Alan Fudge Movies
Character actor
Alan Fudge essayed an exhausting variety of roles while a member of New York's APA repertory troupe in the late 1960s. In films, Fudge has largely been limited to playing rule-bound corporate types, lawyers, doctors and urban detectives. He was prominently billed in
The Natural (1984) as Ed Hobbs, father of baseball whiz Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford), but his appearance was confined to a non-speaking precredits bit, lensed in long-shot. He was far more visible in his many TV guest appearances on such series as
MASH and
Knight Rider, and in such made-for-TV movies as The Blue Knight (1973),
Children of An Lac (1980),
I Know My First Name is Steven (1989) and
MANTIS (1994). Alan Fudge's weekly-series stints include the roles of C W Crawford in
Man From Atlantis (1977), Det. Commissioner Kimbrough on Escheid (1979), Dr. Van Adams in
Paper Dolls (1984) and Chief Frank Leland in Bodies of Evidence (1992). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi