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1 | [on why he's successful at playing heavies] Different parts call for different heavies. I have a certain presence. I play against that presence a lot of times. One school of heavy that kind of came in vogue, I use it, Warren Oates used it for a while, Jack Elam did with his own twist, and that's of a heavy that is not crazy or deranged--although we play those, of course--but rather someone who is a heavy because he enjoys being a heavy. I've done 25, 30, 50 different types of heavies, a shade here, a shade there . . . it's really hard to say what they're looking for when they pick me. A lot of times your heavy is not that well presented in the script. Most times he's too one-sided. So we look for things to bring to being a heavy: a certain softness; a vulnerability that makes him human; a quiet moment when he's a screamer most of the time; a look; the way he dresses; the way he walks into a room. There are many things that contribute to why a casting director will choose me over someone else . . . or someone else over me. |
2 | [on Martin Scorsese] Probably he . . . is one of maybe three directors I've worked with who are really great, really great. He's a superb director and he works kind of strangely. |
3 | [on Sam Peckinpah] There are three or four or five directors who are sheer genius in what they do, and Sam is certainly one of those. But he also relies a great deal on the people around him. And as much as I think Sam's a genius, I also think he's a fucking idiot. But then, it takes a genius to fuck up in the idiotic ways he does. Everybody hates Sam; everybody loves Sam. Sam intentionally makes everybody on the set uncertain in order to get what he wants. He'll figure which way you're headed and then keep at you until he's got you thinking 180 degrees from where you were. Then, just when you think you've got it licked, he'll start in on you and force you another 180 degrees so you're back where you started only you can't recognize it. He wants you off balance because that's how he sees the world--nothing is certain. |
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1 | Is a staunch conservative Republican. |
2 | He was a guest at the 2012 Memphis Film Festival's "A Gathering of Guns 4: A TV Western Reunion" at the Whispering Woods Hotel and Conference Center in Olive Branch, Mississippi. |
3 | Profiled in "Names You Never Remember, With Faces You Never Forget" by Justin Humphreys (BearManor Media). |
4 | Is a former horse and cattle rancher. |
5 | He was one of Sam Peckinpah's favorite actors. |
6 | Adapted the name of the character he portrayed in Battle Cry (1955), L. Q. Jones, as his own name. |
7 | Attended The University of Texas at Austin in late '40s |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan | 1975 | TV Movie | Roy Ralstop |
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence | 1974 | TV Movie | Sheriff Berlinger |
Ironside | 1973-1974 | TV Series | Lt. Mark Cardiff / Harry Ashton |
Manhunter | 1974 | TV Movie | Charles 'Crutch' Shanks |
The Magician | 1974 | TV Series | Johnson |
Mrs. Sundance | 1974 | TV Movie | Charles Siringo |
Cannon | 1971-1973 | TV Series | Sheriff Virgil Spoontz / Phil Mackey |
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | 1973 | | Black Harris |
Assignment: Vienna | 1973 | TV Series | |
Alias Smith and Jones | 1971-1972 | TV Series | Peterson / Clint Weaver |
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors | 1972 | TV Series | Dr. Dietrich |
43: The Richard Petty Story | 1972 | | Ed Koler |
The Delphi Bureau | 1972 | TV Series | Cole |
Fireball Forward | 1972 | TV Movie | Maj. Larkin |
Gunsmoke | 1963-1972 | TV Series | Gecko Ridley / Sumner Pendleton / Joe Nix / ... |
The Bravos | 1972 | TV Movie | Ben Lawler |
Cade's County | 1971 | TV Series | Grover Curtis |
The F.B.I. | 1967-1971 | TV Series | Al Tanner / Wesley Davis |
The Brotherhood of Satan | 1971 | | Sheriff |
The Hunting Party | 1971 | | Hog Warren |
The Virginian | 1963-1971 | TV Series | Belden / Andy |
The McMasters | 1970 | | Russel |
