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Richard Hatch

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Born in Santa Monica, California, USA, Richard Hatch was studying classical piano at the age of eight, and knew he wanted to carve out a career as a performer before he reached his teens. After attending Harbor College in San Pedro, he joined a Los Angeles repertory company with which he traveled to New York City in 1967. He performed in the plays "Song of Walt Whitman", "Young Rebels" and a production called "Exercise", which Richard directed. Richard was cast as the original "Philip Brent" in the soap All My Children (1970) in 1970. He later played "Inspector Dan Robbins" on the television series The Streets of San Francisco (1972). Richard Hatch is best remembered for his portrayal of "Apollo" on the series, Battlestar Galactica (1978).
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Is the only actor to appear on both Battlestar Galactica (1978) and Battlestar Galactica (2004).
Born in Santa Monica, Hatch made his film debut in spring 1965 in a home movie of an afternoon party, filmed by Roddy McDowall at his Malibu beach house. Others at the party were Sal Mineo, Christopher Plummer, Robert Walker Jr., Natalie Wood, Jack Warden, Juliet Mills, and John Frankenheimer.
Directed, wrote and starred in his own Battlestar Galactica fan Film "Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming" in which he reunited all the surviving original Battlestar Galactica cast members. Working with a minimal budget, the film was an extended four-minute trailer. The CG animation and effects were handled by volunteers recruited by Hatch over the Internet. The volunteers worked on their own from home. Because of the variety of volunteers and their skill levels, the models, animations, lighting, rendering, and effects varied greatly in quality.
Wrote books based on the Battlestar Galactica (1978) series (2000).
Had one son: Paul Hatch (born 1967).

I never thought of being an actor. I was far too shy, too insecure.
On having the same name as television's No. 1 "Survivor": We forget there are other people with our name, and somehow we feel an ownership with our name. Honestly, this is one of the strangest experiences that's ever happened in my life, and I'm having to deal with it.

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