Charles Napier

Earned a bachelor's degree in art from Western Kentucky University in 1961.

Was in two "Star Trek" series as diametrically-opposed characters: the "Star Trek" (1966) episode, "Star Trek: The Way to Eden (#3.20)" (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 (#4.7)" (1995), as the no-nonsense "Gen. Denning" at Area 51 who interrogates the Ferengi Quark, Rom and Nog.

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

Appeared in four Russ Meyer movies: Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1970) (in which he went full frontal), Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) and The Seven Minutes (1971) (both of which he kept his clothes on), and Supervixens (1975) (in which he used a humongous rubber phallus or dildo as a "stand-in").

Napier starred in one of the first widely shown films to contain full frontal male nudity: Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1970). It was such an event that "Variety", the Bible of Hollywood trade papers, contacted Napier's mother to find out her reaction to her son appearing in what was known in the exploitation industry as a "pickle shot."

His role in Walter Hill's Hard Times (1975) was cut from the final print.

Provided the growls for TV's "The Incredible Hulk" (1978).

Provided the voice of the Hulk for the last two seasons of "The Incredible Hulk" (1978). Decades later, the Hulk's alter ego of Bruce Banner would be played by Edward Norton. Napier also appeared in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), which was followed by a prequel, Red Dragon (2002), also starring Norton.

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.

His father Linus Pitts Napier died in 1991 at the age of 102.

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

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).

Appeared on "Dr. Phil" (2003) with his wife to discuss his obsession with being famous.