The Ballad of Cable Hogue | 1970 | | Taggart |
Lancer | 1969 | TV Series | Slate Meek |
The Wild Bunch | 1969 | | T.C |
The Witchmaker | 1969 | uncredited | |
Hawaii Five-O | 1969 | TV Series | Colonel Lew Cardell |
Hang 'Em High | 1968 | | Loomis |
The Counterfeit Killer | 1968 | | Hotel Clerk |
Stay Away, Joe | 1968 | | Bronc Hoverty |
The Big Valley | 1966-1968 | TV Series | Gus Vandiver / Hutch / Earl Vaughn / ... |
Hondo | 1967 | TV Series | Allie |
Cimarron Strip | 1967 | TV Series | Lummy / Barnes |
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | 1966-1967 | TV Series | Ernie Packer / Hotel Clerk |
ABC Stage 67 | 1966 | TV Series | Deputy |
Pistols 'n' Petticoats | 1966 | TV Series | 1st Gunman |
Nevada Smith | 1966 | | Cowboy (uncredited) |
A Man Called Shenandoah | 1966 | TV Series | Ben Lloyd |
My Favorite Martian | 1965 | TV Series | Frank James |
Rawhide | 1963-1965 | TV Series | Pee Jay / Pee Jay Peters / Luke / ... |
Major Dundee | 1965 | | Arthur Hadley |
Branded | 1965 | TV Series | Miles |
Slattery's People | 1965 | TV Series | Kelly Simpson |
Apache Rifles | 1964 | | Mike Greer |
The Devil's Bedroom | 1964 | as Justus McQueen | |
Wagon Train | 1959-1964 | TV Series | Pvt. James Jones / Ike Truman / Esdras / ... |
Iron Angel | 1964 | | Buttons |
Perry Mason | 1958-1963 | TV Series | Edward Lewis / Charles Barnaby |
Empire | 1963 | TV Series | L.Q. |
Showdown | 1963 | | Foray |
Laramie | 1959-1963 | TV Series | Sergeant / Frank Keefer / Neeley / ... |
Route 66 | 1963 | TV Series | Babe |
Have Gun - Will Travel | 1962-1963 | TV Series | Hector Mackenby / Cowboy / Little Fontana |
Ben Casey | 1962 | TV Series | Stan Galloway |
Wide Country | 1962 | TV Series | Whicker |
Hell Is for Heroes | 1962 | | Supply Sgt. Frazer |
Lassie | 1958-1962 | TV Series | Attorney Blake / Sgt. Nolan / Army Sgt. / ... |
Ride the High Country | 1962 | | Sylvus Hammond |
The Rifleman | 1962 | TV Series | Charley Breen |
Lawman | 1962 | TV Series | Ollie Earnshaw |
Tales of Wells Fargo | 1959-1961 | TV Series | Striker / Wes |
Death Valley Days | 1961 | TV Series | |
Two Faces West | 1960-1961 | TV Series | |
The Americans | 1961 | TV Series | Yonts |
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | 1961 | TV Series | Tex |
The Detectives | 1961 | TV Series | Betty Merriwether |
Flaming Star | 1960 | | Tom Howard |
Cimarron | 1960 | | Millis |
The Rebel | 1960 | TV Series | Roy Shandell / Otis Rumph |
Klondike | 1960 | TV Series | Joe Teel |
Ten Who Dared | 1960 | | Billy 'Missouri' Hawkins |
Buick-Electra Playhouse | 1960 | TV Series | Rodeo Rider |
The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio | 1960 | TV Movie | Rodeo rider |
Lock Up | 1960 | TV Series | Tex |
Johnny Ringo | 1960 | TV Series | Billy Boy Jethro |
The Yank | 1960 | TV Movie | Justin |
Hound-Dog Man | 1959 | | Dave Wilson |
Wichita Town | 1959 | TV Series | Walter |
Battle of the Coral Sea | 1959 | | Yeoman Halliday |
This Man Dawson | 1959 | TV Series | |
Tightrope | 1959 | TV Series | Earl Bell |
Warlock | 1959 | | Fen Jiggs (uncredited) |
Black Saddle | 1959 | TV Series | Jack Shepherd |
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin | 1959 | TV Series | Clem Crawford |
Flight | 1958 | TV Series | |
Torpedo Run | 1958 | | 'Hash' Benson |
Jefferson Drum | 1958 | TV Series | Burdette |
The Naked and the Dead | 1958 | | Woodrow 'Woody' Wilson |
Buchanan Rides Alone | 1958 | | Pecos Hill (as L. Q. Jones) |
The Young Lions | 1958 | | Pvt. Donnelly (uncredited) |
Men of Annapolis | 1957-1958 | TV Series | Midshipman Clint Parker / Gaddis / Nichols |
The Silent Service | 1957 | TV Series | Jack Potter |
Gunsight Ridge | 1957 | | Lazy Heart Ranchhand |
Operation Mad Ball | 1957 | | Ozark |
Men in War | 1957 | | Sgt. Davis (as L. Q. Jones) |
The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial | 1957 | TV Series | Jedediah 'Jed' Boone |
Love Me Tender | 1956 | | Pardee Fleming (uncredited) |
Between Heaven and Hell | 1956 | | Pvt. Kenny - Co. G |
Toward the Unknown | 1956 | | 2nd Lt. Sweeney |
Annie Oakley | 1956 | TV Series | Ned Blane / Cal Upton |
