Cause of death Cancer Role Actor Name George Murdock | Years active 1961–2012 Occupation Actor | |
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Full Name George Sawaya, Jr. Education Kansas Wesleyan University Books Soils of the Western State Savanna in Nigeria Movies and TV shows Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Breaker! Breaker!, Barney Miller, What a Country!, The Mack Similar People Florence Stanley, Gregory Sierra, Gordon Parks - Jr, Todd Bryant, Cynthia Gouw |
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George Murdock (June 25, 1930 – April 30, 2012) was an American character actor, especially prolific on television.
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Early years
Murdock was born George Sawaya, Jr. in Salina, Kansas.
Career

Murdock was known for frequently playing judges, (for instance, Judge Julius Hoffman in West Coast and Chicago stage productions of The Chicago Conspiracy Trial and in an adaptation for BBC Radio), 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 and as Admiral Hanson in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Best of Both Worlds.
Death
On April 20, 2012, Murdock died of cancer in Burbank, California, at age 81.