Dennis Lipscomb

Dennis Lipscomb (72)

1942-03-01 - 2014-07-30 | Westbury, New York, USA

Dennis Lipscomb (March 1, 1942 - July 30, 2014) was an American actor. Lipscomb's first feature film was Union City (1980). From the early 1980s to the 1990s, Lipscomb appeared in key roles in various motion pictures including Love Child (1982), WarGames (1983), Eyes of Fire (1983), The Day After (1983), A Soldier's Story (1984), Crossroads (1986), Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987), Retribution (1987), Sister, Sister (1987), The First Power (1990) and Under Siege (1992). Lipscomb also had a recurring role as mayor of the fictitious town of Sparta, Mississippi in the first season of In the Heat of the Night (1988). In more recent years, Lipscomb has guest starred on television commercials and shows, including WKRP In Cincinnati, T.J. Hooker, and Wiseguy (1987; CBS) as Sid Royce/Elvis Prim. To a younger audience he is perhaps best known as DCI Peter Sterling in Spycraft: The Great Game.

On Movies

  • The Medicine Show
  • Mystery Kids
  • Apollo 11: First Steps on the Moon
  • Automatic
  • Without Warning
  • The Force
  • Undercover Blues
  • Curaçao
  • Under Siege
  • Rewrite for Murder
  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
  • The First Power
  • Prime Target
  • She Knows Too Much
  • Retribution
  • Sister, Sister
  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit
  • Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
  • Slow Burn
  • Crossroads
  • The Blue Yonder
  • A Soldier's Story
  • Call to Glory
  • The Day After
  • Eyes of Fire
  • WarGames
  • Farrell: For the People
  • Love Child
  • Penitentiary II
  • Union City
  • Le Grand Silence

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