Dierk Torsek (born 1 September 1949; age 75) is the actor who played Harry Bernard, Sr. in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "When The Bough Breaks".
He started his career as a stage actor and performed in several plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky from 1979 to 1984, under his birth name Dierk Toporzysek. Steve Rankin was also a member of the company at the time and appeared with Torsek in several of these productions. Torsek subsequently moved to Los Angeles and began a screen career, mostly playing supporting roles on television.
Torsek appeared in guest roles in episodes of numerous television series, including Remington Steele (starring Pierce Brosnan, with Vaughn Armstrong, directed by Gabrielle Beaumont), Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Hotel (with William Schallert, directed by Nancy Malone), St. Elsewhere (starring William Daniels, Norman Lloyd, Ed Begley, Jr., and Christina Pickles, with Alfre Woodard, Deborah May, Joanna Miles, Ray Walston, and France Nuyen), Matlock (with Rosalyn Landor and Daniel Roebuck), Cagney & Lacey (with Stephen Macht), Newhart (with Julie Cobb), Designing Women, Dallas, Jake and the Fatman (with James Cromwell, Gregory Itzin, and Mark L. Taylor), Thirtysomething (with Ken Jenkins and David Clennon), Beverly Hills, 90210 (with Ann Gillespie, directed by Robert Becker), Picket Fences, L.A. Law (starring Corbin Bernsen), Diagnosis: Murder (with John Arndt and Robert Bralver, directed by Vincent McEveety), Silk Stalkings (with Charlie Brill and Jennifer Hetrick), The Pretender (with Brock Peters), The Practice (with Craig Wasson, Natalia Nogulich, Richard McGonagle, and Bob Minor), Murphy Brown (with Don McManus and Haley Joel Osment), Chicago Hope (starring Jayne Brook), Melrose Place (with Mark L. Taylor, directed by Chip Chalmers), and Nikki (starring Nikki Cox).
From 2009 to 2017, he played the recurring role of Reverend Hayver in The Middle (with Bill Blair), which is his last acting credit to date.
Torsek also had supporting roles in the TV movies I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later (1985), Right to Die (1988, with Joanna Miles, Lilyan Chauvin, and Lily Mariye), Roe vs. Wade (1989, with Terry O'Quinn, Jerry Hardin, Daniel Benzali, George Murdock, James Avery, Paul Lambert, Kenneth Tigar, Ward Costello, Glenn Morshower, David Selburg, Randy Oglesby, and Karole Selmon), and Innocent Victims (1996, with Don McManus, Sam Anderson, Gregory Itzin, Glenn Morshower, Don Keefer, and Deborah Strang), and the films Shattered (1991, with Corbin Bernsen and Theodore Bikel) and The Meteor Man (1993, with Frank Gorshin, Jenifer Lewis, Wallace Shawn, and Deborah Lacey).