Dan O'Herlihy
Born: 1919-05-01 in Wexford, Ireland
Died: 2005-02-17
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2020
- 'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War as Self (archive footage)
2000
- Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' as Self
- Buñuel in Hollywood as Self
1998
- The Rat Pack as Joe Kennedy
1995
- VR.5 as Dr. Alloysius Hunnicutt
1993
- Love, Cheat & Steal as Hamilton Fisk
1992
- Batman: The Animated Series as Grant Walker (voice)
1990
- Twin Peaks as Andrew Packard
- RoboCop 2 as The Old Man
1988
- A Waltz Through the Hills as Uncle Tom
1986
- L.A. Law as Vernon Kepler
- The Whoopee Boys as Judge Sternhill
- Dark Mansions as Alexander Drake
1985
- The Equalizer as Randall Payne
- The Ray Bradbury Theater as Charles Braling
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Alexander Preston
- The Last Starfighter as Grig
- The Secret Servant as Professor John Tyler
1982
- Remington Steele as Charles Wellington
- Halloween III: Season of the Witch as Conal Cochran
- Nancy Astor as Chiswell 'Chillie' Langhorne
1981
- Artemis '81 as Albrecht Von Drachenfels
- Death Ray 2000 as The Director
1979
1978
- Battlestar Galactica as Dr. Ravashol
1977
- The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
- MacArthur as President Roosevelt
- Deadly Game as Colonel Edward Stryker
- Good Against Evil as Father Kemschler
1976
- Charlie's Angels as Freddie Brander
- The Bionic Woman
- Gibbsville
- The Quest: The Longest Drive as Mathew Hatcher
- Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free as Tip Conaker
1974
- Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill as Leonard Jerome
- QB VII as David Shawcross
- Born Free as Archie Gordon
- The Tamarind Seed as Fergus Stephenson
- Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill as Leonard Jerome
1972
- Colditz as Lt. Col. Max Dodd
- The Carey Treatment as J.D. Randall
- The People as Sol Diemus
1970
- Waterloo as Marshal Michel Ney
1969
- 100 Rifles as Steven Grimes
- The Big Cube as Charles Winthrop
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Harry Wells
- How to Steal the World as Prof. David Garrow
1967
- Ironside as Arthur Justin
- The High Chaparral as Jake Lanier
- Hondo as Prof. Phineas Blackstone
1966
- Mission: Impossible as Jack Cole
1965
- The Big Valley as David Wyncop
- The Long, Hot Summer
1964
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Marcel Rudolph
- Profiles in Courage as Professor Richard T. Ely
- Fail Safe as Brig. Gen. Warren A. Black
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
- The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters as Dr. Sardius McPheeters
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Simon Carter
- Combat! as Maj. Richter
- Sam Benedict as Hart Marbury
- The Cabinet of Caligari as Caligari / Paul
1961
- Ben Casey
- Dr. Kildare as Mark Addison
- The Defenders as Governor William Defoe
- Target: The Corruptors!
- The Americans as Colonel Fry
- King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein as Detective Phil Butler
1960
- Route 66
- Checkmate as Stephen Jordan
- One Foot in Hell as Sir Harry Ivers
- A Terrible Beauty as Don McGinnis
1959
- Rawhide as John Cord
- Adventures in Paradise as Colonel Tomlinson
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as David
- Imitation of Life as David Edwards
- The Young Land as Judge Millard Isham
1958
- Home Before Dark as Arnold Bronn
1957
- That Woman Opposite as Dermot Kinross
- The Blackwell Story as Dr. Keller
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Capt. Cleve Scott
1955
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Dr. Donald Kent
- The Purple Mask as Brisquet
- The Virgin Queen as Lord Derry
- Hunters of the Deep as Narrator
1954
- Climax! as Ian Hamilton
- The Black Shield of Falworth as Prince Hal of Wales
- Robinson Crusoe as Robinson Crusoe
- Bengal Brigade as Capt. Ronald Blaine (as Daniel O'Herlihy)
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Letter to Loretta as Dave Hardy
- General Electric Theater
- Sword of Venus as Danglars
1952
- Cavalcade of America as Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Invasion, U.S.A. as Mr. Ohman
- At Sword's Point as Aramis Jr.
- Actors and Sin as Alfred O'Shea / Narrator (segment Actor's Blood)
- Operation Secret as Lt. Duncan
1951
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
- The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel as Commando Captain (uncredited)
- The Blue Veil as Hugh Williams
- Soldiers Three as Sgt.Murphy
- The Highwayman
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Alan
- The Iroquois Trail as Lt. Blakely
1947
- Odd Man Out as Nolan
- Hungry Hill as Harry Brodrick