Ray Wise

Highest Rated: 100% The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)

Lowest Rated: 0% One Missed Call (2008)

Birthday: Aug 29, 1947

Birthplace: Not Available

Longtime character actor Ray Wise is beloved by genre fans for his over-the-top roles in Swamp Thing, RoboCop, Twin Peaks (both the series and the feature), and Jeepers Creepers 2, yet one look at the actor's diverse filmography reveals that it's Wise's diverse body of small-screen work that has been his bread and butter throughout the years.As an adolescent, Wise became keenly aware of his love for acting, and displayed his ambition by appearing in as many plays as possible throughout high school. A college theater major who spent most of his summer breaks in summer stock, Wise was well and ready to enter the professional world after receiving his degree in 1970. As with many other aspiring actors, Wise was drawn to the bright lights of Broadway and New York City, landing a job on the soap opera Love of Life after being in town for only two weeks. During the six years that he was acting on Love of Life, Wise would moonlight with stage roles both on and off-Broadway in addition to dabbling in repertory theater. When Love of Life was canceled in 1976, it was time to expand into features with supporting roles in Swamp Thing and Cat People (both 1982). Throughout the 1980s, Wise appeared on some of the most popular series on television, including Dallas, Trapper John, M.D., Knots Landing, and Moonlighting -- occasionally returning for a recurring role. While his part in Paul Verhoeven's over-the-top sci-fi action flick RoboCop offered the busy actor a chance to truly explore his inner villain, it was another menacing role that would propel Wise's career in the 1990s.Cast as grieving father Leland Palmer in the surreal David Lynch series Twin Peaks, Wise captivated television viewers with his emotionally charged performance -- Palmer was a challenging character, and few actors could have brought him to life quite as effectively as Wise. In 1992, Wise reprised the role of Leland Palmer for the polarizing feature Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, with subsequent performances in Bob Roberts and Powder, as well as on television in Star Trek: Voyager and Beverly Hills 90210, proving his highest-profile works of the decade. While by the year 2000 it appeared as if Wise had settled into a comfortable small-screen groove thanks to his numerous television credits, roles as a frightened father in the underappreciated, Twilight Zone-flavored frightener Dead End and a monster-fighting farmer in Jeepers Creepers 2 (which re-teamed him with Powder director Victor Salva) both gave genre fans cause to celebrate. In 2005, Wise took an affecting turn as communist witch-hunt victim Don Hollenbeck in director George Clooney's Oscar-nominated drama Good Night, and Good Luck, and the following year he had a recurring role as Vice President Hal Gardner in the hit Fox series 24. With additional small-screen roles in The Closer, CSI, Law & Order: SVU, and the supernatural series Reaper (on which he played the Devil himself) serving well to balance out feature work in Peaceful Warrior, Pandemic, and One Missed Call, it appeared that Wise remained as comfortable as ever fluctuating between work in film and television. He continued to work steadily on small and big-screen projects like Pandemic, One Missed Call, Crazy Eyes, Mad Men, and Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie.

