Ray Wise

Raymond Herbert Wise is an American actor best known for his role as Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks (1990–1991, 2017) and its prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992). He has appeared in films such as Swamp Thing (1982), The Journey of Natty Gann (1985), RoboCop (1987), Bob Roberts (1992), Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), X-Men: First Class (2011) and God's Not Dead 2 (2016).

Known For: Acting

Born: Akron, Ohio, USA, 1947-08-20

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1969	Dare the Devil	David Keller	0
2	1976	Love in the Hamptons	Myron	0
3	1978	Tartuffe	Damis	0
4	1980	Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders II	Dr. Simmons	70
5	1981	Madame X	Bellman (uncredited)	65
6	1982	Swamp Thing	Doctor Alec Holland	54
7	1982	Cat People	Soap Opera Man	61
8	1985	Seduced	Bartecki	25
9	1985	The Journey of Natty Gann	Sol Gann	69
10	1986	Condor	Christopher Proctor	51
11	1987	RoboCop	Leon Nash	73
12	1988	The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story	Phil Maresca	63
13	1989	Season of Fear	Fred Drummond	15
14	1989	Twin Peaks	Leland Palmer	84
15	1989	Race for Glory	Jack Davis	64
16	1990	The Rift	Robbins	46
17	1990	Runaway Heart	Archie	0
18	1991	Fire in the Dark	Richard	0
19	1991	Write to Kill	Mark Gaston	48
20	1992	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me	Leland Palmer	74
21	1992	Bob Roberts	Chet MacGregor	65
22	1992	Sunstroke	Larry	30
23	1993	RoboCop 3	Leon Nash (archive footage)	48
24	1993	Grey Knight	Col. George Thalman	52
25	1993	Rising Sun	Senator John Morton	62
26	1994	The Chase	Dalton Voss	58
27	1994	Body Shot	Dwight Frye	36
28	1994	RoboCop: The Future of Law Enforcement	Leon Nash	72
29	1994	The Crew	Charles Pierce	39
30	1995	Powder	Dr. Aaron Stripler	70
31	1998	Evasive Action	Sheriff Wes Blaidek	64
32	1998	The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon	Randolph Pratt	42
33	1999	Pennyweight	Mr. Pennyweight	0
34	2001	Almost Salinas	Jack Tynan	80
35	2001	Two Can Play That Game	Bill Parker	65
36	2001	Postcards From The Cast	Self	0
37	2002	Reflections on the Phenomenon of Twin Peaks	Self	60
38	2002	Landspeed	Brian Sanger	58
39	2002	Windfall	John Wescott	43
40	2003	Jeepers Creepers 2	Jack Taggart, Sr.	62
41	2003	The Battle of Shaker Heights	Harrison	56
42	2003	Dead End	Frank Harrington	63
43	2005	Sharkskin 6	Sam	0
44	2005	The Rain Makers	Harris	20
45	2005	Jane Doe: The Wrong Face	Fleming	63
46	2005	Good Night, and Good Luck.	Don Hollenbeck	71
47	2006	Cyxork 7	Kommander 88	70
48	2006	Peaceful Warrior	Doctor Hayden	74
49	2006	The Substance of Things Hoped For	Dr. Lessing	0
50	2007	7-10 Split	Buddy Kendrick	43
51	2007	The Election	John	70
52	2007	The Flock	Bobby Stiles	56
53	2007	Superman: Doomsday	Perry White (voice)	67
54	2007	Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks		72
55	2008	One Missed Call	Ted Summers	54
56	2008	AM1200	Harry Jones	72
57	2009	Love at First Hiccup	Roger	54
58	2009	Infestation	Ethan	59
59	2009	Stuntmen	Jack Strongbow	33
60	2009	Iodine	Avery	57
61	2009	Pandemic	General Matthews	42
62	2011	X-Men: First Class	Secretary of State	73
63	2011	Chillerama	Dr. Weems	57
