Michael Cavanaugh (actor)

American actor (b. 1942)

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Michael Cavanaugh

Cavanaugh (r), with Jillian Kesner-Graver, filming Inferno in 1996

Born|  (1942-11-21) November 21, 1942 (age 81)

New York City, U.S.

Occupation| Actor
Years active| 1976-present

Michael Cavanaugh (born November 21, 1942) is an American actor. Cavanaugh was born in New York City, and has performed in more than one hundred films since 1976. His television guest-credits include The West Wing, Joe Bash, Starman, Hunter, Monk and 24.

He also served in the United States Navy, enlisting following graduation from high school, serving for three years while stationed in Hawaii.

## Film[edit]

Film  Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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1976  | The Enforcer | Lalo  |
1977  | Over-Under Sideways-Down | Rich  |
1977  | Heroes | Peanuts  |
1977  | The Gauntlet | Assistant District Attorney John Feyderspiel  |
1978  | Gray Lady Down | Pete  | Uncredited
1979  | The Lady in Red | Undercover Cop  |
1980  | Any Which Way You Can | Patrick Scarfe  |
1982  | Comeback | Manager  |
1982  | Forced Vengeance | Stan Raimondi  |
1983  | Heart Like a Wheel | NHRA Boss  |
1986  | Iron Eagle | Disclipinary panel colonel  | Uncredited
1988  | Street of Dreams | Lieutenant Marcus  |
1988  | Two to Tango | Dean Boyle  |
1990  | Full Fathom Five | Garvin  |
1990  | Kid | Walters  |
1994  | A Passion to Kill | Robinson  |
1995  | Illegal in Blue  | Lieutenant Lyle  | Direct-to-video
1996  | Night Hunter | Roy Ward  |
1996  | Crash Dive | Captain Lange  | Direct-to-video
1997  | Strategic Command | Vice President Charles Baker  |
1997  | Inferno | Victor Grayson  |
1998  | Black Thunder | General Barnes  |
1999  | In Dreams | Judge  | Voice
1999  | The Haunting | Dr. Malcolm Keogh  |
1999  | Romp | Norman Fase  |
2000  | Dancing in September | Harbor  |
2000  | Escape Under Pressure | Captain  |
2000  | Militia | Colonel Jim Donaman, Retired  |
2001  | Ablaze | Chief Sam Davis  |
2001  | Thy Neighbor's Wife | Ian McMillan  | Direct-to-video
2001  | Raptor | Colonel Vandamar  | Direct-to-video
2002  | Collateral Damage | Chairman Paul Devereaux  |
2002  | Stranded | Admiral Ferrell  | Direct-to-video
2002  | Red Dragon | Forensic Dentist  |
2004  | Chance | Mike  | Short film
2003  | Holes | Judge Austin Gorg  |
2006  | Down the P.C.H. | Michael O'Hara  |
2006  | All the King's Men | Mr. Peyton  |
2007  | Live! | Wilken  |
2007  | Who's Your Caddy? | John Marshall  |
2010  | Peep World | Brad Thompkins  |
2016  | Rules Don't Apply | Methodist Minister  |

