Erich Anderson

Erich Anderson was the actor who played the Satarran impostor "Kieran MacDuff" in the fifth season episode . He filmed his scenes for this episode between Monday and Wednesday and Friday and Tuesday on Paramount Stage 8 and 9.
Anderson had a very lengthy career in television, with recurring roles in no less than five popular television series: as Billy Sidel; (co-created by J.J. Abrams) (starring Gordon Clapp) as Don Kirkendall (including two episodes with Gwynyth Walsh), (starring Neal McDonough) as Ben Fisher; and Close to Home (starring John Carroll Lynch) as Detective George Branch. He also made guest appearances on (with William Windom), (co-starring John Anderson, Glenn Corbett, Leigh J. McCloskey, Derek McGrath, William Smithers, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Morgan Woodward), , (with Stephen Collins), (starring Stephen Collins and Catherine Hicks), , (in an episode with Susanna Thompson), , , Family Law (starring Christopher McDonald), , and Medical Investigation (starring Neal McDonough), among many other shows.
After his appearance on Star Trek, Anderson appeared with Next Generation co-star Brent Spiner in two more projects: a 1996 episode of (directed by Joseph L. Scanlan) and the 2004 television movie Jack. Other appearances with Trek performers include (1990, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell), (2000, starring Paul Guilfoyle, with Jolene Blalock), (1991, with Denise Crosby and Frank Kopyc), (2001, with Jeri Ryan), For the People (2002, with Armin Shimerman), and (2006, with Connor Trinneer and directed by Roxann Dawson).
Prior to any of these, Anderson and his Next Generation co-star Jonathan Frakes were among the many Star Trek alumni who appeared in (1986). The other Trek performers who appeared in this series were F. Murray Abraham, Jeff Allin, , Lee Bergere, James Cromwell, Michael Ensign, Alice Krige, Matt McCoy, Glenn Morshower, Fritz Weaver, Noble Willingham, and Anthony Zerbe. He made his feature film debut in (1984, co-starring Lawrence Monoson) followed with a role in (1984, with Lenore Kasdorf). Later film credits include Patty Hearst (1988, with Kitty Swink), (1988, with Clayton Rohner), The Glass Shield (1994, with Bernie Casey, Victoria Dillard, Jim Fitzpatrick, Natalia Nogulich, Lori Petty, and Biff Yeager), Nightwatch (1997, with Brad Dourif), Where's Marlowe (1998, with Miguel Ferrer and Clayton Rohner), Beyond Suspicion (2000, with Casey Biggs and Jack Kehler), and (2002). Anderson was also involved in a number of TV movies, including 1991's Love Kills starring Virginia Madsen and Jim Metzler, 1992's Overkill with Marc Alaimo and Jack Shearer, 2002's Due East with Clara Bryant, and (2003, co-starring Louise Fletcher, Rosemary Forsyth, and Megan Gallagher).
Anderson was married to fellow Next Generation guest performer Saxon Trainor. He passed away due to cancer in Los Angeles on June 1, 2024, at the age of 67. 
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