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Richard Riehle (born 12 May 1948; age 75) is a prolific character actor who appeared as Batai in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fifth season episode "The Inner Light", Seamus in the Star Trek: Voyager sixth season episodes "Fair Haven" and "Spirit Folk" and Jeremy Lucas in the Star Trek: Enterprise fourth season episodes "Cold Station 12" and "The Augments". His lab coat from "Cold Station 12" was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1] He stands at 5’11”

Television work[]

Riehle has appeared in over fifty other television series and about one hundred films. He made his episodic television debut in 1989 with a guest appearance on Quantum Leap, starring future Enterprise actors Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. He made another appearance on the show the following year. He also made three guest appearances on L.A. Law, co-starring with Corbin Bernsen, Larry Drake, Jennifer Hetrick, Salome Jens, and Sam Anderson.

In addition, Riehle has guest-starred on such shows as Murder, She Wrote (with William Windom and Mark Rolston), Murder One (with John Fleck, Gregory Itzin, and Vanessa Williams), The Visitor (with Richard Cox and Leon Rippy), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (with Armin Shimerman), Diagnosis: Murder (with Scarlett Pomers and Leon Russom), The West Wing (with Ed Begley, Jr., J. Michael Flynn, Glenn Morshower, and Tony Plana), and Boston Legal (starring William Shatner and René Auberjonois). Riehle also had a recurring role as Uncle Dave on the short-lived TV sitcom Married to the Kellys (2003-04), which co-starred Sam Anderson and Bruce Gray. Perhaps Riehle's most famous television role is that of Walter Finnerty on the FOX Network sitcom Grounded For Life.

Riehle's notable made-for-TV movies include A Killer Among Us (1990, with Mike Genovese and Dwight Schultz), Keeper of the City (1991, with Tony Plana, John Putch, Jimmie F. Skaggs, and Tony Todd), Mr. Murder (1998, with Jim Beaver, Stephanie Niznik, and Bill Smitrovich) and The Pentagon Wars (with Sam Anderson, Bruce French, and Randy Oglesby), Au Pair (1999, with John Rhys-Davies), and the Columbo movies Ashes to Ashes (1998, with Spencer Garrett and Richard Libertini) and Murder with Too Many Notes (2000, with with Van Epperson, Obi Ndefo, Randy Oglesby, and Herschel Sparber).

Film work[]

One of Riehle's earliest films was 1989's Black Rain, in which he and Next Generation guest star Stephen Root played Internal Affairs agents. (The film also featured Tim Kelleher and Keone Young.) In 1999, Riehle and Root co-starred in Office Space (with Diedrich Bader and Paul Willson).

Riehle's exhaustive film credits also include Glory (1989, with Bob Gunton, Mark Margolis, and Ethan Phillips), Of Mice and Men (1992, with Ray Walston), Body of Evidence (1993, with Michael Forest, Frank Langella, and Mark Rolston), Free Willy (1993, with Lori Petty), The Fugitive (1993, with Andreas Katsulas, Daniel Roebuck and Danny Goldring), Casino (1995, with an uncredited Steven R. Schirripa), Executive Decision (1996, directed by Stuart Baird with Len Cariou, Andreas Katsulas, and Warren Munson), Desperate Measures (1998, with Dennis Cockrum and Tracey Walter), Mighty Joe Young (1998, with Geoffrey Blake, Richard McGonagle, Scarlett Pomers, Lawrence Pressman, and Tracey Walter). Riehle also appeared in Ghosts of Mississippi (1996, with Whoopi Goldberg, Virginia Madsen, Susanna Thompson, Bill Cobbs, Spencer Garrett, Jerry Hardin, Thomas Kopache, Terry O'Quinn, Brock Peters, and Bill Smitrovich.

His later credits include the 2001 independent film The Gristle (with Michael Dorn), Joe Dirt (2001, with Brian Thompson), The Laramie Project (2002, with Clancy Brown), Time Changer (2002, with Callan White), The Hebrew Hammer (2003, with Andy Dick), and the 2005 family movie The 12 Dogs of Christmas (starring John Billingsley). He also worked with his Enterprise co-star John Billingsley and Tony Todd in Jerome Bixby's The Man from Earth (2007).

Star Trek appearances[]

Other Trek connections[]

Additional projects in which Riehle appeared with other Star Trek performers include:

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