Thomas Cooper Huckabee (born May 8, 1951)[1] is an American film and television actor who appeared in The Funhouse, Urban Cowboy, and as Harrison in the 1993 film Gettysburg, among other roles.
Cooper Huckabee | |
|---|---|
| Born | Thomas Cooper Huckabee May 8, 1951 Mobile, Alabama, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1976–present |
Career
editHuckabee played Buzz, one of the leading roles, in The Funhouse.[2] He was Marshall, John Travolta's buddy in Urban Cowboy.[3] He shared a starring role in the 1982 CBS made-for-TV movie Country Gold made in Nashville which also featured Loni Anderson, Linda Hamilton, and Earl Holliman.[4] He was Henry Thomas Harrison, the spy, in Gettysburg.[5]
He has also had several guest appearances on various TV series, including ER and The Shield. Huckabee appeared as Euple Byrd, the first husband of country music legend Tammy Wynette in the made-for-TV movie, Stand by Your Man.[6] Huckabee also appeared in The Killers video for "A Dustland Fairytale".[7] Huckabee had a recurring role in the TV series True Blood as Joe Lee Mickens.[8]
TV and filmography
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Little House on the Prairie | Herman Stone | Season 2 Episode #17: "Troublemaker" |
| 1977 | Dallas | Payton | CBS TV Mini-Series: Season 1, Episode 4 |
| Murder at the World Series | Frank Gresham | ||
| 1978 | Foul Play | Sandy | |
| Hawaii Five-O | Armitage | Episode: "The Bark and the Bite" | |
| 1980 | Joni | Dick Filbert | |
| Urban Cowboy | Marshall | ||
| 1981 | The Funhouse | Buzz | |
| Stand by Your Man | Euple Byrd | ||
| The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper | Homer | ||
| The Blue and the Gray | Matthew Geyser | TV miniseries | |
| 1982 | Country Gold | Reilly Sears | CBS TV movie |
| 1983 | Little House: Look Back to Yesterday | Vance Reed | |
| 1985 | Chase | Coy | |
| MacGyver | Bill Farren | Episode: "Hellfire" | |
| 1986 | Eye of the Tiger | Roger | |
| 1987 | The Curse | Dr. Allen Forbes | |
| 1989 | Cohen and Tate | Jeff Knight | |
| 1990 | Night Eyes | Ernie | |
| 1992 | Love Field | Deputy Swinson | |
| 1993 | Gettysburg | Henry Thomas Harrison | |
| 1994 | Bad Girls | Deputy Earl | |
| 1997 | Turbulence | Wing Commander W. Hadfield | |
| 1999 | The General's Daughter | Colonel Weems | |
| 2000 | Space Cowboys | Trajectory Engineer | |
| 2003 | Gods and Generals | Henry Thomas Harrison | reprised role from Gettysburg |
| 2009 | Staunton Hill | Burgh | |
| 2010 | True Blood | Joe Lee Mickens | 7 episodes |
| 2012 | Django Unchained | Roger "Lil Raj" Brittle | |
| 2013 | Criminal Minds | Raoul Whalen | Episode: "Alchemy" |
| 2014 | Longmire | George Linder | Episode: "Harvest" |
| 2015 | Band of Robbers | Muff Potter | |
| 2016 | Pee-wee's Big Holiday | Minister | |
| If Loving You is Wrong | Rusty | 6 episodes | |
| 2019 | NCIS | Kyle Larson | Episode: "Judge, Jury..." |
| 2020 | Tales from the Hood 3 | Denton Wilbury |
References
edit- ^ "Cooper Huckabee". Hollywood.com. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
- ^ Miller, Mark L. (June 23, 2014). "THE FUNHOUSE (1981)". Ain't It Cool News. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (June 11, 1980). "TRAVOLTA, 'URBAN COWBOY'". The New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
- ^ Flander, Judy (November 23, 1982). "Today in Preview". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 27.
- ^ Rubin, Stephen Jay (1981). Combat Films: American Realism, 1945-2010, 2d ed. McFarland & Company. p. 212. ISBN 9780786486137.
- ^ O'Connor, John J. (March 31, 1981). "TV: 'STAND BY YOUR MAN, ' TAMMY WYNETTE STORY". The New York Times.
- ^ Another Bit of True Blood Casting
- ^ New True Blood Promo Poster Continues the Show's Sexy Bloodsucking Ways