Tucker Smallwood

Tucker Smallwood, the eldest son of an educator and diplomat, was a NBC television director before being drafted into the US Army in 1967. He was commissioned as an Infantry Officer and served as an OCS Tactical Officer at Fort Benning, before undergoing Vietnamese language training and jump school. He later commanded a Mobile Advisory Team during the Vietnam War. After recovering from his combat wounds, Smallwood moved to New York to study acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse.He is the author and the Audio Book narrator of “Return to Eden””, an anthology of 33 essays describing his experiences as an Army advisor in Vietnam, his life as an actor thereafter and his return to Vietnam in 2004.A life-long musician, Smallwood performed all vocals on the delta blues album “”Incarnation: “”The Robert Johnson Project””.”

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An intertwined drama about the United States’ war on drugs, seen through the eyes of a once conservative judge, now newly-appointed drug czar, his heroin-addicted daughter, two DEA agents, a jailed drug kingpin’s wife, and a Mexican cop who begins to question his boss’s motives.

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Had always wanted to play an alien on a "Star Trek"" show. He got his wish when he was cast as a member of the vicious Species 8472 on Star Trek: Voyager (1995)...which turned out to be a character disguised as a human (Admiral Bullock). He finally got to play a real alien

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