Peter Mark Richman

Peter Mark Richman (born April 16, 1927) is an American actor who has starred in films and on television, who was for many years credited as Mark Richman. He appeared in over 30 films and over 130 television series since the 1950s.

Life and career
Born Marvin Jack Richman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Jewish parents, he is the son of Yetta Dora (née Peck) and Benjamin Richman, a painting and paper-hanger contractor. He has been married to actress Helen (Landess) Richman since 1953, and they have five children together, including composer and Grammy Award-winning conductor Lucas Richman.

Making his feature film debut in William Wyler's 1956 film Friendly Persuasion, Richman was, by that time, already a regularly employed television actor, as well as a member of New York's Actors Studio, a resource of which he would avail himself frequently until moving to Los Angeles in 1961. He is perhaps best known for his role as Nicholas "Nick" Cain in the 1961 films The Murder Men and The Crimebusters. He reprised his role as Nicholas Cain in the NBC television series Cain's Hundred. Richman's other TV roles were on the soap opera Santa Barbara as Channing Creighton 'C.C.' Capwell (1984), Longstreet as Duke Paige, on the ABC soap opera Dynasty as Andrew Laird (1981–1984), and a recurring role on Three's Company (1978–1979) as Chrissy's father, Rev. Luther Snow. Guest star on Beverly Hills, 90210. His other films include Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) and Vic (2005).

His television credits include Hawaii Five O, Justice, The Fall Guy, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Stoney Burke, Breaking Point, The Fugitive, The Outer Limits, Blue Light, The Invaders, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Wild Wild West, Bonanza, Daniel Boone, The Silent Force, Get Christie Love!, The Bionic Woman, Knight Rider, Three's Company  and Matlock. He was often seen on Mission: Impossible and Combat!, as well as other shows of that era. He appeared as Ralph Offenhouse in Star Trek: The Next Generation's first season episode "The Neutral Zone". Richman starred in the penultimate filmed episode of The Twilight Zone, called "The Fear". He voiced The Phantom in the animated series Defenders of the Earth.

His most recent film credits are Mysteria and After the Wizard, both released in 2011. Richman sits on the Board of Trustees of the Motion Picture and Television Fund.

Partial filmography

 * Friendly Persuasion (1956) as Gard Jordan
 * The Strange One (1957) as Cadet Colonel Corger
 * Girls on the Loose (1958) as Police Lt. Bill Hanley
 * The Black Orchid (1958) as Noble
 * The Murder Men (1961) as Nick Cain
 * The Crimebusters (1962) as Nicholas Cain
 * The Borderland, The Outer Limits (December 1963) as Professor Ian Fraser)
 * Dark Intruder (1965) as Robert Vandenburg
 * Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966) as Adam Chance
 * Blue Light (1966, TV series) (episode "The Friendly Enemy") as Von Stafenberg
 * The Fugitive, 2 episodes (1964-1966, TV series) as Deputy Steel / Johnny
 * Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, season 2: "The Monster's Web" (1966, TV series) as Gantt
 * The Invaders, episode 4: "The Leeches" (January 31, 1967, TV Series) as Tom Wiley
 * Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, season 4: "Secret of the Deep" (1968, TV series) as John Hendrix
 * For Singles Only (1968) as Gerald Pryor
 * Hawaii Five-O (1969, TV series) (episode "Along Came Joey") as Nick Morgan
 * House on Greenapple Road (1970) as Sal Gilman
 * The Silent Force (1970, TV series) (episode "A Deadly Game of Love")
 * Yuma (1971) as Major Lucas
 * Get Christie Love! (1974, TV series) as Young
 * Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, 2 episodes (1976, TV series) as The Pharaoh
 * The Bionic Woman, (1977, TV series) (episode "Escape To Love") as Col. Dubnov
 * Three's Company, 3 episodes (1977-1979, TV series) as Reverend Snow
 * Blind Ambition (1979, TV series) as Robert Mardian
 * PSI Factor (1980) as Edgar Hamilton
 * Battlestar Galactica 1980 (The Night the Cylons Landed Parts I and II) (1980) as Colonel Briggs
 * Dynasty, 27 episodes (1981-1984, TV series) as Andrew Laird
 * Knight Rider (1983-1985, TV series) (in "Goliath Returns" as Dr. Klaus Bergstrom and in "Many Happy Returns" as Kleist)
 * "The Neutral Zone", Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988, TV series) as Ralph Offenhouse
 * Judgement Day (1988) as Priest
 * Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) as Charles McCulloch
 * The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) as Arthur Dunwell
 * Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1996, TV series) as old Peter Parker / Spider-Man (voice)
 * Poolhall Junkies (2002) as Phillip
 * Vic (2005) as Paul Marcus
 * After the Wizard (2011) as Charles Samuel Williams
 * Mysteria (2011) as Senator Mitchell