George Murdock

George Murdock, who died in 2012, was an American actor known mainly for television work. Born in Salina, Kansas, he was an original member of the Los Angeles-based Melrose Theatre and acted in an early 1980s off-Broadway run of Lester Sims Retires Tomorrow. He appeared in productions at the South Coast Repertory, the Los Angeles Theater Center, and the Odyssey Theatre. He often played judges, among them Judge Julius Hoffman, a part he took in Chicago and West Coast stage stagings of The Chicago Conspiracy Trial and in a BBC Radio version. In 1988 he played Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for the Arizona Theater Company. His television roles included Laszlo Gabo on What a Country! from 1986 to 1987, Lieutenant Scanlon on Barney Miller, Dr. Salik on Battlestar Galactica, Admiral Hanson in a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, and Yuri Testikov on Seinfeld. He portrayed God in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989).