Donald Moffat

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1930-12-26

Place of Birth

Plymouth, Devon, England, UK

Donald Moffat

Biography

Donald Moffat (26 December 1930 – 20 December 2018) was an English actor with decades long career in film and stage in the United States. He began his acting career on and off Broadway which included appearances in The Wild Duck and Right You Are If You Think You Are, earning a Tony Award nomination for both, as well as Painting Churches for which he received an Obie Award. Moffat also appeared in several feature films including The Thing and The Right Stuff, along with his guest appearances in the television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and The West Wing.

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Known For

Columbo

Columbo

The West Wing

The West Wing

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote

Dallas

Dallas

Bonanza

Bonanza

Bonanza

Bonanza

Little House on the Prairie

Little House on the Prairie

Mannix

Mannix

Ironside

Ironside

Ironside

Ironside

Acting History

Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Matthew Sherwood

61* as Ford Frick

Bull as Robert 'The Kaiser' Roberts

The West Wing as Talmidge Cregg

Cookie's Fortune as Jack Palmer

A Smile Like Yours as Dr. Felber

The Evening Star as Hector Scott

Trapped in Paradise as Clifford Anderson

Is There Life Out There? as Grandpa Walter

Clear and Present Danger as President Bennett

Love, Cheat & Steal as Frank Harrington

Tales of the City as Edgar Halcyon

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Walt Whitman

Majority Rule as Walter Simms

Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story as O'Connell

Housesitter as George Davis

Babe Ruth as Jacob Ruppert

Regarding Henry as Charlie Cameron

The Great Pretender as Owen Milner

Class Action as Quinn

The Bonfire of the Vanities as Mr. McCoy

Kaleidoscope as Arthur Patterson

A Son's Promise as Paw Paw

Kojak: Flowers For Matty as Garrett Fitzsimons

Music Box as Harry Talbot

Cross of Fire as George Oberholtzer

Far North as Uncle Dane

The Bourne Identity as David Abbott

The Unbearable Lightness of Being as Chief Surgeon

Necessary Parties as Grampa Mills

When the Time Comes as Harold

Desperado as Malloy, Nora's Dad

License to Kill as Howard Webster

Houston: The Legend of Texas as Col. John Allen

L.A. Law as Judge Lawrence O'Neil

Lily as John Farnsworth

Monster in the Closet as General Franklin Turnbull

The Best of Times as Herbert ("The Colonel")

The Twilight Zone as (segment "The Star")

Alamo Bay as Wally

Murder, She Wrote as Tim Carver

Who Will Love My Children? as Dick Thomas

Through Naked Eyes as Patrolman

The Right Stuff as Lyndon B. Johnson

The Thing as Garry

A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion as Captain Vesey

The White Lions as Vreeland

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy as Hugh Auchincloss

My Champion as Dr. Myron Shapiro

Popeye as The Taxman

HealtH as Colonel Cody

The Long Days of Summer as Josef Kaplan

On the Nickel as Sam

Promises in the Dark as Dr. Walter McInerny

Mrs. R's Daughter as Frank Randell

Ebony, Ivory and Jade as Ian Cabot

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter as Wally Ball

The Gift of Love as William Schuyler

The Word as Henri Aubert

Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force as Col. Benton

Tartuffe as Tartuffe

Dallas as Brooks Oliver

Mary White as Sir James Barrie

Logan's Run as Rem

The Fitzpatricks

Exo-Man as Wallace Rogers

Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years as Harry Hopkins

Code R as Jack Douglas

The Call of the Wild as Simpson

Forget-Me-Not Lane as Charles Bisley

Earthquake as Dr. Harvey Johnson

Little House on the Prairie

The Terminal Man as Dr. Arthur McPherson

Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love as Fred

A Touch of the Poet as Jamie Cregan

The Six Million Dollar Man as Lester Burstyn

The Six Million Dollar Man as Dr. Martin Davis

The Snoop Sisters as Shriver Danforth

Showdown as Art Williams

The Waltons as Lester Morgan

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid as Manning

The Devil and Miss Sarah as Appleton

Columbo as Sheldon Hays

Great Performances as Charles Bisley

Night Gallery as Uncle George (segment "Pickman's Model")

The Young Rebels

R.P.M. as Perry Howard

The File on Devlin as John Heywood

Hawaii Five-O as Dr. David Forbes

Rachel, Rachel as Niall Cameron

Of Mice and Men as Slim

Mannix as Don McGrath

The High Chaparral as Henry Simmons

Coronet Blue as The Rector

Ironside as Daniel Keyes

Ironside as Hartz

Mission: Impossible as Alex Pierson

Art, what is it? Why is it? as Narrator

The Defenders as Dr. Leon Elm

The Defenders as Dr. Finch

Bonanza as Judge MacIntyre

Bonanza as Thatcher

Naked City as Brickwell

The Battle of the River Plate as Swanston - Lookout, HMS Ajax (uncredited)

Tony Awards as Self - Nominee

Gunsmoke as Joseph Graham

Hallmark Hall of Fame as John Heywood

Roger Williams: Founder Of Rhode Island as Roger Williams