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American actor

Robert Alphonse Picardo (born October 27, 1953) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the Cowboy in Innerspace, Coach Cutlip on The Wonder Years, Captain Dick Richard on the ABC series China Beach, the Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager and Richard Woolsey in the Stargate franchise. He is a frequent collaborator of Joe Dante and is a member of The Planetary Society's Board of Directors.

Picardo was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Joe Picardo. Robert is of Italian heritage, with his father's family originating from Montecorvino Rovella, Salerno, and his mother's parents originally from Bomba in Abruzzo. He graduated from William Penn Charter School in 1971 and originally entered Yale University as a pre medical student, but opted to act instead. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in drama from Yale University. Picardo is an accomplished singer. While he was at Yale University, he was a member of the Society of Orpheus and Bacchus, the second longest running undergraduate a cappella group in the United States. Also while at Yale, he had a major role in the 1973 European premiere production of Leonard Bernstein's "Mass" in Vienna, conducted by John Mauceri. The production was televised by ORF and broadcast on PBS during the 1970s. His singing was also incorporated into his role in Star Trek: Voyager. After earning his degree, he enrolled at the Circle in the Square Professional Theater Workshop. He waited tables for a few years until his theatrical work started to take off around 1976. His first breaks were appearing in the David Mamet play Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and with Diane Keaton in The Primary English Class.

In 1977, Picardo made his Broadway debut. He appeared in Gemini (1977) and Tribute (1978). On television, Picardo appeared on Kojak in a 1977 episode and Taxi in a 1979 episode. He made his feature film debut as Eddie Quist, the serial killer werewolf in the Joe Dante film The Howling (1981). He also had a recurring role in the sitcom Alice and played a doctor on an episode of The Golden Girls. He played a number of roles in Dante's family science fiction film Explorers (1985), and later appeared in Dante's Innerspace (1987), The 'Burbs (1989), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Matinee (1993), Small Soldiers (1998) and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003). Picardo often plays roles under layers of prosthetic latex, having also played the swamp dwelling Meg Mucklebones in Ridley Scott's film Legend. He also had a small role as a funeral director in John Landis's Amazon Women on the Moon. Picardo also portrayed the voice and face of the robotic Johnny Cab in Total Recall. During the 1988–1991 television seasons, Picardo was simultaneously seen on the ABC Vietnam series China Beach in the role of Dr. Dick Richard, and the ABC series The Wonder Years in the role of Coach Cutlip. He is among a small group of television actors to achieve notice on two television series at the same time. In 1993, Picardo had a brief role as Joe "The Meat Man" Morton, a butcher and neighbor to Tim Allen's character on the sitcom Home Improvement. He also appeared in one episode of ER in 1995 as Abraham Zimble (Season 2 Episode 6, "Days Like This"). That same year, he voiced Pfish in two Pfish & Chip shorts as seen on Cartoon Network's What A Cartoon! Show.

From 1995 to 2001, he played the role of the Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH) in the television series Star Trek: Voyager. Before being accepted for this role, Picardo initially auditioned for the role of Neelix. He later also directed two episodes. In the series, his character finally chose the name "Joe", after both the name of his wife's grandfather and Picardo's own father. He played additional copies of the role of the EMH in the 1996 film Star Trek: First Contact and the 1997 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?" He also played Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, the creator of the EMH, in episodes of Deep Space Nine and Voyager. In 2002, Picardo authored The Hologram's Handbook, published by Pocket Books. In 2007 and 2008, Star Trek: The Music was a multi city tour with John de Lancie. Picardo and de Lancie narrated around the orchestral performance, explaining the history of the music in Star Trek. In 2015, Picardo reprised the role of Dr. Lewis Zimmerman in the pilot episode of the fan series Star Trek: Renegades.

In 2004, he began playing the recurring role of International Oversight Advisory (IOA) member Richard Woolsey in both Stargate SG 1 and Stargate Atlantis. His first appearance in those series was in the Stargate SG 1 episode "Heroes (Part 2)". On February 5, 2008, it was announced that Picardo would be joining the regular cast of Stargate Atlantis full time for the series' fifth and final season. He took over the role of mission commander of the Atlantis Expedition.

In 2001, Picardo guest starred in the 7 Days episode "Revelation", purporting to be a time traveler from seven years in the future. In 2007, he played Principal White in Ben 10: Race Against Time, and starred in the independent feature film by director Russ Emanuel, P. J., alongside John Heard and Vincent Pastore. He also starred in Russ Emanuel's Chasing the Green in 2008, with William Devane, Jeremy London and Ryan Hurst. Picardo appeared on four episodes of E Ring, as an enraged father in Cold Case, and as a police officer in CSI: NY. He was a recurring guest star in two episodes of Season 7 of Smallville, and appeared on a season 6 episode of Supernatural titled "Clap Your Hands if You Believe", as a leprechaun. Outside of acting, Picardo was a member of the Board of Directors' Advisory Council of The Planetary Society from 1999 through 2015. Beginning in 2015, he was elected to serve on the Board itself. Picardo's other career highlights include performing in Leonard Bernstein's Mass during its European debut tour, performing with the Yale University Society of Orpheus & Bacchus a cappella singing group as an undergraduate, and dozens of other television and film roles, including the film Our Last Days as Children. Picardo provided the voice of Loki in the Xbox 360 video game Too Human. In 2009, he appeared in Pushing Daisies, Chuck and Castle, and had the lead role in the independent psychological thriller film Sensored. In 2010, he had a cameo in the final episode of Persons Unknown, as a member of "the program"'s governing board. He also voiced Robert McNamara in the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops. He appeared in four episodes of The Mentalist from 2012 through 2013 as Jason Cooper, a lieutenant of cult leader Bret Styles. In May 2014, Cartoon Hangover announced Picardo as a guest voice actor in the second season of Bravest Warriors, in the episode "The Parasox Pub". In 2017, Picardo played Lt. Kitan's father Prof. Ildis Kitan in the first season episode of The Orville titled "Firestorm", and reprised the role in the 2019 episode "Home" together with John Billingsley who played Doctor Phlox in Star Trek: Enterprise. Picardo appeared as himself in an episode of Schooled.

