Royce D. Applegate

Career overview

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Name: Royce Dwayne Applegate (also known as Roy Applegate).
Dates: December 25, 1939 – January 1, 2003.
Nationality/Origin: American actor and screenwriter, born in Midwest City, Oklahoma, USA.
Known For: Acting.
Credits: 75 (TMDB).
Most visible role: Chief Petty Officer Manilow Crocker on the first season of the television series seaQuest DSV (produced by Steven Spielberg).
Specific roles mentioned:
Deputy Crawford in Stir Crazy (1985).
Character in Gettysburg.
Role in Splash (TV/Film context).
Tragic family man-turned-kidnapper (1985).
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Royce Dwayne Applegate (December 25, 1939 – January 1, 2003) was an American actor and screenwriter. Born in Midwest City, Oklahoma, he was sometimes billed as Roy Applegate. Throughout his career, he was recognized as a character actor with 75 known credits.
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Applegate is most recognized for his role as Chief Petty Officer Manilow Crocker during the first season of the television series seaQuest DSV, which was produced by Steven Spielberg. His work included appearances in various films and series, such as Gettysburg and Splash. In 1985, he portrayed Deputy Crawford in the film Stir Crazy and also played a tragic family man-turned-kidnapper.
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Name: Royce Dwayne Applegate / Roy Applegate.
Birth: December 25, 1939, Midwest City, Oklahoma.
Death: January 1, 2003.
Profession: American actor and screenwriter.
Credits: 75.
Most visible role: Chief Petty Officer Manilow Crocker in seaQuest DSV (Season 1, Steven Spielberg produced).
Other roles: Deputy Crawford in Stir Crazy (1985), character in Gettysburg, role in Splash, tragic family man-turned-kidnapper (1985).
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Royce Dwayne Applegate, who was born on December 25, 1939, in Midwest City, Oklahoma, was an American actor and screenwriter. Throughout his professional career, he was sometimes billed as Roy Applegate. Applegate was a character actor with 75 known credits to his name. He passed away on January 1, 2003.

His most visible role was portraying Chief Petty Officer Manilow Crocker during the first season of the television series seaQuest DSV, a production by Steven Spielberg. In addition to his work on seaQuest DSV,