James Tolkan
Actor

James Tolkan

Section Title: Actor
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Year	Film	Role	Notes

1960	Naked City (TV series)	Evan Humboldt	"The Man Who Bit a Diamond in Half"

1962	Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV series)	Stefan Malwitz	"The Man Who Refused to Die"

1966	The Three Sisters

1969	N.Y.P.D.	"The Night Watch"

Stiletto	Edwards

1971	They Might Be Giants	Mr. Brown

1973	The Friends of Eddie Coyle	The Man's contact man

The Werewolf of Washington	Dark Glasses

Serpico	Lt. Steiger

1975	Love and Death	Napoleon Bonaparte

1976	Independence	Tom Paine

1979	The Amityville Horror	Coroner

1981	Wolfen	Baldy

Prince of the City	District Attorney Polito

1982	Hanky Panky	Conferee

Author! Author!	Lt. Glass

1983	Wings (TV)	Billy

WarGames	FBI Agent Nigan

Nightmares	Voice of the Bishop	(segment) "The Bishop of Battle"

1984	Iceman	Maynard

The River	Howard Simpson

1985	Turk 182!	Hanley

Hill Street Blues	Coach Beasley	"Queen for a Day"

Back to the Future	Stanford Strickland

Walls of Glass	Turner

1985–1986	Mary (TV series)	Lester Mintz

1985–1987	Remington Steele (TV series)	Norman Keyes	"Diced Steele" "Forged Steele" "Bonds of Steele" "The Steele That Wouldn't Die"

1986	Off Beat	Harry

Top Gun	Commander Tom "Stinger" Jardian

Armed and Dangerous	Lou Brackman

Little Spies	The Kennel Master

1987	Masters of the Universe	Detective Lubic

Made in Heaven	Mr. Bjornstead

Miami Vice	Mason Mather	"Amen ... Send Money"

1988	Weekend War (TV)	Dr. Alex Thompson

Viper	Col. William Tansey

Leap of Faith (TV)	Dr. Siegel

Split Decisions	Benny Pistone

1989	The Equalizer (TV series)	Ruger	"The Visitation"

The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (TV)

True Blood	Det. Joseph Hanley

Second Sight	Coolidge

Back to the Future Part II	Stanford Strickland

Ministry of Vengeance	Col. Freeman

Family Business	Judge in 2nd Trial

1990	Opportunity Knocks	Sal Nichols

Sunset Beat (TV series)	Ray Parker	"One Down, Four Up"

Back to the Future Part III	Chief Marshal James Strickland

Dick Tracy	Numbers

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air	Dr. Oates (alias Dr. Bloat)	"Day Damn One"

1991	Hangfire	Patch

Trabbi Goes to Hollywood	Vince

Tales from the Crypt (TV series)	Sgt. McClaine	"The Trap"

Problem Child 2	Mr. Thorn

1992	Tequila and Bonetti (TV series)	"Fetch This, Pal"

Sketch Artist (TV)	Lt. Tonelli

The Hat Squad (TV series)	Mike Ragland	"The Widow Marker"

Bloodfist IV: Die Trying	Agent Sterling

1993	The Wonder Years (TV series)	Coach Silva	"Hulk Arnold"

Boiling Point	Levitt

1993–1994	Cobra (TV series)	Dallas Cassel

1994	Beyond Betrayal (TV)	Joe Maloney

1995	Sketch Artist II: Hands That See (TV)	Tonelli

1996	Top Gun: Fire at Will (video game)	Commander Hondo

Nowhere Man (TV series)	Commander Cyrus Quinn	"Heart of Darkness"

Underworld	Dan "Iceberg" Eagan

Robo Warriors	Quon

Early Edition (TV series)	Coach Phillips	"Hoops"

1997	Love in Ambush (TV)	Agent Price

The Pretender (TV series)	FBI Special Agne Korkos	"Dragon House"

1999	Wings: Thrill of Flight	Host

2001–2002	A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV series)	Richard Wragg Mr. Hackett Bernard Quest W.J.	"The Doorbell Rang" "Champagne for One" "Prisoner's Base" "Disguise for Murder" "Door to Death" "Over My Dead Body" "Death of a Doxy" "Die Like a Dog" "Motherhunt" "Poison à la Carte" "Too Many Clients" "Help Wanted, Male" "The Silent Speaker" "Cop Killer"

2004	Seven Times Lucky	Dutch

2006	Heavens Fall	Thomas Knight Sr.

2011	Leverage (TV series)	Dean Chesny	"The Cross My Heart Job"

2013	Phil Spector	Larry Fidler	TV film

2015	Bone Tomahawk	The Pianist

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In 1990, James Tolkan played Chief Marshal James Strickland in Back to the Future Part III.

final_sentence: In 1990, James Tolkan played Chief Marshal James Strickland in Back to the Future Part III.