Dan O'Herlihy
Born in Wexford, Ireland — May 01 1919• Died Feb 17 2005
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Biography
Daniel Peter O'Herlihy (May 1, 1919 – February 17, 2005) was an Irish film actor, known for such roles as Brigadier General Warren A. "Blackie" Black in Fail Safe, Marshal Ney in Waterloo, Conal Cochran in Halloween III: Season of the Witch, "The Old Man" in RoboCop, and Andrew Packard in Twin Peaks. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1954 film Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
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Dan O'Herlihy's Credits
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Murder, She Wrote
Alexander Preston
Mission: Impossible
Jack Cole
Twin Peaks
Andrew Packard
Batman: The Animated Series
Grant Walker (voice)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Simon Carter
Ironside
Arthur Justin
Charlie's Angels
Freddie Brander
L.A. Law
Vernon Kepler
Hawaii Five-O
Harry Wells
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Capt. Cleve Scott
The Equalizer
Randall Payne
Combat!
Maj. Richter
Climax!
Ian Hamilton
Ben Casey
Dr. Kildare
Mark Addison
The High Chaparral
Jake Lanier
The Defenders
Governor William Defoe
Route 66
Rawhide
John Cord
The Big Valley
David Wyncop
Remington Steele
Charles Wellington
Trapper John, M.D.
The Oscars
Self
Adventures in Paradise
Colonel Tomlinson
Checkmate
Stephen Jordan
The Ray Bradbury Theater
Charles Braling
The Bionic Woman
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Marcel Rudolph
Battlestar Galactica
Dr. Ravashol
Cavalcade of America
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sam Benedict
Hart Marbury
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
David
Screen Director's Playhouse
Dr. Donald Kent
Lux Video Theatre
Alan
Colditz
Lt. Col. Max Dodd
RoboCop
The Old Man
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
Dr. Sardius McPheeters
Target: The Corruptors!
Hondo
Prof. Phineas Blackstone
Letter to Loretta
Dave Hardy
Profiles in Courage
Professor Richard T. Ely
VR.5
Dr. Alloysius Hunnicutt
The Americans
Colonel Fry
The Long, Hot Summer
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Leonard Jerome
RoboCop 2
The Old Man
Nancy Astor
Chiswell 'Chillie' Langhorne
Gibbsville
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The Last Starfighter
Grig
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Conal Cochran
General Electric Theater
MacArthur
President Roosevelt
Waterloo
Marshal Michel Ney
A Man Called Sloane
Fail Safe
Brig. Gen. Warren A. Black
QB VII
David Shawcross
Macbeth
Macduff
Odd Man Out
Nolan
The Carey Treatment
J.D. Randall
The Rat Pack
Joe Kennedy
100 Rifles
Steven Grimes
The Dead
Mr. Browne
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Commando Captain (uncredited)
The Blue Veil
Hugh Williams
Love, Cheat & Steal
Hamilton Fisk
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Leonard Jerome
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe
Imitation of Life
David Edwards
The Whoopee Boys
Judge Sternhill
Larceny
Duke
The Virgin Queen
Lord Derry
Dark Mansions
Alexander Drake
The Quest: The Longest Drive
Mathew Hatcher
The Tamarind Seed
Fergus Stephenson
The Big Cube
Charles Winthrop
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Detective Phil Butler
Deadly Game
Colonel Edward Stryker
A Terrible Beauty
Don McGinnis
Kidnapped
Alan Breck
Invasion, U.S.A.
Mr. Ohman
The Black Shield of Falworth
Prince Hal of Wales
The Iroquois Trail
Lt. Blakely
Good Against Evil
Father Kemschler
Hungry Hill
Harry Brodrick
Buñuel in Hollywood
Self
The Young Land
Judge Millard Isham
Artemis '81
Albrecht Von Drachenfels
Soldiers Three
Sgt.Murphy
Actors and Sin
Alfred O'Shea / Narrator (segment Actor's Blood)
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
Tip Conaker
That Woman Opposite
Dermot Kinross
At Sword's Point
Aramis Jr.
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
Self (archive footage)
The Purple Mask
Brisquet
The People
Sol Diemus
Death Ray 2000
The Director
The Cabinet of Caligari
Caligari / Paul
Sword of Venus
Danglars
One Foot in Hell
Sir Harry Ivers
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
Self
How to Steal the World
Prof. David Garrow
The Secret Servant
Professor John Tyler
Home Before Dark
Arnold Bronn
Bengal Brigade
Capt. Ronald Blaine (as Daniel O'Herlihy)
The Highwayman
A Waltz Through the Hills
Uncle Tom
Operation Secret
Lt. Duncan
Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter
Mark Twain
The Blackwell Story
Dr. Keller
Hunters of the Deep
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