64	2011	Rosewood Lane	Det. Briggs	48
65	2011	The Girl with the Tramp Stamp Tattoo		40
66	2012	Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie	Dr. Doone Struts	55
67	2012	The Aggression Scale	Bellavance	56
68	2012	Darnell Dawkins: Mouth Guitar Legend	Wade Dawkins	0
69	2012	Brother White	Pastor Johnny Kingman	57
70	2012	Crazy Eyes	Zach's Father	43
71	2012	The Butterfly Room	Nick	58
72	2012	Excision	Principal Campbell	62
73	2012	FDR: American Badass!	Douglas MacArthur	52
74	2012	Atlas Shrugged: Part II	Head of State Thompson	53
75	2012	Nuclear Family	The Man	35
76	2013	Inventing Adam	J.B.	0
77	2013	Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End	Frank	46
78	2013	Brother's Keeper	Herbert Leemaster	57
79	2013	Revelation Road 2: The Sea of Glass and Fire	Frank	47
80	2013	Out West	Phillip Alcott	40
81	2013	Big Ass Spider!	Major Braxton Tanner	56
82	2013	Wrong Cops	Captain Andy	61
83	2014	Tom Holland's Twisted Tales	Mongo the Magnificent (segment "Mongo's Magik Mirror")	45
84	2014	No God, No Master	A. Mitchell Palmer	59
85	2014	Away From Here	Paul	53
86	2014	Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces	Leland Palmer	73
87	2014	Suburban Gothic	Donald	55
88	2014	Land of Leopold	Deece Warren	50
89	2014	Between Two Worlds	Self	72
90	2014	Guardian Angel	Attorney Kaufman	40
91	2014	Dead Still	Wenton Davies	36
92	2014	Frank Pierre Presents: Pierre Resort & Casino	Frank Pierre	55
93	2015	Jurassic City	Warden Lewis	44
94	2015	The Lazarus Effect	Mr. Wallace	53
95	2015	Digging Up the Marrow	William Dekker	55
96	2015	Night of the Living Deb	Frank Waverly	53
97	2015	The Breakup Girl	Bob Baker	47
98	2015	Taking Flight	Nonno (voice)	63
99	2015	Unnatural	Victor Clobirch	42
100	2016	All the Way	Senator Everett Dirksen	67
101	2016	Batman: The Killing Joke	Commissioner James Gordon (voice)	66
102	2024	God's Not Dead: In God We Trust	Peter Kane	48
103		Scream at the Sound of the Beep	Brother Jake	0
104	2016	God's Not Dead 2	Peter Kane	61
105	2016	The Bronx Bull	Father Father Joseph	50
106	2016	Halloweed	Judge Plimington	47
107	2017	Shattered	Forest Burnett	50
108	2017	Little Evil	Guy On TV (uncredited)	56
109	2018	Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas	Event Broadcaster	40
110	2019	To Your Last Death	Cyrus DeKalb (voice)	58
111		Nightmare City		0
112	2017	I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun	Self	66
113	2019	Tone-Deaf	Michael	53
114	2019	The Chain	Michael	51
115	2019	Unholy 'Mole	The Devil (voice)	100
116	2020	Beast Mode	Trammel Steadfast	56
117	2021	Dinner Is Served	Headmaster Gustafson	58
118	2021	Psych 3: This Is Gus	Father Peter Westley	68
119	2022	King Knight	Merlin	56
120	2024	Poolman	William Van Patterson	44
121	2024	The Blue Rose	Mr. Vallens	42
122	2024	The Wolf in the Well	Roland Carmel	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Love of Life		50
2	1976	Charlie's Angels	Evan Wilcox	67
3	1977	Lou Grant		73
4	1979	Hart to Hart		68
5	1979	Knots Landing	The Dealer	68
6	1982	T. J. Hooker	Harrison Mackenzie	63
7	1982	Remington Steele	Schwimmer	71
8	1983	The A-Team	Phillip Chadway	75
9	1983	Trauma Center		50
10	1983	Scarecrow and Mrs. King		64
11	1984	Blue Thunder		69
