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April 12, 1936 in Scottsville, KY
Biography:Towering blonde American character actor "Charles Napier" has the distinction of being one of the few actors to transcend a career start in "nudies" and sustain a successful mainstream career. Napier, clothed and otherwise, was first seen in such "Russ Meyer" gropey-feeley epics as Cherry, Harry and Raquel (1969) and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970). Graduating from this exuberant tawdriness, Napier became a dependable film and TV villain. Even when he wasn't totally nasty, he was at least dishonest, as witness his comically bigamous truck driver in "Handle With Care" (1977) Not only were Napier's characters mean, they were often foolhardy; look what happeded to him when he double-crossed "Sylvester Stallone" in "Rambo" (1984). Some of Napier's more recent credits include "The Blues Brothers" (1980), "Married to the Mob" (1990), "Ernest Goes to Jail" (1991) and the-Oscar winning "Silence of the... Full Biography
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John Landis and Charles Napier
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