W. Morgan Sheppard

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William Morgan Sheppard (sometimes credited as W. Morgan Sheppard) is a British actor born in London to an Anglo Irish family but educated in Ireland. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 1956-58 before spending 12 years as Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He appeared on Broadway in 1966 with "Marat-Sade" and later in 1975 with "Sherlock Holmes". He won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle award for "The Homecoming" in 1995, at the Matrix Theatre.

He appeared in several episodes of different series of Star Trek, and he is is also the father of actor Mark Sheppard. An exceptionally versatile character actor, outside of Star Trek he is probably best known for his roles as Blank Reg on Max Headroom and Confederate General Isaac Trimble in the films Gettysburg and Gods and Generals, which also featured Andrew Prine and Billy Campbell.

He has appeared in two roles on the sci-fi series Babylon 5 and was an extremely close runner-up for the role of Ambassador G'Kar on the show, though the role eventually went to Andreas Katsulas. He also played a computer hologram for an A.I. program during the first and second season of seaQuest DSV.

He was also one of several Star Trek actors who voiced characters on the animated series Gargoyles, including playing the father of Jonathan Frakes's character David Xanatos.

He also appeared in There Goes the Neighborhood with DS9 guest stars Ron Taylor, Jonathan Banks, Harris Yulin and Lee Arenberg.