John de Lancie Biography

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John de Lancie (born March 20, 1948) is an American actor. He has been active in screen and television roles since 1977, and has been featured for several recurring roles on American television series, including Q in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager; Colonel Frank Simmons in Stargate SG-1; Donald Margolis in Breaking Bad; and the voice of Discord in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

Personal life

De Lancie was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Andrea and John de Lancie, who was principal oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1954 to 1977. He is married to actress-singer Marnie Mosiman, and they have two sons, Keegan and Owen.

Acting career

Star Trek

De Lancie portrayed the god-like Q, a recurring character in several of the Star Trek franchises. Q is one of the few characters appearing in multiple shows of the Star Trek franchise: in eight episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation ("Encounter at Farpoint", "Hide and Q", "Q Who", "Deja Q", "Qpid", "True Q", "Tapestry", "All Good Things..."), in one episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ("Q-Less"), and in three episodes of Star Trek: Voyager ("Death Wish", "The Q and the Grey", "Q2"). De Lancie's son, Keegan de Lancie, appeared with his father as Q's son in the Star Trek: Voyager's episode "Q2".

Other television roles

In addition to his roles in Star Trek, de Lancie appeared in many other television shows. He was a popular actor on the soap opera Days of Our Lives as Eugene who one day went down to the basement and was never seen again. He also co-starred in Star Trek writer Michael Piller's creation Legend, had a recurring roles in Stargate SG-1 as an NID agent. He has also appeared as Dr. Deroy in three television films of Emergency! Additionally de Lancie has also guest starred in multiple television series, including Breaking Bad, The West Wing, Charmed, Andromeda, The Unit, Law & Order: LA, Torchwood: Miracle Day, Touched by an Angel, Mission: Impossible (1980s Revival) and Special Unit 2.

De Lancie has also voiced characters in several animated series, including Duck Dodgers, The Angry Beavers, Max Steel, Invader Zim, and the antagonist Discord, who appears in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

De Lancie was the narrator for a General Motors commercial in the early 1980s that featured a robot that drops a bolt and talks about the future of the auto industry.

Films

His film credits include The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Get Smart, Again!, The Fisher King, Bad Influence, The Onion Field, Taking Care of Business, Fearless, Arcade, Multiplicity, Woman on Top, Nicolas, Good Advice, Patient 14, The Big Time, Teenius, Pathology, Evolver, and Reign Over Me, My Apocalypse, and You Lucky Dog.

Stage career

He has been a member of The American Shakespeare Festival, The Seattle Repertory Company, South Coast Repertory, The Mark Taper Forum, and the Old Globe where he recently performed Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues.

De Lancie has performed and directed for Los Angeles Theater Works, the producing arm of KCRW-FM and National Public Radio, where the series The Play's the Thing originates.

He appeared in Star Trek: The Music, a touring company, with Robert Picardo. De Lancie and Picardo narrate around the orchestral performance, explaining the history of the music in Star Trek.

De Lancie performed the character Pierre Curie in Alan Alda's play, "Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie" in 2001 at at the Geffen Theater in Los Angeles.

Audio dramas

De Lancie is co-owner, with Leonard Nimoy, of Alien Voices, a company producing radio-style dramatization of classic science fiction. De Lancie produced, co-wrote, and directed audio dramatizations of The Time Machine, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Lost World, The Invisible Man, and The First Men in the Moon as well as three television specials for the Sci-Fi Channel. In addition, he played the lead in Yuri Rasovsky's audio version of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. He also narrated the show "Black Holes", an educational show produced by the Clark Planetarium for use in full dome planetarium star theaters.

Video games

De Lancie provided the voice of the character Antonio Malochio in the PC game Interstate '76, as the angel Trias in the video game Planescape: Torment, and as Dr. Death in Outlaws. He also provided the voice for William Miles in Assassin's Creed: Revelations and Assassin's Creed III, the voice of Professor Fitz Quadwrangle in Quantum Conundrum, and Q in the Star Trek: The Next Generation pinball game, Star Trek: Borg and Star Trek: The Game Show.

Documentary

While on stage at the 2012 Ottawa ComicCon, de Lancie announced that he had made plans to co-produce a documentary about "bronies," older, usually male teenage and adult fans of the television show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. De Lancie stated that he was taken aback by how disrespectful national news media portrayed the brony fandom. He resolved to do it "the right way" and, with the help of producer Michael Brockhoff and director Laurent Malaquais, began a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the documentary, now titled Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony. The Kickstarter campaign began on May 13, 2012 and by June 10, 2012 had reached a grand total of $322,022, becoming Kickstarter's second highest funded film project of all time.

Music career

De Lancie has performed as narrator with a number of major orchestras including the New York Philharmonic the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the Montreal Symphony. He provided the narration for the world premiere of Lorenzo Palomo's "The Sneeches" (based on the book by Dr. Seuss) with the Oberlin Conservatory Orchestra.

De Lancie was the host of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Symphonies for Youth for four years where he helped conceptualize the student concerts "Don't Educate"Stimulate". In addition, he has written and directed ten symphonic plays which were produced with the Milwaukee, St. Paul Chamber, Ravinia, Los Angeles, and Pasadena Orchestras.

