Richard Lawrence Hatch

 Richard Lawrence Hatch (May 21, 1945 – February 7, 2017)

Hatch began his career as a stage actor, before moving on to television work in the 1970s. Hatch is best known for his role as Captain Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica television series. Hatch led an effort to revive the series. However, his vision was ultimately passed over in favor of Ronald D. Moore's re-imagined Battlestar Galactica in which Hatch guest starred as Tom Zarek. Hatch began working in television in 1970 when he starred as Philip Brent in the daytime soap opera All My Children, a role he played for two years. For some years, he then made guest appearances in primetime series such as Cannon, Nakia, Barnaby Jones, Hawaii Five-O, and The Waltons. In 1976, Hatch gained his first major television role as Inspector Dan Robbins on the detective series The Streets of San Francisco, a replacement for Michael Douglas (who had played Inspector Steve Keller) who had left the series that year. Hatch also portrayed Jan Berry in the 1978 television biopic "Deadman's Curve", which depicted the lives of rock and roll musicians Jan and Dean. Hatch died on February 7, 2017 from pancreatic cancer under hospice care in Los Angeles, age 71.