Known for Acting
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.
Born
September 26, 1932
Died
May 26, 2020 (age 87)
Birthplace
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Filmography
58 films, 60 shows
That Guy... Who Was In That Thing 3: Trek Stars
That Guy... Who Was In That Thing 3: Trek Stars
2019
country: Unknown
Documentary about actors who detail their ups and downs as they struggle to forge careers in Hollywood.


The Silent Natural
2019 · 2h 20m
country: Unknown
William Hoy was one of the first Deaf Major League Baseball players in the 1800's. Being deaf, he introduced hand signals for strike and ball to the game and overcame many obstacles to become one of the greatest players of his time.


The Mule
2018 · 1h 56m
country: Canada
Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.


A Christmas in New York
2017 · 1h 21m
country: Unknown
Six romantic stories unfold in a New York hotel during the week leading up to Christmas.


Get Out
2017 · 1h 44m
country: United States
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.


InAlienable
2008 · 1h 46m
country: United States
Still guilt-ridden over the accident that took his family's lives, Eric Norris discovers that his body is host to a parasite from another world. Except, it is more than a parasite: it carries his DNA.


Dog Days of Summer
2007 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A mysterious drifter lures two boys into uncovering the secrets of a sleepy southern town.


The Anna Nicole Smith Story
2007 · 1h 23m
country: Unknown
Born Vickie Lynn Hogan, she had a son at 18, became a stripper at 20, and married a billionaire at 26. Sheer determination turned her into Anna Nicole Smith, playmate, model and a household name.


The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
2005 · 1h 16m
country: United States
Remake of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920). Shot entirely on green screen. Some exact shots from the 1920 film were superimposed to properly replicate the original. Francis relates the story of traveling magician Dr. Caligari and Cesare. Their arrival in a town coincides with savage killings.


Joseph: King of Dreams
2000 · 1h 14m
country: United States
In this animated retelling of the story from the Bible's Book of Genesis, Joseph's gift of dream interpretation and his brilliantly colored coat inspires jealousy in his brothers.


A Fare to Remember
1999 · 1h 40m
country: Unknown
A high powered business executive takes on an assignment on Christmas Eve, knowing she is to get married immediately after the holiday. Arriving at the Seattle airport, she discovered all flights are canceled and she has to get to LA. She then hires an obnoxious cabbie to transport her to LA. However, the cabbie eventually proves to be rather endearing while she maintains her upper class posturing.


I Married a Monster
1998 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Kelly's new husband Nick begins behaving oddly, showing a surprising desire to make babies and shun his drinking buddies. Little does she know he's not entirely himself.


The Survivor
1998 · 1h 28m
country: United States
After mankind moved into space, the old planet Earth is forgotten, a polluted wasteland where only expelled prisoners still survive.


Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997 · 2h 35m
country: United States
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.


Journey of the Heart
1997 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Janice is the subject of the town gossips for four reasons: she wears too much lipstick, her hair is too big, she is a single-mother and her two children are strange. Ray (6) is a hellraiser and Tony (9) is autistic. One day, however, Tony sits down at the piano and plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Janice knows there may be hope for him (and them) yet.


Yesterday's Target
1996 · 1h 19m
country: United States
Memory loss, separation and assassins threaten three time-travelers with special powers who are stuck in the past.


Sgt. Bilko
1996 · 1h 30m
country: United States
The US army is known for churning out lean mean fighting machines intent on protecting our great nation. Sergeant Ernie Bilko is the leader of a ragtag group of the sorriest soldiers ever to enlist in the armed forces.
A Case for Life
A Case for Life
1996 · 1h 40m
country: United States
To save her unborn child, she had to fight for the right to die. A True Story


The Secretary
1995 · 1h 34m
country: United States
After being passed over for a promotion, secretary Deidre turns to murder and blackmail.


The Gift of Love
1994
country: United States


Cosmic Slop
1994 · 1h 25m
country: United States
In the tradition of The Twilight Zone, this bizarre, thought-provoking trilogy addresses the destiny of the world's minorities: Part I: A conservative African American politician must choose between his people's survival and appeasing his white colleagues when space aliens propose to share their profound knowledge in exchange for all black people on earth. Part II: The Virgin Mary's appearance in an inner-city housing project forces a Hispanic priest to face the hidden cultural origins of Western religion. Part III: On the dawn of the "Black Revolution," an African American couple discovers who the "real" enemy is.


SeaQuest DSV
1993 · 1h 30m
country: United States
The adventures of SeaQuest DSV crew, an advanced high-tech submarine in mission to protect the oceans against all evil, in a 21st century where human race has colonized underwater.


The Judas Project
1993 · 1h 37m
country: United States
How would you react if Christ had re-appeared on earth today? Would man kind repeat their mistakes or accept? This movie is about a modernized 2nd coming of Christ. Instead of facing Romans there are different obstacles in this modern times that he'd have to face.


Majority Rule
1992 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in the battle: corruption and the dangerous game of power.


