George Murdock (born George Sawaya Jr.; June 25, 1930 â€" April 30,
2012) was an American character actor, especially prolific on
television.Murdock was born in Salina, Kansas. He was the second child
of seven children born to George R. Sawaya, a Lebanese immigrant, and
Olive (Johnson) Sawaya.Murdock was known for frequently playing
judges, (for instance, Judge Julius Hoffman in West Coast and Chicago
stage productions of The Chicago Conspiracy Trial and in an adaptation
for BBC Radio), he also performed the role of "Big Daddy" in Tennessee
Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with the Arizona Theater Company
during the 1988 season. He was also Laszlo Gabo on the 1986â€"87
sitcom What a Country!.Among his most well-known characters for movies
and TV were Lt. Scanlon, the oily NYPD Internal Affairs officer in
Barney Miller, Dr. Salik in Battlestar Galactica TV series, "God" in
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Admiral Hanson in the Star Trek: The
Next Generation episode "The Best of Both Worlds", and as Yuri
Testikov in the Seinfeld episode, "The Marine Biologist".
2012) was an American character actor, especially prolific on
television.Murdock was born in Salina, Kansas. He was the second child
of seven children born to George R. Sawaya, a Lebanese immigrant, and
Olive (Johnson) Sawaya.Murdock was known for frequently playing
judges, (for instance, Judge Julius Hoffman in West Coast and Chicago
stage productions of The Chicago Conspiracy Trial and in an adaptation
for BBC Radio), he also performed the role of "Big Daddy" in Tennessee
Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with the Arizona Theater Company
during the 1988 season. He was also Laszlo Gabo on the 1986â€"87
sitcom What a Country!.Among his most well-known characters for movies
and TV were Lt. Scanlon, the oily NYPD Internal Affairs officer in
Barney Miller, Dr. Salik in Battlestar Galactica TV series, "God" in
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Admiral Hanson in the Star Trek: The
Next Generation episode "The Best of Both Worlds", and as Yuri
Testikov in the Seinfeld episode, "The Marine Biologist".
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