Anthony Zerbe
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Actor Anthony Zerbe (born 20 May 1936 in Long Beach, California) played Vice Admiral Matthew Dougherty in Star Trek: Insurrection.
In 1958, Zerbe joined the California Air National Guard, transferring to the Air Force Reserve in 1960 without serving on active duty. A year before his discharge in 1968, Zerbe made his feature film debut in the 1967 classic Cool Hand Luke, which featured two-time TOS guest star Morgan Woodward.
In 1970, Zerbe co-starred in They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! alongside TOS guest actor Jeff Corey. He then went on to co-star with Charlton Heston in the 1971 science fiction thriller The Omega Man (also featuring Brian Tochi). And in 1973, Zerbe starred in the film Papillon, alongside Star Trek: Deep Space Nine guest stars Bill Mumy and Gregory Sierra and TOS guest stars William Smithers, Ron Soble, and Vic Tayback.
Zerbe's other feature films include The Parallax View (1974), Rooster Cogburn (1975, with Jon Lormer and Andrew Prine), The Dead Zone (1983), Steel Dawn (1987, alongside Christopher Neame), P.I. Private Investigations (also 1987, with Clayton Rohner, Robert Ito, and Phil Morris), the James Bond film License to Kill (1989, with Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989, with Zach Grenier), and 1999's True Crime (with Michael McKean, William Windom, and Jack Kehler). He more recently played Councillor Hamann in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.
He also has several television credits to his name. Besides several appearances on Mission: Impossible and Gunsmoke and a recurring role on The Equalizer (starring Robert Lansing and Keith Szarabajka), he also co-starred with William Shatner in the 1972 made-for-TV adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. He went on to appear in the 1978 mini-series Centennial. His co-stars on that series included Sally Kellerman, Michael Ansara, Brian Keith, Morgan Woodward, and James Sloyan. That same year, he played evil inventor Abner Devereaux in the made-for-TV movie KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, co-starring the band KISS as well as future Star Trek: Voyager guest actor Terry Lester. In 1986, he was a guest star on another mini-series, North and South, Book II. Joining him for this series were Jonathan Frakes, David Ogden Stiers, Jean Simmons, William Schallert, Kurtwood Smith, and Leon Rippy. This was followed by several movie and television apperances, including a starring role on the series "The Young Riders" (1989 - 1992) as Pony Express supervisor "Teaspoon" Hunter.
In 1976, Zerbe won an Emmy Award for his performance on the crime series Harry O, on which he played Lieutenant K.C. Trench. His co-stars on this series included fellow Trek alumni Henry Darrow and Keye Luke
