George Murdock (1930 - 2012)
Film Deaths[]
- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) [God]: Playing a non-corporeal being pretending to be God, he is destroyed by phaser fire from a Klingon ship just as he is about to kill William Shatner.
Television Deaths[]
- Tarzan: The Fanatics (1967) [Eric]: Falls to the ground behind rocks on a beach after being knocked out by Ron Ely and dies in an explosion.
- Ironside: Force of Arms (1968) [Victor Cramer]: Killed (off-screen) by unknown means, most likely by Linden Chiles; his body is put in a car, which is then rolled down a cliff to look like an accident.
- Gunsmoke: The Predators (1972) [Cole Matson]: Shot by Claude Akins after he non-fatally shot Claude in the back. (Thanks to Brian)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Best of Both Worlds, Part 2 (1990) [Admiral J.P. Hanson]: Killed (off-screen), along with most of his fleet, by the Borg when the fleet tries to prevent the Borg from reaching Earth. We learn of his death when the Enterprise crew views the wreckage.
- Smallville: Hourglass (2001) [Harry Volk]: In a dual performance where George plays the old Harry and Eric Christian Olsen plays the younger version, the younger version suffocates in the falling grain in the grain silo during a fight with Annette O'Toole. After Tom Welling and John Schneider rescue Annette, his hand is shown rising above the grain, which then turns back into his old form.