Richard Herd

Known for ActingBorn 1932-09-26Died 2020-05-26Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Seduction: Three Tales from the 'Inner Sanctum'

My First Love

Nashville Beat

Shameless

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Seinfeld

Ghost Whisperer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Family Law

Roddenberry on Patrol

Rizzoli & Isles

The Gift of Love

Desperate Housewives

Tales from the Crypt

Quantum Leap

Hawaii Five-0

Cold Case

Get Out

ER

Star Trek: Voyager

The O.C.

CSI: Miami

M*A*S*H

Everwood

V

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

All the President's Men

Hill Street Blues

The Hunted Lady

The Golden Girls

China Beach

Murder, She Wrote

Knight Rider

The Rockford Files

The A-Team

Beauty and the Beast

JAG

V: The Final Battle

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Ike

Starsky & Hutch

The Mule

Diagnosis: Murder

seaQuest DSV

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

The Greatest American Hero

Matlock

Walker, Texas Ranger

MAS*H