Mark Metcalf

Born in Findlay, Ohio, and raised in Webster Groves, Mark Metcalf is an American actor known for playing antagonistic and aggrieved authority figures. He studied engineering at the University of Michigan, where he first appeared in a stage production of Henry VI, and took his first professional job at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater in 1971. After performing in New York theater, he moved west to work in film. His first major Hollywood film role was Douglas C. Neidermeyer, the ROTC officer in Animal House (1978), a persona he echoed in 1984 Twisted Sister music videos. On television he had guest roles on Party of Five, Miami Vice, and Walker, Texas Ranger, recurring parts on Ally McBeal, JAG, Star Trek: Voyager, and Hill Street Blues, and a self-absorbed conductor in two Seinfeld episodes. He played the vampire The Master on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, Mayor Johnson on Mad Men, and Sheriff Roy in The Field (2019).