Roy Jenson

Gender: Male
Born: 9th February 1927
Died: 24th April 2007
Nationality: Canada
Movies: Soylent Green, Harper, The Set-Up, The Getaway, Big Jake, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, 5 Card Stud, The Wind and the Lion, The Ambushers, Dillinger, Chinatown, The Night Stalker, Waterhole #3, Journey Through Rosebud, Tom Horn, The Car, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Roy Jenson (February 9, 1927 – April 24, 2007) was a Canadian-born actor.

Born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, he moved to Los Angeles with his family as a child. He joined the U.S. Navy and then graduated from UCLA where he was a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity. He then became a professional Canadian football player for the Calgary Stampeders and the BC Lions from 1951 through 1957.

He guest starred on the television show Daniel Boone during the fourth season (1968-1969); however, he is remembered by many as the first man beaten up by Caine on the television show Kung Fu (1972), for his appearance in the Star Trek episode "The Omega Glory" and as the villain Puddler in The Moving Target, he worked frequently in television in the '70s and '80s.

A prolific character actor, he appeared in such films as The Missouri Traveler, Warlock, Al Capone, How the West Was Won, Waterhole No. 3, Our Man Flint, Big Jake, Harper, Soylent Green, The Getaway, The Way We Were, The Outfit and Chinatown.

He also worked frequently with directors John Milius (Dillinger, The Wind and the Lion, Red Dawn) and Clint Eastwood (Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Gauntlet, Every Which Way but Loose,

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