Cliff Emmich
Acting
Born 1936-12-13
Died 2022-11-28
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
63 credits
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Engaging character actor Cliff Emmich first began acting on stage. Veteran character actor Keenan Wynn advised Emmich to enroll at the Pasadena Playhouse. He studied at the Pasadena Playhouse for eight months. Emmich then toured the country with the American Repertory Players and spent a summer performing in summer stock at the Pink Garter Theatre in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He made his film debut in Gaily, Gaily (1969).
Later memorable roles were as a coroner in Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973), as sexist jerk business executive who insults Yvette Mimieux at the beginning of Jackson County Jail (1976), as a bumbling small town deputy in Barracuda (1978), as the ill-fated hospital security guard Mr. Garrett in Halloween II (1981), as an asylum doctor in the trashy Hellhole (1985), and as a small town sheriff in Digital Man (1995). He has appeared in such television shows as Crossing Jordan (2001), Walker, Texas Ranger (1993), Nash Bridges (1996), Coach (1989), Baywatch (1989), Murder, She Wrote (1984), Knots Landing (1979), Night Court (1984), Hunter (1984), Riptide (1984), Simon & Simon (1981), CHiPs (1977), Knight Rider (1982), The Incredible Hulk (1977), Vega$ (1978), Fantasy Island (1977), Happy Days (1974), Little House on the Prairie (1974) (this is one of Emmich's favorite parts), Charlie's Angels (1976), Baretta (1975), Police Woman (1974), and Starsky and Hutch (1975). He is a member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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Acting
52 credits
Columbo
Hunter
Little House on the Prairie
Murder, She Wrote
Coach
Knight Rider
Ironside
Charlie's Angels
Crossing Jordan
Falcon Crest
Knots Landing
Night Court
Fantasy Island
The Incredible Hulk
Happy Days
Starsky & Hutch
Walker, Texas Ranger
Police Woman
The F.B.I.
A Different World
The Odd Couple
It's Garry Shandling's Show
CHiPs
Halloween II
California Dreams
Inspector Gadget
MouseHunt
Automan
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
...All the Marbles
Cool Million
Best of the Best 2
Rachel Gunn, R.N.
Invasion of the Bee Girls
Return to Horror High
Jackson County Jail
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
The Feminist and the Fuzz
Hellhole
Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence
Holiday Road Trip
Payday
Legalese
Barracuda
Undercover with the KKK
Shell Game
Hot Summer Week
Our Time
The Macahans
Inside O.U.T.
The Streets of L.A.
The $5.20 an Hour Dream
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