Year Title Role Notes 1981 The Howling Eddie Quist 1983 Star 80 Interviewer 1983 Get Crazy O'Connell 1984 Oh, God! You Devil Joe Ortiz 1985 Explorers Starkiller / Wak / Wak and Neek's Father 1985 Legend Meg Mucklebones 1986 Back to School Giorgio 1987 Munchies Bob Marvalle 1987 Innerspace The Cowboy 1987 Amazon Women on the Moon Rick Raddnitz (segment "Roast Your Loved One") 1988 Jack's Back Dr. Carlos Battera 1988 Dead Heat Lieutenant Herzog 1988 976 EVIL Mark Dark 1989 The 'Burbs Garbageman 1989 Loverboy Dr. Reed Palmer 1990 Total Recall Johnnycab Voice and likeness 1990 Gremlins 2: The New Batch Forster Nominated–Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor 1991 L. A. Story Voicephone Voice, uncredited 1991 Frame Up Frank Govers 1991 Samantha Neil Otto / Mr. Samantha 1991 Motorama Jerry 1993 Matinee Howard 1994 Wagons East Ben Wheeler 1994 The Pagemaster Pirate Voice Admiral Gillette 2022 Confess, Fletch Count Clementi Arbogastes De Grassi TBA Werewolf Game TBA

Year Title Role Notes 1977 Kojak Thomas Rindone 2 episodes 1979 Taxi Philip Polevoy Episode: "Nardo Loses Her Marbles" 1980 The Dream Merchants Mark Kessler 2 episodes 1982 Silver Spoons Louis Morgan Episode: "Pilot" 1982–84 Alice Freddie, Officer Maxwell 8 episodes 1983 Archie Bunker's Place Larry Burnett Episode: "Captain Video" 1983 It Takes Two Chad Hunter Episode: "Looks Bad, Feels Good" 1983 The Other Woman Chuchi Television film 1984 Steambath Rod Tandy 6 episodes 1986 The Golden Girls Doctor Revell Episode: "The Operation" 1986 Benson Richard Alan Tracy Episode: "Reel Murder: Part 1" 1986 Hardcastle and McCormick Manny Episode: "Brother, Can You Spare a Crime?" 1986 Amazing Stories Tony Sepulveda Episode: "Boo!" 1986 Scarecrow and Mrs. King Randall Skylar Episode: "Three Little Spies" 1986 Throb Todd Episode: "Pilot" 1987 Roses Are for the Rich Durant Television film 1987 21 Jump Street Ralph Buckley Episode: "Gotta Finish the Riff" 1987 The Man Who Fell to Earth Agent Richard Morse Television film 1987 Bates Motel Dr. Goodman 1987 Private Eye Eddie Rosen Episode: "Pilot" 1987 Mr. President Reinbeck Episode: "Armageddon Kinda Sore" 1987 St. Elsewhere Eli Muzzy Episode: "Weigh In, Way Out" 1987, 1991 L. A. Law John Dunphy 2 episodes 1988–91 The Wonder Years Coach Cutlip 15 episodesNominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy SeriesNominated—Viewers for Quality Television Award for Best Specialty Player 1988–91 China Beach Dr. Dick Richard 54 episodesNominated—Viewers for Quality Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Quality Drama Series (1990–91) 1989 The Cover Girl and the Cop Denise's Date Television film 1989 Newhart Terry Episode: "The Little Match Girl" 1992 CBS Schoolbreak Special Paul Lance Episode: "Two Teens and a Baby" 1992 Capitol Critters Additional voices Episode: "The KiloWatts Riots" 1992 The Witches of Eastwick Raymond Gentry Television film 1992 The Powers That Be Larry Yablonsky Episode: "Sophie's Big Decision" 1992–93 Dinosaurs Ted, Muse, Clerk Voice, 3 episodes 1993 Batman: The Animated Series Eddie G. Voice, episode: "The Man Who Killed Batman" 2023 NCIS Dale Harding Episode: "Too Many Cooks" 2023 Quantum Leap Dr. Edwin Woolsey Episode: "Leap. Die. Repeat." 2023 A Biltmore Christmas Harold Balaban Television film 2023 Star Trek: Prodigy The Doctor Season 2 2024 Young Sheldon Professor Salzman Episode: "A Roulette Wheel and a Piano Playing Dog"