Cliff Emmich

Birthday: 1936-12-13
Deathday: 2022-11-28
Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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 ill-fated 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 Emmich's favorite parts), Charlie's 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.

Credits

	Year	Title	Character
	2013-12-01	Holiday Road Trip	Rocky
	1999-07-23	Inspector Gadget	Out of Control Bus Driver
	1998-10-04	Legalese	Bib Wellingford
	1997-12-19	MouseHunt	Mayor McKrinle
	1993-03-05	Best of the Best 2	Texan
	1987-01-28	Return to Horror High	Dillon
	1985-03-15	Hellhole	Dr. Blume
	1981-10-30	Halloween II	Mr. Garrett
	1981-03-01	...All the Marbles	Obese Promoter
	1980-01-26	The $5.20 an Hour Dream	Purvis
	1979-11-13	The Streets of L.A.	Mason
	1979-10-23	Undercover with the KKK	Orville
	1978-10-16	Barracuda	Lester
	1978-08-01	Stingray	Roscoe
	1977-06-30	Bad Georgia Road	Early DePue
	1976-03-31	Jackson County Jail	Mr. Bigelow
	1976-02-08	Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence	Ron Weimer
	1976-01-19	The Macahans	Bartender
	1975-05-09	Shell Game	Carmichael
	1975-02-02	Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins	Cliff Wilson - Used Car Dealer
	1974-05-23	Thunderbolt and Lightfoot	The Fat Man
	1974-04-10	Our Time	Hotel Clerk
	1974-03-21	Slither	Fat Stranger
	1973-09-22	Payday	Chicago
	1973-06-01	Invasion of the Bee Girls	Coroner
	1972-06-21	Hot Summer Week	Truck Driver
	1971-03-22	Inside O.U.T.	Coffee vendor
	1971-01-26	The Feminist and the Fuzz	Key Holder