{"id":52908,"date":"2024-06-08T12:04:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T10:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2053652"},"modified":"2024-06-08T14:10:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T12:10:39","slug":"star-trek-and-lethal-weapon-3-star-alan-scarfe-dies-aged-77","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/star-trek-and-lethal-weapon-3-star-alan-scarfe-dies-aged-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek and Lethal Weapon 3 star Alan Scarfe dies, aged 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> The actor also had a memorable role in Double Impact. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By George White\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Saturday, 08 June 2024 at 10:04 AM<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The British-Canadian actor Alan Scarfe, a regular face on the big and small screen across his decades-spanning career, has died aged 77.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The versatile performer is perhaps best known for his roles in films like Lethal Weapon 3 and Double Impact, as well as popular Star Trek series Voyager and The Next Generation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His family announced that the star, who began his movie career in 1963 with Larry Kent\u2019s The Bitter Ash, passed away from colon cancer at his home in Longueuil, Quebec, on 28th April.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After his debut in the early \u201860s, Scarfe would not appear on-screen again until 1976, taking on the role of Harrison Sturgess in introspective TV movie A Gift to Last \u2013 but never looked back from there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across the next decade, the actor put in memorable turns in fan favourite shows such as For the Record and The Great Detective.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, it was stints in two Star Trek series, The Next Generation and Voyager, in the \u201890s that saw him join a franchise that has redefined the term \u201cfandom\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd0e RIP Alan Scarfe &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StarTrek?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StarTrek<\/a> Actor Passes Away Aged 77!<br\/><br\/>Known for his roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Voyager, Scarfe also starred in Lethal Weapon. His family confirmed he passed away at age 77. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w2vlKiFilD\">pic.twitter.com\/w2vlKiFilD<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Trek Central (@TheTrekCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTrekCentral\/status\/1799028728879800449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"\/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scarfe played two different roles, Tokath and Admiral Mendak, in separate episodes of Next Generation, and portrayed the menacing Augris, third magistrate of the Mokra Order, in a 1995 episode of Voyager.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the big screen, Scarfe filled the shoes of Herman Walters in 1992\u2019s Lethal Weapon 3, LAPD Internal Affairs\u2019 chief of intelligence, who shared an enjoyable dynamic with Steve Kahan\u2019s Captain Murphy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And a year prior, he played a key role in the Jean-Claude Van Damme-led Double Impact, as his antagonist Nigel Griffith threw up plenty of curveballs for our twin heroes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Throughout the \u201800s, Scarfe cropped up in a number of popular shows, including Andromeda and Stargate: Atlantis, before his final credit in short film Hastings Street in 2007.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scarfe is survived by his son, fellow actor Jonathan Scarfe, who is known for parts in The 100 Van Helsing, and daughter Tosia.<\/span><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The actor also had a memorable role in Double Impact. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":52909,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/star-trek-and-lethal-weapon-3-star-alan-scarfe-dies-aged-77-scaled.jpg",2560,1708,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/star-trek-and-lethal-weapon-3-star-alan-scarfe-dies-aged-77-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/star-trek-and-lethal-weapon-3-star-alan-scarfe-dies-aged-77-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/star-trek-and-lethal-weapon-3-star-alan-scarfe-dies-aged-77-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/star-trek-and-lethal-weapon-3-star-alan-scarfe-dies-aged-77-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/star-trek-and-lethal-weapon-3-star-alan-scarfe-dies-aged-77-1536x1025.jpg",1536,1025,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/star-trek-and-lethal-weapon-3-star-alan-scarfe-dies-aged-77-2048x1366.jpg",2048,1366,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The actor also had a memorable role in Double Impact.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/52908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}