George Murdock (actor)

George Murdock
Born	George Sawaya, Jr. (1930-06-25)June 25, 1930 Salina, Kansas, U.S.
Died	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.

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
• 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
• McCloud
• The Invisible Man
• The Mack
• Police Woman
• Little House on the Prairie
• Thunder and Lightning
• Lou Grant
• The Rockford Files
• The Dukes of Hazzard
• Trapper John, M.D.
• The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
• Any Which Way You Can
• Shoot the Moon
• Bosom Buddies
• T.J. Hooker
• Hill Street Blues
• Benson
• The Winds of War
• Knight Rider
• Fame
• Murder, She Wrote
• Dynasty
• War and Remembrance
• Night Court
• L.A. Law
• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Final Analysis
• Batman: The Animated Series
• Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
• Seinfeld
• The Nanny
• Tyson
• 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

External links

• George Murdock at the Internet Movie Database
• George Murdock at Memory Alpha, The Star Trek Wiki
• Obituary