Cliff Emmich

Engaging character actor Cliff Emmich first began acting on stage Veteran character actor Keenan Wynn advised Emmich to enroll at the Pasadena Playhouse He studied at the Pasadena Playhouse for eight months Emmich then toured the country with the American Repertory Players and spent a summer performing in summer stock at the Pink Garter Theatre in Jackson Hole Wyoming He made his film debut in Gaily Gaily 1969 Later memorable roles were as a coroner in Invasion of the Bee Girls 1973 as sexist jerk business executive who insults Yvette Mimieux at the beginning of Jackson County Jail 1976 as a bumbling small town deputy in Barracuda 1978 as the illfated hospital security guard Mr Garrett in Halloween II 1981 as an asylum doctor in the trashy Hellhole 1985 and as a small town sheriff in Digital Man 1995 He has appeared in such television shows as Crossing Jordan 2001 Walker Texas Ranger 1993 Nash Bridges 1996 Coach 1989 Baywatch 1989 Murder She Wrote 1984 Knots Landing 1979 Night Court 1984 Hunter 1984 Riptide 1984 Simon Simon 1981 CHiPs 1977 Knight Rider 1982 The Incredible Hulk 1977 Vega 1978 Fantasy Island 1977 Happy Days 1974 Little House on the Prairie 1974 this is one of Emmichs favorite parts Charlies Angels 1976 Baretta 1975 Police Woman 1974 and Starsky and Hutch 1975 He is a member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences