 |
Richard Marcus | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 19, 1945 |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1979–2009 |
Richard Marcus (born September 19, 1945) is an American actor who is best known for his roles in St. Elsewhere , Tremors , and The Pretender .
|
Richard Marcus | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 19, 1945 |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1979–2009 |
Richard Marcus (born September 19, 1945) is an American actor who is best known for his roles in St. Elsewhere , Tremors , and The Pretender .
Richard Marcus' first role was on the television show The White Shadow , guest starring in two episodes. He worked steadily throughout the 1980s, and landed a recurring role (as Ralph, the Bird-Man) on the acclaimed NBC drama St. Elsewhere , for which he received an Emmy nomination.
He continued to act into the 1990s, and in 1996, he starred as Dr. William Raines on the television series The Pretender . He reprised his role in two television movies in 2001. Since The Pretender, Marcus has continued to act regularly, including guest starring in two episodes of 24 in 2005.
| Title | Format | # of episodes | Character | Year(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The White Shadow | Series | 2 episodes | Benny/ Writer | 1979-1980 |
| Hill Street Blues | Series | 1 episode | Blind Man | 1981 |
| The Being | Film | - | Joe the Lab Assistant | 1983 |
| Hollywood Beat | Series | 1 episode | 1985 | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Series | 1 episode | Levy | 1985 |
| Enemy Mine | Film | - | Arnold | 1985 |
| Deadly Friend | Film | - | Harry Pringle | 1986 |
| St. Elsewhere | Series | 7 episodes | Ralph | 1982-1986 |
| Desperado | TV movie | - | Emmett, Deputy/Jailer | 1987 |
| Jake and the Fatman | Series | 1 episode | 1988 | |
| Jesse | TV movie | - | Ray Butler | 1988 |
| Highway to Heaven | Series | 1 episode | Baldwin | 1989 |
| Tremors | Film | - | Nestor Cunningham | 1990 |
| L.A. Law | Series | 1 episode | Ray Breecher | 1990 |
| Superboy | Series | 1 episode | Max Von Norman | 1991 |
| Space Rangers | Series | 1 episode | Bashad | 1993 |
| And the Band Played On | TV movie | - | Reporter | 1993* |
| Melrose Place | Series | 2 episodes | Roger Lacey | 1993 |
| Dune 2000 | Video game | - | Edric O | 1998 |
| The Pretender | Series | 45 episodes | Dr. William Raines | 1996-2000 |
| The Pretender 2001 | TV movie | - | Dr. William Raines | 2001 |
| The Pretender: Island of the Haunted | TV movie | - | Dr. William Raines | 2001 |
| 24 | Series | 2 episodes | Forbes | 2005 |
| Hawthorne | Series | 3 episodes | Mr. Fleming | 2009 |
*Uncredited
Hal Linden is an American stage and screen actor, television director and musician.
James Brolin is an American actor. Brolin has won two Golden Globes and an Emmy. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 27, 1998. He is the father of actor Josh Brolin and the husband of Barbra Streisand.
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series created by Joshua Brand and John Falsey, that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982, to May 25, 1988. The series stars Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd, and William Daniels as teaching doctors at an aging, rundown Boston hospital who give interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions. The series was produced by MTM Enterprises, which had success with a similar NBC series, the police drama Hill Street Blues, during that same time. The series were often compared to each other for their use of ensemble casts and overlapping serialized storylines.
Richard James Biggs II was an American television and stage actor, known for his roles on the television series Days of Our Lives and Babylon 5.
The Pretender is an American action drama television series created by Steven Long Mitchell and Craig W. Van Sickle, that aired on NBC from September 19, 1996, to May 13, 2000.
William David Daniels is an American actor who is known for his television roles, notably as Mark Craig on the drama series St. Elsewhere, for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards; the voice of KITT on the television series Knight Rider; and George Feeny on the sitcom Boy Meets World, which earned him four People's Choice Award nominations. He reprised his Knight Rider role in the sequel TV movie Knight Rider 2000 and his Boy Meets World role in the sequel series Girl Meets World. He also portrayed Carter Nash in Captain Nice.