Seduction: Three Tales from the 'Inner Sanctum'
1992 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Victoria Principal stars in three gripping tales of obsessive love, portraying three different women who find there is a price to pay when passion, desire and love are taken to the extreme. In the three tales, she is seduced into a deadly love triangle, uncovering her husband's deadly obsession, and dealing with an innocent computer correspondence that becomes an obsessive, erotic love affair.


The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
1990 · 3h
country: United States
After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints the exact location and time of when the long awaited earthquake--"The Big One"--will strike southern California. With this information, she must battle city officials to release this information to the general public. Also, she hopes that her family is out of harms way when the quake strikes. Subplots show how other families and people cope with the the tremors that strike before the impending "Big One."


Corporate Affairs
1990 · 1h 22m
country: United States
An executive discovers that his former lover has given their firm's CEO a fatal heart attack during sex.


Camp Cucamonga
1990 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Standard camp shenanigans and romance amongst the counselors and the campers at a lake front summer camp.


Fall From Grace
1990 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Jim Bakker establishes a large televangelical empire in the 1980s, including Heritage Village. However, they are removed from P.T.L, the ministry that they had established in 1987.


Nashville Beat
1989 · 1h 50m
country: United States
A Los Angeles police officer named Mike Delaney transfers to Nashville joining his former partner. Together they battle gangs and get to know each other again. This is also a unofficial reunion film to the TV series Adam-12 which shared this TV movies two leads, Kent McCord and Martin Milner.


Gleaming the Cube
1989 · 1h 46m
country: United States
An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone close to him dies. The cops rule the death a suicide, but the bereaved skater believes he was murdered. It's up to him to solve the case, with a skateboard.


My First Love
1988 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Widow Jean Miller thinks she's ready for a new romance with her high school sweetheart, Sam Morrissey, a physician of considerable means. The only thing standing in the way of rekindling this first love is the presence of his very attractive, very together 39-year-old girlfriend, Claire.


Planes, Trains and Automobiles
1987 · 1h 32m
country: United States
An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.


Summer Rental
1985 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to regain his pride and family's respect.


Trancers
1984 · 1h 17m
country: United States
Angel City trooper Jack Deth is sent back in time from 2247 to 1985 L.A. to inhabit the body of his ancestor. Deth's assignment is to find his archenemy, Whistler, who turns people into zombies, before the fiend is able to kill all the ancestors of the future's governing council.


Deal of the Century
1983 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.


Farrell: For the People
1982 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Adventures of the DA's new lady assistant.


Lovely But Deadly
1981 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A cheerleader goes undercover to fight drug dealers because her brother OD'd and her fellow cheerleaders are hooked.


Elvis and the Beauty Queen
1981 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for the last four years of his life. The story begins with their first meeting and traces their years together when Thompson tried to keep Presley off drugs in the last years of his career.


Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
1980 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Based on Bleier's 1975 autobiography of the same name, it tells the story of how, after becoming a running back for the Steelers in 1968, he was then drafted by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.


Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
1980 · 2h 36m
country: United States
The story of Col. Paul Tibbets and his crew who flew the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, bringing World War II to a close.


Private Benjamin
1980 · 1h 50m
country: United States
A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.


Schizoid
1980 · 1h 29m
country: United States
When Dr. Pieter Fales' patients start receiving ominous letters and getting murdered by an unknown black-clad assailant, he and his daughter both come under suspicion.


Wolf Lake
1980 · 1h 28m
country: United States
War veterans visit a lakeside cabin for a week of shooting, drinking, etc. but find the cabin being looked after by a young caretaker named David. When David's status as a war deserter is revealed, all hell breaks loose.


Marciano
1979 · 1h 44m
country: United States
A highly romanticized dramatization of the life of Rocky Marciano, the only heavyweight champion to have retired with a perfect record.


The Onion Field
1979 · 2h 2m
country: United States
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.


Ike
1979 · 6h
country: United Kingdom
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.


The China Syndrome
1979 · 2h 2m
country: United States
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.


Terror Out of the Sky
1978 · 1h 34m
country: United States
TV sequel to "The Savage Bees" featuring more rampaging insects. This time a marching band and a school bus get in the path of the bees.


Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
1978 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A turn-of-the-century investigator named Kate Bliss goes to the wide-open spaces of the wild west to capture a gang of outlaws led by a charming "Robin Hood of the plains," leading a band of dispossessed ranchers against a stuffy English land baron who has cheated them out of their property.


F.I.S.T.
1978 · 2h 25m
country: United States
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.


Dr. Scorpion
1978 · 2h
country: United States
A retired spy is reluctantly lured back into action to take down a mad scientist living on a tropical island.


The Hunted Lady
1977 · 1h 40m
country: United States
An undercover policewoman finds herself framed for murder. Forced to flee for her life, she determines to clear her name and bring the real killers to justice.


I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
1977 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.


All the President's Men
1976 · 2h 18m
country: United States
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.


Pueblo
1973 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatment of the Pueblo's crew during their year of captivity through flashbacks during the 1969 investigation of the affair.


Libertad para la juventud
1971 · 1h 30m
country: Puerto Rico


Hercules in New York
1970 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Hercules is sent from Mount Olympus to modern-day Manhattan, where he takes up professional wrestling before getting mixed up with a gang of mobsters.