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
RoboCop 2 (1990)
as The Old Man
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
as Conal Cochran
The Last Starfighter (1984)
as Grig
100 Rifles (1969)
as Steven Grimes
Macbeth (1948)
as Macduff
Waterloo (1970)
as Marshal Michel Ney
The Dead (1987)
as Mr. Browne
Fail Safe (1964)
as Brig. Gen. Warren A. Black
Love, Cheat & Steal (1993)
as Hamilton Fisk
Imitation of Life (1959)
as David Edwards
The Carey Treatment (1972)
as J.D. Randall
Robinson Crusoe (1954)
as Robinson Crusoe
MacArthur (1977)
as President Roosevelt
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
as Commando Captain (uncredited)
Buñuel in Hollywood (2000)
as Self
The Tamarind Seed (1974)
as Fergus Stephenson
The Big Cube (1969)
as Charles Winthrop
The Cabinet of Caligari (1962)
as Caligari / Paul
The Purple Mask (1955)
as Brisquet
The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
as Prince Hal of Wales
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' (2000)
as Self
Odd Man Out (1947)
as Nolan
The Whoopee Boys (1986)
as Judge Sternhill
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free (1976)
as Tip Conaker
Home Before Dark (1958)
as Arnold Bronn
The Blue Veil (1951)
as Hugh Williams
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1974)
as Leonard Jerome
The Virgin Queen (1955)
as Lord Derry
At Sword's Point (1952)
as Aramis Jr.
The Rat Pack (1998)
as Joe Kennedy
The Young Land (1959)
as Judge Millard Isham
How to Steal the World (1968)
as Prof. David Garrow
One Foot in Hell (1960)
as Sir Harry Ivers
A Terrible Beauty (1960)
as Don McGinnis
The Quest: The Longest Drive (1976)
as Mathew Hatcher
The People (1972)
as Sol Diemus
Invasion, U.S.A. (1952)
as Mr. Ohman
Actors and Sin (1952)
as Alfred O'Shea / Narrator (segment Actor's Blood)
Good Against Evil (1977)
as Father Kemschler
Deadly Game (1977)
as Colonel Edward Stryker
The Iroquois Trail (1950)
as Lt. Blakely
That Woman Opposite (1957)
as Dermot Kinross
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961)
as Detective Phil Butler
Dark Mansions (1986)
as Alexander Drake
Artemis '81 (1981)
as Albrecht Von Drachenfels
The Highwayman (1951)
Actor
Bengal Brigade (1954)
as Capt. Ronald Blaine (as Daniel O'Herlihy)
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Larceny (1948)
as Duke
Hungry Hill (1947)
as Harry Brodrick
Sword of Venus (1953)
as Danglars
Kidnapped (1948)
as Alan Breck
Soldiers Three (1951)
as Sgt.Murphy
Death Ray 2000 (1981)
as The Director
Operation Secret (1952)
as Lt. Duncan
A Waltz Through the Hills (1988)
as Uncle Tom
The Blackwell Story (1957)
as Dr. Keller
Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter (1979)
as Mark Twain
Hunters of the Deep (1955)
as Narrator