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Richard Herd (born September 26,1932 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American character actor in television and film. He is well known in the science fiction community for his role in the 1983 NBC mini-series V and the 1984 sequel V: The Final Battle, as John, the Visitors' Supreme Commander. Other major genre roles include recurring parts on the NBC series SeaQuest DSV as Admiral Noyce, and on Star Trek: Voyager as Admiral Owen Paris, the father of Tom Paris.

Outside of science fiction, he was a regular as Captain Dennis Sheridan on T.J. Hooker from 1982 to 1985, and appeared on Seinfeld as Wilhelm, George Costanza's boss at the Yankees. Guest appearances included The Rockford Files, Starsky and Hutch, The A-Team, and NYPD Blue.

He made his film debut in Hercules in New York (1970), and at one point served as 3rd National Vice President of the Screen Actors Guild.

As his IMDB entry notes, he has similar facial features to actor Karl Malden and is often mistaken for him. [1]. It can be assumed that he was given the role of General Omar N. Bradley in the 1979 miniseries Ike not for his resemblance to Bradley but because of his resemblance to Malden who had previously played Bradley in the 1970 film Patton

Selected filmography

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (2005)
• Vice (1999)
• Sgt. Bilko (1996)
• Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
• Summer Rental (1985)
• Trancers (1985)
• Private Benjamin (1980)
• The Onion Field (1979)
• The China Syndrome (1979)

External links

• ilana's "V" Celebrity site at http://www.mindpulse.com/users/lizlady
• Official site
• Interview with Richard Herd & The Enterprise Blues Band on Slice of SciFi

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