Edward James Begley Jr. is an American actor. He has appeared in hundreds of films, television shows, and stage performances. He played Dr. Victor Ehrlich on the television series St. Elsewhere (1982–1988). The role earned him six consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award nomination. He also co-hosted, along with wife Rachelle Carson, the green living reality show titled Living with Ed (2007–2010).
Pernell Elven Roberts Jr. was an American stage, film, and television actor, activist, and singer. In addition to guest-starring in over 60 television series, he was best known for his roles as Ben Cartwright's eldest son Adam Cartwright on the Western television series Bonanza (1959–1965), and as chief surgeon Dr. John McIntyre, the title character on Trapper John, M.D. (1979–1986).
Dana Vernon Ashbrook is an American actor, best known for playing Bobby Briggs on the television series Twin Peaks and its 1992 prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
William Windom was an American actor. He was known as a character actor of the stage and screen. He is well known for his recurring role as Dr. Seth Hazlitt alongside Angela Lansbury in the CBS mystery series Murder, She Wrote.
Richard Kind is an American actor and comedian. His television roles include Dr. Mark Devanow in Mad About You, Paul Lassiter in Spin City (1996–2002), Andy in Curb Your Enthusiasm (2002–2021), and Captain Stan Yenko in East New York (2022–2023). He appeared in the films Johns (1996), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006), Big Stan (2007), A Serious Man (2009), Argo (2012), Suburbicon (2017), Bombshell (2019), Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021), and Beau Is Afraid (2023).
Edward Paul Flanders was an American actor. He is best known for playing Dr. Donald Westphall in the medical drama series St. Elsewhere (1982–1988). Flanders was nominated for eight Primetime Emmys and won three times in 1976, 1977, and 1983.
Brandon Spencer Lee Call is an American former television and film actor. He played Hobie Buchannon in the first year of Baywatch and J.T. Lambert on Step by Step.
Eric Gerard Laneuville is an American television director, producer and actor. His first acting roles were in the science-fiction film The Omega Man (1971) with Charlton Heston, and the ABC television series Room 222 (1970–1973). His role as Luther Hawkins in the television series St. Elsewhere is his best known role. He also starred in A Force of One (1979) playing Charlie, the adopted son of Chuck Norris's character. In more recent years, he frequently directs such one-hour dramas as Blue Bloods and NCIS: Los Angeles. He directed Body of Proof episode "Missing". He also appeared in Love at First Bite.
Brian Tochi is an American actor. During the late 1960s through much of the 1970s and 1980's, he was one of the most widely seen East Asian child actors working in U.S. television, appearing in various TV series and nearly a hundred advertisements. He is recognized around the world for starring in some of the most popular film franchises of all time, and best known for his characters Toshiro Takashi from the Revenge of the Nerds film franchise, Cadet Tomoko Nogata from the third and fourth films in the Police Academy film series, and as the iconic voice of Leonardo in the first three live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films. He is also known as Brian Keith Tochi.
Gregory Martin Itzin was an American character actor of film and television best known for his role as U.S. President Charles Logan in the action thriller series 24.
Sullivan Walker was a Trinidadian actor who played numerous small and recurring roles on television shows from 1980 until 2005. Walker migrated to New York from Trinidad and Tobago in 1969 and became an actor, writer, director and teacher.
Eduard Franz Schmidt was an American actor of theatre, film and television. Franz portrayed King Ahab in the 1953 biblical low-budget film Sins of Jezebel, Jethro in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956), and Jehoam in Henry Koster's The Story of Ruth (1960).
James Joseph Lydon was an American actor and television producer whose career in the entertainment industry began as a teenager during the 1930s.
Charles Arthur Space was an American film, television and stage actor. Today's audiences know him as the eccentric inventor opposite Laurel and Hardy in The Big Noise (1944), and as veterinarian Doc Weaver in 39 episodes of the CBS television series Lassie.
 | This article about an American film and television actor is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |