# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-herd
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:07:43.212Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-herd"
name: "Richard Herd"
slug: "richard-herd"
description: "Richard Thomas Herd Jr. was an American actor appearing in numerous supporting, recurring, and guest roles in television series and occasional film roles from the 1970s to the 2010s. He was well known in the science fiction community for his role in the 1983 NBC miniseries V and 1984 sequel V: The Final Battle, as John, the Visitors' Supreme Commander. Other major roles in his career included recurring parts on the NBC series seaQuest DSV as Admiral William Noyce; on Star Trek: Voyager as Admiral Owen Paris, the father of helmsman Tom Paris; and as George Costanza's boss Matt Wilhelm on Seinfeld. In two guest appearances on Quantum Leap, he played children's show host \"Captain Galaxy\", a would-be time traveler, and a miner named Ziggy Ziganovich. He also voiced Father Elijah in the Dead Money expansion for Fallout: New Vegas. Herd appeared at several fan conventions for his science fiction roles."
tagline: "American actor (1932–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Herd_2005.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1932-09-26"
deathDate: "2020-05-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.543728
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0378800"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.richardherd.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump