Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard Lawrence Hatch (May 21, 1945 – February 7, 2017) was an American actor, writer, and producer. Hatch began his career as a stage actor, before moving on to television work in the 1970s. Hatch is best known for his role as Captain Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica television series. Hatch led an effort to revive the series. However his vision was ultimately passed over in favor of Ronald D. Moore's re-imagined Battlestar Galactica in which ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Devonsville Train: Establishing Shots 2
2022
as Jesse
A series of shots from eleven 1970s and 1980s genre/exploitation films are slowed down to near-still moving images. Second feature-length piece in the...
Diminuendo
2018
as Haskell Edwards
A director whose life crumbled when Cello, his Hollywood starlet girlfriend, killed herself, becomes obsessed with a robot designed to replicate her a...
Alien Hunger
2017
as Park Ranger Mike Gibson
Aliens with a ravenous appetite for summertime campers descend upon a campground.
Blade Of Honor
2017
as Admiral DiCarrek
When the crew of the Hermes finds itself trapped in a space battle with the evil Calinar breaching their ship they must fight for their lives while Ar...
The Enchanted Cottage
2016
as Mr. Bradshaw
The Enchanted Cottage is a romantic retelling of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's classic play. When socialite Oliver Bradshaw is disfigured by war wounds, he...
Fanarchy
2015
as Self
Fanarchy explores the rise of fan culture and ways in which fans are threatening the Hollywood system by becoming a creative force in their own right....
Cowboys & Engines
2015
as Cade Ballard
Cowboys & Engines is a steampunk western short that stars Richard Hatch (Battlestar: Galactica) and Libby Letlow (Masked Rider). Set in an alternate 1...
Chatter
2015
as Nate Terry
While monitoring Internet traffic for the Department of Homeland Security, Agent Martin Takagi comes across the intimate video chats of a couple, temp...
Prelude to Axanar
2014
as General Kharn
Prelude to Axanar is a short film that will give viewers a historical look at the events leading up to the Battle of Axanar, the central event of the ...
Alongside Night
2014
as The Silicon Assassin
Alongside Night is the story of the final economic collapse of the United States as seen through the eyes of 16-year-old Elliot Vreeland, searching fo...
Asylum of Darkness
2012
as Dr. Shaker
Mental patient Dwight Stroud escapes from an asylum and is mistaken for a motivational speaker named Artemis Finch who has money and women at his comm...
D.N.E.: Do Not Erase
2012
as The Caretaker
When Brian's graduate thesis on Time Travel costs him the love of his life, he forces himself to choose the best way to live out the rest of his days.
InAlienable
2008
as Dr. Eric Norris
Still guilt-ridden over the accident that took his family's lives, Eric Norris discovers that his body is host to a parasite from another world. Excep...
The Rain Makers
2005
as Wyatt
A man returns to his small home town from the Vietnam War and discovers corruption, graft, a crooked Sheriff and other dirty deeds.
Unseen Evil
2001
as Dr. Peter Jensen
A group of hikers led by a college professor are searching the woods for an ancient Indian burial mound. When they discover a likely site, three membe...
The Ghost
2001
as Edward
A feared Chinese Tong soldier goes undercover in America as an Asian Internet bride.
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
1999
as Commander Apollo
"Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming" is a Proof of Concept for a possible Sequel from the television series "Battlestar Galactica".
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
1999
Director
"Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming" is a Proof of Concept for a possible Sequel from the television series "Battlestar Galactica".
Iron Thunder
1998
as Nelson
Danger faces unsuspecting tourists in Las Vegas as Colonel Nelson goes mad when he is accidentally electrocuted by the very super secret U.S. military...
Second Chance
1996
as Mitch
Three scientists invent a youth serum, but they're forced to flee their lab as a group of mercenaries try to take it for the wealthy old man who hired...
Beyond Kilimanjaro, Across the River of Blood
1990
as Tony La Palma
Tony La Palma lives in Kenya, where he helps Dr. Sean in his work to protect animals. His love affair with Giulia brings the past from which he is run...
Delta Force Commando II: Priority Red One
1990
as Delta Force Leader Brett Haskell
Only one enemy has ever beat him. Now he needs her to save his life.
Dark Bar
1989
as Marco
Anna, a young saxophone player, investigates her sister's disappearance with the help of a friend.
Leathernecks
1989
An action-packed, brought to us by Ignazio Dolce - the guy who directed several other 'Nam action flicks including "The Last Platoon". It's a plot les...
Ghetto Blaster
1989
as Travis
When Travis, middle-aged, working class man, returns home to visit his parents, he quickly learns that his hood is rife with criminal activity and gan...
Hitch-Hikers
1989
In 1930s Mississippi, a traveling salesman picks up two hitch-hikers.
Party Line
1988
as Dan
A rich brother and sister are crazed killers. She lures men into her bed, and he attacks them and murders them. A detective is assigned to find the ki...
Last Platoon
1988
as Sgt. Chet Costa
After ex-cop and highly decorated war hero Chet Costa's Vietnamese girlfriend disappears, he accepts a risky mission: he shall blow up a bridge at the...
Heated Vengeance
1985
as Joe Hoffman
Lt. Joe Hoffman (Hatch) is a Vietnam veteran who, many years after the end of the war, decides to go back to the "Golden Triangle" to find his lost lo...
Prisoners of the Lost Universe
1983
as Dan
Three people are transported into a parallel universe. There they find that they must use modern technology, but medieval weapons, in order to save th...
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
1981
as Lee Chan, Jr.
Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling gr...
The Hustler of Muscle Beach
1980
as Nick Demec
A slick promoter in the bodybuilding subculture of Venice Beach, California, finds what he considers a diamond in the rough: a dedicated but somewhat ...
Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack
1979
as Cpt. Apollo
A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 10–12 and 21, with alternate footage. Running low on fuel, the Battlestar Galactica receives the help o...
Battlestar Galactica
1978
as Capt. Apollo
A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 1 and 5, with alternate footage. After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last majo...
Deadman's Curve
1978
as Jan Berry
Things were cool. Chicks were pretty. Waves were groovy. Cars had muscle. Jan and Dean rode their wave to the top of the pop charts. Then, in 1966, on...
Addie and the King of Hearts
1976
as Mr. Davenport
Addie becomes jealous when her widowed father starts to woo a beautician.
Best Friends
1975
as Jesse
Two young couples taste the "free and easy" life on a cross country motor-home tour until love backfires and tragedy follows.
The Hatfields and the McCoys
1975
as Johnse Hatfield
A retelling of the famous feud between two mountain families, the Hatfields and the McCoys, in rural Kentucky and West Virginia in the late 1800s.
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
1974
as Bill Knowles
A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and stationed in Alabama in 1919.
Crime Club
1973
as Hugh London
A group of public and private investigators looks into the suspicious death of the son of one of its members' wealthy girlfriends.