Richard Lynch

Richard Hugh Lynch (born February 12, 1940 in Brooklyn , New York - † June 19, 2012 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor .

Life

Lynch joined the United States Marine Corps in 1958 and served four years. In 1967 he set himself on fire while intoxicated with LSD , which resulted in his scarred face. He took acting lessons from Uta Hagen and Lee Strasberg and initially played in Broadway and Off-Broadway performances. He had in 1973 in which the his film debut Golden Palm of the International Film Festival of Cannes winning feature film asphalt flowers .

He subsequently had a career as a television actor and was a frequent guest star on television series such as Starsky & Hutch , Airwolf , Baywatch - The Lifeguards of Malibu and Six Feet Under for over three decades . In 1978 he starred in five episodes of the science fiction series Battle Star Galactica . For his portrayal of Titus Cromwell in Talon in the fight against the Empire , he was awarded the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1983 ; Most of his other feature film appearances were in B-movies like Cyborg III or Alligator II - The Mutation , exceptions are Little Nikita and Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween 2007 and his horror thriller The Lords of Salem .

Filmography (selection)

• 1973: Asphalt Blossoms (Scarecrow)
• 1973: The Seven-Ups
• 1974: Open Season - Hunting Season (Open Season)
• 1975: Starsky & Hutch (Starsky and Hutch) (pilot)
• 1976: Bronk
• 1977: The Streets of San Francisco (The Streets of San Francisco)
• 1978: Battlestar Galactica (Battlestar Galactica)
• 1978: Giants with steel fists (Deathsport)
• 1978: Vegas episode: The Flamethrower
• 1979: Six men of steel
• 1979: Charlie's Angels (Charlie's Angels)
• 1980: The formula (The Formula)
• 1982: Talon fighting the Empire (The Sword and the Sorcerer)
• 1983: TJ Hooker
• 1984: The Fall Guy (The Fall Guy)
• 1984: The A-Team (The A-Team)
• 1985: Airwolf
• 1985: Trio with four fists (Riptide)
• 1985: Invasion USA (Chuck Norris - Invasion USA)
• 1987: The Barbarians (The Barbarians)
• 1988: Little Nikita
• 1988: Bad Dreams
• 1991: Alligator II: The Mutation
• 1993: Starship Enterprise: The Next Century (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
• 1994: Scanner Cop
• 1994: Murder is her hobby (Murder, She Wrote)
• 1995: Highlander - The Series (Highlander)
• 1995: Baywatch - The Lifeguards of Malibu (Baywatch)
• 2002: Six Feet Under - Died always (Six Feet Under)
• 2003: Charmed (Charmed)
• 2007: Halloween
• 2009: Laid to Rest

Awards

• 1983: Saturn Award for Talon in the fight against the empire

Web links

• Richard Lynch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Richard Lynch in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
• Richard Lynch in nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death report in the Los Angeles Times on June 27, 2012.
2. ↑ cf. filmflausen.de ( Memento of the original dated December 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Rest in Peace: Richard Lynch
4. ↑ Saturn Awards official site ( Memento of the original from May 23, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 5, 2008. 
5. ↑ cf. popmatters.com , accessed May 29, 2012.
6. ↑ Richard Lynch talks Rob Zombie's “THE LORDS OF SALEM” ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.