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[[Image:Pran_Tainer.jpg|thumb|'''William Lithgow''' as [[Pran Tainer]].]]
 
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|name = William Lithgow
'''William Lithgow''' (born {{d|7|August|1939}} in Los Angeles, California) played [[Pran Tainer]] in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "[[Inheritance]]". This is his only known role in episodic television.
 
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|birthday = {{d|7|August|1939}}
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|birthplace = Los Angeles, California, USA
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'''William "Bill" Lithgow''' {{born|7|August|1939}} is an actor from Los Angeles, California who played [[Doctor]] [[Pran Tainer]] in the {{s|TNG}} [[TNG Season 7|seventh season]] episode {{e|Inheritance}}. His costume from this episode was later sold off on the [[It's A Wrap! sale and auction]] on eBay. {{stala|6810}} {{stala|2534}}
His only other known acting credits are the 1979 made-for-TV [[movie]] ''The Fantastic Seven'', starring [[Christopher Lloyd]], and the 1982 TV movie ''Drop-Out Father'', with [[Bill Erwin]], [[Bruce Gray]], and [[Monte Markham]]. However, he did recently film a horror movie called ''Dead in the Water'', in which he plays a fisherman.
 
   
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Lithgow previously appeared in the television drama ''The Fantastic Seven'' (1979, starring [[Christopher Lloyd]]) and in the television comedy ''Drop-Out Father'' (1982, with [[Mariette Hartley]], [[William Daniels]], [[Bill Erwin]], [[Bruce Gray]], [[George Coe]], [[Richard Penn]], and [[Monte Markham]]). He then worked for and taught acting for Stella Adler.
[[Category:Performers|Lithgow, William]]
 
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More recently, Lithgow had supporting parts in the horror thriller ''Dead in the Water'' (2006), the drama ''A Beautiful Life'' (2008), and the drama ''The Inner Circle'' (2009, with [[Colby French]] and [[Mariette Hartley]]), worked in several stage plays such as "The 60s" (2006) and "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" (2007) at the Pacific Resident Theater in Venice, California, and worked as researcher on the 2011 short drama ''The Painted Woman''.
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== External links ==
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* {{imdb|name/nm0514361|Bill Lithgow|external}}
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* {{NowCasting|williamlithgow}}
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Revision as of 21:25, 3 December 2019

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William "Bill" Lithgow (born 7 August 1939; age 84) is an actor from Los Angeles, California who played Doctor Pran Tainer in the Star Trek: The Next Generation seventh season episode "Inheritance". His costume from this episode was later sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1] [2]

Lithgow previously appeared in the television drama The Fantastic Seven (1979, starring Christopher Lloyd) and in the television comedy Drop-Out Father (1982, with Mariette Hartley, William Daniels, Bill Erwin, Bruce Gray, George Coe, Richard Penn, and Monte Markham). He then worked for and taught acting for Stella Adler.

More recently, Lithgow had supporting parts in the horror thriller Dead in the Water (2006), the drama A Beautiful Life (2008), and the drama The Inner Circle (2009, with Colby French and Mariette Hartley), worked in several stage plays such as "The 60s" (2006) and "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" (2007) at the Pacific Resident Theater in Venice, California, and worked as researcher on the 2011 short drama The Painted Woman.

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