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John de Lancie | |
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de Lancie at the 2012 Summer BronyCon | |
Born | Jonathan de Lancie, Jr. (1948-03-20) March 20, 1948 (age 76) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Other names | John De Lancie John Delancie John DeLancie Jonathan de Lancie Jonathan De Lancie Jonathan Delancie Jonathan DeLancie John de Lancie, Jr. John De Lancie, Jr. John Delancie, Jr. John DeLancie, Jr. Jonathan de Lancie, Jr. Jonathan De Lancie, Jr. Jonathan Delancie, Jr. Jonathan DeLancie, Jr. |
Occupation(s) | Stand-up comedian, actor, director, producer, writer, singer, musician, voice artist, comedian |
Years active | 1976–present |
Spouse | Marnie Mosiman (?-present) |
Children | Keegan de Lancie Owen de Lancie (sons) |
Parent(s) | John de Lancie Andrea de Lancie |
Website | http://www.delancie.com/ |
Jonathan "John" de Lancie, Jr. (born March 20, 1948) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, director, producer, writer, singer, musician, voice artist, and comedian, best known for his role as Q in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager and Discord in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. He has been featured in several recurring roles on television series, including Frank Simmons in Stargate SG-1 and Donald Margolis in Breaking Bad.
Early life
de Lancie was born Jonathan de Lancie, Jr. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 20, 1948 to John de Lancie, who was principal oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1954 to 1977, and Andrea de Lancie.
Career
Acting
Star Trek
de Lancie portrayed Q, a recurring character in several of the Star Trek franchise. Q is one of the few characters appearing in multiple series of the franchise: In 8 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation ("Encounter at Farpoint," "Hide and Q," "Q Who," "Deja Q," "Qpid," "True Q," "Tapestry," "All Good Things..."), in one episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ("Q-Less"), and in 3 episodes of Star Trek: Voyager ("Death Wish," "The Q and the Grey," "Q2").
de Lancie's son Keegan de Lancie appeared with his father as Q's son in one episode of Star Trek: Voyager ("Q2").
Film
de Lancie's film credits include The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Get Smart, Again!, The Fisher King, Bad Influence, The Onion Field, Taking Care of Business, Fearless, Arcade, Multiplicity, Woman on Top, Nicolas, Good Advice, Patient 14, The Big Time, Teenius, Pathology, Evolver, Reign Over Me, My Apocalypse, Crank, Crank 2, and You Lucky Dog.
Other television roles
In addition to his roles in Star Trek, de Lancie appeared in many other television series. He was a popular actor on Days of Our Lives as Eugene. He also co-starred in Michael Piller's creation Legend and had recurring roles in Stargate SG-1 as an NID agent. He has also appeared as Dr. Deroy in three television films of Emergency!. Additionally, de Lancie has also guest starred in multiple television series, including Breaking Bad, The West Wing, Charmed, Andromeda, The Unit, MacGyver, Law & Order: LA, Torchwood: Miracle Day, Touched by an Angel, Mission: Impossible (1980s Revival), and Special Unit 2.
de Lancie has also voiced characters in several animated series, including Duck Dodgers, The Angry Beavers, Max Steel, Duckman, Invader Zim, and Discord, who appears in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and was actually inspired by Q from Star Trek, as a being who embodies chaos and disharmony, but reverts to their true good selves and becomes one of the heroes' best friends.
Stage
He has been a member of the American Shakespeare Festival, the Seattle Repertory Company, South Coast Repertory, the Mark Taper Forum, and the Old Globe (where he performed Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues). de Lancie has performed and directed for Los Angeles Theater Works, the producing arm of KCRW-FM and National Public Radio, where the series The Play's the Thing originates. He appeared in Star Trek: The Music, a touring company, with Robert Picardo. de Lancie and Picardo narrate around the orchestral performance, explaining the history of the music in Star Trek. de Lancie performed Pierre Curie in Alan Alda's play Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie in 2001 at the Geffen Theater in Los Angeles.
