- Tucker Smallwood
Infobox actor
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name = Tucker Smallwood
birthdate =February 22 ,1944
birthplace =Washington, D.C. Tucker Smallwood (born
February 22 ,1944 ) is an American actor, author and vocalist.From 1967 to 1970, Smallwood served in the
United States Army Infantry, Airborne. Commanding a Mobile Advisory Team during theVietnam War , he was wounded in action. After recovering from the injuries, Smallwood moved toNew York City where he studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse and established a career as a performer in Broadway productions ("Mahalia"), films and television.His films include "The Cotton Club" (1984), "Contact" (1997), "Deep Impact" (1998),
Larry David 's "Sour Grapes" (1998), "Traffic" (2000), "Quigley" (2003) and "Spectres" (2004). On television, he has been a regular and made guest appearances on many series, including ', "Millennium", "Babylon 5 ", "The X-Files ", "Curb Your Enthusiasm ", "Seinfeld ", "Murphy Brown ", ', "", "Friends ", and "The Sarah Silverman Program ".He often plays military characters, and as a science fiction fan, he always longed to play a "
Star Trek " alien. He came close on "Voyager" when he played the human form of a disguised alien, but it was not until "Enterprise" that he played a fully alien character, a sympathetic Xindi, for several episodes.Smallwood sometimes sings in his acting roles. His "Millennium" character sang "Goodbye Charlie" to people before
euthanizing them. He is the vocalist in the blues band Incarnation with guitarist Arlen Roth. Their self-titled first album, produced in 1994 atClark Dimond 's Dimond Studio in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains, is a tribute to the music of Delta Blues King Robert Johnson with 15 tracks written by or associated with Johnson.He is the author of "Return To Eden", anthology of 33 personal essays describing his tour of duty in Vietnam, his life as as performer and his return to Vietnam in 2004. Some of these essays previously appeared in magazines. In 2006 the mp3 version of "Return to Eden" was first runner-up in the audio/spoken word category at the Fifth Annual DIY Book Festival, which celebrates independent authors and publishers. [ [http://www.diyreporter.com/news/news2.asp?news2_id=379 DIYReporter.com : NEWS ] ]
References
External links
* [http://www.shadowlandfilms.com "Spectres" (2004) site]
* [http://www.tuckersmallwood.com/ Tucker Smallwood's official site]
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