Kent Franklin McWhirter, better known by his stage name of Kent McCord, is an American TV and film actor who formerly served for eleven years on the Screen Actors Guild board.
Career[]
McCord became a TV star in the early 1970s co-starring in the long-running crime drama Adam-12.
McCord was contacted by Glen A. Larson in 1978 as a hopeful actor for Battlestar Galactica 1978, an ABC telefilm series that was preparing for a regular run. Though he was interested in the project, ABC's complaints about Universal's overspending of episodes led to him never been cast on the show.[1] When production began with Galactica 1980, McCord was passed over a second time by ABC, and was only hired into the role of Troy when the actor originally cast was fired just as filming was beginning.[1]
Two years after the cancellation of Galactica 1980, McCord returned to sci-fi, this time in the spoof Airplane II: The Sequel. Coincidentally, the film reused the theme music to Battlestar Galactica.
McCord's other major sci-fi appearance was as a recurring guest star playing John Crichton's father in Farscape.