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Robert Picardo
Robert Picardo
	Picardo at GalaxyCon San Jose in 2024
Born	Robert Alphonse Picardo; October 27, 1953 (age 71); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education	Yale University (BA)
Occupation(s)	Actor, singer
Years active	1975–present
Spouse	Linda Pawlik; (m. 1984; div. 2014)
Children	2

Robert Alphonse Picardo (born October 27, 1953) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager. He also appeared as Richard Woolsey in the Stargate franchise, the Cowboy in Innerspace, Coach Cutlip on The Wonder Years, and Captain Dick Richard on the ABC series China Beach. He is a frequent collaborator with Joe Dante and is a member of The Planetary Society's board of directors.

Early life

Picardo was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Joe Picardo. Robert is of Italian heritage, with his father's family originating from Montecorvino Rovella, Salerno, and his mother's parents originally from Bomba in Abruzzo. He graduated from William Penn Charter School in 1971 and originally entered Yale University as a pre-medical student, but opted to act, instead. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in drama from Yale.

Picardo is an accomplished singer. While he was at Yale University, he was a member of the Society of Orpheus and Bacchus, the second-longest running undergraduate a cappella group in the United States. Also, while at Yale, he had a major role in the 1973 European premiere production of Leonard Bernstein's Mass in Vienna, conducted by John Mauceri. The production was televised by ORF and broadcast on PBS during the 1970s. His singing was also incorporated into his role in Star Trek: Voyager.

After earning his degree, he enrolled at the Circle in the Square Professional Theater Workshop. He waited tables for a few years until his theatrical work started to take off around 1976. His first breaks were appearing in the David Mamet play Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and with Diane Keaton in The Primary English Class.^[1]

Career

In 1977, Picardo made his Broadway debut, appearing in Gemini (1977) and Tribute (1978).^[2]

On television, Picardo appeared on Kojak in a 1977 episode and Taxi in a 1979 episode. He made his feature-film debut as Eddie Quist, the serial killer werewolf in the Joe Dante film The Howling (1981). He also had a recurring role in the sitcom Alice and played a doctor on an episode of The Golden Girls.

He played a number of roles in Dante's family science[fiction film Explorers (1985), and later appeared in Dante's Innerspace (1987), The 'Burbs (1989), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Matinee (1993), Small Soldiers (1998), and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003). Picardo often plays roles under layers of prosthetic latex, having also played the swamp-dwelling Meg Mucklebones in Ridley Scott's film Legend. He also had a small role as a funeral director in John Landis's Amazon Women on the Moon. Picardo also portrayed the voice and face of the robotic Johnny Cab in Total Recall.

During the 1988–1991 television seasons, Picardo was simultaneously seen on the ABC Vietnam series China Beach in the role of Dr. Dick Richard, and the ABC series The Wonder Years in the role of Coach Cutlip. He is among a small group of television actors to achieve notice on two television series at the same time.

In 1993, Picardo had a brief role as Joe "the Meat Man" Morton, a butcher and neighbor to Tim Allen's character on the sitcom Home Improvement. He also appeared in one episode of ER in 1995 as Abraham Zimble (Season 2 - Episode 6, "Days Like This"). That same year, he voiced Pfish in two Pfish & Chip shorts as seen on Cartoon Network's What-A-Cartoon! Show.

Star Trek

From 1995 to 2001, he played the role of the Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH) in the television series Star Trek: Voyager. Before being accepted for this role, Picardo initially auditioned for the role of Neelix. He later also directed two episodes. In the series, his character finally chose the name "Joe", after both the name of his wife's grandfather and Picardo's own father.

He played additional copies of the role of the EMH in the 1996 film Star Trek: First Contact^[3] and the 1997 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?". He also played Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, the creator of the EMH, in episodes of Deep Space Nine and Voyager.^{[citation needed]}

In 2002, Picardo authored The Hologram's Handbook, published by Pocket Books.^[4]

In 2007 and 2008, Star Trek: The Music was a multicity tour in which he performed with John de Lancie.^[5] Picardo and de Lancie narrated around the orchestral performance, explaining the history of the music in Star Trek.

