Alan Dale

Alan Dale is a New Zealand actor who began performing professionally in his late twenties. Born in Dunedin in 1947, he started in Auckland theater and made his screen debut in the 1978 drama Radio Waves. He moved to Australia, playing Dr. John Forrest in The Young Doctors from 1979 to 1982, then spent eight years as Jim Robinson in Neighbours, from 1985 to 1993. After relocating to the United States in 2000, he found work, breaking through with a four-episode role on ER. He specialized in powerful, wealthy men, among them Caleb Nichol in The O.C., Bradford Meade in Ugly Betty and Charles Widmore in Lost, and starred as Joseph Anders in Dynasty from 2017 to 2021. His films include Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), and he was twice nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award with the Ugly Betty cast.