Portrait of Ray Wise

Ray Wise

Acting

Biography

Raymond Herbert Wise is an American actor best known for his role as Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks (1990–1991, 2017) and its prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992). He has appeared in films such as Swamp Thing (1982), The Journey of Natty Gann (1985), RoboCop (1987), Bob Roberts (1992), Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), X-Men: First Class (2011) and God's Not Dead 2 (2016).

Born: August 20, 1947

Place of Birth: Akron, Ohio, USA

Filmography

2025
The Napa Boys

as Officer Toland

2024
The Wolf in the Well

as Roland Carmel

2024
The Blue Rose

as Mr. Vallens

2024
Poolman

as William Van Patterson

2022
King Knight

as Merlin

2021
Slugfest

as Jack Kirby

2021
Psych 3: This Is Gus

as Father Peter Westley

2021
Physical

as Sheila's Father

2021
Dinner Is Served

as Headmaster Gustafson

2021
2020
Beast Mode

as Trammel Steadfast

2019
To Your Last Death

as Cyrus DeKalb (voice)

2019
The Movies That Made Us

as Self (archive footage)

2019
All Rise

as Richard Walker

2019
Unholy 'Mole

as The Devil (voice)

2019
The Chain

as Michael

2019
Tone-Deaf

as Michael

2017
Little Evil

as Guy On TV (uncredited)

2017
Shattered

as Forest Burnett

2016
Halloweed

as Judge Plimington

2016
Batman: The Killing Joke

as Commissioner James Gordon (voice)

2016
The Bronx Bull

as Father Father Joseph

2016
All the Way

as Senator Everett Dirksen

2016
Relationship Status

as Grace's Dad

2016
God's Not Dead 2

as Peter Kane

2015
Unnatural

as Victor Clobirch

2015
Taking Flight

as Nonno (voice)

2015
The Breakup Girl

as Bob Baker

2015
Night of the Living Deb

as Frank Waverly

2015
Digging Up the Marrow

as William Dekker

2015
2015
The Lazarus Effect

as Mr. Wallace

2015
Jurassic City

as Warden Lewis

2015
2014
Dead Still

as Wenton Davies

2014
Guardian Angel

as Attorney Kaufman

2014
Land of Leopold

as Deece Warren

2014
2014
2014
2014
Fargo

as Paul Marrane

2014
No God, No Master

as A. Mitchell Palmer

2014
Tom Holland's Twisted Tales

as Mongo the Magnificent (segment "Mongo's Magik Mirror")

2014
Farmed and Dangerous

as Buck Marshall

2013
Wrong Cops

as Captain Andy

2013
Big Ass Spider!

as Major Braxton Tanner

2013
Out West

as Phillip Alcott

2013
Brother's Keeper

as Herbert Leemaster

2013
Newsreaders

as Skip Reming

2012
Nuclear Family

as The Man

2012
Atlas Shrugged: Part II

as Head of State Thompson

2012
FDR: American Badass!

as Douglas MacArthur

2012
Excision

as Principal Campbell

2012
Perception

as Martin Sullivan

2012
Crazy Eyes

as Zach's Father

2012
Brother White

as Pastor Johnny Kingman

2012
Holliston

as Landlord

2012
2011
Rosewood Lane

as Det. Briggs

2011
Chillerama

as Dr. Weems (segment "Wadzilla")

2011
Wilfred

as Colt St. Cloud

2011
X-Men: First Class

as Secretary of State

2011
Workaholics

as Kyle Walsh

2011
Body of Proof

as Michael Davis

2011
Mr. Sunshine

as Macaulay

2010
Hawaii Five-0

as Morris Brown

2010
Rizzoli & Isles

as Judge Eugene Allen

2010
2009
Infomercials

as Frank Pierre

2009
Pandemic

as General Matthews

2009
Iodine

as Avery

2009
Stuntmen

as Jack Strongbow

2009
Drop Dead Diva

as Frank Dodd

2009
Castle

as Bobby Fox

2009
Dollhouse

as Howard Lipman

2009
Infestation

as Ethan

2008
AM1200

as Harry Jones

2008
The Mentalist

as Dennis Victor

2008
90210

as Dean Thomas

2008
One Missed Call

as Ted Summers

2007
Reaper

as The Devil

2007
Chuck

as Riley

2007
Superman: Doomsday

as Perry White (voice)

