Ray Wise

Raymond Herbert "Ray" Wise (born August 20, 1947) is an American actor. Some of his best known roles include Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks, henchman Leon C. Nash in RoboCop (1987), Jack Taggart Sr. in Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003), Hal Gardner in season 5 of the Fox series 24 (2006), The Devil in The CW series Reaper (2007–2009), Donald Wadsworth in Suburban Gothic (2014), Marvin in the ABC series Fresh Off the Boat (2015–), Everett Dirksen in the HBO film All the Way (2016) and Commissioner James Gordon in Batman: The Killing Joke (2016). In 2015, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for his guest performances on The Young and the Restless (2014–2016). 2Personal life Wise was born in Akron, Ohio, graduated from Garfield High School in 1964 and attended Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. He is of Romanian descent on his maternal side. He grew up in a religious family; during his childhood he went to a Romanian Baptist church in Akron and later moved to a Methodist church. 2Career 3Television Wise is best known for his role as Laura Palmer's father Leland in Twin Peaks. In the late sixties and seventies, Wise played attorney Jamie Rollins on the soap opera, Love of Life for seven years and nearly 950 episodes. In 1987, Wise played Tom Gunther, Catherine Chandler's boyfriend, in the pilot episode of the TV series Beauty and the Beas