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Fred Dryer

Acting

Born July 6, 1946 · Hawthorne, California, USA

Also known as John Frederick Dryer · Fred Dreyer · John F. Dryer

Biography

Fred Dryer (born July 6, 1946) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Rick Hunter, a tough police detective in the TV series Hunter (1984 - 1991). He also was a defensive end for the New York Giants and the Los Angeles Rams, and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Awards & recognition

  • All-Pro · 1974
  • Little All-America college football team · 1968
  • 1975 Pro Bowl

Filmography27 titles

Highway 395

2000as Rawley Wade

Justice League

2001as Sgt. Rock (voice)

NCIS

2003as Marine Master Sergeant Thomas Fletcher

Cheers

1982as Dave Richards

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

2013as Octavian Bloom

Celebrity Ghost Stories

2008as Self

Laverne & Shirley

1976

Diagnosis: Murder

1993as Police Chief Masters

Hunter

1984as Rick Hunter

Fire Over Afghanistan

2003as Collins ezredes

Land's End

1995as Mike Land

Hart to Hart

1979

CHiPs

1977as Lt. John LeGarre

Bumblebee

2018as Sheriff Lock

Relic Hunter

1999as Randall Fox

The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A.

1995as Rick Hunter

Crisis

2014as Thomas Jefferson Smith

Gus

1976as Atoms player (sideline & showers) (uncredited)

Something So Right

1982as Mike Bosnick

The Millers

2013as Sarge

Accidentally on Purpose

2009as Edward

The Wrong Woman

2013as Detective Sanford

Cannonball Run II

1984as CHP #3

Suits on the Loose

2005as Senator Boxwell

Death Before Dishonor

1987as Gunnery Sgt. Burns

Shakedown

2002as General Wolf

Wild Grizzly

2000as Ranger Frank Bradford