Ray Wise

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Known For

Acting

Born

1947-08-20

Place of Birth

Akron, Ohio, USA

Ray Wise

Biography

Raymond Herbert Wise is an American actor best known for his role as Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks (1990–1991, 2017) and its prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992). He has appeared in films such as Swamp Thing (1982), The Journey of Natty Gann (1985), RoboCop (1987), Bob Roberts (1992), Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), X-Men: First Class (2011) and God's Not Dead 2 (2016).

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Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

NCIS

NCIS

Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds

The Mentalist

The Mentalist

Bones

Bones

Castle

Castle

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother

24

Hawaii Five-0

Hawaii Five-0

Acting History

The Napa Boys as Officer Toland

The Wolf in the Well as Roland Carmel

God's Not Dead: In God We Trust as Peter Kane

The Blue Rose as Mr. Vallens

Poolman as William Van Patterson

RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop as Self

King Knight as Merlin

Slugfest as Jack Kirby

Psych 3: This Is Gus as Father Peter Westley

Physical as Sheila's Father

Dinner Is Served as Headmaster Gustafson

Home Economics as Frank

Beast Mode as Trammel Steadfast

To Your Last Death as Cyrus DeKalb (voice)

The Movies That Made Us as Self (archive footage)

All Rise as Richard Walker

Unholy 'Mole as The Devil (voice)

The Chain as Michael

Tone-Deaf as Michael

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina as Enoch

I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun as Self

Little Evil as Guy On TV (uncredited)

Shattered as Forest Burnett

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life as Jack Smith

Halloweed as Judge Plimington

Batman: The Killing Joke as Commissioner James Gordon (voice)

The Bronx Bull as Father Father Joseph

All the Way as Senator Everett Dirksen

Relationship Status as Grace's Dad

God's Not Dead 2 as Peter Kane

Unnatural as Victor Clobirch

Taking Flight as Nonno (voice)

The Breakup Girl as Bob Baker

Night of the Living Deb as Frank Waverly

Digging Up the Marrow as William Dekker

Fresh Off the Boat as Marvin

The Lazarus Effect as Mr. Wallace

Jurassic City as Warden Lewis

Marvel's Agent Carter as Hugh Jones

Frank Pierre Presents: Pierre Resort & Casino as Frank Pierre

Dead Still as Wenton Davies

Guardian Angel as Attorney Kaufman

Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories as The Duke

Between Two Worlds as Self

Land of Leopold as Deece Warren

Suburban Gothic as Donald

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces as Leland Palmer

Away From Here as Paul

Fargo as Paul Marrane

No God, No Master as A. Mitchell Palmer

Tom Holland's Twisted Tales as Mongo the Magnificent (segment "Mongo's Magik Mirror")

Farmed and Dangerous as Buck Marshall

Wrong Cops as Captain Andy

Big Ass Spider! as Major Braxton Tanner

Out West as Phillip Alcott

Revelation Road 2: The Sea of Glass and Fire as Frank

Brother's Keeper as Herbert Leemaster

Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End as Frank

Inventing Adam as J.B.

Newsreaders as Skip Reming

Nuclear Family as The Man

Atlas Shrugged: Part II as Head of State Thompson

FDR: American Badass! as Douglas MacArthur

Excision as Principal Campbell

The Butterfly Room as Nick

Perception as Martin Sullivan

Crazy Eyes as Zach's Father

Brother White as Pastor Johnny Kingman

Holliston as Landlord

Darnell Dawkins: Mouth Guitar Legend as Wade Dawkins

The Aggression Scale as Bellavance

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie as Dr. Doone Struts

The Girl with the Tramp Stamp Tattoo

Rosewood Lane as Det. Briggs

Chillerama as Dr. Weems (segment "Wadzilla")

Wilfred as Colt St. Cloud

X-Men: First Class as Secretary of State

Workaholics as Kyle Walsh

Body of Proof as Michael Davis

Mr. Sunshine as Macaulay

Hawaii Five-0 as Morris Brown

Rizzoli & Isles as Judge Eugene Allen

The Good Guys as Buddy

Infomercials as Frank Pierre

Pandemic as General Matthews

Iodine as Avery

Stuntmen as Jack Strongbow

Drop Dead Diva as Frank Dodd

Castle as Bobby Fox

Dollhouse as Howard Lipman

Infestation as Ethan

Love at First Hiccup as Roger

AM1200 as Harry Jones

The Mentalist as Dennis Victor

90210 as Dean Thomas

One Missed Call as Ted Summers

Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks

Reaper as The Devil

Superman: Doomsday as Perry White (voice)

