Cooper Huckabee

Cooper Huckabee
Born	Thomas Cooper Huckabee (1951-05-08) May 8, 1951 (age 73) Mobile, Alabama, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1976–present

Thomas Cooper Huckabee (born May 8, 1951) ^[1] is an American film and television actor who appeared in The Funhouse , Urban Cowboy , and as Harrison in the 1993 film Gettysburg , among other roles.

Career

Huckabee played Buzz, one of the leading roles, in The Funhouse . ^[2] He was Marshall, John Travolta's buddy in Urban Cowboy . ^[3] He shared a starring role in the 1982 CBS made-for-TV movie Country Gold made in Nashville which also featured Loni Anderson, Linda Hamilton, and Earl Holliman. ^[4] He was Henry Thomas Harrison, the spy, in Gettysburg. ^[5]

He has also had several guest appearances on various TV series, including ER and The Shield . Huckabee appeared as Euple Byrd, the first husband of country music legend Tammy Wynette in the made-for-TV movie, Stand by Your Man . ^[6] Huckabee also appeared in The Killers video for "A Dustland Fairytale". ^[7] Huckabee had a recurring role in the TV series True Blood as Joe Lee Mickens. ^[8]

TV and filmography

Film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1976	Little House on the Prairie	Herman Stone	Season 2 Episode #17: "Troublemaker"
1977	Dallas	Payton	CBS TV Mini-Series: Season 1, Episode 4
	Murder at the World Series	Frank Gresham
1978	Foul Play	Sandy
	Hawaii Five-O	Armitage	Episode: "The Bark and the Bite"
1980	Joni	Dick Filbert
	Urban Cowboy	Marshall
1981	The Funhouse	Buzz
	Stand by Your Man	Euple Byrd
	The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper	Homer
	The Blue and the Gray	Matthew Geyser	TV miniseries
1982	Country Gold	Reilly Sears	CBS TV movie
1983	Little House: Look Back to Yesterday	Vance Reed
1985	Chase	Coy
	MacGyver	Bill Farren	Episode: "Hellfire"
1986	Eye of the Tiger	Roger
1987	The Curse	Dr. Allen Forbes
1989	Cohen and Tate	Jeff Knight
1990	Night Eyes	Ernie
1992	Love Field	Deputy Swinson
1993	Gettysburg	Henry Thomas Harrison
1994	Bad Girls	Deputy Earl
1997	Turbulence	Wing Commander W. Hadfield
1999	The General's Daughter	Colonel Weems
2000	Space Cowboys	Trajectory Engineer
2003	Gods and Generals	Henry Thomas Harrison	reprised role from Gettysburg
2009	Staunton Hill	Burgh
2010	True Blood	Joe Lee Mickens	7 episodes
2012	Django Unchained	Roger "Lil Raj" Brittle
2013	Criminal Minds	Raoul Whalen	Episode: "Alchemy"
2014	Longmire	George Linder	Episode: "Harvest"
2015	Band of Robbers	Muff Potter
2016	Pee-wee's Big Holiday	Minister
	If Loving You is Wrong	Rusty	6 episodes
2019	NCIS	Kyle Larson	Episode: "Judge, Jury..."
2020	Tales from the Hood 3	Denton Wilbury

References

1. "Cooper Huckabee". Hollywood.com . Retrieved April 28, 2016.
2. Miller, Mark L. (June 23, 2014). "THE FUNHOUSE (1981)". Ain't It Cool News . Retrieved April 28, 2016.
3. Canby, Vincent (June 11, 1980). "TRAVOLTA, 'URBAN COWBOY'". The New York Times . Retrieved April 28, 2016.
4. Flander, Judy (November 23, 1982). "Today in Preview". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . p. 27.
5. Rubin, Stephen Jay (1981). Combat Films: American Realism, 1945-2010, 2d ed. McFarland & Company. p. 212. ISBN   9780786486137.
6. O'Connor, John J. (March 31, 1981). "TV: 'STAND BY YOUR MAN, ' TAMMY WYNETTE STORY". The New York Times .
7. Another Bit of True Blood Casting
8. New True Blood Promo Poster Continues the Show's Sexy Bloodsucking Ways

External links

• Cooper Huckabee at IMDb