In 2015, Picardo reprised the role of Dr. Lewis Zimmerman in the pilot episode of the fan series Star Trek: Renegades.^[6]

In 2024, he reprised the role of the EMH in the second season of Star Trek: Prodigy,^[7] and was to also appear as the Doctor in the upcoming series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy^[8].

Stargate

In 2004, he began playing the recurring role of International Oversight Advisory member Richard Woolsey in both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. His first appearance in those series was in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Heroes (Part 2)".

On February 5, 2008, Picardo was announced to be joining the regular cast of Stargate Atlantis full-time for the series' fifth and final season. He took over the role of mission commander of the Atlantis Expedition.^[9]

Later career

In 2001, Picardo guest-starred in the 7 Days episode "Revelation", purporting to be a time traveler from seven years in the future.

In 2007, he played Principal White in Ben 10: Race Against Time, and starred in the independent feature film by director Russ Emanuel, P.J., alongside John Heard and Vincent Pastore.^[10] He also starred in Russ Emanuel's Chasing the Green in 2008, with William Devane, Jeremy London and Ryan Hurst.

Picardo appeared on four episodes of E-Ring, as an enraged father in Cold Case, and as a police officer in CSI: NY. He was a recurring guest star in two episodes of season seven of Smallville, and appeared on a season-six episode of Supernatural titled "Clap Your Hands if You Believe", as a leprechaun.

Outside of acting, Picardo was a member of the Board of Directors' Advisory Council of The Planetary Society from 1999 through 2015. Beginning in 2015, he was elected to serve on the board itself.^[11]

Picardo's other career highlights include performing in Leonard Bernstein's Mass during its European debut tour, performing with the Yale University Society of Orpheus & Bacchus a cappella singing group as an undergraduate, and dozens of other television and film roles, including the film Our Last Days as Children.

Picardo provided the voice of Loki in the Xbox 360 video game Too Human. In 2009, he appeared in Pushing Daisies, Chuck, and Castle, and had the lead role in the independent psychological thriller film Sensored. In 2010, he had a cameo in the final episode of Persons Unknown, as a member of "the program"'s governing board. He also voiced Robert McNamara in the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops. He appeared in four episodes of The Mentalist from 2012 through 2013 as Jason Cooper, a lieutenant of cult leader Bret Styles.

In May 2014, Cartoon Hangover announced Picardo as a guest voice actor in the second season of Bravest Warriors, in the episode "The Parasox Pub".

In 2017, Picardo played Lt. Kitan's father Prof. Ildis Kitan in the first-season episode of The Orville titled "Firestorm", and reprised the role in the 2019 episode "Home" together with John Billingsley, who played Doctor Phlox in Star Trek: Enterprise.