The Flock as Bobby Stiles

Mad Men as Ed Baxter

The Election as John

Burn Notice as Mr. Pyne

7-10 Split as Buddy Kendrick

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! as Grill Vogel

Shark as Lloyd Holcomb

Psych as Peter Westley

Psych as Horace Leland

The Substance of Things Hoped For as Dr. Lessing

Peaceful Warrior as Doctor Hayden

Cyxork 7 as Kommander 88

Criminal Minds as John Nelson

How I Met Your Mother as Robin Scherbatsky Sr.

Good Night, and Good Luck. as Don Hollenbeck

Bones as Rick Turco

Jane Doe: The Wrong Face as Fleming

The Closer as Tom Blanchard

Numb3rs as Mitch Langford

The Rain Makers as Harris

Sharkskin 6 as Sam

Dead End as Frank Harrington

NCIS as Wayne Tobett

The Battle of Shaker Heights as Harrison

Jeepers Creepers 2 as Jack Taggart, Sr.

Windfall as John Wescott

She Spies as Ambassador Blaine

Landspeed as Brian Sanger

Scream at the Sound of the Beep as Brother Jake

Postcards From The Cast as Self

24 as Vice-President Hal Gardner

Reflections on the Phenomenon of Twin Peaks as Self

Two Can Play That Game as Bill Parker

Almost Salinas as Jack Tynan

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Ernest Chase

Popular as Barton

The West Wing as Governor Tillman D-CA

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Roger Hanley

Judging Amy as Atty. Rhodes

Pennyweight as Mr. Pennyweight

Charmed as Ludlow

V.I.P. as Judge Kreiger

Sports Night as Evans

The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon as Randolph Pratt

Evasive Action as Sheriff Wes Blaidek

Profiler as James Perrone

Savannah as Edward Burton

Powder as Dr. Aaron Stripler

JAG as Congressman Marvin Bolton

Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story as Mike Todd

Star Trek: Voyager as Arturis

The Crew as Charles Pierce

RoboCop: The Future of Law Enforcement as Leon Nash

Body Shot as Dwight Frye

The Chase as Dalton Voss

Second Chances as Judge Jim Stinson

Diagnosis: Murder as John Parkinson

The Secrets of Lake Success as Henry Fleming

Rising Sun as Senator John Morton

Walker, Texas Ranger as Garrett Carlson

Grey Knight as Col. George Thalman

RoboCop 3 as Leon Nash (archive footage)

Sunstroke as Larry

Bob Roberts as Chet MacGregor

The Larry Sanders Show as Lloyd Simon

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me as Leland Palmer

Write to Kill as Mark Gaston

Fire in the Dark as Richard

Runaway Heart as Archie

Beverly Hills, 90210 as Daniel Hunter

Dream On as Maddox March

Twin Peaks as Leland Palmer

Twin Peaks as Leland Palmer (archive footage)

The Rift as Robbins

Twin Peaks as Leland Palmer

Race for Glory as Jack Davis

Season of Fear as Fred Drummond

The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story as Phil Maresca

Star Trek: The Next Generation as Liko

Jake and the Fatman

Beauty and the Beast as Tom

RoboCop as Leon Nash

Repairs as Stan the Bartender

L.A. Law as A.D.A. Walter Platt

Condor as Christopher Proctor

The Journey of Natty Gann as Sol Gann

Seduced as Bartecki

Moonlighting as Murderer

Hunter as Alex Parker

Airwolf as Victor Resnick

Blue Thunder as J.D. Kraft

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

The A-Team as Phillip Chadway

Remington Steele as Schwimmer

Cat People as Soap Opera Man

T. J. Hooker as Harrison Mackenzie

Swamp Thing as Doctor Alec Holland

Madame X as Bellman (uncredited)

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders II as Dr. Simmons

Knots Landing as The Dealer

Tartuffe as Damis

Love in the Hamptons as Myron

Charlie's Angels as Evan Wilcox

Dare the Devil as David Keller

Good Grief as Dr. Gariboldi