---
name: "Randall Carver"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/randall-carver"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 May 1946"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 87
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T21:10:59.703321+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Randall Carver

Actor. Born 25 May 1946 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 May 1946, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
- **Active:** 1978–2007
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 acting, 1 other
- **Average Fi1m score:** 87, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 85 (1), 1970s 86 (1), 2000s 88 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16202415, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142576/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/164652

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Taxi*](https://film.one/tv/taxi.md) (86)

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## Biography

Randall Carver is an American actor. Born on 25 May 1946 in Fort Worth, Texas, he trained at West Texas State University and the University of California, Los Angeles, and began his career in the late 1960s.

He is known for portraying John Burns, a naïve student turned taxi driver, throughout the first season (1978–79) of the series *Taxi*. His other credits include an uncredited role in *Midnight Cowboy* (1969), appearances in *The Six Million Dollar Man* (1974) and *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), and later film roles such as Mr. Bankside in *There Will Be Blood* (2007) and himself in *Man on the Moon* (1999).

Carver has also appeared in *Malcolm in the Middle* (2000) and *Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond* (2017).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (2) — the average rests on these

- *There Will Be Blood* (2007), Fi1m 88, as Mr. Bankside — [page](https://film.one/film/there-will-be-blood.md)
- *Taxi* (1978), Fi1m 86, as John Burns — [page](https://film.one/tv/taxi.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Midnight Cowboy* (1969), Fi1m 85, as Rapist in Flashback (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/midnight-cowboy.md)

## Also known for

- *Malcolm in the Middle* (2000), Joshua
- *Man on the Moon* (1999), Himself
- *Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond* (2017), Self
- *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), U.S. Marshall Bill Morgan
- *The Six Million Dollar Man* (1974), PFC Robert E. Barris
- *The Love Boat* (1977), Elmer Fargas, Elner Fargas
- *Murphy's Law* (1986), Mechanic
- *Emergency!* (1972), Harvey Gibbs

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