Richard Lynch
Gender:	Male
Date of birth:	12 February 1936
Place of birth:	Brooklyn, New York, USA
Character(s):	Arctus Baran

Richard Lynch (born 12 February 1936; age 76) is an American actor from Brooklyn, New York who portrayed Arctus Baran in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Gambit, Part I" and "Gambit, Part II"

Lynch made his feature film debut in 1973's Scarecrow and has since appeared in over 90 film and television projects, many of which are in the science fiction/horror film genre. These include God Told Me To (1976), The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982, with Anthony De Longis, Jeff Corey, George Murdock, and Jay Robinson), Savage Dawn (1985, with Charles H. Hyman, Tim Culbertson, and Biff Yeager), In 1988 Lynch acted both in the historical drama Eight Men Out about the 1919 Black Sox Scandal working on the film with John Anderson, Gordon Clapp, Christopher Lloyd, James Read and Kevin Tighe and Bad Dreams with Harris Yulin, Julianna McCarthy, Randy Oglesby, Louis Giambalvo, Steven Anderson, Coleen Maloney, Tim Trella, and Tony Cecere), Alligator II: The Mutation (1991, with Brock Peters), Puppetmaster III: Toulon's Revenge (1991, with Ian Abercrombie and Aron Eisenberg), Trancers II (1991, with Jeffrey Combs), Necronomicon (1994, co-starring Jeffrey Combs, David Warner, Dennis Christopher, and Gary Graham). He also made a number of appearances as "Wolfe" on Battlestar Galactica (starring John Colicos) and as "Xavier" on its follow-up series, Galactica 1980.

Other credits include the pilot episode and third and fourth season episodes of Starsky & Hutch (starring David Soul), and further guest appearances on The Bionic Woman, Barnaby Jones (with Lee Meriwether), The A-Team (starring Dwight Schultz, Melinda Culea, William Lucking, and Lance LeGault), Murder, She Wrote (with William Windom), and T.J. Hooker, starring William Shatner, James Darren, and Richard Herd.

He is the older brother of fellow Star Trek: The Next Generation guest star Barry Lynch, who played Stefan DeSeve in the season six episode "Face of the Enemy".

Other Trek connectionsEdit

• Shattered Illusions (1998) with Leland Crooke and Spice Williams.

External linksEdit

• OfficialRichardLynch.tripod.com - official web site
• Richard Lynch (actor) at Wikipedia
• Richard Lynch at the Internet Movie Database
• Richard Lynch at Battlestar Wiki, an encyclopedia of the Battlestar Galactica sagas