Video games
de Lancie performed the voice of Antonio Malochio in Interstate '76, as Trias in Planescape: Torment, and as Dr. Death in Outlaws. He also voiced William Miles in Assassin's Creed: Revelations and Assassin's Creed III, Fitz Quadwrangle in Quantum Conundrum, and Q in the Star Trek: The Next Generation pinball game, Star Trek: Borg, and Star Trek: The Game Show. He also voiced Alarak in StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void.
Writing
de Lancie co-wrote the Star Trek novel I, Q with Peter David, as well as co-writing the novel Soldier of Light with Tom Cool. He was the writer for the DC comic book story The Gift.
Music
de Lancie has performed as narrator with a number of major orchestras including the New York Philharmonic the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the Montreal Symphony. He provided the narration for the world premiere of Lorenzo Palomo's "The Sneeches" (based on the book by Dr. Seuss) with the Oberlin Conservatory Orchestra. de Lancie was the host of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Symphonies for Youth for four years where he helped conceptualize the student concerts "Don't Educate–Stimulate". In addition, he has written and directed ten symphonic plays which were produced with the Milwaukee, St. Paul Chamber, Ravinia, Los Angeles, and Pasadena Orchestras. de Lancie was the writer, director and host of First Nights, an adult concert series at Disney Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, based loosely on the book of the same name by Thomas Forrest Kelly, which explored the life and music of Stravinsky, Beethoven, Mahler, Schumann, and Prokofiev. In 2006, de Lancie made his opera directorial debut with the Atlanta Opera performing Puccini's "Tosca" on May 18 to May 21.
Documentary
While on stage at the 2012 Ottawa ComicCon, de Lancie announced that he had made plans to co-produce a documentary about "bronies" (older, usually male teenage and adult fans of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic). de Lancie stated that he was taken aback by how disrespectfully national news media portrayed the brony fandom. He resolved to do it the "right way" and, with the help of director Laurent Malaquais and producer Michael Brockhoff, began a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the documentary, now titled Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony. The Kickstarter campaign began on May 13, 2012 and by June 10, 2012 had reached a grand total of $322,022, becoming Kickstarter's second highest funded film project of all time.
Personal life
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With Marnie Mosiman, de Lancie has two sons named Keegan de Lancie (born October 31, 1984) and Owen de Lancie (born May 16, 1987).
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1977 | SST Death Flight | Bob Connors | |
1979 | The Onion Field | LAPD Lieutenant #2 | |
1990 | Bad Influence | Howard | |
1990 | Taking Care of Business | Ted Bradford Jr. | |
1991 | The Fisher King | TV Executive | |
1992 | The Hand that Rocks the Cradle | Dr. Victor Mott | |
1993 | Arcade | Difford | |
1993 | Fearless | Jeff Gordon | |
1994 | Without Warning | Barry Steinbrenner | Television film |
1995 | Evolver | Russell Bennett | |
1996 | Multiplicity | Ted | |
1997 | Trekkies | Himself | |
1998 | Saving Private Ryan | Letter-Reader | Voice Uncredited |
1998 | You Lucky Dog | ||
1999 | Final Run | George Bouchard | |
2000 | Woman on Top | Alex Reeves | |
2001 | Nicolas | Dr. Fisher | |
2001 | Good Advice | Ted | |
2002 | The Big Time | ||
2007 | Reign Over Me | Nigel Pennington | |
2007 | Teenius | Principal Senseman | |
2008 | My Apocalypse | Nathan Eastman | |
2008 | Pathology | Dr. Quentin Morris | |
2009 | Crank: High Voltage | Fish Halman | |
2009 | Gamer | Chief of Staff | |
