Acting
Richard Herd
EN, DE, ES cinema · 58 credits
Born
26 September 1932
Died
26 May 2020 (aged 87)
Birthplace
Boston, 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.
Known for
Filmography
The Silent Natural
as Mr. Beagle
The Mule
as Tim Kennedy
Get Out
as Roman Armitage
A Christmas in New York
as Bob Burgess
InAlienable
as Professor Randolph Barnett
Dog Days of Summer
as Frank Cooper
The Anna Nicole Smith Story
as J. Howard Marshall
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
as Commissioner Hans Raab
Joseph: King of Dreams
as Jacob (voice)
A Fare to Remember
as Mr. Jennings
The Survivor
as Bradford
I Married a Monster
as Dr. Paul Drummond
Journey of the Heart
as Principal Martin
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
as Henry Skerridge
Yesterday's Target
as Aaron Winfield
Sgt. Bilko
as General Tennyson
A Case for Life
1996
A Case for Life
as Bud Cromwell
The Secretary
as Chuck Bosnell
Cosmic Slop
as Cardinal (segment 'The First Commandment')
The Judas Project
as Arthur Cunningham
SeaQuest DSV
as Admiral Noyce
Seduction: Three Tales from the 'Inner Sanctum'
as Charles Hackley
Majority Rule
as Rep. Harold Reynolds
Camp Cucamonga
as Thornton Bradley
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
as Ray Goodrich
Corporate Affairs
as Cyrus Kinkaid
Fall From Grace
as Richard Dortch
Gleaming the Cube
as Ed Lawndale
Nashville Beat
as Chief Kincaid
My First Love
as Chet Townsend
Summer Rental
as Angus MacLachlan
Trancers
as Chairman Spencer
Farrell: For the People
as Randolph Gardner
Lovely But Deadly
as Charley Gilmarten
Elvis and the Beauty Queen
as Sanford Thompson
Schizoid
as Donahue
Private Benjamin
as General Foley
Wolf Lake
as George
Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
as Chuck Knoll
The China Syndrome
as Evan McCormack
The Onion Field
as Beat Cop
Ike
as Gen. Omar N. Bradley
Marciano
as John Furst
Terror Out of the Sky
as Col. Mangus
F.I.S.T.
as Mike Monahan
Dr. Scorpion
as Bill Worthington
The Hunted Lady
as Capt. Wilson
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
as Dr. Halle
All the President's Men
as James W. McCord Jr.
Pueblo
as Lt. Cmdr. C. Clark
Hercules in New York
as Television Presenter