Wayne Tippit

Wayne Tippit (December 19, 1932 Lubbock, Texas, USA – August 28, 2009 Los Angeles, California, USA) was an American television and stage character actor. He was best known to television audiences for playing Ted Adamson on the 1970s and 1980s CBS soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, for five years. He later portrayed Palmer Woodward, the father of Heather Locklear's character, Amanda Woodward, on the Fox primetime soap opera, Melrose Place, during the 1990s.