Richard Herd
Known For
Acting
Born
1932-09-26 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Died
2020-05-26
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.
Most Known For
Shameless
as Gerald
Seinfeld
as Wilhelm
Hawaii Five-0
as Old Milton
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as L'Kor
Star Trek: Voyager
as Adm. Owen Paris
Desperate Housewives
as Harry Gaunt
Everwood
as Herb Roberts
JAG
as Charlie Hoskins
CSI: Miami
as Judge Paul Landsman
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
as Dr. Stanley Backer
Rizzoli & Isles
as Patrick Doyle, Sr.
ER
as Dr. Murphy
Murder, She Wrote
as Harvey McKittrick
Murder, She Wrote
as Arnett Cobb
The A-Team
as Jonathan Durcell
M*A*S*H
Ghost Whisperer
as Stephen Devine
Quantum Leap
as Moe Stein
Quantum Leap
as Ziggy Ziganovich / Moe Stein
Dallas
as John Mackey