Picardo appeared as himself in an episode of Schooled.^[12]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	The Howling	Eddie Quist
1983	Star 80	Interviewer
1983	Get Crazy	O'Connell
1984	Oh, God! You Devil	Joe Ortiz
1985	Explorers	Starkiller / Wak / Wak and Neek's Father
1985	Legend	Meg Mucklebones
1986	Back to School	Giorgio
1987	Munchies	Bob Marvalle
	Innerspace	The Cowboy
	Amazon Women on the Moon	Rick Raddnitz (segment "Roast Your Loved One")
1988	Jack's Back	Dr. Carlos Battera
	Dead Heat	Lieutenant Herzog
	976-EVIL	Mark Dark
1989	The 'Burbs	Garbageman
1989	Loverboy	Dr. Reed Palmer
1990	Total Recall	Johnnycab	Voice and likeness^[13]
1990	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Forster	Nominated–Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
1991	L.A. Story	Voicephone	Voice, uncredited
	Frame Up	Frank Govers
	Samantha	Neil Otto / Mr. Samantha
	Motorama	Jerry
1993	Matinee	Howard
1994	Wagons East	Ben Wheeler
1994	The Pagemaster	Pirate	Voice^[13]
1996	Star Trek: First Contact	Holographic Doctor
1997	Menno's Mind	Senator Taylor
1998	Small Soldiers	Ralph
2000	The Amati Girls	Grace's Doctor
2002	Until Morning	Brad Scott
2003	Looney Tunes: Back in Action	Acme VP, Rhetorical Questions
2008	Universal Signs	Father Joe
2009	Chasing the Green	Dave Foxx
2010	Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey	Milton	Voice^[13]
2010	Mega Shark Versus Crocosaurus	Admiral Calvin	Direct-to-video
2011	Beethoven's Christmas Adventure	Smirch	Direct-to-video
2012	Camilla Dickinson	Mr. Stephanowski
2012	Atlas Shrugged: Part II	Dr. Robert Stadler
2014	Don't Blink	Man in Black
2015	Star Trek: Renegades	Dr. Lewis Zimmerman
2015	The Meddler	Cos
2016	Hail, Caesar!	Rabbi
2016	Unbelievable!!!!!	Boris, Dr. Nontu Soon, Award Show Presenter
2018	Buttons: A Christmas Tale	Mr. Wentworth
2022	MEAD^[14]	Admiral Gillette
2022	Confess, Fletch	Count Clementi Arbogastes De Grassi
2024	Space Command Redemption	Yusef Sekander
TBA	Werewolf Game	TBA

