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| Born | James S. Tolkan June 20, 1931  Calumet, Michigan, U.S. |
James S. Events 451 - Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius ' defeats Attila the Hun. Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Calumet is a village in Calumet Township, Houghton County, in the U Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Tolkan (born June 20, 1931) is an American character actor, often cast as a strict, overbearing, bald-headed authority figure. Events 451 - Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius ' defeats Attila the Hun. Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A character actor is an Actor who predominantly plays a particular type of role rather than leading ones He is one of the only few actors who have sported a shaved head in all films they star in, as well as normally sporting it outside the industry.
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Biography
Personal life
He was born in Calumet, Michigan, the son of Ralph M. Calumet is a village in Calumet Township, Houghton County, in the U Tolkan,[1] a cattle dealer, and attended the University of Iowa, Coe College, the Actors Studio and Eastern Arizona College. The University of Iowa, is a major teaching service and Research university located on a campus in Iowa City Iowa, on the banks of the Iowa River Coe College is a private four-year liberal arts college in Cedar Rapids Iowa. The Actors Studio is a membership Organization for Professional Actors theatre directors and Playwrights at 432 West 44th Street in Eastern Arizona College ( EAC) is an Arizona Community college located in Graham County Arizona. [2] Tolkan currently lives in Lake Placid, New York. Lake Placid is a Village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States.
Career
Tolkan is best known for his role in the 1985 film Back to the Future as the strict, disciplinarian Hill Valley High School principal Gerald Strickland. Back to the Future is a 1985 science fiction Comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and produced by Steven Spielberg. He referred to Marty McFly and his father derisively as "slackers". Martin "Marty" McFly is a Fictional character and the main protagonist in the Back to the Future He reprised the role in the 1989 sequel Back to the Future Part II and, in 1990, he played the part of Mr. Back to the Future Part II is a 1989 film and a Sequel to the 1985 film Back to the Future. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Strickland's grandfather in Back to the Future Part III. Back to the Future Part III is the third installment of the ''Back to the Future'' trilogy. Other well-known roles include a government agent in WarGames and Stinger, the no-nonsense officer in the 1986 box-office hit Top Gun. WarGames is a 1983 drama / Thriller film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F Top Gun is a 1986 American Film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer in association with He also appeared in the 1987 film Masters of the Universe as a police officer. Masters of the Universe is a 1987 Science fiction / Fantasy Film based on the toy line by the same name. He played a dual role in the Woody Allen comedy Love and Death, playing both Napoléon and a Napoléon look-alike. Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1 1935 is an American Film director, Writer, Actor, Comedian, and Love and Death is a 1975 comedy by Woody Allen. Starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, Love and Death is a satirical take Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821 was a French military and political leader who had a significant impact on the History of Europe. He also appeared as Big Boy Caprice's accountant "Numbers" in the 1990 Warren Beatty film Dick Tracy. Warren Beatty (born Henry Warren Beaty; March 30 1937 is an American Academy Award - and Golden Globe -winning Actor, producer Dick Tracy is a 1990 action - Adventure film based upon the Dick Tracy Comic strip created by Chester
Tolkan has also made guest appearances on many TV shows, including Naked City, Remington Steele, Miami Vice and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network Remington Steele is an American television series produced by MTM Enterprises and first broadcast on the NBC network from 1982 Miami Vice is an American Television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an award winning American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10 1990 to May 20 1996 A member of the repertory cast of A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001-2002), he played more than a dozen varied roles in the A&E TV series and also directed two episodes ("Die Like a Dog" and "The Next Witness"). A Nero Wolfe Mystery (aka Nero Wolfe, The Nero Wolfe Mysteries) is a television series based on Rex Stout 's classic series of detective
Filmography
Actor
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- A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002)
- "The Next Witness" (2002)
- "Die Like a Dog" (2002)
References
External links
- James Tolkan at the Internet Movie Database
- James Tolkan at TV.com
- James Tolkan at the Internet Broadway Database
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