James Tolkan Net Worth 2022, Age, Wife, Children, Height, Family, Parents, Movies, TV Shows

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Introduction

James Tolkan is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Mr. Strickland in Back to the Future (1985), Back to the Future Part II (1989), and Marshall Strickland in Back to the Future Part III (1990). Some of his other memorable film roles were in Love and Death (1975), Top Gun (1986), Masters of the Universe (1987) and Dick Tracy (1990).

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Early life

Name	James Tolkan
Net Worth	$5 million
Occupation	Actor
Age	91 years
Height

James Stewart Tolkan was born on June 20, 1931 (age 91 years) in Calumet, Michigan, United States. He is the son of Dale Nichols and Ralph M. Tolkan, a cattle dealer. He attended the University of Iowa, Coe College, the Actors Studio and Eastern Arizona College. Tolkan served in the US Navy onboard the USS Sandoval, but he had an issue with his heart; within a year, he was discharged from the service for medical reasons.

Career

James Tolkan is known for his role in the 1985 film Back to the Future as the strict Hill Valley High School assistant principal, Gerald Strickland; the character refers to Marty McFly, his father, and Biff Tannen derisively as “slackers”.

Tolkan reprised the role in the 1989 sequel Back to the Future Part II, in which unnamed gang members make a drive-by assault on him in a dystopian 1985; he also refers to these criminals as “slackers” as he shoots back.

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In 1990, he played the part of Mr. Strickland’s grandf ather Chief Marshal James Strickland in Back to the Future Part III. Tolkan would again reprise his role as Strickland in addition to playing his character’s ancestors and descendants in the 1991 animated series spin-off.

Other well-known roles include an FBI agent in WarGames and Stinger, the no-nonsense commanding officer of USS Enterprise’s embarked F-14 squadron in the 1986 box-office hit Top Gun. He portrayed the role of cold and determined District Attorney Polito in Sidney Lumet’s Prince of the City.

James Tolkan played the obsequious and evasive union treasurer Lou Brackman in 1986’s Armed and Dangerous. He appeared in the 1987 film Masters of the Universe as Detective Lubic. He had a dual role in the Woody Allen comedy Love and Death, playing both Napoleon and a look-alike.

Tolkan appeared as Big Boy Caprice’s accountant “Numbers” in the 1990 Warren Beatty film Dick Tracy. He appeared in Serpico (1973) in a small but notable role as a policeman who loudly accuses Officer Serpico of having a homosexual encounter with another policeman in a men’s room.

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He has made guest appearances on many TV shows, including Naked City, Remington Steele, Miami Vice and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. A member of the repertory cast of A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–02), he played more than a dozen varied roles in the A&E TV series and also directed two episodes (“Die Like a Dog” and “The Next Witness”).

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Wife

James Tolkan is married to Parmelee Welles, they had their wedding in 1971. The couple met when his wife was working at the American Place Theatre in New York as a staffer. Tolkan stands at an appealing height of 1.68m and has a good body weight which suits his personality. As of mid-2022, James Tolkan and his wife Parmelee Welles are still married and they have three children.