Cork Hubbert

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title: "Cork Hubbert" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1952-births", "2003-deaths", "male-actors-from-oregon", "american-actors-with-dwarfism", "american-male-film-actors", "american-male-television-actors", "people-from-pendleton,-oregon", "deaths-from-diabetes-in-california", "20th-century-american-male-actors", "21st-century-american-male-actors"] description: "American actor (1952–2003)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_Hubbert" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American actor (1952–2003) ::

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Field	Value
name	Cork Hubbert
birth_name	Carl Hubbert
image	Cropped_Photo_of_Cork_Hubbert.jpg
birth_date
birth_place	Pendleton, Oregon, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Venice, California, U.S.
occupation	Actor
years_active	1979–2003
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| name = Cork Hubbert | birth_name = Carl Hubbert | image = Cropped_Photo_of_Cork_Hubbert.jpg | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = Pendleton, Oregon, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = Venice, California, U.S. | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1979–2003 Carl "Cork" Hubbert (July 3, 1952 – September 28, 2003) was an American film and television actor.

Biography

Carl Hubbert was born on July 3, 1952, in Pendleton, Oregon. He is best known for the roles of Luther on the American television show The Charmings, Rollo Sweet in Under the Rainbow and Brown Tom in the Ridley Scott film Legend. He is also featured in the supporting cast of the 1985 Nancy Allen comedy Not for Publication. He also starred as Cousin Lymon in The Ballad of the Sad Café. Hubbert's struggles as an actor after Under the Rainbow and Magnum, P.I. were chronicled as part of The Sweeps: Behind the Scenes in Network TV, Mark Christensen and Cameron Stauth's book on NBC's 1983-1984 TV season.

Death

Hubbert died in 2003 in Venice, Los Angeles, from complications of diabetes.

Filmography

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	Property
1980	Where the Buffalo Roam	Briggs, Bell Captain
1981	Caveman	Ta
1981	Under the Rainbow	Rollo Sweet
1982	The Fall Guy	Swifty Leonard
1983	Magnum, P.I.	Waldo Norris	Episode: "Smaller Than Life"
1984	Not for Publication	Odo
1985	Legend	Brown Tom
1986	The Twilight Zone	Shawn McGool	Season 1, Episode 19a – "The Leprechaun-Artist"
1989	Sinbad of the Seven Seas	Poochie the dwarf
1989	Criminal Act	Slater
1991	The Ballad of the Sad Café	Cousin Lymon
2000	Date Less	Tattoo on Ass Julio
2003	Charmed	Head Councilman	Season 5, Episode 17 – "Lucky Charmed"
2004	Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas	Additional Voices	Final film role
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References

References

1. Raw, Laurence. (2009). "The Ridley Scott Encyclopedia". Scarecrow Press.
2. "Cork Hubbert". [[TV.com]].
3. Maslin, Janet. (July 31, 1981). "Under the Rainbow (1981) MADCAP 'UNDER THE RAINBOW'". [[The New York Times]].
4. Canby, Vincent. (April 18, 1986). "THE SCREEN: RIDLEY SCOTT'S 'LEGEND'". [[The New York Times]].
5. "Not For Publication".
6. Canby, Vincent. (March 28, 1991). "Review/Film Festival; Vanessa Redgrave In a Cursed Triangle Of Love and Hate". The New York Times.
7. Lentz III, Harris M.. (2003). "Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2003: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture". McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers.

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