Richard Poe

Richard Poe (born January 25, 1946) is an American actor. He has worked in movies, television and on Broadway.

Richard Poe
Born (1946-01-25) January 25, 1946
Portola, California, United States
OccupationActor
Years active1987-present
Awards2012 Barrymore Award - Outstanding Leading Actor In A Play - The Outgoing Tide Philadelphia Theatre Company 2102 New York Independent Film Festival Best Actor Teresa Is A Mother
Websiterichardpoenyc.com

Poe was born in Portola, California. He graduated from Pittsburg Senior High School in 1964 then from the University of San Francisco in 1967. He served in the US Army during the Vietnam War era. Along with Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Mark Lenard, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Armin Shimerman and John de Lancie he is one of only a few actors to play the same character on three different Star Trek series. He played Gul Evek in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) and Star Trek: Voyager (1995). He appeared in A Christmas Carol at Ford's Theatre, 2006, as Ebenezer Scrooge, and appeared on Broadway in fourteen productions, including the original M. Butterfly (Tony Award), Our Country's Good, The Pajama Game (Tony Award), Journey's End (Tony Award) and All The Way (Tony Award). He created roles in the off-Broadway productions of Paul Rudnick's Jeffrey and Christopher Durang's Why Torture Is Wrong...And The People Who Love Them.

He provided narration for the audiobook version of the Cormac McCarthy’s novels Blood Meridian and The Crossing. He won the 2004 Audie Award for his narration of East Of Eden, has been nominated three other times, and has been a frequent recipient of Audiofile Magazine's Earphone Award.

Partial filmography

  • Episode: "Pilot" (1990) .... Tyrone
  • Episode: "Happily Ever After" (1990) .... Forensic Scientist
  • Episode: "Working Mom" (1997) .... Mac Bernum
  • Episode: "Oops" (1993) .... Chopper Dave
  • Episode: "Miracle on Third or Fourth Street" (1993) .... Chopper Dave
  • Episode: "Clyde and Vivian and Ed and Malice" (1994)
  • Episode: "Becoming a Buchanan" (1995)
  • Episode: "Viv'acious" (1995)
  • Episode: "Terror at 30,000 Feet" (1995) .... Herb
  • Episode: "Ezekiel Rage" (1996) .... Dr. Smallwood (voice)
  • Episode: "There Are No Words" (2000) .... Admiral
  • Episode: "Home Is Where the Ducks Are" (2000) .... Jim Ludwig
  • Episode: "Hidden Agendas" (2004) .... Dalton Locke

References

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