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name: "John Womack Jr."
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# John Womack Jr.

Actor.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor

## Biography

John Womack Jr. is an actor and professor of Latin American history at Harvard University.

He played a state trooper in Terrence Malick's *Badlands* (1973), obtained through his friendship with the director; he had no previous acting experience. He had an uncredited role as a soldier in *The Looters* (1955) and appeared as himself in the documentary *Everybody’s Everything* (2019).

*Sources: imdb.com, thecrimson.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Badlands* (1973), Fi1m 91, as Trooper — [page](https://film.one/film/badlands.md)

## Also known for

- *Everybody’s Everything* (2019), Self

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