## Television[edit]

TV  Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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1977  | Visions | Rich  | Episode: "Over-Under, Sideways-Down"
1978  | Kojak | Sonny Canavere  | Episode: "Justice for All"
1978  | Doctor Scorpion | Terry Batliner  | TV movie
1979  | Dallas | O'Neill  | Episode: "The Red File: Part 1"
1979  | Portrait of a Stripper | Steve Vector  | TV movie
1979  | 11th Victim | Steve  | TV movie
1980  | The Rockford Files | John Traynor  | Episode: "Deadlock in Parma"
1980  | Charlie's Angels | Anthony Felber  | Episode: "Harrigan's Angel"
1980  | Belle Starr | Jesse James  | TV movie
1980  | Gideon's Trumpet | Stocker  | TV movie
1980  | A Rumor of War | Captain Lake  | TV miniseries
1980  | Diff'rent Strokes | Woody  | Episode: "The Bank Job"
1981  | CHiPs | Tom Dempsey  | Episode: "Home Fires Burning"
1981  | Miracle on Ice | George  | TV movie
1981  | Vegas | Vance  | Episode: "The Killing"
1981  | The Texas Rangers | Bobby Joe Ames  | TV movie
1981  | Fitz and Bones | Joe  | Episode: "Terror at Newsline 3"
1982  | One Day at a Time | Gunman  | Episode: "Stick 'em Up"
1983  | T. J. Hooker | Carl Hines  | Episode: "The Mumbler"
1983  | Tales of the Gold Monkey | Avery Thiel  | Episode: "A Distant Shout of Thunder"
1983  | Blood Feud | U.S. Marshal  | TV movie
1983  | Matt Houston | Byron Stevens  |
1983  | For Love and Honor | Pelham  | Episode: "For Love and Honor (Pilot)
1983  | Night Partners | Roy Henderson  | TV movie
1983  | The Mississippi |  | Episode: "Town Without Pity"
1984  | The A-Team | Joseph King  | Episode: "Deadly Maneuvers"
1984  | Hunter | Captain Cain  | Episode: "Hunter" (pilot episode)
1984  | Matt Houston | George Davis  | Episode: “Eyewitness”
1985  | Highway to Heaven | Coach  | Episode: "As Difficult as ABC"
1985  | A Death in California | Gene Brooks  | 2 episodes
1985  | Airwolf | Patrick Stoner  | Episode: "Fortune Teller"
1985  | Amazing Stories | John Lefferts - Storekeeper  | Episode: "Alamo Jobe"
1984–1985  | Cagney & Lacey | Lieutenant Johnson / Detective #1  | 2 episodes
1985  | Hostage Flight | Bill Orfman  | TV movie
1985  | Final Jeopardy | Garage Attendant  | TV movie
1986  | MacGyver | Michael Donahue / Viking  | Episode: "Countdown"
1986  | Scarecrow and Mrs. King | Gerald Falken  | Episode: "The Triumvirate"
1986  | Joe Bash | Lieutenant Pendleton  | 2 episodes
1986  | Second Serve | Gene Scott  | TV movie
1985–1986  | Santa Barbara | District Attorney Tony Patterson  | 12 episodes
1986–1987  | Starman | George Fox  | 22 episodes
1987  | Our House | Mac Hoover  | 2 episodes
1988  | Promised a Miracle | Detective  | TV movie
1988  | Street of Dreams | Lieutenant Marcus  | TV movie
1989  | L.A. Law | Paul Richardson  | Episode: "The Accidental Jurist"
1989  | Wolf |  | Episode: "Wolf"
1990  | Tour of Duty | Major General Proctor  | Episode: "Three Cheers for the Orange, White and Blue"
1990  | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Captain Robert DeSoto  | Episode: "Tin Man"
1990  | People Like Us | Michael Jordan  | TV movie
1991  | Held Hostage: The Sis and Jerry Levin Story | Kaplan  | TV movie
1991  | Matlock | Al Brown / Marvin Latham  | Episode: "The Arsonist"
1991  | Dark Shadows | Sheriff George Patterson / Andres Du Pres  |
1991  | Marilyn and Me | Walter Winchell  | TV movie
1991  | False Arrest | Dr. Chandler  | TV movie
1992  | FBI: The Untold Stories |  | Episode: "D.B. Cooper/McCoy Skyjacking"
1992  | Just Deserts | Campbell Cunningham  | TV movie
1992  | Somebody's Daughter | Aarons  | TV movie
1992  | Angel Street |  | TV movie
