LOS ANGELES (AP) — Veteran character actor Ed Lauter, whose long, angular face and stern bearing made him an instantly recognizable figure in scores of movies and TV shows during a career that ...

(UPI) -- You may not know Ed Lauter's name, but his dozens of movie and television roles over a four-decade career made him an unforgettable face. Lauter, a character actor who was an ultimate "that ...

Ed Lauter, a versatile character actor who became a recognizable Hollywood figure, if not a familiar name, by appearing in dozens of films, from “The Longest Yard” in 1974 to the Oscar-winning best ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Being one of the top character actors of American film and television must be the ultimate double-edged career sword. On the one ...

Ed Lauter, the incredibly prolific character actor who played a butler in Oscar best-picture winner “The Artist” and whose film and television appearances numbered in the hundreds, has died. He was 74 ...

It is a sad day in Hollywood as one of its showbiz veterans has fallen. Actor Ed Lauter has sadly lost his battle to cancer at age 74. Sad news in the celebrity world today as one of Hollywood’s old ...

LOS ANGELES — Veteran character actor Ed Lauter, whose long, angular face and stern bearing made him an instantly recognizable figure in scores of movies and television shows during a career that ...

The veteran actor played Peppy’s butler in Best Picture Oscar winner The Artist and appeared in Clint Eastwood’s Trouble With The Curve — some of the most recent roles in a prolific four-decade career ...

Ed Lauter, 74, a character actor who carved out a niche in the 1970s playing mostly heavies in movies and TV and kept up a busy schedule in recent years with appearances in Clint Eastwood’s “Trouble ...

Ed Lauter, a gritty but taciturn character actor whose massive list of film and TV credits include “Leaving Las Vegas,” “The Artist” and “Trouble With the Curve,” died at his home in West Hollywood of ...

Being one of the top character actors of American film and television must be the ultimate double-edged career sword. On the one hand, if you’re good — and the late Ed Lauter was one of American ...

Ed Lauter was one of my favorite character actors, one who seemed to be around as long as I can remember. With his height, balding head, and distinctive bearing, Lauter was often cast as cops, toughs ...