Santiago | 1956 | | Digger |
Cheyenne | 1955 | TV Series | Smitty / Smitty Smith |
Target Zero | 1955 | | Pvt. Felix O'Hara |
An Annapolis Story | 1955 | | Watson |
Battle Cry | 1955 | | Pvt. L.Q. Jones (as Justus E. McQueen) |
A Prairie Home Companion | 2006 | | Chuck Akers |
Passion & Poetry: Major Dundee | 2005 | Video short | |
Dr. Vegas | 2004 | TV Series | Hondo |
Route 666 | 2001 | | Sheriff Bob Conaway |
The Jack Bull | 1999 | TV Movie | Henry Ballard |
The Mask of Zorro | 1998 | | Three-Fingered Jack |
The Patriot | 1998 | | Frank |
The Edge | 1997 | | Styles |
In Cold Blood | 1996 | TV Mini-Series | Tex Smith |
Tornado! | 1996 | TV Movie | Ephram Thorne |
Renegade | 1994-1996 | TV Series | Nathan Wayne / Nathan 'Duke' Wayne / Duke Nathan |
The Friends of Harry | 1995 | | Senator |
Casino | 1995 | | Pat Webb |
Walker, Texas Ranger | 1994 | TV Series | Billy Selkirk |
Lightning Jack | 1994 | | Sheriff |
The New Adam-12 | 1991 | TV Series | Mr. Weaver |
The Legend of Grizzly Adams | 1990 | | Reno |
River of Death | 1989 | | Eddie Hiller |
Red River | 1988 | TV Movie | Sims |
Bulletproof | 1988 | | Sgt. O'Rourke |
The A-Team | 1986 | TV Series | Chuck Danford |
The Yellow Rose | 1983-1984 | TV Series | Sheriff Lew Wallace |
Matt Houston | 1984 | TV Series | Sheriff Loftus |
Lone Wolf McQuade | 1983 | | Dakota |
Voyagers! | 1983 | TV Series | Ground Control #1 |
Sacred Ground | 1983 | | Tolbert Coleman |
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann | 1982 | | Ben Potter |
The Fall Guy | 1982 | TV Series | Sheriff Le Clerc / Sheriff Wyatt Le Clerc |
Melanie | 1982 | | Buford (uncredited) |
The Beast Within | 1982 | | Sheriff Pool |
The Dukes of Hazzard | 1979-1982 | TV Series | Morton / Warren |
Riker | 1981 | TV Series | Massey |
Walking Tall | 1981 | TV Series | John Whitter |
Enos | 1980 | TV Series | Garrett |
Charlie's Angels | 1976-1980 | TV Series | Sam Mason / Burdette / Dan Jarvis / ... |
Vega$ | 1980 | TV Series | Everett Mason |
Wild Times | 1980 | TV Mini-Series | Wild Bill Hickok |
The Incredible Hulk | 1979 | TV Series | Jake White |
The Runaways | 1979 | TV Series | Matthew Turner |
Buffalo Soldiers | 1979 | TV Movie | Renegade |
The Sacketts | 1979 | TV Mini-Series | Belden |
Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider | 1979 | | Floyd |
How the West Was Won | 1979 | TV Series | Batlin |
The Eddie Capra Mysteries | 1978 | TV Series | |
Colorado C.I. | 1978 | TV Movie | Hoyt Gunnison |
Columbo | 1978 | TV Series | Gun Dealer |
Standing Tall | 1978 | TV Movie | Nate Rackley |
CHiPs | 1978 | TV Series | Hoskins |
McCloud | 1977 | TV Series | Kenny Hingle |
Mother, Jugs & Speed | 1976 | | Davey |
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free | 1976 | TV Movie | Sheriff Tadlock |
Movin' On | 1976 | TV Series | Flakey Edwards |
Matt Helm | 1975 | TV Series | |
Winterhawk | 1975 | | Gates |
White Line Fever | 1975 | | Buck |
Kung Fu | 1973-1975 | TV Series | Major Clarke Bealson / Sgt. Straight |
A Boy and His Dog | 1975 | | Actor in Porno Film (uncredited) |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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French Movie | 2016 | | Himself |
In Conversation: Director L.Q. Jones & Writer Harlan Ellison | 2013 | Video documentary | Himself |
Passion & Poetry: The Early Sam | 2010 | Video short | Himself |
Char·ac·ter: The Interviews | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs | 2007 | Video documentary short | Himself |
A Prairie Home Companion: Exclusive Sneak Peek | 2006 | Video documentary short | Himself |
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah | 2005 | Documentary | Himself |
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage | 1996 | Documentary short | Himself (voice) |
Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right | 1996 | Documentary | Himself |
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
The Making of 'Lone Wolf McQuade' | 1983 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
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