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Eugene Roche (September 22, 1928 – July 28, 2004) was the character actor who played Jor Brel in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Remember".

Roche has been a recurring player on several television series, including The Corner Bar (with Vincent Schiavelli) in 1973, All in the Family (with Bill Quinn and Jason Wingreen) in 1976 and 1978, Night Court (with John Larroquette) from 1984 through 1988, Magnum, P.I. from 1983 through 1988 (including one episode with Elisha Cook, Jr.), and Webster (with Ben Vereen) from 1984 through 1986. Perhaps his best known TV roles were that of E. Ronald Mallou, Esq., on the soap opera spoof Soap from 1978 through 1981 and the "Ajax Man" in the Ajax cleaner commercials of the 1970s. Other TV shows on which he has appeared include Barnaby Jones (with Jason Evers, Lee Meriwether, and Paul Sorenson), Starsky & Hutch (with David Soul), Taxi (with Christopher Lloyd), Quincy (with Robert Ito and Garry Walberg), Hardcastle and McCormack (with Brian Keith and Daniel Hugh Kelly), Murder, She Wrote (with Ray Buktenica, Rosemary Forsyth, Dean Stockwell, and William Windom), and 7th Heaven (with Stephen Collins and Catherine Hicks).

He also has an extensive number of films to his credit. Among the most notable of these are Splendor in the Glass (1961, with Gary Lockwood), They Might Be Giants (1971, with F. Murray Abraham), Slaughterhouse-Five (1972, with Kevin Conway), Foul Play (1978, with Marc Lawrence), Corvette Summer (1978, with Stanley Kamel, Dick Miller, Nathan Jung, and Paddi Edwards), Oh, God! You Devil (1984, with James Cromwell and Robert Picardo), When a Man Loves a Woman (1994, with Gail Strickland and Susanna Thompson), and Executive Decision (1996, directed by Stuart Baird and featuring Brad Blaisdell, Tim Kelleher, Warren Munson, Richard Riehle and Dey Young).