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Bill Smitrovich (born 16 May 1947; age 76) is an actor from Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA, who played Michael Webb in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes "Past Tense, Part I" and "Past Tense, Part II".
Smitrovich's most prominent role was that of Drew Thatcher on the family drama Life Goes On. Smitrovich starred in the series for all of its four seasons (1989-93). Prior to this, he was a regular on the TV series Crime Story.
Four years after Life Goes On, Smitrovich had a recurring role as Bob "Bletch" Bletcher in Chris Carters' Millennium series, on which Terry O'Quinn was a regular. Smitrovich had previously co-starred with O'Quinn in the films Without a Trace (1983, in which both Smitrovich and Thomas Kopache appeared as policemen), Silver Bullet (1985, with Leon Russom and Lawrence Tierney), and Ghosts of Mississippi (1996, co-starring Whoopi Goldberg, Susanna Thompson, Brock Peters, Richard Riehle, and Bill Cobbs).
From 2001 through 2003, Smitrovich had a regular role as Assistant District Attorney Kenneth Welsh on the TV drama The Practice. He also made two additional appearances as Walsh in 2004. During his time on this show, Smitrovich worked with such Star Trek performers as Earl Boen, Ellen Bry, Alan Dale, Eve Brenner, Richard Cox, Bari Hochwald, Clyde Kusatsu, John Larroquette, Virginia Madsen, Mark Margolis, Dakin Matthews, Carolyn McCormick, Richard McGonagle, Mark Moses, Alan Oppenheimer, Andrew Robinson, Cristine Rose, Jennifer Savidge, Mark L. Taylor, and Star Trek: The Original Series star William Shatner.
Additionally, Smitrovich made two guest appearances on Miami Vice. His "Past Tense" co-star Frank Military (Biddle Coleridge) was a writer for that series. Smitrovich also had a role in the made-for-TV films Fail Safe, in which he co-starred with James Cromwell, and The Reagans, in which he played the role of Alexander Haig.
His film appearances include the 1984 comedy Splash (with Clint Howard, Charles Macaulay, Jill Jacobson, Christopher Thomas, Valerie Wildman, and Patrick Cronin), Michael Mann's 1986 thriller Manhunter, the 1996 science fiction blockbuster Independence Day (with Brent Spiner, Erick Avari, Leland Orser, Raphael Sbarge, Robert Pine, and Tim Kelleher), 1996's The Phantom (with Leon Russom and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) and The Trigger Effect (with Rick Worthy and William Lucking), 1997's Air Force One (with Dean Stockwell), and the 2000 political thriller Thirteen Days (with Steven Culp, Tim Kelleher, Kevin Conway and Michael Eugene Fairman). He most recently appeared in the film The Game of Their Lives, starring Patrick Stewart.
Since 2004, Smitrovich has recurred as Special Agent Alexander Olczyk on Without a Trace, the CBS crime drama starring Enrique Murciano. Other Star Trek actors he has worked with on this show include John Cothran, Jr., John Doman, Claudette Nevins, and Jennifer Parsons.
External links
- Bill Smitrovich at Wikipedia
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