Richard Hatch (actor)

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Richard Hatch (2005)

Richard Hatch (born May 21, 1945 in Santa Monica , California - †  February 7,  2017 in Los Angeles , California) was an American actor and writer .

Life

Hatch first attended Harbor College in San Pedro. In 1967 he moved to New York City , where he worked on various off-Broadway productions and received an Obie Award . In 1971 he was cast for the soap opera All My Children , after which his career as a television actor began. Guest roles followed in various television series such as The Waltons and Hawaii Five-Zero , until he succeeded Michael Douglas in The Streets of San Francisco in 1976 . The series was not renewed the following year, but this enabled him to take on one of the lead roles in Battlestar Galactica in 1978 . He played Cpt. Apollo , son of the commander Adama ( Lorne Greene ), in the then most expensive television series in the USA at seven million dollars per episode. The series consisted of 24 episodes, from which two movies (each from three episodes) were cut together for the German-speaking area. In the unsuccessful ten-part follow-up series (from which the third German film resulted) Hatch was no longer on board. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal .

In the early 1980s, Hatch had a major supporting role in the feature film Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen , where he played the grandson of detective Charlie Chan ( Peter Ustinov ). In 1983 he played the lead role in science fiction - B-movie Prisoners of the Universe . Until the mid-1980s, he continued to appear in many television series, including a recurring guest role in The Denver Clan . As his appearances became rarer, he wrote some fantasy books about the Galactica universe.

In 2004 he was hired as the only actor in the original series for the new edition Battlestar Galactica , but in a different role.

Hatch died on February 7, 2017, at the age of 71, of complications from pancreatic cancer in a Los Angeles hospital.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1979: Golden Globe nomination for Battlestar Galactica

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Natalie Stone: Richard Hatch, Star of Battlestar Galactica, Dies at 71. In: people.com February 7, 2017, accessed February 8, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Hatch, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Monica , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2017
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States