Donald Moffat
Born: 1930-12-26 in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Died: 2018-12-20
Known For: Acting
Biography
Donald Moffat (26 December 1930 – 20 December 2018) was an English actor with decades long career in film and stage in the United States. He began his acting career on and off Broadway which included appearances in The Wild Duck and Right You Are If You Think You Are, earning a Tony Award nomination for both, as well as Painting Churches for which he received an Obie Award. Moffat also appeared in several feature films including The Thing and The Right Stuff, along with his guest appearances in the television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and The West Wing.
Filmography
2005
- Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Matthew Sherwood
2003
- Realizing The Right Stuff as Self
2001
- 61* as Ford Frick
2000
- Bull as Robert 'The Kaiser' Roberts
1999
- The West Wing as Talmidge Cregg
- Cookie's Fortune as Jack Palmer
1998
- The Sleep Room as Joe Rauh
1997
- A Smile Like Yours as Dr. Felber
1996
- The Evening Star as Hector Scott
1994
- Clear and Present Danger as President Bennett
- Trapped in Paradise as Clifford Anderson
- Is There Life Out There? as Grandpa Walter
1993
- Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Walt Whitman
- Tales of the City as Edgar Halcyon
- Love, Cheat & Steal as Frank Harrington
1992
- Housesitter as George Davis
- Majority Rule as Walter Simms
- Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story as O'Connell
1991
- Regarding Henry as Charlie Cameron
- Class Action as Quinn
- Babe Ruth as Jacob Ruppert
- The Great Pretender as Owen Milner
1990
- The Bonfire of the Vanities as Mr. McCoy
- A Son's Promise as Paw Paw
- Kaleidoscope as Arthur Patterson
- Kojak: Flowers For Matty as Garrett Fitzsimons
1989
- Cross of Fire as George Oberholtzer
- Music Box as Harry Talbot
1988
- China Beach
- The Bourne Identity as David Abbott
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being as Chief Surgeon
- Far North as Uncle Dane
- Necessary Parties as Grampa Mills
1987
- Desperado as Malloy, Nora's Dad
- When the Time Comes as Harold
1986
- L.A. Law as Lawrence O'Neil
- The Best of Times as Herbert ("The Colonel")
- License to Kill as Howard Webster
- Monster in the Closet as General Franklin Turnbull
- Lily as John Farnsworth
- Houston: The Legend of Texas as Col. John Allen
1985
- The Twilight Zone as (segment "The Star")
- Alamo Bay as Wally
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Tim Carver
1983
- The Right Stuff as Lyndon B. Johnson
- Who Will Love My Children? as Dick Thomas
- Through Naked Eyes as Patrolman
1982
- The Thing as Garry
- A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion as Captain Vesey
1981
- My Champion as Dr. Myron Shapiro
- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy as Hugh Auchincloss
- The White Lions as Vreeland
1980
- Popeye as The Taxman
- On the Nickel as Sam
- HealtH as Colonel Cody
- The Long Days of Summer as Josef Kaplan
1979
- Mrs. R's Daughter as Frank Randell
- Ebony, Ivory and Jade as Ian Cabot
- Promises in the Dark as Dr. Walter McInerny
- Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter as Wally Ball
1978
- Dallas as Brooks Oliver
- The Word as Henri Aubert
- Tartuffe as Tartuffe
- The Gift of Love as William Schuyler
- Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force as Col. Benton
1977
- Logan's Run as Rem
- The Fitzpatricks
- Code R as Jack Douglas
- Exo-Man as Wallace Rogers
- Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years as Harry Hopkins
- Mary White as Sir James Barrie
1976
- The Call of the Wild as Simpson
1975
- Forget-Me-Not Lane as Charles Bisley
1974
- Little House on the Prairie as Nathaniel Mears
- The Six Million Dollar Man as Lester Burstyn
- Earthquake as Dr. Harvey Johnson
- The New Land
- The Terminal Man as Dr. Arthur McPherson
- Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love as Fred
- A Touch of the Poet as Jamie Cregan
1973
- The Snoop Sisters as Shriver Danforth
- Showdown as Art Williams
1972
- The Waltons as Lester Morgan
- The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid as Manning
- The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
1971
- Columbo as Sheldon Hays
- Great Performances as Charles Bisley
- The Devil and Miss Sarah as Appleton
1970
- Night Gallery as Uncle George (segment "Pickman's Model")
- The Young Rebels
- R.P.M. as Perry Howard
1969
- Room 222
- The File on Devlin as John Heywood
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Dr. David Forbes
- Lancer
- Rachel, Rachel as Niall Cameron
- Of Mice and Men as Slim
1967
- Mannix as Don McGrath
- Ironside as Daniel Keyes
- The High Chaparral as Henry Simmons
- Coronet Blue as The Rector
1966
- Mission: Impossible as Alex Pierson
1963
- Art, what is it? Why is it? as Narrator
1961
- The Defenders as Dr. Leon Elm
1959
- Bonanza as Judge MacIntyre
1958
- Naked City as Brickwell
1956
- The Battle of the River Plate as Swanston - Lookout, HMS Ajax (uncredited)
1955
- Gunsmoke as Joseph Graham
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as John Heywood