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Movies

		Credit
37%	Tone-Deaf	Actor	—	2019
No Score Yet	To Your Last Death	Cyrus Dekalb	—	2019
60%	Chain of Death	Michael	—	2019
No Score Yet	The Bronx Bull	Father Joseph	—	2017
No Score Yet	El destino de los Burnett	Actor	—	2017
No Score Yet	Shattered	Forest Burnett	—	2017
No Score Yet	Le prix du secret	Actor	—	2017
40%	Batman: The Killing Joke	Commissioner James Gordon	$0.5M	2016
8%	God's Not Dead 2	Pete Kane	—	2016
No Score Yet	Halloweed	Judge Pilmington	—	2016
17%	The Lazarus Effect	Mr. Wallace	$20.5M	2015
60%	Digging Up the Marrow	William Dekker	—	2015
64%	Suburban Gothic	Actor	—	2015
No Score Yet	The Breakup Girl	Bob Baker	—	2015
No Score Yet	Unnatural	Victor Clobirch	—	2015
88%	Night of the Living Deb	Frank Waverly	—	2014
No Score Yet	Guardian Angel	Actor	—	2014
73%	No God, No Master	Alexander Palmer	—	2014
No Score Yet	The Butterfly Room	Nick	—	2014
No Score Yet	Bird Co. Media	Actor	—	2014
No Score Yet	Dead Still	Wenton Davis	—	2014
No Score Yet	Jurassic City	Actor	—	2014
55%	Wrong Cops	Captain Andy	—	2013
No Score Yet	Brother's Keeper	Herbert Leemaster	—	2013
78%	Big Ass Spider!	Major Braxton Tanner	—	2013
No Score Yet	Lionhead	Jimmy	—	2013
4%	Atlas Shrugged: Part II	Head of State Thompson	$2.6M	2012
25%	Crazy Eyes	Zach's Father	$6.6K	2012
No Score Yet	Darnell Dawkins: Mouth Guitar Legend	Wade Dawkins	—	2012
36%	Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie	Dr. Doon Struts	$0.2M	2012
No Score Yet	Brother White	Kingman	—	2012
No Score Yet	The Aggression Scale	Bellavance	—	2012
84%	Excision	Principal Campbell	—	2012
No Score Yet	FDR: American Badass!	Douglas MacArthur	—	2012
40%	Chillerama	Dr. Weems	—	2011
86%	X-Men: First Class	Secretary of State	$145.4M	2011
No Score Yet	Rosewood Lane	Det. Briggs	—	2011
No Score Yet	Iodine	Avery	—	2010
No Score Yet	7-10 Split (Strike)	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	Cyxork 7	Kommander 88	—	2009
No Score Yet	Stuntmen	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	The First Time	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	AM1200	Actor	—	2008
No Score Yet	AmericanEast	Agent Stevens	—	2008
No Score Yet	The Flock	Bobby Stiles	—	2008
0%	One Missed Call	Ted Summers	$26.9M	2008
No Score Yet	Infestation	Ethan	—	2008
No Score Yet	Pandemic	General Matthews	—	2008
57%	Superman: Doomsday	Perry White	—	2007
25%	Peaceful Warrior	Dr. Hayden	$1M	2006
No Score Yet	The Substance of Things Hoped For	Dr. Lessing	—	2006
93%	Good Night, And Good Luck	Don Hollenbeck	$31.6M	2005
No Score Yet	Jane Doe: The Wrong Face	Fleming	—	2005
No Score Yet	The Rain Makers	Harris	—	2005
75%	Dead End	Frank Harrington	—	2003
24%	Jeepers Creepers 2	Jack Taggart	$35.3M	2003
40%	The Battle of Shaker Heights	Harrison Bowland	—	2003
20%	Almost Salinas	Jack	—	2003
No Score Yet	Landspeed	Brian	—	2002
41%	Two Can Play That Game	Bill Parker	$22.1M	2001
No Score Yet	Windfall	Actor	—	2001
No Score Yet	Pennyweight	Actor	—	1999
No Score Yet	Garbage Picking, Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon	Actor	—	1998
No Score Yet	Evasive Action	Wes Blaidek	—	1998
50%	Powder	Stipler	—	1995
No Score Yet	The Rift (La Grieta)	Actor	—	1995
No Score Yet	The Crew	Charles Pierce	—	1995
No Score Yet	Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story	Mike Todd	—	1995
37%	The Chase	Dalton Voss	—	1994
No Score Yet	Body Shot	Dwight Frye	—	1994
33%	Rising Sun	Sen. John Morton	—	1993
No Score Yet	The Killing Box	Col. George Thalman	—	1993
97%	Bob Roberts	Chet MacGregor	—	1992
64%	Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me	Leland Palmer	—	1992
No Score Yet	Sunstroke	Winters	—	1992
No Score Yet	Write to Kill	Mark Gaston	—	1991
No Score Yet	Fire in the Dark	Richard	—	1991
No Score Yet	Endless Descent	Robbins	—	1990
No Score Yet	The Secret Life of Archie's Wife	Archie	—	1990
No Score Yet	Runaway Heart	Archie	—	1990
No Score Yet	Race For Glory	Jack Davis	—	1989
No Score Yet	The Flight	Phil Maresca	—	1988
89%	RoboCop	Leon Nash	—	1987
No Score Yet	Condor	Actor	—	1986
100%	The Journey of Natty Gann	Sol Gann	—	1985
61%	Cat People	Soap Opera Man	—	1982
67%	Swamp Thing	Doctor Alec Holland	—	1982
No Score Yet	Tartuffe	Actor	—	1978
No Score Yet	Land of Leopold	Actor	—

