Nicolas Surovy
Nicolas Surovy (born 30 June 1944; age 81) is an actor who played Pe'Nar Makull in the Star Trek: Voyager first season episode "Time and Again".
Films
At the age of 22, Surovy won his feature film debut in For Pete's Sake (1966, with Terri Garr and Nicholas Worth). 1969 put Surovy in the telefilm This Savage Land (with Glenn Corbett, Andrew Prine, and Charles Seel). In 1973, Surovy starred in the baseball film Bang the Drum Slowly (with Star Trek: The Original Series guest star Barbara Babcock). Surovy followed with the 1976 telefilm The Time of Your Life (with James Harper and Norman Snow). Surovy reunited with Garr in 1980's Doctor Franken. Surovy then appeared in the 1984 mini-series George Washington (co-starring Ron Canada, Josh Clark, Richard Fancy, Megan Gallagher, John Glover, Kelsey Grammer, Harry Groener, Barrie Ingham, Jeremy Kemp, Richard Kiley, Stephen Macht, Clive Revill, Ned Romero, and Robert Schenkkan). Surovy's next film that year was The Act (with David Huddleston).
A pair of telefilms kept Surovy busy in 1985. First was Half Nelson (with Fred Williamson) and Stark (with Michael Champion and Denise Crosby). The latter followed up by an immediate sequel, Stark: Mirror Image in 1986 (featuring Kirstie Alley, Jefrey Alan Chandler, and Michelle Phillips). In 1988, Surovy appeared in Steal the Sky (with Ben Cross, Ronald Guttman, Andreas Katsulas, and Mark Rolston) and Laura Lansing Slept Here (with Karen Austin), followed by Wolf (1989, with J.C. Brandy and Michael Cavanaugh).
The 1990s saw Surovy on both the small and big screens. The former was the telefilm Coopersmith (with Michael McGrady) and the latter was in Forever Young (1992, written by J.J. Abrams and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, with Joe Morton, J.D. Cullum and Eric Pierpoint). Surovy's film credits in 1993 were Telling Secrets (alongside Anne Haney, Christopher McDonald, Don McManus, and Andrew Robinson) and 12:01 (with Frank Collison and Glenn Morshower). Surovy in 1995 reunited with Megan Gallagher in Breaking Free (also co-starring Gina Philips). 1996 found Surovy working in The Undercover Kid (with Erick Avari and Robert Knepper) and The Man Who Captured Eichmann (with Joel Brooks). Surovy was then in 2 Voices (1997, with Norman Snow, Vaughn Armstrong, Casey Biggs, Dennis Creaghan and Jane Daly). Surovy was also seen in All Over the Guy (2001, with Andrea Martin) and the telefilm The Big Time (2002, alongside John de Lancie, Pat Healy, Christopher Lloyd, Dakin Matthews, Michael Buchman Silver and John Vickery).
Television guest work
Surovy appeared on A World Apart (starring David Birney) in "June 25, 1971" (with Kevin Conway). Next was Partners in Crime (1984, with J.G. Hertzler). Surovy was next on Simon & Simon (1985, with Ray Buktenica and Kenneth Tigar). The same year Surovy was seen on The Twilight Zone (with Scott Grimes). Surovy concluded his '80s guest work on Who's the Boss? (1989, with Jana Marie Hupp).
Starting in the 1990s, Surovy appeared on L.A. Law (1990, starring Corbin Bernsen, Larry Drake, and Diana Muldaur, with Jennifer Hetrick, Warren Munson, Megan Parlen, Maryann Plunkett, and Craig Wasson). Next was Over My Dead Body (with Scott Lawrence). Later that year, Surovy was on Pros & Cons (starring James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair, with Bert Remsen). In 1993, Surovy guested on the series premiere of Key West (starring Leland Crooke, Denise Crosby, and Brian Thompson), and then in Matlock (starring Daniel Roebuck, with Brian McNamara).
In 1994, Surovy appeared in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (with William Frankfather), followed by One West Waikiki (with Adrienne Barbeau). In 1995, the same year as Surovy's Trek work, he guest-starred on seaQuest 2032 (starring Rosalind Ingledew and Marco Sanchez) (with Frank Welker). Next was Silk Stalkings (starring Charlie Brill and directed by James Darren), and Sisters (with Melanie Shatner). Finally in 1995, Surovy appeared on Murder One (starring Daniel Benzali, Barbara Bosson, John Fleck, and Gregory Itzin, with Robert Pine and In 1996, Surovy acted on The Lazarus Man (with Leon Russom and Cari Shayne), Nowhere Man (starring Bruce Greenwood) and Pacific Blue (with Ken Olandt). Surovy also appeared in The Visitor, with Granville Ames, David Drew Gallagher, Christine Healy and Rosie Malek-Yonan} (1997), Seven Days (1998, starring Alan Scarfe, with Charley Lang and Gina Phillips, directed by David Livingston), and Martial Law (1999, starring Tom Wright, with Leslie Jordan and William Lucking).
Surovy later appeared on The X-Files (2000, starring Gillian Anderson, with Stacy Haiduk), Angel (2001, with Brigid Brannagh) and JAG (2001, with Thomas Kopache and Tricia O'Neil). In 2002 Surovy was seen on The Education of Max Bickford (with Donna Murphy), Judging Amy (starring Kevin Rahm) (with Chris Sarandon), Crossing Jordan (starring Miguel Ferrer and Jerry O'Connell) (with Ian Abercrombie and Georgann Johnson), and Whoopi Goldberg’s Strong Medicine (starring Jenifer Lewis, with Anthony Holiday). 2003 put Surovy on L.A. Dragnet in "For Whom the Whistle Blows" (with Erick Avari, Jason Brooks, Paul Collins, Tim de Zarn, and Patrick Kilpatrick).
Recurring and lead roles
Surovy is known widely for his work on ABC daytime serials. His first claim to fame was performing as Orson Burns on Ryan's Hope, starring Voyager's Kate Mulgrew. Surovy played Burns in 1981, and also on with Mulgrew and him were Daniel Hugh Kelly and Malachi Throne. Surovy's other notable daytime role was as spy Mike Roy on All My Children from 1983 to 1984 and again in 1998 (with Robin Christopher, Ronald Guttman, Mark La Mura, and Lee Meriwether).
Surovy's first lead role away from daytime television was as P.J. Brakenhouse on the western Guns of Paradise (starring Benjamin W.S. Lum) from 1988 to 1989. He performed in the episodes "Founders Day" (with Julianna McCarthy), "Ghost Dance" (with past film costar Andrew Prine), "Devil's Canyon" (directed by Robert Scheerer), and "Stray Bullet" (with Robert O'Reilly), all in 1988, and in 1989's "A Private War" (directed again by Scheerer and featuring Stanley Kamel). Surovy also won the role of Captain Massie on Deadwood (starring Timothy Olyphant, with Jim Beaver, Larry Cedar, Brad Dourif, Paula Malcomson, Leon Rippy, and Keone Young). Surovy appeared in the episodes "Here Was a Man", "The Trial of Jack McCall", and "Bullock Returns To Camp".
Roles on the same series as different characters
On Murder, She Wrote, Surovy played Ben Judson in "Night of the Coyote" (1992, with Mariette Hartley), as James Ryerson in "School For Murder" (1995, with Robert Foxworth and Maryann Plunkett), and finally as Jim Vardian in "Murder Among Friends" (1996, with Robin Curtis and Barbara Alyn Woods). One other series was in which he played dual roles was The Practice, first as Dr. Henry Richards in "The Blessing" (1997, with Michael Bofshever) and again as Richard Baldwin in "Vanished" (2001, with Callan White).