Wayne Tippit

Acting

Wayne Tippit

Born 1932-12-19 · Lubbock, Texas, USA

Wayne Tippit (December 19, 1932 – August 28, 2009) was an American television and stage character actor. He was best known to television audiences for playing Ted Adamson on the 1970s and 1980s CBS soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, for five years. He later portrayed Palmer Woodward, the father of Heather Locklear's character, Amanda Woodward, on the Fox primetime soap opera, Melrose Place, during the 1990s.

Acting credits

JFK poster
7.6

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

JFK

1991

Nurse Betty poster
6.1

What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he doesn't really exist. After all, life is no excuse for not living. Traumatized by a savage event, Betty enters into a fugue state that allows -- even encourages -- her to keep functioning... in a kind of alternate reality.

Nurse Betty

2000

MadHouse poster
5.3

The luxurious villa of Mark and Jessie Bannister, a yuppie couple, is overrun by loads of uninvited guests who turn the house up side down.

MadHouse

1990

Rollercoaster poster
6.0

A young terrorist kills and injures patrons of a Norfolk amusement park by placing homemade explosives on the track of one of its roller coasters. After staging a similar incident in Pittsburgh, he sends a tape to a meeting of major amusement park executives in Chicago, demanding $1 million to make him stop.

Rollercoaster

1977

Illusions poster
7.0

An American fashion designer is told that her husband has been killed in an air crash near France. However, she starts to believe that everything is not as it appears.

Illusions

1983

Running Against Time poster
6.2

Hoping to prevent his brother's Vietnam death and to prevent the JFK assassination, a time-traveling college professor goes back to the '60s but can't find his way out. Trapped in a time warp, he can't effect a change because he can't return to his present time

Running Against Time

1991

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon poster
5.5

The story of three wildly neurotic characters: a facially disfigured girl, a homosexual paraplegic, and an introvert epileptic who, after leaving the hospital, set up housekeeping together in a cottage where they support each other.

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

1970

Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story poster
7.0

This is the story of Morris Dees, a civil rights lawyer, who's being threatened, so he has to have an armed bodyguard.

Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story

1991

The Final Days poster
6.9

The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency.

The Final Days

1989

Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 poster
7.0

Four guys, best friends, have grown up together in DANCER, TEXAS POP. 81, a tiny town in West Texas. Years ago, they made a solemn vow to leave town together as soon as they graduate. Now, it's that weekend and the time has come to "put up or shut up." The clock is ticking and as all 81 people in the town watch, comment, offer advice and place bets, these four very different boys with unique backgrounds struggle with the biggest decision of their lives... whether to stay or leave home.

Dancer, Texas Pop. 81

1998

Money, Power, Murder. poster
5.4

Peter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has interest in a missing anchorwoman's story.

Money, Power, Murder.

1989

The Ernest Green Story poster
6.8

Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.

The Ernest Green Story

1993

When We Were Young poster
7.0

A group of young people in 1959 get ready to set out on their journey to adulthood.

When We Were Young

1989

Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo poster
6.3

A true story of the lives of a family from South Carolina torn apart after the murder of Bill and Myrtle Moon. Although the killer is caught the judicial system takes too long for the Moon's devoted stepson and he takes matter into his own hands.

Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo

1986

Noon Wine poster
NR

The drama, adapted from a story by Katherine Anne Porter, tells of a Swedish immigrant who arrives on a small Texas farm at the turn of the century for work, is hired, and subsequently, and inadvertently, causes the downfall of his employer when a suspicious visitor comes to call.

Noon Wine

1985

Honor Thy Mother poster
6.7

Lieth Von Stein and his wife, Bonnie Von Stein are attacked while sleeping in their Smallwood home in North Carolina. Bonnie Von Stein survived. Lieth was not so lucky. Bonnie has trouble dealing with the fact that her own son, Christopher Pritchard, along with two friends consipired to have her and her husband killed. Neal Henderson and Christopher Pritchard plead guilty and testified at the trial of James Upchurch, who was convicted and sentenced to die. Several years later, however, his sentence was vacated and Upchurch is now serving a life sentence.

Honor Thy Mother

1992

No artwork available
1.3

Steve Burdick is closeted television anchorman whose lover dies of an AIDS-related illness. Steve decides to come out and then tells his story about being gay and battling AIDS during a special segment of the nightly news. Originally episode eight of LifeStories, it was moved to later in the season due to the subject matter.

LifeStories: Steve Burdick

1990

Follow Your Heart poster
10.0

An ex-marine, in search of some defining life direction, unexpectedly faces a hurdle when his jeep breaks down in a sparsely populated Wyoming town. While waiting for parts to repair the vehicle he takes a temporary job as a rest area attendant and moves onto a ranch run by a one-legged widow with a mentally handicapped son. When an abandoned Vietnamese girl joins the group, the scene is ready for confrontation and tragedy.

Follow Your Heart

1990

Pipe Dreams poster
7.0

A woman trails her estranged husband to the Alaskan pipeline in hope of averting their impending divorce.

Pipe Dreams

1976

The Black Box Murders poster
NR

A group of interested parties searching for stolen campaign money in a deserted house learn a murderer is among them.

The Black Box Murders

1975