TV

		Credit
94%	Fresh Off the Boat 2015	Marvin	2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
89%	Twin Peaks 1990-2017	Leland Palmer	2018 1991 1990
96%	Fargo 2014-2017	Paul Marrane	2017
No Score Yet	Comment je l'ai rencontrée 2005-2011	Robin Sr.	2014
83%	How I Met Your Mother 2005-2014	Robin Sr.	2014 2013 2011
76%	Body of Proof 2011-2013	Martin Davis	2013
No Score Yet	Newsreaders 2013-2015	Skip Reming	2013
No Score Yet	Criminal Minds 2005	John Nelson	2012
No Score Yet	NCIS 2003	Wayne Tobett	2012
No Score Yet	Nuclear Family 2012	The Man	2012
No Score Yet	The Mentalist 2008-2015	Dennis Victor	2012
89%	Chuck 2007-2012		2011
No Score Yet	Hawaii Five-0 2010	Morris Brown	2011
83%	Wilfred 2011-2014	Colt St. Cloud	2011
80%	Castle 2009-2016	Bobby Fox	2010
94%	Mad Men 2007-2015	Ed Baxter	2010
68%	The Good Guys 2010	Buddy	2010
89%	Psych 2006-2014	Father Westley	2010 2009
86%	24 2001-2014	Hal Gardner	2010 2006
72%	Dollhouse 2009-2010	Stewart Lipman	2009
No Score Yet	Numb3rs 2005-2010	Mitch Langford	2009
80%	Reaper 2007-2009	Satan	2009 2008 2007
No Score Yet	Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! 2007-2010	Performer	2008
52%	Shark 2006-2008	Lloyd Holcomb	2007
42%	Six Degrees 2006-2007	Henry Crane	2007
90%	Bones 2005-2017	Rick Turco	2006
No Score Yet	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 2000-2015	Ernest Chase	2006
75%	The West Wing 1999-2006	Gov. Gabe Tillman	2005
No Score Yet	Charmed 1998-2006	Ludlow	2002
23%	Presidio Med 2002-2003	Martin Griff	2002
No Score Yet	Judging Amy 1999-2005	Mr. Rhodes	2001
No Score Yet	Profiler 1996-2000	James Perrone	2000
No Score Yet	Beverly Hills, 90210 1990-2000	Hunter Noah's Father	1998
90%	Sports Night 1998-2000	Bill	1998
77%	Star Trek: Voyager 1995-2001	Arturis	1998
75%	Savannah 1995-1997	Edward Burton	1997 1996
100%	The Larry Sanders Show 1992-1998	Lloyd Simon	1994
No Score Yet	Walker, Texas Ranger 1993-2001		1994
97%	Moonlighting 1985-1989	Murderer	1989
89%	Star Trek: The Next Generation 1987-1994	Liko	1989
No Score Yet	Beauty and the Beast 1987-1990	Tom	1987
No Score Yet	The A-Team 1983-1987	Chadway	1985
No Score Yet	Trapper John, M.D. 1979-1986	Dr. Spelner	1984
No Score Yet	Remington Steele 1982-1987	Schwimmer	1984 1982
No Score Yet	Farmed and Dangerous 2014	Buck
No Score Yet	Second Chances 1994	Judge Jim Stinson
15%	Vengeance Unlimited 1998-1999

QUOTES FROM Ray Wise CHARACTERS

Dr. Doone Struts says: May the brown foaminess flow all over you.

Jack Taggart says: [Taggert is looking for the disabled bus] Are there any landmarks nearby? What are you close to?

Andy "Bucky" Buck says: I'm close to pissing my fuckin' pants!

Jack Taggart says: [first lines] [yelling out to Billy, who's putting up scarecrows] Billy! Get number three up now. Don't come in to eat before you do. And check the other two! Make sure they're wired up good. I don't want them blowing over again the first big wind.

