Jim Haynie

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Jim Haynie (* 6. February 1940 in Falls Church , Virginia as James Kendal Haynie ) is an American actor .

life and career

In San Francisco , Haynie played at the Magic Theater there alongside Peter Coyote in theater productions and worked for the concert promoter Bill Graham . He only came into the film business in 1978 with a supporting role in the film Honky Tonk Nights , when he was almost 40 years old. In the following decades he was seen in around 100 film and television productions, often impersonating serious or authoritarian characters - several policemen of different ranks, generals or businessmen. His film roles include the headmaster in the teen comedy Pretty in Pink (1986), cops in the action film Dark Angel (1990) and the Stephen King film adaptation Sleepwalker (1992), and the husband of Meryl Streep's character in Clint Eastwood's romantic drama Die Bridges on the River (1995). He played one of his greatest roles in 1989, directed by Lee Grant, in the tragic comedy Boys , in which his business was sold behind the back of his three sons who later wanted to take it over. Haynie also played a variety of television roles, including as Garrett Gordon in seven episodes of the series Dallas and as an investigative officer in the miniseries Steven - The Abduction .

Jim Haynie has been married to Maggie Causey for the third time since 2007. He has four children from his two previous marriages.

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

watch TV

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen J. Bottoms: The Theater of Sam Shepard: States of Crisis . Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-521-58791-4 ( google.de [accessed June 6, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Jim Haynie (IMDb). Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Jim Haynie. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Haynie, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haynie, James Kendal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Falls Church , Virginia