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Sam Hennings (born 17 December 1950; age 73) is the actor who portrayed Ramsey in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "Angel One".

Hennings was born in Macon, Georgia and started working as an actor in television, film, and on stage in the 1980s. Prior to his work on The Next Generation he appeared in episodes of Moonlighting (1985, with Robert Ellenstein and Brian Thompson), The Colbys (1985, with regulars Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, and Ricardo Montalban), Dallas (1986, with Susan Howard, John Beck, Barry Jenner, and Morgan Woodward), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1986, with Bruce Gray and Nana Visitor), Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1986, with Rick Fitts, Richard Herd, and Georgann Johnson), and Houston Knights (1988, with Anthony De Longis).

Early film projects include Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling (1986, with Barbara Williams and Mike Genovese), On Our Own (1988), and the war drama Private War (1988).

In the 1990s, Hennings had guest roles in several television series such as Jake and the Fatman (1991, with James Cromwell, Gregory Itzin, Dierk Torsek, Mark L. Taylor, and Margaret Reed), The Trials of Rosie O'Neill (1991, with Georgann Johnson, Lisa Banes, Victor Bevine, Karen Austin, and Meg Foster), Murder, She Wrote (1995, with Lisa Banes, Louis Giambalvo, and Allan Miller), Pacific Blue (1996, with Michael Cavanaugh, Dennis Christopher, and Tim de Zarn), The Magnificent Seven (1998, with Andrew Kavovit, Ron Perlman, Rick Worthy, Jerry Hardin, and Karen Hensel), Soldiers of Fortune, Inc. (1999, with Melinda Clarke and Art Chudabala), Walker, Texas Ranger (1999, with Noble Willingham, Stephen McHattie, Clayton Landey, and Michael Kagan), and Pensacola: Wings of Gold (1998 and 2000, with Kristanna Loken, Tucker Smallwood, and Connor Trinneer in the first episode). Between 1998 and 2001 Hennings worked on four episodes of JAG, portraying two different characters. In these episodes he worked with fellow Trek performers Stephen Macht, Larissa Laskin, Georgann Johnson, Billy Mayo, Scott Lawrence, David Lee Smith, James Black, Art Chudabala, Jim Fitzpatrick, Kerrie Keane, Sam Anderson, and James G. MacDonald.

Further television work includes episodes of 18 Wheels of Justice (2001), Strong Medicine (2001, with Christopher Neiman), ER (2003, with Tim Kelleher), E-Ring (2006 and 2007, with Jack Kehler and J. Downing), Saving Grace (2007, with Leon Rippy, Roger Aaron Brown, Steve Rankin, René Auberjonois, and Robin Gammell), Dollhouse (2009), and CSI: Miami (2009, with Sherman Augustus and Lauren Mary Kim).

Hennings was featured in Mission Manila (1990), Seasons of the Heart (1993), Drop Zone (1994), Point Last Seen (1998), the television special Hunter: Return to Justice (2002, with Mike Gomez), The Aviator (2004, with Adam Scott, Brent Spiner, Joe Chrest, Keith Campbell, Chase Hoyt, Scott Sahadi, and Elizabeth DeCicco), and Stolen (2009, with Joanna Cassidy, Jimmy Bennett, Andy Milder, Jude Ciccolella, Ray Proscia, and Bart McCarthy).

In 2010 he joined fellow Trek actress Alfre Woodard as Charlie "Whitehead" White in Memphis Beat, featuring recurring guest actor Daniel Hugh Kelly and reunited Hennings with Next Generation assistant director Babu Subramaniam. Further recent projects are the family movie Elevator Girl (2010, with Sean McGowan, Jeanette Miller, and Devin Williamson), Look: The Series (2010, with Robert Curtis Brown and Boris Krutonog), and guest roles in The Event (2010, with Lisa Vidal, Bill Smitrovich, and Clifton Collins, Jr.) and Supernatural (2011, with Jim Beaver).

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