Dan O'Herlihy
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.
Filmography
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
2000
as Self
Buñuel in Hollywood
2000
as Self
The Rat Pack
1998
as Joe Kennedy
Love, Cheat & Steal
1993
as Hamilton Fisk
RoboCop 2
1990
as The Old Man
A Waltz Through the Hills
1988
as Uncle Tom
The Dead
1987
as Mr. Browne
RoboCop
1987
as The Old Man
Dark Mansions
1986
as Alexander Drake
The Whoopee Boys
1986
as Judge Sternhill
The Last Starfighter
1984
as Grig
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
1982
as Conal Cochran
Artemis '81
1981
as Albrecht Von Drachenfels
Death Ray 2000
1981
as The Director
Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter
1979
as Mark Twain
Deadly Game
1977
as Colonel Edward Stryker
MacArthur
1977
as President Roosevelt
Good Against Evil
1977
as Father Kemschler
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
1976
as Tip Conaker
The Quest: The Longest Drive
1976
as Mathew Hatcher
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1974
as Leonard Jerome
The Tamarind Seed
1974
as Fergus Stephenson
The Carey Treatment
1972
as J.D. Randall