Royce D. Applegate

Royce Dwayne Applegate (December 25, 1939 – January 1, 2003) was an American actor and screenwriter who was first billed as Roy Applegate.^[1]

Royce D. Applegate
Born	Royce Dwayne Applegate (1939-12-25)December 25, 1939 Midwest City, Oklahoma, U.S.
Died	January 1, 2003(2003-01-01) (aged 63) Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Woodland Memorial Park Cemetery in Sand Springs, Oklahoma
Other names	Roy Applegate Royce Applegate
Occupations	Actor screenwriter author
Years active	1969–2003
Spouse	Norma Applegate ​ ​ (m. 1958; div. 1969)​

Born in Midwest City, Oklahoma,^[1] his most visible role was that of Chief Petty Officer Manilow Crocker on the first season of the television series seaQuest DSV.^[2]

Applegate portrayed Deputy Crawford in Stir Crazy (1985).^[2]: 1021 In that year, he also appeared in two episodes of Diff'rent Strokes, playing family man-turned-kidnapper Donald Brown, a father who kidnaps character Sam McKinney in order to replace his own dead son.

Applegate was a top-billed ensemble cast member in the 1987 Richard Fleischer-directed, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World- and Midnight Madness-esque screwball comedy film Million Dollar Mystery, playing the dim-witted roadside desert diner proprietor Tugger.

Applegate twice co-starred under the direction of The Coen Brothers, appearing in both O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and Intolerable Cruelty (2003), the latter of which was his final screen role, and released posthumously.

He portrayed Confederate General James L. Kemper in two films, Gettysburg (1993) and Gods and Generals (2003).

On New Year's Day 2003, Applegate died in his Hollywood Hills home in a fire just one week after his 63rd birthday.^[3]

Partial filmography

Film

List of Live-Action Performances in Theatrical Released Movies

Year	Title	Role
1972	Fuzz	Patrolman Cramer[a]
	They Only Kill Their Masters	Harry[a]
	The Mad Bomber	Man in Car[a]
1976	Chesty Anderson, USN	Phil
1974	The Last Porno Flick	Policeman #1
1978	Harper Valley P.T.A.	'Dutch'
	Loose Shoes	Delmus
1980	Alligator	Callan
1981	Back Roads	The Father
	History of the World: Part I	Coming Attractions
1984	Splash	Buckwalter
1986	Armed and Dangerous	2nd Toxic Guard
1987	From the Hip	Mr. Wilby
	Rampage	Gene Tippetts
	Million Dollar Mystery	Tugger
1992	White Sands	Peterson
1993	Gettysburg	Brigadier General James L. Kemper
1994	The Getaway	Gun Shop Salesman
1995	Under Siege 2: Dark Territory	Ryback's Cook
1998	Phoenix	Dickerman
	Dr. Dolittle	"I Love You" Dog (voice)
2000	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Man with Bullhorn
2002	The Rookie	Henry
2003	Gods and Generals	Brigadier General James L. Kemper
	Seabiscuit	'Dutch' Doogan
	Intolerable Cruelty	Mr. Gutman

Television Film

List of Performances in Television Movies

Year	Title	Role
1974	Cry Panic	Grady[a]
1975	Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan	John Worden[a]
1990	Murder in Mississippi	Deputy Winter
1998	Poodle Springs	Ivan, The Motel Manager
1999	Inherit the Wind	George Sillers

Television

List of Performances on Television

Year	Title	Role	Episodes
1969-1971	That Girl	Harry Bill[a]	Hearing Today, Gone Tomorrow Two for the Money
1970	Mayberry R.F.D.	Guy With Headband[a]	Sensitivity Training
1971	Mod Squad	Eddie[a]	The Price of Love
1979	Charlie's Angels	'Bingo'
1981	Flamingo Road	'Tiny'
	Hart to Hart	Billy Ray Thompson
	Little House on the Prairie	Georgie
1981-1982	CHiPs	Roger Brown Dewayne	Ponch's Angels Part I and II Silent Partner
1981-1985	The Dukes of Hazzard	Insurance Adjuster / Harry Ray Pearson
1982	The Blue and the Gray	1st Cell Reporter
	TJ Hooker	Frank Durbin
1985	Diff'rent Strokes	Donald Brown, Sam's Kidnapper
1989	Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All	William Bundy
1990	Twin Peaks	Reverend Clarence Brocklehurst
1993-1994	seaQuest DSV	Chief Manilow Crocker
1998-2001	JAG	Craig Allenby
2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Mr. Laferty	Episode: "Pilot

Writer

• Loose Shoes (1980)
• Evil Town (1987)

Notes

1. Credited as Roy Applegate