Richard Lineback

Richard Lineback is an American actor who was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and moved to Austin, Texas, as a child. He began acting in student productions at John H. Reagan High School, joined the Colony Theatre Company in Burbank in 1975, and won a Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding Actor for his performance as C.C. Showers in The Diviners. His stage work also includes Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath and the title role in Mister Roberts. On screen he played Deputy Dodd in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) and appeared in Natural Born Killers (1994), Speed (1994), Twister (1996), The Jackal (1997), Varsity Blues (1999) and The Ring (2002). He also guest-starred on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Enterprise, and played Wally Butler in the television film Return to Mayberry (1986).