TV, film and Broadway actor (and Star Trek guest star) Peter Mark Richman has passed away at 93

Peter Mark Richman as Ralph Offenhouse in Star Trek: The Next Generation “The Neutral Zone”

JANUARY 18, 2021 - Prolific and highly-respected actor Peter Mark Richman has passed away. Deadline reported his death on January 14th of natural causes. He was 93.

Star Trek fans will know Richman for his role as Ralph Offenhouse, one of the three cryogenically-frozen people that the Enterprise-D rescued and revived in the Star Trek: The Next Generation season one finale, “The Neutral Zone”. However, Star Trek was merely one of Richman’s hundreds of credits, which spanned eight decades of Broadway, film and television.

Some of Richman’s other notable television roles included the title role in crime drama Cain’s Hundred, attorney Andrew Laird in Dynasty, and Lawrence Carson in Beverly Hills 90210. He also had guest appearances on The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, Wonder Woman, Galactica 1980, and Murder She Wrote, among many others.

Deadline reports that Richman published novels and short stories and was an accomplished painter. He was also awarded the Silver Medallion for outstanding humanitarian achievement by the Motion Picture and Television Fund in 1990.

Richman is survived by his wife Helen, and their five children and six grandchildren. Memorial contributions can be made in Richman’s honor to the Motion Picture and Television Fund. Please join me in sending condolences to Richman’s family.