2013 | Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony | Himself | Co-producer |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1977 | McMillan & Wife | Powell | |
1977–1978 | The Six Million Dollar Man | Various Characters | |
1978–1979 | Emergency! | Dr. Deroy | |
1978 | The Bastard | Lt. Stark | |
1979 | Battlestar Galactica | Officer | Episode: "Experiment in Terra" |
1981 | Nero Wolfe | Tom Irwin | Episode: "Might as Well Be Dead" |
1982–1986 | Days of Our Lives | Eugene Bradford | |
1983 | The Thorn Birds | Alastair MacQueen | Miniseries |
1986 | The New Twilight Zone | The Dispatcher | Episode: "Dead Run" |
1986 | MacGyver | Brian Ashford | Episode: "The Escape" |
1986 | Murder, She Wrote | Binky Holborn | Episode: "If the Frame Fits" |
1987–1994 | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Q | 8 episodes |
1988 | Mission: Impossible | Matthew Drake | Episode: "The Killer" |
1989 | Get Smart, Again! | Major Preston Waterhouse | Uncredited |
1989 | The Nutt House | Norman Shrike | Episode: "Pilot" |
1991 | L.A. Law | Mark Chelios | Episode: "The Beverly Hill Hangers" |
1992 | Civil Wars | ||
1993 | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Q | Episode: "Q-Less" |
1993 | Batman: The Animated Series | Eagleton | |
1995 | Legend | Janos Bartok | |
1996 | Picket Fences | District Attorney | Episode: "Three Weddings and a Meltdown" |
1996 | Touched by an Angel | Justinian Jones | Episode: "Jones vs. God" |
1997 | Duckman | Tyler Fitzgerald | Episode: "From Brad to Worse" |
1996–2001 | Star Trek: Voyager | Q | 3 episodes |
1999 | The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest | Dr. Quest | |
2000 | Angry Beavers | The Yak in the Sack | Episode: "Yak in the Sack" |
2000 | The Outer Limits | Donald Finley | Episode: "The Gun" |
2000 | The West Wing | Al Kiefer | 2 episodes |
2000 | Sports Night | Bert Stors | Episode: "April is the Cruelest Month" |
2001 | Andromeda | Sid Barry | 1 episode |
2001 | Special Unit 2 | King of the Links | Episode: "The Eve" |
2001 | The Practice | Walter Bannish | |
2001 | Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future | Gerard Hamilton | Episode: "The Surrender of Earth" |
2002 | Andromeda | Sam Profitt | 1 episode |
2001–2002 | Stargate SG-1 | Colonel Frank Simmons / Goa'uld | 5 episodes |
2003 | Judging Amy | Dr. Eagan | Episode: "Picture of Perfect" |
2003 | Duck Dodgers | Sinestro | Episode: "The Green Loontern" |
2004–2005 | Charmed | Odin | |
2005 | The Closer | Dr. Dawson | Episode: "Flashpoint |
2005 | Invader Zim | Agent Darkbootie | Voice 2 episodes |
2009 | Greek | Himself | Episode: "The Dork Knight" |
2009–2010 | Breaking Bad | Donald Margolis | 4 episodes |
2011 | Law & Order: LA | Judge Avery Staynor | Episode "Carthay Circle" |
2011 | Franklin & Bash | Gallen | Episode "Bachelor Party" |
2011 | Torchwood: Miracle Day | Agent Allen Shapiro | |
2011 | Young Justice | Mister Twister | Voice Episode: "Welcome to Happy Harbor" |
2011–present | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | Discord | Voice 9 episodes |
2012 | NTSF:SD:SUV:: | Leonardo da Vinci | Episode: "Time Angels" |
2012 | The Secret Circle | Royce Armstrong | Episode: "Crystal" |
2014 | The Mentalist | Edward Feinberg | Episode: "Silver Wings of Times" |
References
- "John de Lancie Biography (1948-)". Filmreference.com. 1948-03-20. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- "John De Lancie Announces Brony Documentary (Ottawa Comiccon)". YouTube. 2012-05-13. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ^ "BronyCon: The Documentary by Michael Brockhoff — Kickstarter". Kickstarter.com. 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
External links
- Official website
- John de Lancie at IMDb
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- StarTrek.com biography
- John de Lancie Interview at AMCtv.com
- BronyCon: The Documentary Kickstarter Page
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