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Wayne Tippit

Gerald Wayne Tippit was a veteran character actor best known as Ted Adamson on the CBS soap opera Search for Tomorrow, and then as Palmer Woodward on Fox’s prime-time potboiler Melrose Place. He is a familiar face on numerous television series.

English

JFK

1991
as FBI Agent - Frank

L.A. Law

1986
as Leo Hackett

Pipe Dreams

1976
as Mike Thompson

Rollercoaster

1977
as Police Captain Christie

MadHouse

1990
as Grindle

LifeStories: Steve Burdick

1990
as Chuck McAuliffe

Running Against Time

1991
as FBI Agent Landry

Nurse Betty

2000
as Doctor

Brass

1985
as Police Commissioner Haines

Guest Star

Episode Petrocelli
Six Strings of Guilt
1976
Episode Hunter
The Baby Game
1988
Episode Quantum Leap
The Americanization of Machiko
1989
Episode Barnaby Jones
Poisoned Pigeon
1975
Episode Murder, She Wrote
The Classic Murder
1992
Episode Something So Right
Something About Schmoozing
1996
Episode The Rockford Files
The No-Cut Contract
1976
Episode The Rockford Files
A Portrait of Elizabeth
1976
Episode Murphy Brown
But First a Word From Our Sponsor
1990
Episode Matlock
The Blackmailer
1990
Episode Equal Justice
Do No Harm
1991
Episode The Bob Newhart Show
The Way We Weren't
1975
Episode Mad About You
Met Someone
1992
Episode Baywatch
The Cretin of the Shallows
1989
Episode Jake and the Fatman
I'm Gonna Live Till I Die
1991
Episode Diagnosis Murder
The Merry Widow Murder
1997
Episode Diagnosis Murder
Living on the Streets Can Be Murder
1996
Episode Diagnosis Murder
Amnesia
1993
Episode Mancuso, FBI
Racial Matters
1989
Episode Homefront
The Lemo Tomato Juice Hour
1992
Episode Matlock
Brennen
1994
Episode Duckman
It's the Thing of the Principal
1994
Episode Duckman
Aged Heat
1996
Episode Chicago Hope
Memento Mori
1998
Episode The Rockford Files
The Reincarnation of Angie
1975
Episode Hardball (1989)
Till Death Do Us Part
1989
Episode The Torkelsons
Aunt Poison
1992
Episode Seinfeld
The Secret Code
1995
Episode The X-Files
The Jersey Devil
1993
Episode New York Daze
Too Something
1995
Episode The Army Show
Pilot
1998