Posted on 05/26/2020 3:45:04 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
Veteran character actor Richard Herd, best known for portraying Mr. Wilhelm on “Seinfeld,” died on Tuesday at his Los Angeles home of complications from cancer. He was 87.
The Boston native broke into show business as a stage actor in New York. He made his film debut in 1970’s “Hercules in New York.” Herd was hired as Richard Long’s replacement for the part of Watergate burglar James McCord in Alan J. Pakula’s “All the President’s Men.”
Herd’s big-screen credits included “The China Syndrome” (1979) “F.I.S.T.” (1979), “The Onion Field” (1979), “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” (1987) and “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” (1997). He portrayed Supreme Commander John in the 1983 NBC miniseries “V” and its sequel; the Klingon L’Kor on “Star Trek: The Next Generation”; Admiral William Noyce on “seaQuest 2032”; and Admiral Owen Paris on “Star Trek: Voyager” and “Star Trek: Renegades.”
Herd made 11 appearances on “Seinfeld” as Mr. Wilhelm, the inept New York Yankees exec who supervised George Costanza (Jason Alexander) after he landed a job as an assistant to the traveling secretary.
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Hopefully all is well with you and yours during this crazy time we are in. Yesterday we had our big Memorial day BBQ with exactly 10 people, per our generous ruler's scientific commands.
“A great admirer of Jackie Onasis’s.”
She did have grace.
The B5 crowd hasn’t fared well either.
Was just thinking that last week. Jerry Doyle, Andreas Katsulas, Richard Biggs, Michael O’Hare... that was some astounding talent on that show, gone way too soon.
Can’t believe I forgot Stephen Furst. He had an astounding character arc playing Vir.
JMS covers some of that in his autobiography.
I recommend listening to the audio version voiced by Peter Jurasik. He does a tiny bit of Londo in it.
At some point the curse will be complete, and they will ALL be dead..
RIP Tanya.
That’s nothing. Everyone from the Wizard of Oz is dead.
If you look at the FR wall of honor, you could say this site is cursed too...........LOL!
Just waiting until all members of the rock bands we group up with are gone.
I think Molly Hatchet is one of them.
That was Mr Pitt.
The was a classic.
“Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I’ve worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time.”
Think of it this way, It’s gonna be one hella party when we meet again!
I miss Uncle Leo
Enjoyed his work. RIP.
You stole my reply. :-P
It’s Lippman? Oh my mistake!
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Top of the muffin to you!
Well I think you can forget about the Rolling Stones. Keith Richards will live forever.
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