Jerry Harte (1931-2018) was an American actor who played a board member in part one of the Jim Henson's Creature Shop TV movie Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story.
Harte spent most of his career in the United Kingdom, usually playing typical American businessmen, professors, senators, and the like. He appeared in The Empire Strikes Back as the rebel head controller and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as a professor. Other films include The Fourth Protocol (with Michael Caine), Santa Claus: The Movie (with Dudley Moore), Spies Inc. (with David Warner), and Loophole (with Martin Sheen), and French Kiss (with Kevin Kline).
On TV, he acted often in historical miniseries including Oppenheimer and The Nightmare Years (both with Sam Waterston), Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (with Robert Hardy), Selling Hitler (with Jonathan Pryce), and Nancy Astor (with James Fox). He was in several espionage series including Reilly, Ace of Spies (briefly as Alfred Nobel), Murder of a Moderate Man, A Perfect Spy, and Game, Set, and Match (with Ian Holm), while other TV credits include Dempsey and Makepeace, Minder, and Lovejoy.
Harte was married to Julia McKenzie.