Richard Lynch

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Richard Lynch
Born	Richard Hugh Lynch February 12, 1936 (1936-02-12) (age 72) Brooklyn, New York, United States
Awards won Other Awards Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor 1982 The Sword and the Sorcerer

Richard Hugh Lynch (born February 12, 1936^[1] or 1940) is an American actor who has starred in many films and television shows. Lynch is remembered for playing heavies in films and television. He has done much work in science fiction including appearing on Battlestar Galactica (as Wolfe) and its sequel series Galactica 1980 (as Commander Xavier). He has also appeared on such shows as Starsky and Hutch, T.J. Hooker, Charmed and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Lynch won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1982 for The Sword and the Sorcerer.^[2]

Lynch was born in Brooklyn, New York. He served in the United States Marine Corps. Lynch was once a drug user and in 1967 he nearly killed himself during a bad "trip" with LSD, when he doused himself with gasoline and put a match to it.^[3]

In addition to acting, he is also a talented musician, playing the saxophone, guitar, piano, and the flute. He is of Irish descent and is a frequent visitor to Ireland. His brother Barry Lynch is also an actor. They both starred in the films Nightforce and Total Force. Richard's wife Lily, starred with him in the 1998 film Breaking the Silence and son Christopher Lynch starred with him in the science fiction film Trancers II.

[edit] Filmography

• Scarecrow (1973)
• The Seven-Ups (1973)
• The Happy Hooker (1975)
• God Told Me To (1976)
• Battlestar Galactica (1978), Wolfe
• Deathsport (1978)
• Buck Rogers (1979), Morgan Velosi
• Galactica 1980 (1980), Commander Xavier
• The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
• Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse (1984)
• Savage Dawn (1985)
• Invasion U.S.A. (1985)
• Nightforce (1987)
• Bad Dreams (1988)
• Alligator II: The Mutation (1991)
• Trancers II (1991)
• Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge (1991)

Maximum Force (1992) Double Threat (1993) Cyborg 3: The Recycler (1994) Scanner Cop (1994) Highlander: The Series (1995) Werewolf (1996) Vendetta (1996) Total Force (1997) Breaking the Silence (1999) Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming (1999), Count Iblis Death Game (2001) Crime and Punishment (2002) Final Combat (2003) Curse of the Forty-Niner (2003) The Great Wall of Magellon (2005) Wedding Slashers (2006) Halloween (2007)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Richard Lynch at the Internet Movie Database
• Richard Lynch at Allmovie
• Richard Lynch article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki