John Snyder

John Snyder is the actor who played the role of Bochra in the third season episode , and Aaron Conor in the fifth season episode . His performance as Aaron Conor was not well received by director Winrich Kolbe nor executive producer Rick Berman. (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 237) Snyder filmed his scenes for "The Masterpiece Society" between Monday and Friday on Paramount Stage 9 and Paramount Stage 16.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Snyder graduated from Boston University's School of Fine and Applied Arts with a BFA in 1974.
== Television ==
In the 1980s Snyder had guest parts in episodes of (1982), (1985, starring Edward James Olmos, teleplay by Maurice Hurley), Tales from the Darkside (1985), (1985), (1986, starring William Daniels and Patricia McPherson, with Peter Parros, Kat Sawyer-Young and Carlos Palomino), Crime Story (1986, with Bill Smitrovich and Billy Campbell), (1988, with Mary Carver, Terrence Beasor, Fionnula Flanagan, Randy Hall, John McLiam, Tricia O'Neil, and Whitney Rydbeck), Police Story (1988, with Patrick Massett, Mark Phelan, and Darwyn Carson), and Unsub (1989, with David Soul and Jennifer Hetrick).
In 1989 Snyder had a recurring role as Joey Grosset in five episodes of , starring Jonathan Banks. He also appeared in (1990, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell, with Teri Austin), Johnny Bago (1993, with Brett Porter), and (1993).
In 1994 he made two appearances in the first season of J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5. He first portrayed a Soul Hunter in the episode "Soul Hunter" along with W. Morgan Sheppard and then Mr. Orin Zento in the episode "By Any Means Necessary" on which he worked with Caitlin Brown, fellow "The Enemy" co-star Andreas Katsulas, and Katy Boyer.
Further television guest roles include episodes of Fortune Hunter (1994, with Clive Revill and John Vickery), Pointman (1995, episode written by Maurice Hurley), Baywatch Nights (1997), and Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (2000).
== Film ==
Snyder's first film role was the supporting part of a Gas Station Man in (1979) with Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Tom Huff, Lynne Thigpen, and Michael Moutsatsos. He then appeared in the television drama We're Fighting Back (1981, with Brian Tochi), (1981, with Richard McGonagle), the drama Exposed (1983, with Iman), and (1985, with John P. Connolly and Tom McCleister).
Further film work in the 1980s include (1986, with Linda Thorson and Marie Marshall), (1986, with Barry Kivel), (1986, with Biff Yeager, Patti Tippo, and Iggy Pop), (1986, with Bruce McGill and Leon Rippy), (1987, with Lawrence Tierney and Clarence Williams III), (1989, with Kurtwood Smith, Joel Polis, Richard Fancy, Margot Rose, Jan Shultz, and Cully Fredricksen), (1989, with Kevin Tighe, Daniel Davis, Sherman Howard, Jeff Allin, William Sadler, and Gary Combs), (1989, starring Chris Sarandon), and the television drama The Edge (1989, with Jeremy Roberts and Christian Slater).
Following his work on The Next Generation, Snyder had featured parts in (1992, with Biff Yeager, J.D. Cullum, Aaron Lustig, Lee Arenberg, Bill Cobbs, and Patti Tippo), (1992, with Daphne Ashbrook, Ben Vereen, Steven Berkoff, Rosalind Chao, Robert Mandan, Glenn Morshower, Time Winters, and Josh Cruze), the television thriller Double Deception (1993, with Alice Krige and Marilyn Rockafellow), (1993), the crime drama Confessions of a Hitman (1994), (1995, with Charles Cooper, Jenifer Lewis, Joseph Culp, L. Sidney, and Manny Perry), and (1995, with Dan Gauthier, Louis Giambalvo, Michael Durrell, Michael Cavanaugh, Raye Birk, and Gina Ravarra).
In 1996 he had a supporting role in , starring Vanessa Williams. Further appearances include the thriller BitterSweet (1999, with Linda Li and Mike Massa), Jimmy Zip (1999, with John Billingsley and Karen Landry), (2003, starring Chad Allen and with Biff Yeager and James Lew), (2003, with Brad Dourif), and as narrator on the short film Souvenir (2004).
Snyder later appeared as Damian in the drama Love Sick Diaries (2010).
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