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Hal Landon Jr. (born May 23, 1941) is an American character actor. He is best known as Ted's father Captain Logan in the Bill & Ted film series.

Life

Landon was born May 23, 1941, in Long Beach, California the son of Hal Landon, and nephew of 1936 presidential election candidate Alf Landon, Plus second cousin to Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker and continues to live in California. He was a member of the South Coast Repertory in Orange County, California, most notably playing the role of Scrooge on stage from 1979 to 2019.[1][2]

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1977	Eraserhead	Pencil Machine Operator
1978	Jokes My Folks Never Told Me	Various
1979	Scavenger Hunt	Cornfield
1983	Sunset Limousine	Gardener	TV film
1987	Prison	Wallace
1988	Winnie	Man with Car	TV film
1989	Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure	Captain Logan
1990	Pacific Heights	2nd Deputy Sheriff
	Almost an Angel	Paradise Bar Local
1991	Defending Your Life	Man in Past Lives Pavilion
	Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey	Captain Logan
1992	Trespass	Eugene DeLong
1996	The Little Death	Mr. Keats
	The Siege at Ruby Ridge	George Millins	TV film
1998	Break Up	Nike
	Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story	Episcopal Bishop	TV film
	Playing by Heart	Actor 'Commissioner'
2002	Speakeasy	Mr. Petersen
2005	Greener Mountains	Len
2011	The Artist	Napoleon
2012	California Solo	Farmer
2013	The Sleepy Man	Admiral	Short film
2015	Smosh: The Movie	Butler
2016	Pee-wee's Big Holiday	Farmer Brown
	All the Way	Speaker John McCormack	TV film
2020	Bill & Ted Face the Music	Chief Logan

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	Lou Grant	Frank Blankenship	Episode: "Hometown"
1982	Father Murphy	Ira Eaves	Episode: "The Dream Day"
1983	T. J. Hooker	Sam Browner	Episode: "Payday Pirates"
1984	Oh Madeline		Episode: "Ah, Wilderness"
1985	Remington Steele	Security Guard #1	Episode: "Stronger Than Steele"
	Dallas	Oil Man #2	Episode: "Mothers"
1986	The Twilight Zone	O'Dell	Episode: "The Little People of Killany Woods"
	Highway to Heaven	Repairman	Episode: "Close Encounters of the Heavenly Kind"
	Cheers	Floyd Panjeric	Episode: "Save the Last Dance for Me"
	Newhart	James Reeves	Episode: "Sweet and Sour Charity"
1988	Matlock	George	Episode: "The Fisherman"
1990	Get a Life	Ben Spangler	Episodes: "Pile of Death" & "Paperboy 2000"
	Hull High	Bus Driver	Episode: "Season 1, Episode 5"
1991	Down Home	Priest	Episode: "Mail Order Tran"
	Quantum Leap	Norm	Episode: "A Single Drop of Rain"
1992	Married... with Children	Janitor	Episode: "The Goodbye Girl"
	Love & War	Maitre d'	Episode: "Check, Please"
1994	Muddling Through	Gidney	Series regular, 7 episodes
1995	Ellen	Bus Driver	Episode: "These Successful Friends of Mine"
	Live Shot	Hobart	Episode: "The Forgotten Episode"
1999	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Neral	Episode: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
2002	Frasier	Lasskopf	Episode: "Deathtrap"
2008	My Name Is Earl	Mr. Hill	Episode: "Orphan Earl"
2009	Numb3rs	Professor Nelson Horowitz	Episode: "Animal Rites"
	Mad Men	Achilles	Episode: "The Color Blue"
2010	CSI: NY	Henry Wainright	Episode: "Uncertainty Rules"
2011	The Middle	Photographer	Episode: "Mother's Day II"
	The Closer	Terry Weaver	Episode: "Forgive Us Our Trespasses"
2013	Bad Samaritans	Herbert	Episode: "Pilot"
2021	Side Hustle	Scott Dilger/Prescott	Episode: "Extra Crunchy"

Other roles

• L.A. Noire video game, as Oswald Jacobs

References

External links

• Hal Landon Jr. at IMDb
• Hal Landon Jr. at the TCM Movie Database
• Hal Landon Jr. at AllMovie
• Rotten Tomatoes profile
• Hal Landon Jr. profile at SCR.org

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[de] Hal Landon Jr.

Hal Landon Jr. (* 23. Mai 1941 in Long Beach, Kalifornien) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.

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