
Dan O'Herlihy
Acting
- Born:
- 1919-05-01
- Died:
- 2005-02-17
- Place of birth:
- Wexford, Ireland
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.
Known For
Filmography

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'

Buñuel in Hollywood

The Rat Pack

VR.5

Love, Cheat & Steal

Batman: The Animated Series

RoboCop 2

Twin Peaks

A Waltz Through the Hills

The Dead

RoboCop

L.A. Law

Dark Mansions

The Whoopee Boys

The Equalizer

The Ray Bradbury Theater

The Secret Servant

Murder, She Wrote

The Last Starfighter

Halloween III: Season of the Witch

Remington Steele

Nancy Astor

Artemis '81

Death Ray 2000

Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter

Trapper John, M.D.

A Man Called Sloane

Battlestar Galactica

Deadly Game

MacArthur

Good Against Evil

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

Gibbsville

Charlie's Angels

Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free

The Bionic Woman

The Quest: The Longest Drive

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

Born Free

The Tamarind Seed

QB VII

Colditz

The Carey Treatment

The People

Waterloo

Hawaii Five-O

The Big Cube

100 Rifles

How to Steal the World

The High Chaparral

Hondo

Ironside

Mission: Impossible

The Long, Hot Summer

The Big Valley
Profiles in Courage

Fail Safe

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

Combat!

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Sam Benedict

The Cabinet of Caligari

Ben Casey

Target: The Corruptors!

Dr. Kildare

The Defenders

King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein

The Americans

Route 66

Checkmate

One Foot in Hell

A Terrible Beauty

Adventures in Paradise

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

The Young Land

Imitation of Life

Rawhide

Home Before Dark

That Woman Opposite

The Blackwell Story

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Screen Director's Playhouse

The Virgin Queen

The Purple Mask

Hunters of the Deep

Bengal Brigade

Climax!

The Black Shield of Falworth

Robinson Crusoe

Letter to Loretta

The Oscars

Sword of Venus

General Electric Theater

Invasion, U.S.A.

Operation Secret

Cavalcade of America

Actors and Sin

At Sword's Point

The Blue Veil

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

The Highwayman

Soldiers Three

Lux Video Theatre

The Iroquois Trail

Kidnapped

Macbeth

Larceny

Odd Man Out

Hungry Hill