Richard Hatch (Melbourne and Brisbane)
As an actor, Richard Hatch has enjoyed international recognition for more than two decades. He starred in such series as The Streets of San Francisco playing Dan Robbins for which he won Germany's Bravo Award, the equivalent of an Emmy Award, and Capt Apollo on Battlestar Galactica, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. These two series continue to play throughout the world today. In addition, Richard originated the role of Philip Brent on ABC's All My Children. Richard is currently playing the role of Tom Zarek on the new re-imagined version of Battlestar Galactica playing on the Sci-fi channel. The series has been playing for three years to great critical success. Time magazine called the new series the number one best drama on TV period.Richard began his theatrical career with the Los Angeles Repertory Theater and starred in several Off-Broadway plays and musicals including the Obie Award winning musical, Love Me Love My Children and PS Your Cat Is Dead in Chicago. Most recently, Richard starred in the musical Pepper Street and The Name Game in Los Angeles.
In addition, Richard has starred in such movies for television as The Hatfield's And The McCoy's with Jack Palance, Addie And The Kings Of Hearts with Jason Robards, Last Of The Belles with Susan Sarandon, The Class Of 65, The Hustler Of Muscle Beach, and the cult classic Deadman's Curve in which he portrayed Jan Berry of the musical group "Jan and Dean". He has also guest starred in numerous television series including Dynasty, T.J. Hooker, MacGyver, Murder, She Wrote, and Jake and the Fatman. His starring feature film credits include Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen with Michelle Pfeiffer, The Jungle, Prisoners of the Lost Universe, African Fever and Party Line. Furthermore, Richard starred in The Hitchhikers, an adaptation of the Eudora Welty short story, with Patty Duke, Second Chance with Arte Johnson and Renaissance in which he starred and associate produced. Most recently, Richard completed filming The Battle for Mono Lake, a documentary, which he hosted and narrated, the feature films Iron Thunder and Unseen, both genre films, The Ghost, in which he stars with Michael Madsen and Brad Dourif, The Rainmakers with Jake Busey, which just completed filming and a new Sci-fi film starring with Marina Sirtis called Inalienable, written by Walter Koenig of Star Trek. Richard can currently be heard on Quaker Oat Meal television commercials in addition to other voice-over work
Richard has just completed writing and editing for a new BG book called "SO SAY WE ALL" for Benbella books. This new book of critical essays exploring the BG mythos will be out in Oct. In addition he has written a series of Battlestar Galactica hardback novels for Byron Preiss Publications. The first book, Armageddon was released in July 1997 and the first edition sold out in only three weeks. The second book Warhawk was released in September 1998, followed in May 2001 by the third book of the series, Resurrection. The epic odyssey continues with Rebellion, released in 2002, Paradise, July 2003 and Destiny, out Spring 2004. Richard's seventh BG novel "Redemption" debuted in 2005. In addition he has also written Battlestar Galactica stories for Extreme Comics and Realm Press. In 1999, Richard wrote, co-directed and executive-produced a 4 minute Battlestar Galactica Trailer which not only won acclaims at science-fiction conventions but also in the worldwide press. At present, Richard completed and has been previewing his other pet project, a new four minute theatrical trailer for his new Science Fiction series, The Great War of Magellan, which he created, wrote, produced and directed for his production company MerlinQuest Entertainment Inc. In addition Richard's company just made a deal with Blam Ventures who will produce a trilogy of Magellan graphic novels based on his story, the first of which will be out March of 2007. The Magellan role playing game will debut this coming Sept at Dragoncon in Alanta. He is in discussions to create a series and/or video game based on the Magellan story. Recently he gave his voice to the character "Paulus" on a new Battlestar Galactica prequel game for PlayStation 2 & XBox.
Richard is currently teaching acting at the Third Stage theatre in Burbank and lectures and conducts workshops on acting, self-expression, and communication throughout the world. He has taught and lectured at SAG conservatory, Miners Alley playhouse in Golden Colorado, The Learning Annex, The Learning Tree University, UCLA Extension, Orange Coast College, Maui Community College. He has also directed and produced acting showcases for the industry. In addition Richard has taught self expression and communication workshops for The Whole Life Expo, Body Mind Spirit Expo's, Windstar, AMGEN, Rocketdyne, Mensa, and Synergy One, as well as privately for groups and individuals.
Richard looks forward to meeting all his fans at Supanova and will be appearing at both the Melbourne and Brisbane events Saturday from 10.30am to 5.30pm and Sunday from 11.00am to 5.00pm.
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