Alan Scarfe, the classically skilled British Canadian actor recognized for his turns as dangerous guys in Double Influence and Deadly Weapon III and as Dr. Bradley Talmadge on the UPN sci-fi sequence Seven Days, has died. He was 77.
Scarfe died April 28 of colon most cancers at his dwelling in Longueuil, Quebec, his household introduced.
Survivors embrace his son, actor Jonathan Scarfe (ER, Elevating the Bar, Hell on Wheels, Van Helsing).
Born in England and raised in Vancouver, Scarfe portrayed the Romulans Tokath and Admiral Mendak on episodes of Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology in 1991 and 1993 and was one other alien, the highly effective Justice of the Peace Augris, on a 1995 installment of Star Trek: Voyager.
“Science fiction on movie and tv, particularly if you’re taking part in some form of alien character with improbable make-up, is nice for actors with a powerful stage background,” he stated in a 2007 interview. “The productions want that form of measurement and depth of efficiency. You possibly can’t actually mumble should you’re a Klingon.”
Scarfe battled twins Alex and Chad Wagner (each portrayd by Jean-Claude Van Damme) because the depraved Nigel Griffith within the motion movie Double Influence (1991), then performed the underhanded Inner Affairs chief Herman Walters in Deadly Weapon III (1992).
He appeared as Nationwide Safety Company member Talmadge, director of the Backstep Challenge operations, on all 66 episodes of Seven Days, which ran for 3 seasons, from 1998-2001.
Alan John Scarfe was born on June 8, 1946, in Harpenden, England. His dad and mom, Gladys and Neville, had been college professors who introduced the household to Vancouver when he was younger. (A constructing on the College of British Columbia is known as for his dad, who was the founding dean of the school of schooling there.)
After graduating from Lord Byng Secondary College in Vancouver, Scarfe returned to England to review on the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Artwork from 1964-66, then served as affiliate director of the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool from 1967-68.
He spent 20 years performing in theaters throughout Europe, the U.S. and Canada — together with eight seasons on the Stratford Competition and two on the Shaw Competition, each in Ontario — doing numerous Shakespeare.
“I needed to be a terrific classical actor within the lengthy custom of Burbage, Garrick, Kean, Sales space, Olivier,” he stated. “Forty-five years in the past after I started, it was nonetheless attainable to suppose in such a romantic, idealistic means.”
He made it to Broadway in 1988, portraying Macduff in a manufacturing of Macbeth that starred Christopher Plummer and Glenda Jackson.
He pivoted from the stage to the display screen and moved to Los Angeles along with his household in 1989 however returned to Canada in 2002 and co-starred along with his son within the 2003 telefilm Burn: The Robert Wraight Story.
His big-screen résumé included The Bay Boy (1984), Deserters (1984), In a single day (1986), Road Justice (1987), Iron Eagle II (1988), The Portrait (1992), the David Steinberg-directed The Mistaken Man (1997), Aka Albert Walker (2003) and The Hamster Cage (2005).
Scarfe additionally was an creator. His first novel, The Revelation of Jack the Ripper, was printed in 2017, and he shortly adopted with what he referred to as “The Carnivore Trilogy”: The Vampires of Juarez, The Demons of 9/11 and The Masks of the Holy Spirit. (He initially wrote underneath the pen title Clanash Farjeon, an anagram of his full title.)
Scarfe’s second spouse was actress Barbara March, who performed Lursa, one of many villainous Duras sisters, on three Star Trek sequence. They met at Stratford and had been married from 1979 till her dying from most cancers in August 2019 at age 65.
His first spouse was actress Sara Botsford.
He’s additionally survived by his daughter, Tosia, a musician and composer, and her husband, Austin, who each lived with and cared for him till his dying; his grandchildren, Kai and Hunter, and his brother, Colin.