Eric Server

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Eric Server
Born (1944-12-04) December 4, 1944 (age 78)
Occupation(s) Television, voice actor

Eric Server (born December 4, 1944 [1] in Santa Monica, California) is an American television actor, [2] best known for providing the voice of computer brain Dr. Theopolis in the 1979 TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century . From 1979 to 1981 he appeared as Lt. Jim Steiger in 17 episodes of B.J. and the Bear . [3]

He guest-starred in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Circle" and in the Battlestar Galactica episode "The Magnificent Warriors". He also appeared as a police officer in the pilot episode of The Incredible Hulk . Server also appeared in two more episodes of The Incredible Hulk as a race car driver in the season 2 episode "Ricky" and as a thief in the Season 3 episode "A Rock and a Hard Place".

Starting in the early 1970s Server had guest roles in a number of network series. The shows he appeared in more than once include Ironside , Barnaby Jones , The Rockford Files , Police Story , The Streets of San Francisco , Hunter , Switch , Emergency! , Lou Grant , Simon & Simon , T.J. Hooker , Murder, She Wrote and L.A. Law .

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References

  1. "Eric Server". AllMovie . Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  2. "Eric Server List of Movies and TV Shows". TV Guide . Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  3. Terrace, Vincent (January 10, 2014). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 Through 2010, 2d Ed. McFarland. p. 110. ISBN   9780786486410 via Google Books.