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Jim Metzler (born 23 June 1951; age 73) is an actor who played Chris Brynner in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine third season episodes "Past Tense, Part I" and "Past Tense, Part II".

He has appeared in many other popular television series such as Dexter, Mad Men, Grey's Anatomy, Murder, She Wrote, Diagnosis: Murder, JAG, Sliders (starring Jerry O'Connell), CSI: NY and NYPD Blue. He also appeared in two episodes of Beauty and the Beast (starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman and Armin Shimerman).

In 1983, he received a Golden Globe nomination for his supporting role in the 1982 film Tex co-starring Tom Virtue. He went on to play James Huntoon in the 1985 mini-series North and South and its 1986 continuation, North and South, Book II. Other Trek alumni who appear in this series include Jonathan Frakes, Kirstie Alley, Leon Rippy, William Schallert, Jean Simmons, Kurtwood Smith, David Ogden Stiers, and Anthony Zerbe. In 1987, he co-starred with William Daniels and John Rhys-Davies in the TV movie The Little Match Girl.

He also co-starred in 976-EVIL (1988, with Star Trek: Voyager actor Robert Picardo and featured Paul Willson) and Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992, co-starring Star Trek: The Next Generation actress Marina Sirtis and Zach Galligan).

His other motion picture credits include Squeeze Play! (1979, with Jennifer Hetrick), Four Friends (1981, with Craig Wasson, David Graf, Elizabeth Goldstein, and Natalia Nogulich), Tex (1982, with Tom Virtue), River's Edge (1986, with Daniel Roebuck), Hot to Trot (1988, with Virginia Madsen, Donald Hotton, George D. Wallace, Robert Towers, and Vyto Ruginis), Old Gringo (1989, with Paul Williams), Circuitry Man (1990, with Dennis Christopher, Barbara Alyn Woods, and Paul Willson), Delusion (1991, with Robert Costanzo and Rudolph Willrich), One False Move (1992, with Earl Billings and Jennifer Watson-Johnston), Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995, with Michael Ensign), Cadillac Ranch (1996, with Christopher Lloyd), L.A. Confidential (1997, with James Cromwell, Steve Rankin and Paul Guilfoyle) and The United States of Leland (2003, with Michael Welch, Ann Magnuson, Ron Canada, and Matt Malloy).

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