Nick Tate (born 18 June 1942; age 82) is an actor who played Dirgo in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fourth season episode "Final Mission" and Liam Bilby in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine sixth season episode "Honor Among Thieves". Tate had originally lost out to actor Charles Hallahan for the latter role, but accepted it after Hallahan died suddenly of a heart attack before filming began.
He was born as Nicholas John Tate in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and started his acting career in the 1960s. In 1976 he received an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role in the drama The Devil's Playground.
Tate is best known for his role as Astronaut Alan Carter on Space: 1999 (1975-77, starring Martin Landau, with Clifton Jones). Fred Freiberger worked as producer and writer during the second season of the show, while Art Wallace wrote an episode of the first. Guest stars on the series included Joan Collins, Jeremy Kemp, Christopher Held, Kathryn Leigh Scott, and Carolyn Seymour.
During the production of Space: 1999, Tate co-starred in the unsold sci-fi pilot The Day After Tomorrow (1975), narrated by Ed Bishop, for the show's producer Gerry Anderson.
Tate has also guest-starred in Night Court (starring John Larroquette, with Miriam Flynn), Matlock (with David Spielberg, directed by Leo Penn), Murder, She Wrote (with Kim Braden, Peter Dennis, Clement von Franckenstein, and Spencer Garrett), Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (starring Joe Lando and Chad Allen), The X-Files (with Brian Thompson and George Murdock, directed by Kim Manners), Diagnosis: Murder, JAG (with Steven Culp), The Lost World (with John Noble), Farscape, and Lost (starring Terry O'Quinn and Daniel Dae Kim, created by J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof).
In 1989, Tate co-starred with George Takei in the war film Return from the River Kwai, which also featured Michael Dante in the cast. He also had supporting roles in films such as Cry Freedom (1987, with W. Morgan Sheppard), Hook (1991, starring Robin Williams, with Gary Epper), Bed of Roses (1996, starring Christian Slater, with Pamela Adlon and Aldis Hodge), The Gene Generation (2007, with Jeff Imada, Hiro Koda, and Googy Gress), and The Great Gatsby (2013).
He later had guest roles in episodes of The Pacific (2010, with Conor O'Farrell), City Homicide (2011), and SLiDE (2011) and Killer Elite (2011).
Recently, he has been one of the leading voice-over artists for movie trailers.
Interviews[]
- "Deep Space Pirate", Star Trek Monthly issue 42
External links[]
- NickTate.com – official site
- Nick Tate at the Internet Movie Database
- Nick Tate at Wikipedia