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Dan O'Herlihy

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Wexford, Ireland, 1919-05-01

Died: 2005-02-17

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1947	Hungry Hill	Harry Brodrick	54
2	1947	Odd Man Out	Nolan	73
3	1948	Larceny	Duke	57
4	1948	Macbeth	Macduff	72
5	1948	Kidnapped	Alan Breck	55
6	1950	The Iroquois Trail	Lt. Blakely	58
7	1951	Soldiers Three	Sgt.Murphy	44
8	1951	The Highwayman		0
9	1951	The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel	Commando Captain (uncredited)	67
10	1951	The Blue Veil	Hugh Williams	66
11	1952	At Sword's Point	Aramis Jr.	48
12	1952	Actors and Sin	Alfred O'Shea / Narrator (segment Actor's Blood)	52
13	1952	Operation Secret	Lt. Duncan	50
14	1952	Invasion, U.S.A.	Mr. Ohman	32
15	1953	Sword of Venus	Danglars	50
16	1954	Robinson Crusoe	Robinson Crusoe	62
17	1954	The Black Shield of Falworth	Prince Hal of Wales	62
18	1954	Bengal Brigade	Capt. Ronald Blaine (as Daniel O'Herlihy)	53
19	1955	Hunters of the Deep	Narrator	0
20	1955	The Purple Mask	Brisquet	50
21	1955	The Virgin Queen	Lord Derry	71
22	1957	That Woman Opposite	Dermot Kinross	58
23	1958	Home Before Dark	Arnold Bronn	72
24	1959	The Young Land	Judge Millard Isham	64
25	1959	Imitation of Life	David Edwards	74
26	1960	A Terrible Beauty	Don McGinnis	49
27	1960	One Foot in Hell	Sir Harry Ivers	53
28	1961	King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein	Detective Phil Butler	60
29	1962	The Cabinet of Caligari	Caligari / Paul	64
30	1964	Fail Safe	Brig. Gen. Warren A. Black	78
31	1969	100 Rifles	Steven Grimes	59
32	1969	The Big Cube	Charles Winthrop	42
33	1970	Waterloo	Marshal Michel Ney	71
34	1972	The People	Sol Diemus	55
35	1972	The Carey Treatment	J.D. Randall	58
36	1974	The Tamarind Seed	Fergus Stephenson	62
37	1974	Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill	Leonard Jerome	80
38	1976	The Quest: The Longest Drive	Mathew Hatcher	50
39	1976	Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free	Tip Conaker	0
40	1977	Good Against Evil	Father Kemschler	43
41	1977	MacArthur	President Roosevelt	63
42	1977	Deadly Game	Colonel Edward Stryker	65
43	1979	Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter	Mark Twain	0
44	1981	Death Ray 2000	The Director	50
45	1981	Artemis '81	Albrecht Von Drachenfels	40
46	1982	Halloween III: Season of the Witch	Conal Cochran	52
47	1984	The Last Starfighter	Grig	66
48	1986	The Whoopee Boys	Judge Sternhill	49
49	1986	Dark Mansions	Alexander Drake	0
50	1987	RoboCop	The Old Man	73
51	1987	The Dead	Mr. Browne	68
52	1988	A Waltz Through the Hills	Uncle Tom	70
53	1990	RoboCop 2	The Old Man	60
54	1993	Love, Cheat & Steal	Hamilton Fisk	44
55	1998	The Rat Pack	Joe Kennedy	59
56	2000	Buñuel in Hollywood	Self	0
57	2000	Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'	Self	0
58	2020	'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War	Self (archive footage)	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Alan	63
2	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Oliver Bradford	63
3	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Henry	63
4	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Trevelyan	63
5	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars		73
6	1952	Cavalcade of America	Nathaniel Hawthorne	35
7	1952	Cavalcade of America	Benedict Arnold	35
8	1953	General Electric Theater		63
9	1953	General Electric Theater	Dr. Paul Crowley	63
10	1953	General Electric Theater	Robert Burns	63
11	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
12	1953	Letter to Loretta	Dave Hardy	65
13	1954	Climax!	Ian Hamilton	33
14	1955	Screen Director's Playhouse	Dr. Donald Kent	65
15	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Capt. Cleve Scott	55
16	1959	Rawhide	John Cord	72
17	1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	David	63
18	1959	Adventures in Paradise	Colonel Tomlinson	57
19	1960	Checkmate	Stephen Jordan	41
20	1960	Route 66		63
21	1961	The Americans	Colonel Fry	60
22	1961	The Defenders	Governor William Defoe	62
23	1961	Dr. Kildare	Mark Addison	55
24	1961	Dr. Kildare	John Patrick McHenry	55
25	1961	Dr. Kildare	Dr. Phillip Downey	55
26	1961	Dr. Kildare	Mark Sloan	55
27	1961	Target: The Corruptors!		35
28	1961	Ben Casey		56
29	1962	Sam Benedict	Hart Marbury	60
30	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Simon Carter	78
31	1962	Combat!	Maj. Richter	77
32	1963	The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters	Dr. Sardius McPheeters	53
33	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		57
34	1964	Profiles in Courage	Professor Richard T. Ely	50
35	1965	The Big Valley	David Wyncop	61
36	1965	The Long, Hot Summer		50
37	1966	Mission: Impossible	Jack Cole	76
38	1967	Ironside	Arthur Justin	68
39	1967	Hondo		65
40	1967	The High Chaparral	Jake Lanier	65
41	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Harry Wells	71
42	1972	Colditz	Lt. Col. Max Dodd	73
43	1974	QB VII	David Shawcross	77
44	1974	Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill	Leonard Jerome	63
45	1976	The Bionic Woman		70
46	1976	Charlie's Angels	Freddie Brander	67
47	1976	Gibbsville		0
48	1977	The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries		71
49	1978	Battlestar Galactica	Dr. Ravashol	71
50	1979	A Man Called Sloane		50
51	1979	Trapper John, M.D.		65
52	1982	Nancy Astor	Chiswell 'Chillie' Langhorne	75
53	1982	Remington Steele	Charles Wellington	71
54	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Alexander Preston	75
55	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Denton Langley	75
56	1985	The Ray Bradbury Theater	Charles Braling	69
57	1985	The Equalizer	Randall Payne	72
58	1986	L.A. Law	Vernon Kepler	71
59	1990	Twin Peaks	Andrew Packard	83
60	1992	Batman: The Animated Series	Grant Walker (voice)	85
61	1995	VR.5	Dr. Alloysius Hunnicutt	67