Charles Napier

Charles Napier was born in the tiny community of Mt. Union, near Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky, to Linus Pitts Napier, a tobacco farmer and postman, and his wife, Sara, on April 12, 1936. He attended public school in Scottsville.

) while serving as company clerk with Company A 511th Airborne Infantry, 11th Airborne Division. He was a lively character actor who usually played edgy military types and menacing bad guys.

After graduating high school, he enlisted in the Army in 1954. He rose to the rank of E-5 (Sgt.

He is survived by three offspring: son Charles Lewis "Chuck" Napier, Junior (B. June 23, 1964); son Hunter Charles Napier (B. May 10, 1988); and daughter Meghan Sara Lena Napier (B. June 11, 1991).

Was in two "Star Trek" series as diametrically-opposed characters: the Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) episode, Star Trek: The Original Series: The Way to Eden (1969), as the paradise-seeking hippie "Adam", and in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) episode, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Little Green Men (1995), as the no-nonsense "Gen. Denning" at Area 51 who interrogates the Ferengi Quark, Rom and Nog.

His film debut was in Russ Meyer's Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1969).

Worked as an "on the road" correspondent for the trucker magazine "Overdrive" in the early 1970s.

Napier went on appearing in other Meyer movies, including the homicidal Harry Sledge in Supervixens (1975) and also became a regular playing smaller roles for Jonathan Demme.

Provided the growls for TV's The Incredible Hulk (1977).

Although not a professional country-western singer, he portrayed a fictional one - Tucker McElroy of the Good Ol' Boys - in the movie The Blues Brothers (1980). Moreover, he was once asked in real life for "McElroy's" autograph...and gave it.

Napier played a prison warden on at least 3 separate, unrelated occasions: Ernest Goes to Jail (1990); in a 1999 episode of Walker, Texas Ranger (1993) (Walker, Texas Ranger: Fight or Die (1999)); and in several episodes of The Simpsons (1989).

The second of three children born to a tobacco farmer (Linus Pitts Napier; died 1991, aged 102). and a homemaker, Charles Napier was stationed in Germany for three years while in the Army, serving with the 11th Airborne.. He later earned a bachelor's degree in art from Western Kentucky University in 1961 and worked as a substitute teacher after arriving in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s.

Was considered for the role of Sheriff Ed Landis in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993).

He played a US Army officer who was involved in the Roswell UFO Incident in both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Little Green Men (1995) and Roswell: Summer of '47 (2000).

On Men in Black: The Series (1997), Napier provided the voice of "Zed", a role originally played in the live-action films by Rip Torn, who co-starred with Napier in the 1989 low-budget action flick, Hit List (1989).

Having a cameo in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), there's a joke about Dr. Evil getting away in a rocket that looks like a woman's husband's one-eyed monster. Ironically, ten years later, he starred in a movie titled One-Eyed Monster (2008).

Appeared on Dr. Phil (2002) with his wife to discuss his obsession with being famous.

Appeared on Star Trek before providing the "voice" of the Incredible Hulk. Hulk's alter ego, Bruce Banner, was later played by Eric Bana, who went on to appear in the reboot Star Trek (2009).