2007
The Flock

as Bobby Stiles

2007
Mad Men

as Ed Baxter

2007
2007
Burn Notice

as Mr. Pyne

2007
7-10 Split

as Buddy Kendrick

2006
Shark

as Lloyd Holcomb

2006
Psych

as Peter Westley

2006
Psych

as Horace Leland

2006
Peaceful Warrior

as Doctor Hayden

2006
Cyxork 7

as Kommander 88

2005
Criminal Minds

as John Nelson

2005
How I Met Your Mother

as Robin Scherbatsky Sr.

2005
2005
Bones

as Rick Turco

2005
The Closer

as Tom Blanchard

2005
Numb3rs

as Mitch Langford

2005
2005
2003
Dead End

as Frank Harrington

2003
NCIS

as Wayne Tobett

2003
Jeepers Creepers 2

as Jack Taggart, Sr.

2002
Windfall

as John Wescott

2002
She Spies

as Ambassador Blaine

2002
Landspeed

as Brian Sanger

2001
24

as Vice-President Hal Gardner

2001
2001
Almost Salinas

as Jack Tynan

1999
Popular

as Barton

1999
The West Wing

as Governor Tillman D-CA

1999
Judging Amy

as Atty. Rhodes

1999
Pennyweight

as Mr. Pennyweight

1998
Charmed

as Ludlow

1998
V.I.P.

as Judge Kreiger

1998
Sports Night

as Evans

1998
Evasive Action

as Sheriff Wes Blaidek

1996
Profiler

as James Perrone

1996
Savannah

as Edward Burton

1995
Powder

as Dr. Aaron Stripler

1995
JAG

as Congressman Marvin Bolton

1995
1994
The Crew

as Charles Pierce

1994
Body Shot

as Dwight Frye

1994
The Chase

as Dalton Voss

1993
Second Chances

as Judge Jim Stinson

1993
Diagnosis: Murder

as John Parkinson

1993
1993
Rising Sun

as Senator John Morton

1993
Walker, Texas Ranger

as Garrett Carlson

1993
Grey Knight

as Col. George Thalman

1993
RoboCop 3

as Leon Nash (archive footage)

1992
Sunstroke

as Larry

1992
Bob Roberts

as Chet MacGregor

1992
1992
1991
Write to Kill

as Mark Gaston

1991
1990
Beverly Hills, 90210

as Daniel Hunter

1990
Dream On

as Maddox March

1990
Twin Peaks

as Leland Palmer

1990
Twin Peaks

as Leland Palmer (archive footage)

1990
The Rift

as Robbins

1989
Twin Peaks

as Leland Palmer

1989
Race for Glory

as Jack Davis

1989
Season of Fear

as Fred Drummond

1987
RoboCop

as Leon Nash

1986
L.A. Law

as A.D.A. Walter Platt

1986
Condor

as Christopher Proctor

1985
Seduced

as Bartecki

1985
Moonlighting

as Murderer

1984
Hunter

as Alex Parker

1984
Airwolf

as Victor Resnick

1984
Blue Thunder

as J.D. Kraft

1983
The A-Team

as Phillip Chadway

1982
Remington Steele

as Schwimmer

1982
Cat People

as Soap Opera Man

1982
T. J. Hooker

as Harrison Mackenzie

1982
Swamp Thing

as Doctor Alec Holland

1981
Madame X

as Bellman (uncredited)

1979
Knots Landing

as The Dealer

1978
Tartuffe

as Damis

1976
Charlie's Angels

as Evan Wilcox