), San Francisco International Airport (1971) and The MacKenzies of Paradise Cove (1979). He was also seen in numerous miniseries, most prominently as Lt. Merrick in Once an Eagle (1976) and General Sheridan in North and South II (1986). One of his better big-screen roles was Abilene in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971). Briefly entertaining notions of becoming a film director, Clu Gulager helmed the obscure 1969 short subject A Day with the Boys.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Box
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Year |
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| 85% | Once Upon a Time In Hollywood | Actor | — | 2019 |
| 90% | Blue Jay | Producer | $5.7K | 2016 |
| 80% | Out of Print | Actor | — | 2016 |
| 96% | Tangerine | The Cherokee | — | 2015 |
| Give Til It Hurts | Actor | — | 2015 | |
| 14% | Piranha 3DD | Mo | $0.4M | 2012 |
| Vic | Actor | — | 2012 | |
| More Brains! A Return To The Living Dead | Actor | — | 2011 | |
| 74% | Piranha 3-D | Actor | $25M | 2010 |
| Feast 3: The Happy Finish | Bartender | — | 2009 | |
| Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds | Bartender | — | 2008 | |
| 57% | Feast | Bartender | — | 2006 |
| Ballad of a Gunfighter | Uncle Buck Peters | — | 2000 | |
| Palmer's Pick-Up | Actor | — | 1999 | |
| Gunfighter | Actor | — | 1998 | |
| Puppet Master V (Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter) | Actor | — | 1994 | |
| The Killing Device | Smitty | — | 1993 | |
| In The Line Of Duty: Ambush In Waco | McLennan County Sheriff | — | 1993 | |
| Eddie Presley | Sid | — | 1992 | |
| 33% | My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys | Dark Glasses | — | 1991 |
| The Willies | Greeley Principal | — | 1990 | |
| Raven Red Kiss-Off | Desk Sergeant | — | 1990 | |
| 60% | Tapeheads | Norman | — | 1988 |
| 64% | I'm Gonna Git You Sucka | Lt. Baker | — | 1988 |
| The Uninvited | Albert | — | 1988 | |
| Teen Vamp | Reverend | — | 1988 | |
| 76% | The Hidden | Flynn | — | 1987 |
| Summer Heat | Will | — | 1987 | |
| Hunter's Blood | Mason Rand | — | 1987 | |
| From a Whisper to a Scream | Stanley Burnside | — | 1987 | |
| 41% | A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge | Mr. Walsh | — | 1985 |
| 91% | The Return of the Living Dead | Burt | — | 1985 |
| Prime Risk | Paul Minsky | — | 1985 | |
| 38% | Into the Night | Federal Agent | — | 1985 |
| Bridge Across Time | Peter Dawson | — | 1985 | |
| The Initiation | Dwight Fairchild | — | 1984 | |
| Chattanooga Choo Choo | Sam | — | 1984 | |
| Kenny Rogers as The Gambler---The Adventure Continues | Actor | — | 1983 | |
| 43% | Lies | Doctor Bartlett | — | 1983 |
| Living Proof: The Hank Williams, Jr. Story | Actor | — | 1983 | |
| Touched by Love | Don Fielder | — | 1980 | |
| The Gambler | Rufe Bennett | — | 1980 | |
| A Force of One | Dunne | — | 1979 | |
| Willa | Joe Welch | — | 1979 | |
| A Question of Love | Actor | — | 1978 | |
| He Who Walks Alone | Actor | — | 1978 | |
| Ski Lift to Death | Marv Gilman | — | 1978 | |
| The Other Side of Midnight | Bill Fraser | — | 1977 | |
| Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging | Charlie Cobb | — | 1977 | |
| Once an Eagle | Lt. Merrick | — | 1976 | |
| Wonderland Cove | Actor | — | 1975 | |
| Hit Lady (The Deadly Touch) | Roarke | — | 1974 | |
| 50% | McQ | Franklin Toms | — | 1974 |
| Smile, Jenny, You're Dead | Detective Milt Bosworth | — | 1974 | |
| The Glass House | Brian Courtland | — | 1972 | |
| Footsteps | Jonas Kane | — | 1972 | |
| Molly and Lawless John | Deputy Tom Clements | — | 1972 | |
| 100% | The Last Picture Show | Abilene | — | 1971 |
| 56% | Winning | Larry Morechek | — | 1969 |
| A Day with the Boys | Screenwriter Director | — | 1969 | |
| 79% | The Killers | Lee | — | 1964 |
| The Bull of the West | Actor | — | 1962 |
TV
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Year |
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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
1993-1998
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McKendrick |
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Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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Ray Carter Mike Gann Carl Mestin |
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MacGyver
1985-1992
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Walt |
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Airwolf
1984-1987
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Cullen Dixon |
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Magnum, P.I.
