
Dan O'Herlihy
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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.
Known for
Credits

RoboCop (1987)
as The Old Man

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
as Conal Cochran

RoboCop 2 (1990)
as The Old Man

The Last Starfighter (1984)
as Grig

100 Rifles (1969)
as Steven Grimes

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
as Commando Captain (uncredited)

Waterloo (1970)
as Marshal Michel Ney

Imitation of Life (1959)
as David Edwards

Macbeth (1948)
as Macduff

MacArthur (1977)
as President Roosevelt

The Dead (1987)
as Mr. Browne

Fail Safe (1964)
as Brig. Gen. Warren A. Black

The Virgin Queen (1955)
as Lord Derry

Death Ray 2000 (1981)
as The Director

The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
as Prince Hal of Wales

At Sword's Point (1952)
as Aramis Jr.

Robinson Crusoe (1954)
as Robinson Crusoe

The Whoopee Boys (1986)
as Judge Sternhill

The Purple Mask (1955)
as Brisquet

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1974)
as Leonard Jerome

The Rat Pack (1998)
as Joe Kennedy

Love, Cheat & Steal (1993)
as Hamilton Fisk

The Cabinet of Caligari (1962)
as Caligari / Paul

The Tamarind Seed (1974)
as Fergus Stephenson

Soldiers Three (1951)
as Sgt.Murphy

King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961)
as Detective Phil Butler

One Foot in Hell (1960)
as Sir Harry Ivers

Odd Man Out (1947)
as Nolan

The Quest: The Longest Drive (1976)
as Mathew Hatcher

Invasion, U.S.A. (1952)
as Mr. Ohman

Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free (1976)
as Tip Conaker

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War (2020)
as Self (archive footage)

How to Steal the World (1968)
as Prof. David Garrow

The Carey Treatment (1972)
as J.D. Randall

Good Against Evil (1977)
as Father Kemschler

Home Before Dark (1958)
as Arnold Bronn

Buñuel in Hollywood (2000)
as Self

Artemis '81 (1981)
as Albrecht Von Drachenfels

Bengal Brigade (1954)
as Capt. Ronald Blaine (as Daniel O'Herlihy)

The Blue Veil (1951)
as Hugh Williams

The Big Cube (1969)
as Charles Winthrop

Larceny (1948)
as Duke

A Waltz Through the Hills (1988)
as Uncle Tom

The Young Land (1959)
as Judge Millard Isham

Dark Mansions (1986)
as Alexander Drake

The Highwayman (1951)
as Robin

Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter (1979)
as Mark Twain

Hungry Hill (1947)
as Harry Brodrick

The People (1972)
as Sol Diemus

The Iroquois Trail (1950)
as Lt. Blakely

A Terrible Beauty (1960)
as Don McGinnis

Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' (2000)
as Self

Deadly Game (1977)
as Colonel Edward Stryker

Actors and Sin (1952)
as Alfred O'Shea / Narrator (segment Actor's Blood)

Sword of Venus (1953)
as Danglars

That Woman Opposite (1957)
as Dermot Kinross

Kidnapped (1948)
as Alan Breck

Operation Secret (1952)
as Lt. Duncan

Hunters of the Deep (1955)
as Narrator

The Blackwell Story (1957)
as Dr. Keller





