George Murdock (actor)
| George Murdock | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
George Sawaya, Jr. June 25, 1930 Salina, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died |
April 30, 2012 (aged 81) Burbank, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1961–2012 |
George Murdock (June 25, 1930 – April 30, 2012) was an American character actor, especially prolific on television.[1]
Murdock was born George Sawaya, Jr. in Salina, Kansas. He was known for frequently playing judges, (for instance, Judge Julius Hoffman in West Coast and Chicago stage productions of The Chicago Conspiracy Trial and in an adaptation for BBC Radio), he also performed the role of "Big Daddy" in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with the Arizona Theater Company during the 1988 season. He was also Laszlo Gabo on the 1986-87 sitcom What a Country!.
Among his most famous characters for movies and TV were Lt. Scanlon, the oily NYPD Internal Affairs officer in Barney Miller, Dr. Salik in Battlestar Galactica TV series, "God" in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and as Admiral Hanson in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Best of Both Worlds.
Filmography
- The Twilight Zone (Episode: "The Dummy")
- The Untouchables
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Combat!
- I Spy
- Ben Casey
- The Wild Wild West
- Tarzan (with Ron Ely)
- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
- Cimarron Strip
- The Virginian
- Night Gallery
- Bonanza
- Breaker! Breaker!
- Hawaii Five-O
- The Mod Squad
- Adam-12
- Ironside
- The New Perry Mason
- The Magician
- The F.B.I.
- The Streets of San Francisco
- Barney Miller (Lt. Ben Scanlon)
- Gunsmoke
- Earthquake (with Charlton Heston, Lorne Greene)
- McCloud
- The Invisible Man
- The Mack (with Max Julian)*
- Police Woman
- Little House on the Prairie
- Thunder and Lightning (with David Carradine and Kate Jackson)
- Lou Grant
- The Rockford Files
- The Dukes of Hazzard
- Trapper John, M.D.
- The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
- Any Which Way You Can (sequel to Every Which Way But Loose)
- Shoot the Moon (Directed by Alan Parker)
- Bosom Buddies
- T.J. Hooker
- Hill Street Blues
- Benson
- The Winds of War (based on Herman Wouk's best-seller, with Robert Mitchum)
- Knight Rider
- Fame
- Murder, She Wrote
- Dynasty
- War and Remembrance (sequel to The Winds of War)
- Night Court
- L.A. Law
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Final Analysis (with Richard Gere and Kim Basinger)
- Batman: The Animated Series
- Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
- Seinfeld (Russian author Yuri Testikov in "The Marine Biologist")
- The Nanny
- Tyson (TV film)
- Chicago Hope
- ER
- The Gregory Hines Show
- Mike Hammer, Private Eye
- Early Edition
- Just Shoot Me!
- The X-Files
- Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
- The X-Files: Fight the Future
- Law & Order
- 2000x (NPR/Hollywood Theater of the Ear radio series)
- The Norm Show
- Smallville
- Small Wonder
- Orange County
- Judging Amy
- The Dead Zone
- Looney Tunes: Back in Action
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- The Six Million Dollar Man
- Torchwood: Miracle Day
References
- ↑ "Obituaries: George Murdock, Charles 'Skip' Pitts". latimes.com. 2012-05-04. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
External links
- George Murdock at the Internet Movie Database
- George Murdock at Memory Alpha, The Star Trek Wiki
- Obituary
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