Richard Wharton (born 21 March 1954; age 71) is an actor who played Jossen in the Star Trek: Enterprise second season episode "The Seventh".
Wharton has performed in over one hundred stage plays such as Henry V (with Jason Waters) and Hedda Gabler.
Among his resume are films such as Running Scared (1986, with Larry A. Hankin), Next of Kin (1989, with Andreas Katsulas and Michael J. Pollard), The Fence (1994, with Marc Alaimo), Herman U.S.A. (2001), Dragon Storm (2004, with Tony Amendola and John Rhys-Davies), Path of Destruction (2005), and What We Do Is Secret (2007, with Scott L. Schwartz).
Wharton has also appeared in Father Dowling Mysteries (1987), Charmed (2000, with Katie Jane Johnston), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2001, with Anthony Stewart Head, James Marsters, Franc Ross and Geoff Meed), Carnivàle (2003, starring Michael John Anderson, with Clancy Brown, Adrienne Barbeau, Patrick Bauchau, Toby Huss, Diane Salinger, Frank Collison, Richard Fancy, Robert Knepper, Scott MacDonald, Ted Rooney and Susan Savage), Deadwood (2004, starring Timothy Olyphant, with Brad Dourif, Leon Rippy, Zach Grenier and Nicolas Surovy), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2005, starring Paul Guilfoyle and Wallace Langham, with David Bowe), Six Feet Under (2005, with James Cromwell, Ed Begley, Jr., Anne Elizabeth Ramsay, and Abby Brammell), Crossing Jordan (2006, starring Miguel Ferrer and Jerry O'Connell, with Fran Bennett), and Major Crimes (2016, with Jonathan Del Arco). He has also appeared as a teacher in Walk the Prank (2017).