George Murdock
Actor, TV Actor
1930 – 2012
Who was George Murdock?
George Murdock was born George Sawaya, Jr. in Salina, Kansas. He was an American actor.
Known for frequently playing judges, he also performed the role of "Big Daddy" in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with the Arizona Theater Company during the 1988 season. He was also Laszlo Gabo on the 1986-87 sitcom What a Country!.
Among his most famous characters for movies and TV were Lt. Scanlon, the oily NYPD Internal Affairs officer in Barney Miller, Dr. Salik in Battlestar Galactica TV series, God in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, directed by William Shatner, who called him "a wonderful actor", and as Admiral Hanson in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Best of Both Worlds.
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