James Tolkan: Biografía, Filmografía y actores con los que más ha trabajado

Trabajo principal: Interpretación

Edad: 93 años

Lugar de nacimiento: Calumet, Michigan, USA

Fecha de nacimiento: 20 de junio de 1931

Películas destacadas de James Tolkan

James Tolkan interpreta a Mr. Strickland en Regreso al futuro — Regreso al futuro
*Mr. Strickland*

James Tolkan interpreta a Stinger en Top Gun: Ídolos del aire — Top Gun: Ídolos del aire
*Stinger*

James Tolkan interpreta a Strickland en Regreso al futuro: Parte II — Regreso al futuro: Parte II
*Strickland*

James Tolkan interpreta a Marshal Strickland en Regreso al futuro: Parte III — Regreso al futuro: Parte III
*Marshal Strickland*

James Tolkan interpreta a Wigan en Juegos de guerra — Juegos de guerra
*Wigan*

James Tolkan interpreta a Numbers en Dick Tracy — Dick Tracy
*Numbers*

James Tolkan interpreta a Coroner en Terror en Amityville — Terror en Amityville
*Coroner*

James Tolkan interpreta a Mr. Thron en Este chico es un demonio 2 — Este chico es un demonio 2
*Mr. Thron*

James Tolkan interpreta a Steiger en Serpico — Serpico
*Steiger*

Biografía de James Tolkan

Fiery, forceful and intimidating character actor James Tolkan has carved out a nice little niche for himself in both movies and television alike as a formidable portrayer of fierce and flinty hard-boiled tough guy types. James Stewart Tolkan was born on June 20, 1931 in Calumet, Michigan. His father, Ralph M. Tolkan, was a cattle dealer. James attended the University of Iowa, Coe College and Eastern Arizona College. After serving a year-long stint in the United States Navy, Tolkan went to New York and studied acting with both Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler at the Actors Studio. Short and bald, with beady, intense eyes, a wiry, compact, muscular build, a gruff, jarring, high-decibel voice, and an aggressive, confrontational, blunt-as-a-battle-ax, rough-around-the-edges demeanor, Tolkan has been often cast as rugged, cynical no-nonsense cops, mean, domineering authority figures, and various ruthless and dangerous criminals.

Tolkan first began acting in movies in the late 1960s and was highly effective in two pictures for Sidney Lumet: He was a rabidly homophobic police lieutenant in the superbly gritty Serpico (1973) and a sneaky district attorney in the equally excellent Prince of the City (1981). Best known as the obnoxiously overzealous high school principal Gerard Strickland in the Back to the Future films, Tolkan's other most memorable roles include Napolean in Woody Allen's Love and Death (1975), a ramrod army officer in WarGames (1983), mayor Robert Culp's mordant, wisecracking assistant in Turk 182 (1985), the hard-nosed Stinger in Top Gun (1986), the choleric Detective Lubric in Masters of the Universe (1987), meek mob accountant Numbers in Dick Tracy (1990), and Wesley Snipes' bullish superior in Boiling Point (1993).