Ned Schmidtke

Ned Schmidtke

Born: June 19, 1942
in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Ned Schmidtke was born in St. Louis, Missouri as Edwin Christian Schmidtke, Jr. He attended David H. Hickman High School in Columbia and then studied at the Beloit College in Wisconsin. Schmidtke graduated in 1964.

Schmidtke began his acting career appearing in a recurring role as Greg Barnard in Another World. Other shows he has appeared in are The West Wing (with Devika Parikh and Peter James Smith), NYPD Blue (with Currie Graham), NCIS (with Pauley Perrette and Francesco Quinn), The Unit (with Dennis Haysbert, Max Martini, and Michael Irby), and Heroes (with Zachary Quinto).

Schmidtke has also had recurring and regular roles in shows like Texas, Point Pleasant (with Richard Burgi and Alex Carter), Medium (with Tony Curran), and Days of Our Lives.

Aside of TV, Schmidtke has worked on films like The Change-Up (with Gregory Itzin), The Express, Accepted, Wedding Crashers, xXx: State of the Union, Mercury Rising (with Kirk B. R. Woller), The Relic (with Tom Sizemore), Chain Reaction (with Tzi Ma), and The Crazies.

Movies for Ned Schmidtke...

The Change-Up
Title: The Change-Up
Character: Ted Norton
Released: August 5, 2011
Type: Movie
Dave is a married man with two kids and a loving wife, and Mitch is a single man who is at the prime of his sexual life. One fateful night while Mitch and Dave are peeing in a fountain when lightning strikes, they switch bodies.
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The Express
Title: The Express
Character: Bill Clark
Released: October 10, 2008
Type: Movie
Based on the incredible true story, The Express follows the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
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Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery
Title: Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery
Character: Donald Merit
Released: January 14, 2008
Type: Movie
Criminology professor Jonathan Maxwell investigates a murder at a new age retreat where the leader is killed in a locked room surrounded by people in a deep trance.
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Title: Heroes
Character: Martin Gray
Released: September 25, 2006
Type: TV
Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.
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Accepted
Title: Accepted
Character: Dr. J. Alexander
Released: August 18, 2006
Type: Movie
A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.
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Title: The Unit
Character: Don Rohmer
Released: March 7, 2006
Type: TV
A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.
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xXx: State of the Union
Title: xXx: State of the Union
Character: Col. Jack Pettibone
Released: April 27, 2005
Type: Movie
Darius Stone's criminal record and extreme sports obsession make him the perfect candidate to be the newest XXX agent. He must save the U.S. government from a deadly conspiracy led by five-star general and Secretary of Defense George Deckert.
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Title: Point Pleasant
Released: January 19, 2005
Type: TV
A series of supernatural events begins in a small coastal New Jersey town after the arrival of a mysterious teenage girl, who apparently has the ability to influence the people and events around her.
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Title: Medium
Character: Terry Cavanaugh
Released: January 3, 2005
Type: TV
Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.
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Uncle Nino
Title: Uncle Nino
Character: Executive
Released: December 5, 2003
Type: Movie
A distant, slightly dysfunctional family is brought closer together when the father's long-estranged Uncle Nino comes from Italy to Chicago for a surprise visit.
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Title: NCIS
Character: Frank Getz
Released: September 23, 2003
Type: TV
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
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Title: Without a Trace
Character: Greg
Released: September 26, 2002
Type: TV
The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
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Title: Fastlane
Character: Sheriff Groves
Released: September 18, 2002
Type: TV
Fastlane is an American action/crime drama series that was broadcast on Fox from September 18, 2002 to April 25, 2003.
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Title: Crossing Jordan
Character: Richard Daniels
Released: September 24, 2001
Type: TV
Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
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Title: Malcolm in the Middle
Character: Manfred Schmidt
Released: January 9, 2000
Type: TV
A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.
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Title: Roswell
Character: Pit Boss
Released: October 6, 1999
Type: TV
Bizarre things start happening in the little New Mexico town where UFOs were spotted in 1947. Cut to 1999, when a cute high-school student saves the life of a teenage waitress. Surrounded by cliques of clever, angst-filled classmates, the two form a bond that threatens the survival of a secret universe involving superhuman powers, a yen for hot sauce and an alien gene pool.