1980-1988
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Theo Wolf |
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Knight Rider
1982-1986
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Hanson |
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CHiPs
1977-1983
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Stoler |
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Quincy, M.E.
1976-1983
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Larry Krushevitz |
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Kung Fu
1972-1975
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Sheriff |
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Ironside
1967-1975
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Jack Frank |
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Bonanza
1959-1973
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Billy |
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-1962
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Rod Collins Frank |
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QUOTES FROM Clu Gulager CHARACTERS
- Mrs. Walsh
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(about Jesse) - He needs professional help. I think we have to take him to see a psychiatrist.
- Mrs. Walsh
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(about Jesse) He needs professional help. I think we have to take him to see a psychiatrist.
- Mr. Walsh
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Oh come, Cheryl. Are you out of your gourd? What the hell will that do?
- Mrs. Walsh
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I don't know. I just feel he needs help and we don't know how to give it to him.
- Mr. Walsh
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Oh come, Cheryl.
- Mrs. Walsh
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Are you hearing me? That boy's in trouble!
- Mr. Walsh
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No, he's not in trouble! What that boy needs is a good god damn kick in the butt, that's what he needs! Tell you what he needs. He needs a methadone clinic.
- Mr. Walsh
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(after the bird explodes) - Then what is it...bird rabies? It's that cheap seed you been buying.
- Mr. Walsh
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(after the bird explodes) Then what is it, bird rabies? It's that cheap seed you been buying.
- Jesse Walsh
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How come it took five years to sell this house?
- Mr. Walsh
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Oh, I don't know. Just couldn't get the right price, I suppose.
- Jesse Walsh
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You didn't know anything about the murder across the street and the crazy girl who lived here that saw the whole thing?
- Mr. Walsh
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They told me something about it.
- Mrs. Walsh
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You mean you knew something about this and...
- Mr. Walsh
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Oh come, Cheryl. How do think we got such a good deal?
- Jesse Walsh
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Did they tell you that that girl lost her mind and her mother killed herself in our living room?
- Mrs. Walsh
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What?
- Jesse Walsh
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Did they tell you that?
- Angela
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Mom, I'm scared.
- Casey
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(talking to Burt) - Mister, don't go in there. See, there's a thing in there. It ripped out the phone.
- Casey
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(talking to Burt) Mister, don't go in there. See, there's a thing in there. It ripped out the phone.
- Burt
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There's another phone in the basement.
- Chuck
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The basement's f**ked! You know what's in the basement?
- Burt
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What do you mean?
- Spider
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One of those f**king corpses man. A real ugly one; all black and slimy!
- Tina
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(telling Burt and Ernie about the zombies outside) - There's a hundred of those things out there.
- Tina
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(telling Burt and Ernie about the zombies outside) There's a hundred of those things out there.
- Burt
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(along with Ernie) - ...A hundred?!
- Burt
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(along with Ernie) A hundred?!
- Burt
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(thinking of what to do with the reanimated corpse) - ...Give me the bone saw.
- Burt
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(thinking of what to do with the reanimated corpse) Give me the bone saw.
- Burt
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(after Burt hits the zombie in the head with a pickaxe) - I thought you said if we destroyed the brain, it'd die!
- Burt
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(after Burt hits the zombie in the head with a pickaxe) I thought you said if we destroyed the brain, it'd die!
- Frank
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(crying) - It worked in the movie!
- Frank
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(crying) It worked in the movie!
- Burt
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Well it ain't working now!
- Freddy
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(crying) - You mean that in the movie they lied?
- Freddy
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(crying) You mean that in the movie they lied?
- Freddy
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(after Burt hits the zombie in the head with a pickaxe) - The brain, the brain!
- Freddy
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(after Burt hits the zombie in the head with a pickaxe) The brain, the brain!
- Burt
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(confused) - I hit the fu**ing brain!
- Burt
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(confused) I hit the fu**ing brain!
- Burt
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(pointing to the body freezer) - One question, Frank. This guy screaming in here, you sure he's a dead cadaver?
- Burt
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(pointing to the body freezer) One question, Frank. This guy screaming in here, you sure he's a dead cadaver?
- Frank
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Why don't you open the door and find out?
- Burt
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It's all right. I'll take your word for that. If it is a reanimated body, we're gonna have to...we'll have to kill it.
- Burt
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It's all right. I'll take your word for that. If it is a reanimated body, we're gonna have to... we'll have to kill it.
- Freddy
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How do you kill it if it's already dead?
- Burt
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Well how do I know, Fred? Let me think.
- Frank
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It's not a bad question, Burt.
- Burt
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Kid, I wanna tell you something and I mean this sincerely. No matter what happens, don't name it after me.