What movies did John Randolph play in?

Emanuel Hirsch Cohen, better known by the stage name John Randolph, was an American film, television, and stage actor. John Randolph made his Broadway debut in 1938 in Coriolanus and had a small role in the 1948 film The Naked City.

Some of his notable film credits include Serpico (1973), Lovely but Deadly (1983), Seconds (1966), Pretty Poison (1968), King Kong (1976), National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989), Little Murders (1971), There Was a Crooked Man (1970), Prizzi’s Honor (1985), Iron Maze (1991), The Gathering (1977), and A Price Above Rubies (1998).

John Randolph took on the role of the father of Charlie Partana (played by Jack Nicholson) in Prizzi’s Honor and Clark W. Griswold, Sr. in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (with Chevy Chase).

John Randolph played Judge J. Waties Waring in “With All Deliberate Speed”, a 1976 episode of CBS’s mini-series The American Parade. In 1991, John Randolph guested in an episode of Married … With Children entitled “Al Bundy, Shoe Dick”.

In 1990, he landed a regular series role, co-starring as a family patriarch in the NBC comedy Grand, co-starring Bonnie Hunt, and Michael McKean.