12	1984	Airwolf	Victor Resnick	76
13	1984	Hunter	Alex Parker	72
14	1985	Moonlighting		75
15	1985	Moonlighting	Murderer	75
16	1985	Stingray		73
17	1985	The Colbys		58
18	1986	L.A. Law	A.D.A. Walter Platt	71
19	1987	Beauty and the Beast		75
20	1987	Jake and the Fatman		60
21	1987	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Liko	84
22	1990	Twin Peaks	Leland Palmer	83
23	1990	Twin Peaks	Leland Palmer (archive footage)	83
24	1990	Dream On	Maddox March	70
25	1990	Beverly Hills, 90210		74
26	1990	Beverly Hills, 90210	Daniel Hunter	74
27	1992	The Larry Sanders Show	Lloyd Simon	77
28	1993	Walker, Texas Ranger	Garrett Carlson	70
29	1993	The Secrets of Lake Success	Henry Fleming	0
30	1993	Diagnosis: Murder	John Parkinson	71
31	1993	Second Chances	Judge Jim Stinson	60
32	1995	Star Trek: Voyager	Arturis	78
33	1995	Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story	Mike Todd	62
34	1995	JAG	Congressman Marvin Bolton	73
35	1996	Savannah	Edward Burton	72
36	1996	Profiler		70
37	1998	Dawson's Creek		73
38	1998	Sports Night	Evans	73
39	1998	V.I.P.	Judge Kreiger	52
40	1998	Charmed	Ludlow	82
41	1999	Judging Amy	Atty. Rhodes	75
42	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Roger Hanley	79
43	1999	The West Wing	Governor Tillman D-CA	82
44	1999	Popular		67
45	2000	Teacher's Pet		66
46	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Ernest Chase	76
47	2001	24	Vice-President Hal Gardner	78
48	2002	She Spies	Ambassador Blaine	73
49	2003	NCIS	Wayne Tobett	76
50	2005	Numb3rs		70
51	2005	The Closer	Tom Blanchard	79
52	2005	Bones	Rick Turco	82
53	2005	How I Met Your Mother	Robin Scherbatsky Sr.	82
54	2005	Criminal Minds	John Nelson	83
55	2006	Psych	Peter Westley	79
56	2006	Psych	Horace Leland	79
57	2006	Shark		68
58	2006	Six Degrees		58
59	2007	Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!	Grill Vogel	75
60	2007	Burn Notice	Mr. Pyne	75
61	2007	Mad Men	Ed Baxter	81
62	2007	Chuck	Riley	77
63	2007	Reaper	The Devil	70
64	2008	90210	Dean Thomas	57
65	2008	The Mentalist	Dennis Victor	84
66	2009	Dollhouse	Howard Lipman	72
67	2009	Castle	Bobby Fox	80
68	2009	Drop Dead Diva	Frank Dodd	77
69	2009	Infomercials	Frank Pierre	65
70	2010	Rizzoli & Isles	Judge Eugene Allen	79
71	2010	Hawaii Five-0	Morris Brown	77
72	2011	Mr. Sunshine	Macaulay	63
73	2011	Body of Proof	Michael Davis	70
74	2011	Wilfred	Colt St. Cloud	76
75	2012	Holliston	Landlord	60
76	2012	Perception	Martin Sullivan	72
77	2013	Newsreaders	Skip Reming	74
78	2014	Farmed and Dangerous	Buck Marshall	95
79	2014	Fargo	Paul Marrane	83
80	2014	Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories	The Duke	74
81	2015	Marvel's Agent Carter	Hugh Jones	75
82	2015	Fresh Off the Boat	Marvin	71
83	2016	Relationship Status	Grace's Dad	55
84	2016	Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life	Jack Smith	73
85	2017	Neo Yokio	Old Man / Male Announcer (voice)	52
86	2018	Chilling Adventures of Sabrina	Enoch	82
87	2019	All Rise	Richard Walker	76
88	2019	The Movies That Made Us	Self (Archival Footage)	72
89	2021	Home Economics	Frank	68
90	2021	Physical	Sheila's Father	65
91	2021	Slugfest	Jack Kirby	63
92	2023	RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop	Self	86