Mitchell Ryan’s career spans almost 6 decades in television and film. Ryan is known for playing Burke Devlin in the 1960s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, and later for his co-starring role as Thomas Gibson’s free-spirited father Edward Montgomery on Dharma & Greg.
In addition to Halloween, His other acting credits include Liar, Liar, Magnum Force, Lethal Weapon playing General Peter McAllister, Grosse Pointe Blank, Electra Glide in Blue, and Hot Shots! Part Deux playing senator Grey Edwards. And in 1985, he portrayed Tillet Main, the patriarch of the Main family in the first North and South miniseries.
Ryan also appeared in NBC’s The A-Team and as Kyle Riker, the father of Commander William Riker, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation. (Ryan had earlier been considered for the part of series lead Captain Jean-Luc Picard) He also portrayed the roles of the abusive boyfriend of Blanche Deveraux in The Golden Girls and a police officer in a 1993 episode of NYPD Blue. That same year, Ryan was Dallas Shields in Renegade. In 1994, Ryan appeared in the television movie, Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is, and in 1995, he appeared in Judge Dredd.
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