Character actor Ed Lauter dies (USA News)

USA News __Los Angeles (Ap) — Veteran character performer Ed Lauter, whose long, intersecting face and stern bearing made him a quickly unmistakable figure in scores of films and Tv shows throughout a profession that extended over five decades, expired Wednesday. He was 74.

Lauter perished of mesothelioma, an uncommon type of disease most generally brought on by asbestos presentation, said his marketing specialist, Edward Lozzi.

If he was a peevish power figure, a fierce hooligan or a scheming cheat, Lauter's vicinity made him everything except difficult to miss in any film he was in. That was so even on those events when he was playing a character more blundering than threatening, in spite of the fact that threatening was unmistakably his strength.

He was the severe jail protect who was Burt Reynolds' enemy in the 1974 comic drama show The Longest Yard and the unpleasant service station chaperon in Alfred Hitchcock's last film,the Family Plot.

In Death Wish 3, he was the brutal cop who groups with Charles Bronson's vigilante to free New York City's avenues of lawbreakers, not via imprisoning them yet by murdering them.

All the more as of late he was the steward to Berenice Bejo's French ingenue in the 2011 Oscar-winning film The Artist.

Lauter portrayed himself in a 2010 meeting with Cinema Shock magazine as a "turn" performing artist, somebody who appears sometime or another in the film and abruptly turns the plot in an alternate course.

He credited the throws of genuine characters he acted like an adult watching in his local Long Beach, N.y., as rousing a significant number of the characters he might go ahead to depict.

He giggled at being somebody as often as possible distinguished in broad daylight for his parts.

"However frequently individuals don't know my name," he said. "They'll say, 'Oh, definitely! There's that fellow! You were in …  you were in …  ."

He was in a bad position With the Curve in 2011 with Clint Eastwood and in Born on the Fourth of July with Tom Cruise. He was likewise in The New Centurions with George C. Scott and in My Blue Heaven, Revenge of the Nerds 2 and Not Another Teenage Movie, around numerous different movies.

Television presence incorporated The Office, Er, Murder, She Wrote and The Rockford Files.

Around his most beloved parts, he said in 2010, was The Longest Yard.

He reviewed that chief Robert Aldrich let him know he didn't need to read for the part however might need to go with Aldrich to an adjacent stop so the executive could guarantee that he could toss a football as a quarterback might. When he hit previous Nfl beneficiary Pat Studstill, who was a stand-in the film, right in his shirt number with the first pass, Lauter said Aldrich let him know he