Dwight Schultz

Dwight Schultz is an actor known to Star Trek fans for portraying Reginald Barclay. His appearances as Barclay range over an eleven-year period from to . He also voiced the role in the video game Star Trek: Elite Force II.
Outside of Trek, his best known role is that of Murdock on the long running and fondly remembered 80s series The A-Team.
==Biography==
Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Schultz attended Calvert Hall College High School, and then went on to earn a BA in Theater Arts from Baltimore's Towson State University. 
His early work was primarily in theatre, where he worked for fifteen years before transitioning to television. His stage role in "The Crucifix of Blood" (starring Charlton Heston) won him the "Drama-Logue" award.
As a jobbing actor, Schultz also worked odd jobs in New York while honing his craft. He moonlighted as everything from waiter and door-to-door salesman to officer of the New York Bureau of Pest Control. In 1983, he married the actress Wendy Fulton, and they had a daughter Ava in 1987.
He appeared in the television movies Thin Ice (with Daniel Hugh Kelly, which led to his audition for "The A-Team"), Dial M for Murder (with Christopher Plummer), and Sherlock Holmes (with Frank Langella, Stephen Collins, and Christian Slater). 
However his portrayal of Captain H.M. 'Howling Mad' Murdock on The A-Team, from 1983 through 1987, is what made him a household name. Rather like Reginald Barclay, Murdock is a highly intelligent, but not quite neurotypical character, who appears to have suffered trauma in his past. Fellow Star Trek performers Lance LeGault, William Lucking, Marc Alaimo, Peter Parros, and Melinda Culea also had recurring roles on the series. The A-Team had a significant cultural impact at the time, and continues to be shown and syndicated across the world. At the time, the series included a major mechandising line with everything from books to children's lunchboxes being produced with Murdock's face on them.
Schultz made many more television appearances, including guest spots on shows from (starring Barbara Babcock, Barbara Bosson, James B. Sikking), (with his Next Generation co-star Michael Dorn) and (in an episode with Tim Russ) to (with Teri Hatcher and Kristanna Loken), (starring Noble Willingham) and the 1990s version of Fantasy Island (starring Mädchen Amick and Malcolm McDowell). 
He also appeared on Babylon 5, in the episode "The Long Dark", alongside Andreas Katsulas and Bill Mumy (though Mumy did not appear in the episode), and , in the episode "The Gamekeeper". 
In addition, Schultz had roles in several films, most notably as J. Robert Oppenheimer in (1989, co-starring Ed Lauter and Logan Ramsey), coincidentally portraying the third cousin of fellow Trek actor Alan Oppenheimer. He also co-starred with Whoopi Goldberg in 1990's The Long Walk Home and with guest actor Steven Weber in the 1993 thriller The Temp.
Schultz has recently been focusing his talents on voice acting in a number of films, TV projects, and video games. He has even lent his voice to episodes of Seth MacFarlane's series Family Guy. Some of his notable voiceover roles include Eddie the Squirel on Nickelodeon's CatDog, O'aka XXIII and Maechen in the Final Fantasy X games, and various roles in the Everquest computer games. He also voiced Dr. Animo on the Cartoon Network series Ben 10. He also voices Mung Daal in the Cartoon Network series Chowder, and as the voice of Stan on "The Chimp Channel"
In November 2009, Schultz confirmed that he and former A-Team co-star Dirk Benedict would make cameo appearances in the feature film of The A-Team.
Schultz sometimes fills-in for notable radio talk show hosts on their respective radio shows, Rusty Humphries and Jerry Doyle (formerly of Babylon 5). He hosted a talk radio podcast called Howling Mad Radio which ended in March 2009.
Schultz also was a voice actor for the game Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars, joining an all-star cast of voice actors which included Trek alumni Michael Dorn and John de Lancie and future voice actor Fred Tatasciore.
== Appearances as Barclay ==
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=== Additional appearances ===
File:Barclay 3.jpg| (hologram)
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== Voice acting credits ==
* Star Trek: Elite Force II
== Other Trek connections ==
Additional projects in which Schultz appeared with other Star Trek performers include:
*When Your Lover Leaves (1983 TV movie, with Merritt Butrick)
*Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit (1987 TV movie, with Leigh Taylor-Young, David Ogden Stiers, and Percy Rodriguez)
*Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder (1989 TV movie, with Lori Petty)
*A Killer Among Us (1990 TV movie, with Richard Riehle and Paul Kent)
*Woman with a Past (1992 TV movie, with Richard Lineback, James Sloyan, Noble Willingham)
*Child of Rage (1992 TV movie, with Rosana DeSoto and George D. Wallace)
*Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story (1993 TV movie, with Gregg Henry, Bruce French, and Keith Szarabajka)
*Princess Mononoke (1997; 1999 English dubbed version, with Marnie Mosiman; voice only)
*Fallout 2 (1998, with Michael Dorn; voice only)
*Baldur's Gate II – Shadows of Amn (2000, with Michael Dorn; voice only)
*Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001, with Jean Simmons; voice only)
*Mass Effect (2007 video game, with Armin Shimerman, Marina Sirtis and Carolyn Seymour; voice only)
*Mass Effect 2 (2010 Video game, with Armin Shimerman, Michael Dorn and Carolyn Seymour; voice only)
*Gears Of War 3 (2011 Video game, with Carolyn Seymour; voice only)
*Batman: Arkham Knight (2015 Video game, with Jonathan Banks, Robin Atkin Downes, James Horan, Loren Lester, Nolan North, Mark Rolston, Keith Szarabajka, Tasia Valenza, Marc Worden; voice only)
* Fallout 4 (2015 Video game, with Tim Russ, Ron Perlman, Alan Oppenheimer and Robert Picardo; voice only)
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* – official fan site
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