
Stephen Macht
Department: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Stephen Robert Macht is an American television and film actor. Spotted by a Universal Studios talent scout while starring at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada in 1975, Macht was signed to a contract and by the mid 1970s had left teaching and was making frequent appearances in TV episodes and movies. In Raid on Entebbe, he portrayed Yoni Netanyahu, the Israeli officer killed in the rescue of hostages in Uganda. In 1978, he had a lead role in The Immigrants a syndicated miniseries about the rise of the son of Italian immigrants in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. The successful television movie American Dream led to a critically acclaimed short-lived series which cast Macht in the role of a family man who chucks the suburban life to set up home in the inner city of Chicago. The following season, he landed the role of Joe Cooper, on Knots Landing. Other notable roles included playing Nancy McKeon's father in Strange Voices. He was Benedict Arnold in the miniseries George Washington and played one of the survivors of an air crash in Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac. He spent three seasons on Cagney & Lacey. During his run on the show, he moved behind the cameras to make his directorial debut. In 1993, Macht played Krim Aldos in "The Siege", an early Season 2 episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Macht had been Gene Roddenberry's first choice to play Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, but the role eventually went to Patrick Stewart in 1986. More recent credits have included A Friendship in Vienna; Memories of Midnight, and in Moment of Truth: A Mother's Deception. Macht appeared in Babylon 5, One Life to Live, General Hospital, and Suits. Macht's work in feature films has been more sporadic, beginning with a turn as one of The Choirboys. He also had roles in Nightwing, The Mountain Men, Galaxina, The Last Winter, The Monster Squad, Stephen King's Graveyard Shift, Amityville: It's About Time, The Legend of Galgameth, and Watchers Reborn. Macht has also played Dr. Harris in three instalments of the Trancers series of films.
Known For

A Caribbean Mystery
1983

Galaxina
1980

Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing
2023

The Last Winter
1984

The Monster Squad
1987

The Legend of Bloody Mary
2008

Swallows
1999

Nightwing
1979

Trancers III
1992

Trancers 4: Jack of Swords
1994

Trancers 5: Sudden Deth
1994

The Choirboys
1977

Graveyard Shift
1990

Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac
1984

The Mountain Men
1980

Final Voyage
1999

The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
1986

Blind Witness
1989

Galgameth
1997

A Friendship in Vienna
1988

DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
2003

No Blame
1988

Amelia Earhart
1976

A Mother's Deception
1994

The Tenth Level
1976

Moment of Truth: A Child Too Many
1993

Amityville 1992: It's About Time
1992

Watchers Reborn
1998

Killjoy
1981

Atlas Shrugged: Part II
2012

The Immigrants
1978

One Hot Summer Night
1998

Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
1980

My Boyfriend's Back
1989

Agent Red
2000

Siringo
1995

The Super Cops
1974

Wolfman's Got Nards
2018

Fear Stalk
1989

The Deadly Visitor
1973

Ring of Passion
1978

Hunters of the Reef
1978

Raid on Entebbe
1976

Strange Voices
1987

Outside the Law
2002

Samson and Delilah
1984

Touch Me
1997

American Dream
1981

Contract for Life: The S.A.D.D. Story
1984

Trancers: The Whole Dethly Affair
2025

Murder, She Wrote
1984

Boston Public
2000

Castle
2009

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
1993

Boomtown
2002

Jack & Jill
1999

Sliders
1995

The Others
2000

Quincy, M.E.
1976

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985

Walker, Texas Ranger
1993

Hill Street Blues
1981

Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983

Hotel
1982

Knots Landing
1979

Kojak
1973

The Practice
1997

Babylon 5
1994

Cagney & Lacey
1982

Millennium
1996

Melrose Place
1992

JAG
1995

Viper
1994

The Wedding Bells
2007

Kingston: Confidential
1977

Gideon's Crossing
2000

Blacke's Magic
1986

George Washington
1984

Big Hawaii
1977

American Dream
1981

Columbo
1971

Murder, She Wrote
1984

Murder, She Wrote
1984

Murder, She Wrote
1984

The Mentalist
2008

Kojak
1973

Memories of Midnight
1991

The Six Million Dollar Man
1974

Suits
2011

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993

Sliders
1995

Highlander: The Series
1992

Suits
2011

Femme Fatales
2011

Cagney & Lacey
1982

Hill Street Blues
1981

Murder, She Wrote
1984

Loose Change
1978