He was the writer, director, and host of First Nights, an adult concert series at Disney Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, based loosely on the book of the same name by Thomas Forrest Kelly, which explored the life and music of Stravinsky, Beethoven, Mahler, Schumann, and Prokofiev. In 2006, de Lancie made his opera directorial debut with The Atlanta Opera performing Puccini's "Tosca" on May 18 to May 21.

Writing career

De Lancie co-wrote the Star Trek novel I, Q with Peter David, as well as co-writing the novel Soldier of Light with Tom Cool. He was the writer for the DC comic book story "The Gift."

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	The Onion Field	LAPD Lieutenant #2
1990	Bad Influence	Howard
	Taking Care of Business	Ted Bradford Jr.
1991	The Fisher King	TV executive
1992	The Hand that Rocks the Cradle	Dr. Victor Mott
1993	Arcade	Difford
1993	Fearless	Jeff Gordon
1995	Evolver	Russell Bennett
1996	Multiplicity	Ted
1998	You Lucky Dog
1999	Final Run	George Bouchard
2000	Woman on Top	Alex Reeves
2001	Nicolas	Dr. Fisher
	Good Advice	Ted
2002	The Big Time
2007	Reign Over Me	Nigel Pennington
	Teenius	Principal Senseman
2008	My Apocalypse	Nathan Eastman
	Pathology	Dr. Quentin Morris
2009	Crank: High Voltage	Fish Halman
	Gamer	Chief of Staff
2013	Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony	Himself	Co-producer

Television

Year	Series	Role	Notes
1977 "1978	The Six Million Dollar Man	various	Incl. Episode "Death Probe"
1978 "1979	Emergency!	Dr. Deroy
1979	Battlestar Galactica	Officer	Episode "Experiment in Terra"
1981	Nero Wolfe	Tom Irwin	Episode "Might as Well Be Dead"
1982 "1986	Days of our Lives	Eugene Bradford
1983	The Thorn Birds	Alastair MacQueen	television mini-series
1986	The New Twilight Zone	The Dispatcher	segment "Dead Run"
	MacGyver	Brian Ashford	Episode "The Escape"
	Murder, She Wrote	Binky Holborn	Episode: "If the Frame Fits"
1987 "1994	Star Trek: the Next Generation	Q	"Encounter at Farpoint", "Hide and Q", "Q Who", "Deja Q", "Qpid", "True Q", "Tapestry" and "All Good Things..."
1988	Mission: Impossible revival series	Matthew Drake	Episode "The Killer"
1989	Get Smart, Again!	Major Preston Waterhouse	uncredited
1989	The Nutt House	Norman Shrike	Episode: "Pilot"
1991	L.A. Law	Mark Chelios	Episode "The Beverly Hill Hangers"
1992	Civil Wars
1993	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Q	"Q-Less"
1993	Batman: The Animated Series	Eagleton
1994	Without Warning	Reporter	TV movie in mockumentary style
1995	Legend	Janos Bartok
1996	Picket Fences	District Attorney	Episode "Three Weddings and a Meltdown"
1997	Duckman	Tyler Fitzgerald	Episode "From Brad to Worse"
	Touched by an Angel	Justinian Jones	Episode: "Jones vs. God"
1996 "2001	Star Trek: Voyager	Q	"Death Wish", "The Q and the Grey" and "Q2"
1999	The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest	Dr. Quest
2000	Angry Beavers	The Yak in the Sack	Episode: "Yak in the Sack Gets Thwacked"
2000	The West Wing	Al Kiefer
	Sports Night	Bert Stors	Episode "April is the Cruelest Month"
2001	Special Unit 2	King of the Links	Episode "The Eve"
2001	The Practice	Walter Bannish
2001	Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future	Gerard Hamilton	Episode "The Surrender of Earth"
2001 "2002	Stargate SG-1	Colonel Frank Simmons / Goa'uld	Seasons 5"6 (5 episodes)
2001 "2002	Andromeda	Sid Barry / Sam Profitt	Episodes "The Pearls That Was His Eyes" and "Cui Bono"
2003	Judging Amy	Dr. Eagan	Episode "Picture of Perfect"
	Duck Dodgers	Sinestro	Episode "The Green Loontern"
2004 "2005	Charmed	Odin
2005	The Closer	Dr. Dawson	Episode "Flashpoint"
2009	Greek	Himself	Episode "The Dork Knight"
2009 "2010	Breaking Bad	Donald Margolis	Episodes: "Over", "Phoenix", "ABQ", & "No Mas"
2011	Law & Order: LA	Judge Avery Staynor	Episode "Carthay Circle"
	Franklin & Bash	Gallen	Episode "Bachelor Party"
	Torchwood: Miracle Day	Agent Allen Shapiro
	Young Justice	Mister Twister	Episode: "Welcome to Happy Harbor"
2011 "2013	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic	Discord	Episodes: "The Return of Harmony Part 1", "The Return of Harmony Part 2", & "Keep Calm and Flutter On"
2012	NTSF:SD:SUV::	Leonardo da Vinci	Episode "Time Angels"
	The Secret Circle	Royce Armstrong	Episode "Crystal"