Richard Herd

Acting

Born: 1932-09-26 in 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 Herd

Biography

Known For

Get Out

The Mule

Shameless

Seinfeld

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

All the President's Men

Desperate Housewives

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Ghost Whisperer

Hawaii Five-0

Star Trek: The Next Generation

CSI: Miami

Knight Rider

Star Trek: Voyager

The A-Team

Joseph: King of Dreams

Tales from the Crypt

V

The O.C.

ER

Quantum Leap

Quantum Leap

M*A*S*H

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Walker, Texas Ranger

The China Syndrome

Rizzoli & Isles

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote

Cold Case

Private Benjamin

The Golden Girls

Sgt. Bilko

JAG

Hercules in New York

Beauty and the Beast

Dallas

Everwood

Summer Rental

MAS*H