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Jeremy Kemp (3 January 193519 July 2019; age 84) was an English actor who portrayed Robert Picard in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fourth season episode "Family".

He was born Edmund Jeremy James Walker in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, the son of an engineer from a Yorkshire landed gentry family. After national service with the Gordon Highlanders and the Black Watch, he studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He adopted his mother's maiden name as his stage moniker.

Career[]

He began his acting career in the 1950s, making rounds at repertoire theatres and later joining the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Old Vic for two seasons. He won the Carleton Hobbs Bursary award which led to a six-month contract with the BBC's Radio Drama Company.

Kemp was featured in a number of war films through the 1960s and 1970s, including the WWI film The Blue Max (1966, scored by Jerry Goldsmith), the WWII TV miniseries The Rhinemann Exchange (1977, with Stephen Collins, René Auberjonois, John Hoyt, and Kate Woodville) and the WWII film A Bridge Too Far (1977, with Ben Cross).

Kemp appears also in the famous World War II sagas Winds of War and War and Remembrance as Brigadier General Armin von Roon. Several other Star Trek actors appeared in the series as well, including William Schallert, Natalia Nogulich, Logan Ramsey, Paul Lambert, Charles Napier, Bruce French, George Murdock, John Rhys-Davies, and Steven Berkoff.

In 1975, he guest starred in the sci-fi series Space: 1999, starring Nick Tate and Clifton Jones, in the episode "Voyager's Return", which is similar in theme to the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Friendship One". In a 1984 episode of Granada Television's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," he played the main antagonist, Dr. Grimesby Roylott, the tyrannical stepfather of the character played by Rosalyn Landor.

His last role was in the Conan: The Adventurer television series which ran for one season in 1997-98 and featured Jimmie F. Skaggs, Brad Greenquist, Time Winters, Anthony De Longis, Michael Berryman, Mariette Hartley, and Jack Donner in guest roles, as well as Daniel Riordan as the series' narrator.

He died on July 19, 2019. [1]

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