Richard Herd
Birthday: 1932-09-26 | Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USARichard 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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Acting
Role
as Chairman Spencer (archive footage)
as Mr. Beagle
as Tim Kennedy
as Bob Burgess
as Admiral Paris
as Frank Cooper
as J. Howard Marshall
as Commissioner Hans Raab
as Jacob (voice)
as Bradford
as Dr. Paul Drummond
as Principal Martin
as Aaron Winfield
as Arthur Cunningham
as Charles Hackley
as Rep. Harold Reynolds
as Cyrus Kinkaid
as Richard Dortch
as Thornton Bradley
as Ed Lawndale
