Richard Lynch

Richard Lynch was an actor from Brooklyn, New York who portrayed Arctus Baran in the Star Trek: The Next Generation seventh season episodes  and  in. 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.

Lynch was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA and 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 has portrayed Wolfe in the Original Series "BattleStar Galactica", the first Xaviar in "Galactica 1980" and Count Iblis in "Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming". He is the only actor to hold the distinction for appearing in Battlestar Galactica, Galactica 1980, and Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming.

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 also appeared in the 1998 thriller Shattered Illusions with Leland Crooke and Spice Williams-Crosby.

On 19 June 2012, Lynch was found dead in the kitchen of his home in Palm Springs, CA. According to his spokesperson Mike Baronas, explained the details of his death in an official statement, one of Lynch's friends found Lynch dead on the kitchen floor of his home after not hearing from him for a few days. He is believed to have died from natural causes, as no investigation into the cause of his death will be made.