1993  | Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman | Craig Harding  | Episode: "Bad Water"
1993  | Sworn to Vengeance | Pete Hall  | TV movie
1993  | The Fire Next Time | Seth  | Episode #1.2
1993  | Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story |  | TV movie
1993  | Donato and Daughter | Vinnie Stellino  | TV movie
1993  | The X-Files | Sheriff Jack Withers  | Episode: "Conduit"
1993  | Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | Dr. Carlton  | Episode: "Smart Kids"
1994  | Renegade | Police Sergeant Ben Clancy  | Episode: "Once Burned, Twice Chey"
1994  | Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story | Evy Scotvold  | TV movie
1994  | ER | Suzanne's Dad  | Episode: "24 Hours"
1995  | Vanishing Son | Marcek  | 5 episodes
1995  | Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story | Walter Wanger  | TV movie
1995  | Eye of the Stalker | Judge Warren Curtis  | TV movie
1995  | Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom | Telamon Doctor  | Video game
1996  | High Tide |  | Episode: "Sins of the Mother"
1996  | Pacific Blue | Curtis Bilson  | Episode: "The Phoenix"
1996  | The Burning Zone | Pilot  | Episode: "Night Flight"
1996  | NYPD Blue | Len  | Episode: "Caulksmanship"
1997  | The Secret World of Alex Mack | Dean  | Episode: "The Switch"
1997  | L.A. Heat | Timothy Scully  | Episode: "Green Justice"
1997  | Breast Men | Harry  |
1998  | The Practice | Primate Center Director  | Episode: "Food Chains"
1997–1998  | C-16: FBI | Dennis Grassi  | 10 episodes
1998  | Nothing Sacred |  | Episode: "Sleeping Dogs"
1999  | Mutiny |
2000  | Any Day Now |  | Episode: "Life"
2000  | The West Wing | Pharmaceutical Executive  | Episode: "In This White House"
2001  | Warden of Red Rock | Senator Paul Townsend  | TV movie
2001  | When Billie Beat Bobby | Brother John  | TV movie
2001  | Epoch | Williams  | TV movie
2002  | Push, Nevada |  | 3 episodes
2002  | The Agency | Mr. Barnes  | Episode: "Home Grown"
2003  | Mister Sterling |  | Episode: "Human Error"
2003  | Boston Public | Judge Boilings  | Episode: "Chapter Sixty-Seven"
2003  | Carnivàle | Talkative Hobo  | Episode: "Pick a Number"
2004  | 24 | Joseph O'Laughlin
2004  | Las Vegas | Heyman  | Episode: "Blood Is Thicker"
2005  | Higglytown Heroes | Tailor Hero  | Episode: "Wayne's Ripping Adventure/Meet Eubie's Cousin"
2005  | Point Pleasant | Harland  | Episode: "Pilot"
2005  | Just Legal |  | Episode: "Pilot"
2005  | E-Ring | U.S. Ambassador: Suriname  | Episode: "Weekend Pass"
2005  | Medium | Defense Attorney  | Episode: "Still Life"
2006  | Bones | Senator Alan Corman  | Episode: "The Woman in the Garden"
2006  | Cold Case | David Poole  | Episode: "The Hen House"
2005–2007  | Monk | Bobby Davenport  | 2 episodes
2007  | The Unit | Committee Chair Locke  | Episode: "Pandemonium: Part 1"
2007  | Shark | Judge Newman  | 2 episodes
2008  | Eli Stone | District Attorney Lowell Grayson  | Episode: "Something to Save"
2008  | Without a Trace | Richard Conlon  | Episode: "Last Call"
2009  | FlashForward | SETI Chairman Warren Moore  | Episode: "Gimme Some Truth"
2003–2001  | The Young and the Restless | Judge Phelps / Franklin J. Becker  | 11 episodes
2017  | Back to Love | Roger  | TV movie

## Web series[edit]

Web series Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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2018  | The Watch | The Watch Maker  | Episode: "The Gift of Time"
2020  | Smartphone Theatre | various  | 3 episodes (anthology series)

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## External links[edit]

* Michael Cavanaugh at IMDb

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