Lively character actor who usually plays hard-ass military types and menacing bad guys. Charles Napier's roles have changed little since his debut in Russ Meyer's Cherry, Harry & Raquel!. Napier went on appearing in other Meyer movies, including the homicidal Harry Sledge in Supervixens and also became a regular playing smaller roles for Jonathan Demme. His granite-like jaw and wide, gate-like grin have contributed to his many memorable portrayals of tough guys, notably the scheming intelligence officer up against Sylvester Stallone in Rambo: First Blood Part II and the short-tempered front man of the Good Ole Boys in The Blues Brothers, where he delivers the masterful 'corn on the cob' line.


Has appeared in most films by director Jonathan Demme Roger Ebert often refers to him as "that character actor with a smile like Jaws". Played in two Kentucky high school state basketball championships Worked as an "on the road" correspondent for the trucker magazine "Overdrive" in the early 1970s. Provided the growls for TV's "The Incredible Hulk" (1978). Appeared in four Russ Meyer movies: Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1970) (in which he went full frontal), Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) and The Seven Minutes (1971) (both of which he kept his clothes on), and Supervixens (1975) (in which he used a humongous rubber phallus or dildo as a "stand-in"). Attended Western Kentucky College (now Western Kentucky University) Was considered for the role of Sheriff Ed Landis in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993).