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March in Windy City
Title: March in Windy City
Character: Police Chief Mills
Released: May 3, 1998
Type: Movie
Retired MI6 agent Steven March is called back into action by his former employers. His task is to assassinate Chicago politician Dan Paterson, an ambitious and ruthless Russian who March has encountered before. March's task is made more difficult when Paterson's daughter is kidnapped, apparently by Chinese gangsters.
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Mercury Rising
Title: Mercury Rising
Character: Senator
Released: April 3, 1998
Type: Movie
Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new "unbreakable" code.
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My Best Friend's Wedding
Title: My Best Friend's Wedding
Character: Captain
Released: June 19, 1997
Type: Movie
When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.
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Tangled
Title: Tangled
Character: Pauley
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A former drug runner must rescue her kidnapped son from his father.
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Chain Reaction
Title: Chain Reaction
Character: Wisconsin Chief Schmidke
Released: August 2, 1996
Type: Movie
Two researchers in a green alternative energy project forced on the run when they are framed for murder and treason.
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Title: JAG
Character: Harold Fetzer
Released: September 23, 1995
Type: TV
Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth.
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Title: ER
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Two Fathers: Justice for the Innocent
Title: Two Fathers: Justice for the Innocent
Character: Madigan
Released: January 14, 1994
Type: Movie
Two fathers from very different backgrounds reunite after 8 years to pursue the escaped drug dealer responsible for the deaths of their son and daughter.
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Goodnight Sweet Wife: A Murder in Boston
Title: Goodnight Sweet Wife: A Murder in Boston
Character: Mayor Flynn
Released: September 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Dramatic recounting of the true story of Bostonians Charles and Carol Stuart and the events before and after October 23, 1989, the night of the latter's murder, supposedly, as the husband related to police, by a young black man out to rob them while they were spending a night on the town.
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Music Box
Title: Music Box
Character: Dean Talbot
Released: December 22, 1989
Type: Movie
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
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Rent-a-Cop
Title: Rent-a-Cop
Character: Lindy
Released: November 28, 1987
Type: Movie
Detective Tony Church is forced to retire and become a store rent-a-cop when his drug sting operation comes to a tragic end by a masked killer. He joins forces with a prostitute, the only one able to identify the killer, to bring him to justice.
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First Steps
Title: First Steps
Character: Dr. Chandler Phillips
Released: March 19, 1985
Type: Movie
Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life. One day she hears about new research by Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky, about using external electric stimulations to enable paralyzed people to use their frozen muscles. She enters the research as a test subject and gets her reward when she walks up to receive her college diploma.
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Come Along with Me
Title: Come Along with Me
Character: Man at Bus Stop
Released: February 16, 1982
Type: Movie
Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongings, changes her name, and moves to a new town. There she rents a room in a boarding house and holds a seance with the other tenants, with comical results.
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Skokie
Title: Skokie
Character: Reporter
Released: November 17, 1981
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominantly Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois.
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Chicago Story
Title: Chicago Story
Released: March 15, 1981
Type: Movie
A pair of cops, a pair of doctors, and a pair of lawyers examine a crime — the wounding of a ten-year-old girl by a sniper — from three different angles in this pilot to the short-lived series.
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Where Is Dead?
Title: Where Is Dead?
Character: Father
Released: September 10, 1975
Type: Movie
In this quiet, naturalistic dramatic short, six-year old Sarah grapples with understanding mortality after the sudden death of her older brother, David. With the help of her family, she gradually learns how to process his passing and cope with her grief. Written, produced, and directed by Jackie Rivet-River, this short film for Encyclopaedia Britannica Films was awarded the Silver Hugo prize at the Chicago International Film Festival, as well as 12 additional awards internationally.