Heavy-set American character actor whose typical screen personae tended to be gruff westerners, irate cops and hard-boiled gangsters. A decorated Korean War veteran, Bieri appeared on stage from 1954, both on ('Death of a Salesman', 1975) and off-Broadway. He latterly acted with the ensemble of San Diego's Old Globe Theatre (notably, as the tough captain in 'Mr. Roberts', 1995). On screen from 1962 as a bit part player, he went on to have a proli...
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The Andromeda Strain
As Major Manchek
Badlands
As Cato
The Richest Cat in the World
As Oscar Kohlmeyer
Crossfire
As Captain McCardle
Sorcerer
As Corlette
A Christmas Without Snow
As Henry Quist
The Frisco Kid
As Mr. Jones
Reds
As Police Chief
Nicole
As Malcolm
Outrage
As Deputy Tottif
Brother John
As Orly Ball
It's Good to Be Alive
As Walter O'Malley
R.P.M.
As Brown
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
As Babe Ruth
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
As Chief Dewey
Lucas Tanner
As Craig Willeman
The Gun
As Walt Kelsy
The Honkers
As Jack Ferguson
Juarez
As Lt. C.P. Hardin
Grandview, U.S.A.
As Mr. Pearson
Oceans of Fire
As Chuck Horn
The Grasshopper
As Roosevelt Dekker
The Sicilian
As Quintana
Vibes
As Eli Diamond
The Conversation
As Man at Party (uncredited)
True Grit: A Further Adventure
As Sheriff Ambrose
The Zoo Gang
As Pa Donnely
Panic in Echo Park
When She Was Bad...
As Dr. Gilbert
A Matter of Life and Death
As Mr. Kutzreba
Carly's Web
The Final Days
As Judge John J. Sirica
Ghosts of Mississippi
As James Holley
Demon and the Mummy
The San Pedro Bums
As Sgt. Yost
Hunter
As Mishani
St. Elsewhere
Murder, She Wrote
As Pat Phillips
L.A. Law
As Vernon Weeks
Magnum, P.I.
As Police Captain Frank Browning
CHiPs
Kung Fu
As John Bates
Simon & Simon
Hawaii Five-O
As Michael Briggs
The Twilight Zone
As (segment "Shadow Play")
Knight Rider
As Al Farland
Quincy, M.E.
Route 66
Highway to Heaven
Alias Smith and Jones
Room 222
How the West Was Won
Charlie's Angels
As Yanos Barzak
Mannix
Medical Center
Gunsmoke
As Forbes
Mission: Impossible
As Colonel Rodriguez
Jake and the Fatman
Cannon
The Amazing Spider-Man
Hunter
As Charlie Coster
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
As Captain Joe Baker
ER
As Mr. Bartok
Crazy like a Fox
Harry O
Bret Maverick
As Elijah Crow
Police Story
Daniel Boone
As Hanker
Switch
As Jack Gaynor
Lancer
Sarge
As Barney Verick
Search
Matt Houston
Cracker
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
The Manhunter
Blacke's Magic
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
Joe's World
As Joe Wabash
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
Bronk
The Magician
As Lt. Phil Corcoran
Love, Lies and Murder
As Howard
Hogan's Heroes
As Steiner
Nichols
As Cutler
Nero Wolfe
As Leo Crown
Profiler
As Monte Drake
The Rhinemann Exchange
As Daniel Meehan
Ironside
As Frank Clausen
The Rockford Files
As Sheriff Homer Prouty
Banacek
As John Hargroves
The Fall Guy
As Mayor John P. Littlefield
McNaughton's Daughter
As Randall Jardine
Barnaby Jones
As Lt. Hager
Starsky & Hutch
As Bo Rile
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
As Commissioner Bergstrom
Bonanza
As Jonas Holt
Kate McShane
As Ben
The Streets of San Francisco
As Skowlownowski