William Sadler

William Sadler is the actor who played Luther Sloan in the sixth and seventh season episodes , , and .
==Biography==
Sadler was born in Buffalo, New York, and started acting in high school. He was born on the same day as actor Ron Perlman. The two would later perform together in the play "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui".
Although he began his acting career performing on the stage and has made several television appearances, his most extensive work has been in films. Perhaps his best known film roles are those of "Colonel Stuart" in 1990's Die Hard 2 (which featured his Deep Space Nine co-star Colm Meaney as the Irish Air pilot whose plane is crashed by Sadler's villainous Colonel Stuart and starred Robert Costanzo) and "Heywood" in 1994's . Among his co-stars in the latter film were fellow Star Trek alumni Dion Anderson, Bill Bolender, Brian Brophy, Clancy Brown, Jude Ciccolella, Don McManus, Bob Gunton, and Mark Rolston.
Sadler is also known for his role as the "Grim Reaper" in 1991's Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, for which he won a Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. That film co-starred his Deep Space Nine co-stars Hal Landon, Jr. and Roy Brocksmith, whom Sadler had previously co-starred with in the first episode of Tales from the Crypt (which also featured Patti Yasutake). Sadler would go on to play a different Grim Reaper in the Tales from the Crypt episode "The Assassin", co-starring Jonathan Banks and Marshall R. Teague, in which Sadler appeared opposite "the Crypt Keeper" voiced by John Kassir. He reprised his role as the Grim Reaper in 2020 (2020).
Sadler's many other film credits include (1992, with Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.), (1995, with Brenda Bakke, John Kassir, Dick Miller, John Schuck, Tim de Zarn, and John Larroquette), and (1999, with James Cromwell and Paula Malcomson). He was also a star on . On that show Ronald D. Moore became a chief writer, Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts were (co-)producers, Jonathan Frakes was an executive producer and frequent director, and which also guest-starred Frakes as himself in two episodes, one of which also starred John Billingsley in a scene in which the main character Max Evans auditions for a part on .
He later starred in Bryan Fuller's which ran for only one season in 2004, and Traveler, which again lasted for one summer season in 2007. The latter series also starred Steven Culp and Neal McDonough. He also had a recurring role on the HBO series The Pacific, which also features Conor O'Farrell. He also appeared in Alex Kurtzman's and Roberto Orci's as John "Jack" McGarrett, Steve McGarrett's father and the former Honolulu PD training officer/partner of Daniel Dae Kim's character Chin Ho Kelly.
Sadler portrayed NYPD Detective Michael Sheehan in the 2019 mini-series "When They See us" focusing in the investigation into the 1989 Central Park Rape Case. The production costarred Len Cariou as prosecutor Robert Morgenthau.
Sadler has also played President Ellis in Iron Man 3 and in episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
==Other Trek connections==
Additional non-Trek film and television projects in which Sadler has appeared with fellow Star Trek performers include:
===Television===
====Guest Appearances====
* (1986, starring Robert Lansing and Keith Szarabajka)
* (1988, starring William Daniels, Norman Lloyd, Christina Pickles, Ronny Cox, France Nuyen, Alfre Woodard, and Jane Wyatt)
* (1989, with Alan Oppenheimer
*Roseanne (1989) "Dan's Birthday Bash" "Saturday"
*Poltergeist: The Legacy episode "The Fifth Sepulcher" (1996) with W. Morgan Sheppard
* (2004) with Dean Stockwell and Ray Wise
* (2006) starring Paul Guilfoyle and Wallace Langham, with Susanna Thompson
* (2007) with Danica Erickson
*Fringe episode "The Equation" (2008), created by J.J. Abrams
* (2009) with Lawrence Pressman
====Movies====
*The Great Wallendas (1978) with Casey Biggs
*Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase (1981) with his "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" co-star Adrienne Barbeau
*Unconquered (1981) with Bob Gunton and Noble Willingham
*The Last to Go (1991) with Phillip Richard Allen, Terry O'Quinn, and Tim Ransom
*Tagget (1991) with Tim De Zarn, Glenn Morshower and Leon Russom
*Jack Reed: Badge of Honor (1993) with Bruce Bolender, Bruce French, Alice Krige, Neal McDonough
*The Omen (1995, with Norman Lloyd and Callum Keith Rennie)
*Witness Protection (1999, with Jim Metzler and Leon Russom)
===Films===
Yes, he appeared in both a number of movies, and a number of films!
*Off Beat (1986) with Anthony Zerbe and Mike Starr
*Project X (1987) with Shelly Desai, Robin Gammell, Dick Miller, and Daniel Roebuck
*K-9 (1989) with Jeff Allin, Daniel Davis, and Sherman Howard
*The Hot Spot (1990) with Virginia Madsen and Leon Rippy
*Hard to Kill (1990) with Branscombe Richmond
*Freaked (1993) with Lee Arenberg, Derek McGrath, and Don Stark
*Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood (1996) with John Kassir, Whoopi Goldberg and Chris Sarandon
*Ambushed (1998) with Virginia Madsen
*Stealth Fighter (1999) with Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.
*The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003) with France Nuyen and Ray Wise
*Purple Heart (2005) with Ed Lauter
*Confess (2005) with Josh Pais
* (2013) with Miguel Ferrer, Tom Virtue, Sala Baker, Chien Funan, Ilram Choi, Kiante Elam, Mark Ginther, Mark Wagner, Darin Cooper, Spencer Garrett, and Baron Jay
*Ava's Possessions (2015) with Carol Kane
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