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1977	Kojak	Thomas Rindone	2 episodes
1979	Taxi	Philip Polevoy	Episode: "Nardo Loses Her Marbles"
1980	The Dream Merchants	Mark Kessler	2 episodes
1982	Silver Spoons	Louis Morgan	Episode: "Pilot"
1982–84	Alice	Freddie, Officer Maxwell	8 episodes
1983	Archie Bunker's Place	Larry Burnett	Episode: "Captain Video"
	It Takes Two	Chad Hunter	Episode: "Looks Bad, Feels Good"
	The Other Woman	Chuchi	Television film
1984	Steambath	Rod Tandy	6 episodes
1986	The Golden Girls	Doctor Revell	Episode: "The Operation"
	Benson	Richard Alan Tracy	Episode: "Reel Murder: Part 1"
	Hardcastle and McCormick	Manny	Episode: "Brother, Can You Spare a Crime?"
	Amazing Stories	Tony Sepulveda	Episode: "Boo!"
	Scarecrow and Mrs. King	Randall Skylar	Episode: "Three Little Spies"
	Throb	Todd	Episode: "Pilot"
1987	Roses Are for the Rich	Durant	Television film
	21 Jump Street	Ralph Buckley	Episode: "Gotta Finish the Riff"
	The Man Who Fell to Earth	Agent Richard Morse	Television film
	Bates Motel	Dr. Goodman	Television film
	Private Eye	Eddie Rosen	Episode: "Pilot"
	Mr. President	Reinbeck	Episode: "Armageddon Kinda Sore"
	St. Elsewhere	Eli Muzzy	Episode: "Weigh In, Way Out"
1987, 1991	L.A. Law	John Dunphy	2 episodes
1988–91	The Wonder Years	Coach Cutlip	15 episodes Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Nominated—Viewers for Quality Television Award for Best Specialty Player
1988–91	China Beach	Dr. Dick Richard	54 episodes Nominated—Viewers for Quality Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Quality Drama Series (1990–91)
1989	The Cover Girl and the Cop	Denise's Date	Television film
1989	Newhart	Terry	Episode: "The Little Match Girl"
1992	CBS Schoolbreak Special	Paul Lance	Episode: "Two Teens and a Baby"
	Capitol Critters	Additional voices	Episode: "The KiloWatts Riots"
	The Witches of Eastwick	Raymond Gentry	Television film
	The Powers That Be	Larry Yablonsky	Episode: "Sophie's Big Decision"
1992–93	Dinosaurs	Ted, Muse, Clerk	Voice, 3 episodes
1993	Batman: The Animated Series	Eddie G.	Voice, episode: "The Man Who Killed Batman"^[13]
	The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.	Puel	Episode: "The Orb Scholar"
	Home Improvement	Joe Morton	2 episodes
	Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald	David Lifton	Television film
	Tales from the Crypt	Frank Bobo	Episode: "Till Death Do We Part"
1994	Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love	Chad Penrod	Television film
	White Mile	Tom Horton	Television film
	Rebel Highway	Mr. Ed Cahn	Episode: "Runaway Daughters"
1995	ER	Abraham Zimble	Episode: "Days Like This"
1995	Dumb and Dumber	Colonel Drab, Control Tower Voice, Chief, Cook	Voice, 2 episodes^[13]
1995, 1997	What a Cartoon!	Pfish	Voice, 2 episodes
1995–2001	Star Trek: Voyager	The Doctor, Dr. Lewis Zimmerman	172 episodes Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television
1996	The Savage Dragon	Additional voices	13 episodes
1997	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Dr. Lewis Zimmerman	Episode: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?"
	The Second Civil War	Godfrey	Television film
	Early Edition	Doctor	Episode: "Faith"
1998	The Outer Limits	Emmet Harley	Episode: "Sarcophagus"
1998	Cow and Chicken	President, Narrator	Voice, episode: "101 Uses for Cow and Chicken"^[13]
1999	Ally McBeal	Barry Philbrick	Episode: "Love's Illusions"
2000	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command	Professor Reddschift	Voice, episode: "First Missions"^[13]
2001	Seven Days	Maj. Michael McGrath	Episode: "Revelation"
2001	Frasier	Charlie Koechner	Episode: "Bully for Martin"
2002	Crossing Jordan	Father Bruno Casnelli	Episode: "Miracles & Wonders"
	The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy	Cod Commando	Voice, episode: "The Pie Who Loved Me"
	The Practice	Dr. Edmunds	Episode: "Neighboring Species"
2002–03	Justice League	Blackhawk, Amazo	Voice, 4 episodes^[13]
2003	Sabrina, the Teenage Witch	Bob Jacobs	2 episodes
	The Dead Zone	Mitch McMurty	Episode: "The Storm"
	The Lyon's Den	Det. Nick Traub	7 episodes
2004	The West Wing	E. Bradford Shelton	Episode: "The Supremes"
2004	Justice League Unlimited	Amazo	Voice, 2 episodes^[13]