Minxie Hayes says: It isn't dead. It's time ran out.

Jack Taggart says: [Taggert stabs The Creeper again] It looks dead to me.

Frank says: "I know this is the season of giving, but I just don't give a fuck!"

Frank says: I know this is the season of giving, but I just don't give a fuck!

Frank says: Maybe the North Star doesn't indicate north. Maybe the map maker was drunk. Maybe the moon's made out of cheese. Who knows? Everything is so fucked up on this goddamn road!

Frank says: Richard, drag his body off to the side of the road.

Richard says: Jesus, what do I look like? Your fu*king janitor?

Laura says: Where did Richard go?

Frank says: He's probably off smoking a joint.

Laura says: That is not funny! Our son is doing drugs!

Frank says: Please, Laura.

Laura says: Can't you see this is a cry for help?

Frank says: Christ! It's just a joint, all right? Not worse than those pills you take.

Laura says: My pills are legal!!

Laura says: My pills are legal!

Laura says: Does anybody know the name of that really bright star right in front of us?

Frank says: There's 150 billion stars up there, for Christ's sake.

Frank says: I wanna do something...cool. I wanna buy an Atari, a computer, a bunch of video games.

Frank says: I wanna do something cool. I wanna buy an Atari, a computer, a bunch of video games.

Marion says: If you wanna do something cool, then I'd go for the PlayStation.

Frank says: What's that?

Marion says: Never mind. Atari is cooler anyway.

Frank says: Oh, God! We'd better wake up from this nightmare pretty soon.

Brad says: When I played baseball, they taught us this technique to help us relax. I still use it sometimes. You breathe in deeply through your nose and out through your mouth.

Frank says: Thank you, Brad.

Richard says: Yeah, thanks, Brad. Can I ask you a question, though?

Brad says: Sure.

Richard says: Was your entire school gay, or was it just the baseball team?

Frank says: And I thought last year's Christmas was bad.

Frank says: Holy sh*t! The bitch shot me in the leg.

Laura says: (calmly asking after she shoots Frank in his leg) - Is he hurt?

Frank says: There was this couple that was driving home from a wedding...in Rhode Island. It was night. It was raining. And they saw a little girl standing by the side of the road. And she was just wandering back and forth, clutching the school book. They stopped and they let her get into the back seat...and they tried to talk to her, but she must have been in shock. They were driving on down the road, all of a sudden they heard a scream...coming from the back seat. They slammed on the brakes, they nearly had an accident. Miraculously, they didn't go over the cliff. They turned to the back seat...the little girl had vanished. There was just her school book there, with her name on it...Barbara Rose. And then they remembered: The entire Rose family had died in a tragic car accident...right at that cliff, five years earlier.

Frank says: There was this couple that was driving home from a wedding in Rhode Island. It was night. It was raining. And they saw a little girl standing by the side of the road. And she was just wandering back and forth, clutching the school book. They stopped and they let her get into the back seat, and they tried to talk to her, but she must have been in shock. They were driving on down the road, all of a sudden they heard a scream coming from the back seat. They slammed on the brakes, they nearly had an accident. Miraculously, they didn't go over the cliff. They turned to the back seat...the little girl had vanished. There was just her school book there, with her name on it, Barbara Rose. And then they remembered: The entire Rose family had died in a tragic car accident, right at that cliff, five years earlier.

Marion says: Come on! Dad, what are you saying...That that woman is a ghost?

Marion says: Come on! Dad, what are you saying. That that woman is a ghost?

Laura says: Should we save some pie for Michael?

Frank says: He's dead.

Laura says: Okay.

Frank says: Your mother always felt you deserved more than a used car salesman. Now that salesman has become a respected sales manager. So, I'm sorry, baby, but screw your mother!

Laura says: Anything else?

Frank says: Yeah. Your damn brother is a freak too! He jerks off to gun magazines!

Frank says: Every time we've stopped, someone's gotten killed. We have to keep driving.

Frank says: Maybe the map maker was drunk. Maybe the moon's made out of cheese. Who knows? Everything is so fu*ked up on this goddamn road!

Laura says: Was there no dial tone?

Frank says: No, Laura. I just forgot the number to 9-1-1!