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John Cothran, Jr. (born 31 October 1947; age 76) has played three roles in episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Enterprise and two roles in the Simon and Schuster interactive games. Three of his characters were Klingons including his appearance in Star Trek: Klingon. He also played a Human character, Doctor Bennington Biraka, in the video game Star Trek: Borg.

Film work[]

Cothran made his acting debut in 1979's A Pleasure Doing Business (with Alan Oppenheimer). He then played a gypsy in the dystopian Escape From New York (1981, with Adrienne Barbeau, Billy Van Zandt, and Tony Papenfuss). However, nearly a decade passed before Cothran was seen on film again and that was 1989's The Kill Reflex (with James Otis and Fred Williamson). Cothran was cast in his first television film role in the holiday-themed The Kid Who Loved Christmas (1990, with Ben Vereen and Vanessa Williams). The same year he was seen on the big screen in the comedy Opportunity Knocks (with Lorna Raver).

1990s[]

In 1991 Cothran appeared in Aftermath: A Test of Love (with Raye Birk, Scott Jaeck, Jeanne Mori, and Biff Yeager), Boyz n the Hood (1991, with Jessie Lawrence Ferguson) and Ricochet (1991, with Tim de Zarn, Victoria Dillard, Sherman Howard, Carlos LaCamara, and Albie Selznick).

In 1992, Cothran appeared in the television film Secrets (with Brenda Bakke, Stephanie Beacham, Paul Collins, and Christopher Plummer), Poetic Justice (1993, starring Clifton Collins, Jr.), Jimmy Hollywood (1994, with Christian Slater) and then the television film Where Are My Children? (with Corbin Bernsen, William Frankfather, Jerry Hardin, Angela Paton, David Sage, David Spielberg, and Harvey Vernon), Mr. Wrong (1996, with Brad William Henke, Camille Saviola, Dean Stockwell, and Peter White). He also appeared in the television film Her Last Chance (directed by Richard Colla and co-starring William Lucking). Cothran won a role in the 1997 short film Platform Six (with Michael Shamus Wiles). That same year he appeared in Spawn (with Laura Interval, Michael Papajohn, and Frank Welker), Kiss the Girls (1997, with Larry Cedar, Ashley Judd, Gina Ravarra, and Tracey Walter). He rounded out the decade first in Always Outnumbered (1998, with Bill Cobbs and Danny Goldring), and The Limey (1999, with William Lucking, Randy Lowell and Wayne Péré).

2000s[]

Cothran began the 21st century in The Cell (2000, with Vanessa Branch, Nicholas Cascone, and Musetta Vander),The Gene Pool (2001, with Tony Jay). Cothran won his first voice-acting job contributing to the 2005 video game Madagascar (sharing the microphone with Michael Bell, John Kassir, and Keith Szarabajka). In 2008, he appeared in the Jim Carrey-led comedy Yes Man (with Fionnula Flanagan, Spencer Garrett, and Michael Papajohn). A year later in 2009, he rejoined Clifton Collins, Jr. and Tracey Walter in the baseball drama The Perfect Game (which also costarred Bruce McGill). Cothran's most recent film role was his second job as a voice actor, the animated Rango (co-written by John Logan and this time sharing the mic with Ian Abercrombie and Stephen Root).

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