Dirt Napier

Charles Napier, the square-jawed character actor who provided guest growls for The Incredible Hulk, has died at the age of 75. Best remembered as Tucker McElroy, lead singer of the Good Ol’ Boys in The Blues Brothers (who for some reason still expected to go on despite showing up after Bob’s Country Bunker was closed in an oft-overlooked plothole), Napier also got bludgeoned by Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, played the sympathetic judge in Philadelphia, screwed Rambo in First Blood Part II, and warned townspeople about Ron Jeremy’s runaway phallus in One-Eyed Monster. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was a fixture on adventure shows, harassing Jim Rockford, Michael Knight, and the Duke boys, chasing The A-Team, and was Hammer, archnemesis to B. J. and the Bear. He was also the brilliantly insane station owner Duke Phillips on The Critic