Dan O'Herlihy
Department: Acting
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
Fail Safe
1964
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
1982
RoboCop 2
1990
RoboCop
1987
The Black Shield of Falworth
1954
The Last Starfighter
1984
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951
Larceny
1948
Imitation of Life
1959
Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter
1979
Macbeth
1948
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
1961
100 Rifles
1969
The Virgin Queen
1955
Odd Man Out
1947
Invasion, U.S.A.
1952
The Young Land
1959
The Dead
1987
The Tamarind Seed
1974
The Big Cube
1969
The Carey Treatment
1972
Love, Cheat & Steal
1993
Robinson Crusoe
1954
That Woman Opposite
1957
Actors and Sin
1952
Home Before Dark
1958
Kidnapped
1948
The Cabinet of Caligari
1962
The Purple Mask
1955
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020
The Blue Veil
1951
At Sword's Point
1952
One Foot in Hell
1960
A Terrible Beauty
1960
Bengal Brigade
1954
MacArthur
1977
The Quest: The Longest Drive
1976
Operation Secret
1952
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1974
Waterloo
1970
Deadly Game
1977
Soldiers Three
1951
The People
1972
The Whoopee Boys
1986
A Waltz Through the Hills
1988
Death Ray 2000
1981
Good Against Evil
1977
Dark Mansions
1986
The Iroquois Trail
1950
Artemis '81
1981
Hungry Hill
1947
Sword of Venus
1953
Hunters of the Deep
1955
The Rat Pack
1998
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
2000
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
1976
The Highwayman
1951
Buñuel in Hollywood
2000
The Blackwell Story
1957
How to Steal the World
1968
Murder, She Wrote
1984
L.A. Law
1986
Colditz
1972
Remington Steele
1982
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
The Bionic Woman
1976
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Twin Peaks
1990
VR.5
1995
Route 66
1960
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
1963
Charlie's Angels
1976
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
A Man Called Sloane
1979
The Equalizer
1985
Combat!
1962
General Electric Theater
1953
The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985
The Long, Hot Summer
1965
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
Rawhide
1959
The High Chaparral
1967
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Climax!
1954
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Big Valley
1965
Adventures in Paradise
1959
Profiles in Courage
1964
Ben Casey
1961
Cavalcade of America
1952
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Dr. Kildare
1961
The Oscars
1953
The Defenders
1961
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
Gibbsville
1976
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1974
Letter to Loretta
1953
Batman: The Animated Series
1992
Dr. Kildare
1961
Dr. Kildare
1961
Dr. Kildare
1961
Lux Video Theatre
1950
General Electric Theater
1953
Mission: Impossible
1966
General Electric Theater
1953
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Cavalcade of America
1952
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Checkmate
1960
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
The Americans
1961
QB VII
1974
Ironside
1967
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Battlestar Galactica
1978
Sam Benedict
1962
Nancy Astor
1982
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
Hondo
1967
The Secret Servant
1984