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Dan O'Herlihy

Dan O'Herlihy

Birthday: 1919-05-02 | Place of Birth: Wexford, Ireland

Daniel Peter O'Herlihy (May 1, 1919 – February 17, 2005) was an Irish film actor, known for such roles as Brigadier General Warren A. "Blackie" Black in Fail Safe, Marshal Ney in Waterloo, Conal Cochran in Halloween III: Season of the Witch, "The Old Man" in RoboCop, and Andrew Packard in Twin Peaks. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1954 film Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2020
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

as    Self (archive footage)

2000
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'

as    Self

2000
Buñuel in Hollywood

as    Self

1993
Love, Cheat & Steal

as    Hamilton Fisk

1990
RoboCop 2

as    The Old Man

1988
A Waltz Through the Hills

as    Uncle Tom

1987
The Dead

as    Mr. Browne

1987
RoboCop

as    The Old Man

1986
Dark Mansions

as    Alexander Drake

1986
The Whoopee Boys

as    Judge Sternhill

1984
The Last Starfighter

as    Grig

1982
Nancy Astor

as    Chiswell 'Chillie' Langhorne

1982
Halloween III: Season of the Witch

as    Conal Cochran

1981
Artemis '81

as    Albrecht Von Drachenfels

1981
Death Ray 2000

as    The Director

1979
Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter

as    Mark Twain

1977
Deadly Game

as    Colonel Edward Stryker

1977
Good Against Evil

as    Father Kemschler

1976
The Quest: The Longest Drive

as    Mathew Hatcher

1974
The Tamarind Seed

as    Fergus Stephenson

1974
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

as    Leonard Jerome

1972
The Carey Treatment

as    J.D. Randall

1972
The People

as    Sol Diemus

1970
Waterloo

as    Marshal Michel Ney

1969
The Big Cube

as    Charles Winthrop

1969
100 Rifles

as    Steven Grimes