Richard Thomas Herd Jr. Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Richard Herd, Jr. (born September 26, 1932) is an American actor in television and film. He is well known in the science fiction community for his role in the 1983 NBC miniseries 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 William Noyce, and on Star Trek: Voyager as Admiral Owen Paris, the father of Tom Paris. In two guest appearances on Quantum Leap, he played children's show host "Captain Galaxy" (Moe Stein), a would-be time traveler, and a miner named Ziggy Ziganovich. Herd has appeared at a number of fan conventions on the basis of his science fiction roles.Herd was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Katherine and Richard Herd Sr., who was a train engineer. 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. Herd's first major film role was in the thriller The China Syndrome alongside Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon and Michael Douglas, where he played the character Evan McCormack, the corrupt Chairman of the California Gas & Electric Board. This role helped make him well-known outside the United States.In addition to science fiction, he was a regular as Captain Dennis Sheridan on T. J. Hooker from 1982 to 1985, and appeared on Seinfeld as Mr. Wilhelm, George Costanza's boss at the Yankees. Guest appearances included M*A*S*H, The Rockford Files, Golden Girls, Starsky and Hutch, Quantum Leap, The A-Team, NYPD Blue, Pacific Blue, and JAG.
The theatre gave me an identity. It taught me social skills and taught me to listen, and made me more of a maverick.
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As he bears a strong resemblance to Karl Malden, he once guest-starred on Malden's Tv series The Streets of San Francisco (1972). The men have also both portrayed Gen. Omar Bradley at different times.
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Appeared in a stage production of "Death of a Salesman", with his wife Patricia Herd, at the Ventura Court Theatre.
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Son Richard Jr. became a personal trainer and gym manager; daughter Erica, a Fulbright scholar, found a legal secretary career and is a sometime poet.
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One disappointment was losing the role of the boss in the film 9 to 5 (1980) to Dabney Coleman.
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Via his work on Star Trek: Voyager (1995), Richard plays the gutbucket for the intergalactic country jazz group, "The Enterprise Blues Band". Formed in the late 1990s, the band has released two CDs of primarily original songs.
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According to Charles Ziarko in his article on Richard in the film magazine Classic Images, June 2008, the actor's father fought in the South Pacific during WWII, developed elephantiasis, and died of his illness within a short time. Richard kept the flag from his father's military funeral.
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He and his third wife, actress Patricia Herd, are supporters of the League for Crippled Children in Los Angeles. Wife Patricia is a past President of the organization and he an ambassador with the March of Dimes.
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