Wayne Tippit

Personal Info

Birthday

December 19, 1932

Day of Death

2009-08-28

(76 years old)

Place of Birth

Lubbock, Texas, USA

Wayne Tippit

Biography

Wayne Tippit (December 19, 1932 – August 28, 2009) was an American television and stage character actor. He was best known to television audiences for playing Ted Adamson on the 1970s and 1980s CBS soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, for five years. He later portrayed Palmer Woodward, the father of Heather Locklear's character, Amanda Woodward, on the Fox primetime soap opera, Melrose Place, during the 1990s.

Known For

Seinfeld

The X-Files

Murder, She Wrote

Baywatch

Mad About You

Diagnosis: Murder

Quantum Leap

The Rockford Files

Filmography

2000
Nurse Betty
as Doctor
1998
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81
as Keller's Grandfather
1993
The Ernest Green Story
as Principal Matthews
1991
JFK
as FBI Agent - Frank
Running Against Time
as FBI Agent Landry
Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story
as Tillman
1990
LifeStories: Steve Burdick
as Chuck McAuliffe
Follow Your Heart
as Sheriff Quinn
MadHouse
as Grindle
1989
Money, Power, Murder.
as Dunphy
The Final Days
as Senator Edward Gurney
When We Were Young
as Sam
1986
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
as Bill Moon
1985
Noon Wine
as Mr. Burleigh
1983
Illusions
as Cliff
1977
Rollercoaster
as Police Captain Christie
1976
Pipe Dreams
as Mike Thompson
1970
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
as Dr. Miller