Richard Herd
Born September 26, 1932 (Age: 93)
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
Richard Thomas Herd Jr. (September 26, 1932 – May 26, 2020) was an American actor appearing in numerous supporting, recurring, and guest roles in television series and occasional film roles from the 1970s to the 2010s. He was well known in the science fiction community for his role in the 1983 NBC miniseries V and 1984 sequel V: The Final Battle, as John, the Visitors' Supreme Commander. Other major roles in his career included recurring parts on the NBC series seaQuest DSV as Admiral William Noyce; on Star Trek: Voyager as Admiral Owen Paris, the father of helmsman Tom Paris; and as George Costanza's boss Matt Wilhelm on Seinfeld. In two guest appearances on Quantum Leap, he played children's show host "Captain Galaxy", a would-be time traveler, and a miner named Ziggy Ziganovich. He also voiced Father Elijah in the Dead Money expansion for Fallout: New Vegas. Herd appeared at several fan conventions for his science fiction roles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Herd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Richard Thomas Herd Jr. (September 26, 1932 – May 26, 2020) was an American actor appearing in numerous supporting, recurring, and guest roles in television series and occasional film roles from the 1970s to the 2010s. He was well known in the science fiction community for his role in the 1983 NBC miniseries V and 1984 sequel V: The Final Battle, as John, the Visitors' Supreme Commander. Other major roles in his career included recurring parts on the NBC series seaQuest DSV as Admiral William Noyce; on Star Trek: Voyager as Admiral Owen Paris, the father of helmsman Tom Paris; and as George Costanza's boss Matt Wilhelm on Seinfeld. In two guest appearances on Quantum Leap, he played children's show host "Captain Galaxy", a would-be time traveler, and a miner named Ziggy Ziganovich. He also voiced Father Elijah in the Dead Money expansion for Fallout: New Vegas. Herd appeared at several fan conventions for his science fiction roles.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Herd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
The Mule
2018
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as Tim Kennedy
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Age: 86
Get Out
2017
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as Roman Armitage
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Age: 84
Star Trek: Renegades
2015
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as Admiral Paris
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Age: 82
Dog Days of Summer
2007
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as Frank Cooper
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Age: 74
I Married a Monster
1998
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as Dr. Paul Drummond
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Age: 66
The Survivor
1998
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as Bradford
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Age: 65
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997
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as Henry Skerridge
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Age: 65
Journey of the Heart
1997
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as Principal Martin
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Age: 64
Yesterday's Target
1996
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as Aaron Winfield
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Age: 63
Sgt. Bilko
1996
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as Gen Tennyson
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Age: 63
No Image
A Case for Life
1996
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as Bud Cromwell
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Age: 63
The Judas Project
1993
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as Arthur Cunningham
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Age: 60
Majority Rule
1992
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as Rep. Harold Reynolds
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Age: 60
Seduction: Three Tales from the 'Inner Sanctum'
1992
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as Charles Hackley
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Age: 59
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
1990
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as Ray Goodrich
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Age: 58
Corporate Affairs
1990
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as Cyrus Kinkaid
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Age: 58
Camp Cucamonga
1990
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as Thornton Bradley
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Age: 57
Fall From Grace
1990
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as Richard Dortch
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Age: 57
Nashville Beat
1989
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as Chief Kincaid
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Age: 57
Gleaming the Cube
1989
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as Ed Lawndale
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Age: 56
My First Love
1988
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as Chet Townsend
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Age: 56
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
1987
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as Walt
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Age: 55
Summer Rental
1985
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as Angus MacLachlan
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Age: 52
Lovely But Deadly
1981
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as Charley Gilmarten
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Age: 48
Elvis and the Beauty Queen
1981
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as Sanford Thompson
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Age: 48
Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
1980
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as Chuck Knoll
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Age: 48
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
1980
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as Gen. Groves
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Age: 48
Private Benjamin
1980
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as General Foley
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Age: 48
Schizoid
1980
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as Donahue
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Age: 47
Wolf Lake
1980
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as George
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Age: 47
The China Syndrome
1979
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as Evan McCormack
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Age: 46
Terror Out of the Sky
1978
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as Col. Mangus
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Age: 46
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
1978
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as Donovan
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Age: 45
F.I.S.T.
1978
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as Mike Monahan
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Age: 45
Dr. Scorpion
1978
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as Bill Worthington
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Age: 45
All the President's Men
1976
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as James W. McCord, Jr.
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Age: 43
Pueblo
1973
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as Lt. Cmdr. C. Clark
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Age: 40