Richard Herd

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Richard Herd as L'Kor

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Richard Herd as Admiral Owen Paris

Richard Herd (born 26 September 1932; age 91) from Boston, Massachusetts is a veteran film and television actor known to Star Trek fans for his appearances as Admiral Owen Paris on Star Trek: Voyager.

He has made appearances on many other science fiction shows, including Quantum Leap with Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. He also made several appearances as Admiral Noyce on the sci-fi series seaQuest DSV along side other Trek guest stars Stephanie Beacham, Rosalind Ingledew, and Marco Sanchez, and is also well known for his roll in the 1983 NBC hit mini-series V, in which he played John, the Visitors' Supreme Commander. He reprised this role in the 1984 sequel, V: The Final Battle. Both of these projects also starred DS9 guest actors Michael Durrell and Andrew Prine. V: The Final Battle also starred TNG and VOY guest star Mark L. Taylor and TNG/DS9 guest star Dick Miller.

Herd is also known for playing Police Captain Dennis Sheridan for three seasons on the series T.J. Hooker, starring William Shatner in the title role. James Darren was also a regular on this series. Herd would be reunited with Shatner in the episode "Hide and Seek" of the aforementioned seaQuest DSV.

He is also known for his recurring role as Wilhelm on the hit sitcom Seinfeld, starring fellow Voyager guest actor Jason Alexander.

Other TV appearances include: a guest-starring role in The A-Team, which included his Voyager co-star Dwight Schultz in the main cast; two appearances on Hardcastle and McCormick, starring Brian Keith and Daniel Hugh Kelly in the title roles; and an appearance on Beauty and the Beast, starring Ron Perlman.

On film, he is perhaps best known for playing Chairman Spencer in the 1985 sci-fi/horror movie Trancers. Other films in which he has starred include All the President's Men (with Stephen Collins and F. Murray Abraham), The Onion Field (with John Savage, Ronny Cox, Christopher Lloyd, Michael Pataki, and John de Lancie), Private Benjamin (with Alan Oppenheimer), Deal of the Century (with Graham Jarvis, Richard Libertini, Tony Plana, and Wallace Shawn), Planes, Trains & Automobiles (with Bill Erwin and William Windom), Gleaming the Cube (1989, with Christian Slater, Art Chudabala, and Ed Lauter), and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (with Bob Gunton, Anne Haney, and Leon Rippy). In 1996, he co-starred with TNG actor LeVar Burton and Star Trek Generations actor Malcolm McDowell in the sci-fi movie Yesterday's Target.

At one point, he was the 3rd National Vice-President of the Screen Actors Guild. He is currently a member of the "Enterprise Blues Band", a musical group that writes and performs songs about Star Trek. The other members are Vaughn Armstrong, Casey Biggs, Steve Rankin, William Jones and Ronald B. Moore. He plays the gut box bass, kazoo, and sings some of the back-up vocals.

Appearances

• TNG: "Birthright, Part I", "Birthright, Part II", as L'Kor

As Admiral Owen Paris

• VOY:
  • "Pathfinder"
  • "Inside Man"
  • "Author, Author"
  • "Endgame"

External Links

• RichardHerd.com
• Richard Herd at Wikipedia
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