

QuoteJames Tolkan, the character actor who expressed a disdain for "slackers" in the Back to the Future trilogy and portrayed Tom Cruise's no-nonsense commanding officer in Top Gun, has died. He was 94.
Tolkan died Thursday in Saranac Lake, New York, a family spokesperson announced.
Tolkan also played Napoleon and his look-alike in Woody Allen's Love and Death (1975) and was the crooked accountant known as Numbers who works for Big Boy Caprice (Al Pacino) in Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy (1990).