2004–07	Stargate SG-1	Richard Woolsey	6 episodes
2005	The 4400	Trent Appelbaum	Episode: "Weight of the World"
2005	Masters of Horror	Kurt Rand	Episode: "Homecoming"
2005–06	E-Ring	Larry Kincaid	4 episodes
2006	The O.C.	Bill Merriam	Episode: "The Pot Stirrer"
	Eve	Professor Dunson	Episode: "To Sir, with Mom"
	Ben 10	Leader Alien	Voice, episode: "The Big Tick"^[13]
2006–09	Stargate: Atlantis	Richard Woolsey	20 episodes
2007	Cold Case	Arthur Lennox	Episode: "Knuckle Up"
	The Closer	Mr. Sheffield	Episode: "Saving Face"
	CSI: NY	Sheriff Benson	Episode "Boo"
	Women's Murder Club	Allen Douglas	Episode: "Grannies, Guns and Love Mints"
	Ben 10: Race Against Time	Principal White	Television film
2008	Smallville	Edward Teague	2 episodes
2009	Chuck	Dr. Howard Busgang	Episode: "Chuck Versus the Lethal Weapon"
2009	Pushing Daisies	Detective Puget	2 episodes
2009–10	Castle	Dr. Clark Murray	2 episodes
2010	Justified	Karl Hanselman	Episode: "The Collection"
	Persons Unknown	Silver-Haired Man	Episode: "Shadows in the Cave"
	Monsterwolf	Stark	Television film
	Supernatural	Wayne Whittaker Jr.	Episode: "Clap Your Hands If You Believe"
2011	No Ordinary Family	Vice Principal Nance	Episode: "No Ordinary Animal"
	Stargate Universe	Richard Woolsey	Episode: "Seizure"
	United States of Tara	Dr. Smolow	Episode: "Bryce Will Play"
	NTSF:SD:SUV	Damian	Episode: "Twistin' the Night Away"
2012	Harry's Law	Annie's Psychiatrist	Episode: "Gorilla My Dreams"
	Body of Proof	Henry Pedroni	Episode: "Cold Blooded"
	Femme Fatales	Hieronymus Hawks	Episode: "Bad Science"
	Austin & Ally	Dr. Grant	Episode: "Successes & Setbacks"
2012–13	The Mentalist	Jason Cooper	4 episodes
2013	Happy Endings	Mr. Logan	Episode: "The Marry Prankster"
	The Client List	Judge Hughes	Episode: "My Main Trial Is Yet to Come"
	Jessie	Cyril Lipton	Episode: "To Be or Not to Be Me"
	Hawaii Five-0	CIA Agent	Episode: "Olelo Pa'a"
	Perception	A.Z. Weyland	Episode: "Alienation"
2014	Bones	Dr. Lawrence Rozran	Episode: "The Heiress in the Hill"
2015	Aquarius	Neil Jacobs	Episode: "A Whiter Shade of Pale"
2015	Significant Mother	Dr. Robert Richter	Episode: "Who's Your Daddy?"
2016	Suspense	Arnold Keene	Episode: "The Shadow on the Screen"
	Lucifer	Yuri	Episode: "Lady Parts"
	Salem	Mr. Stoughton	Episode: "Night's Black Agents"
2017	The Good Fight	Alan Mannheim	Episode: "First Week"
	Justice League Action	Harvey Dent / Two-Face	Voice, episode: "Double Cross"^[13]
	The Last Tycoon	Leopold Ferber	Episode: "Eine Kleine Reichmusik"
2017–18	Grey's Anatomy	Mr. Nelligan	2 episodes
2017, 2019	The Orville	Ildis Kitan	2 episodes
2019	Schooled	Himself	Episode: "Money for RENT"^[12]
	Hot Streets	The Concierge	Voice, episode: "The Moon Masters"
	The Flash	Dexter Myles	2 episodes
	The Code	Col. Zugler	2 episodes
2019–21	Dickinson	Ithamar Conkey	10 episodes
2020	Space Command	Yusef Sekander	3 episodes
	Station 19	Mr. Nelligan	Episode: "Nothing Seems the Same"
	The Family Business	Bernie	2 episodes
2022	CSI: Vegas	Carlo Rey	Episode: "Burned"^[15]
2023	NCIS	Dale Harding	Episode: "Too Many Cooks"
	Quantum Leap	Dr. Edwin Woolsey	Episode: "Leap. Die. Repeat."
	A Biltmore Christmas	Harold Balaban	Television film
2024	Star Trek: Prodigy	The Doctor	Season 2
2024	Young Sheldon	Professor Salzman	Episode: "A Roulette Wheel and a Piano Playing Dog"

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force	Emergency Medical Hologram	—
2007	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	Singapore Townsfolk	—
2008	Too Human	Loki	—
2010	Star Trek Online	The Doctor	^[13]
2010	Call of Duty: Black Ops	Robert McNamara	Also motion capture^[13]
2012	Call of Duty: Black Ops II	Erik Breighner	Also motion capture^[13]
2015	Call of Duty: Black Ops III	Shadowman, Sebastian Krueger, Robert McNamara	Also motion capture for Sebastian Krueger
2015	Fallout 4	Alan Binet, Vault-Tech Scientist	^[13]
2018	Call of Duty: Black Ops 4	Robert McNamara, Shadowman	Appears in Blood of the Dead
TBA	Hellraid	Adon

Web series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time	Bernard	Episode: "Second Season Prequel"
2014–18	Bravest Warriors	Puddingtown, Eyeball	Voice, 7 episodes

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