15 Facts About Roy Thinnes

Roy Thinnes guest starred on Twelve O'Clock High, becoming a casualty of war while commanding a B-17 bomber on a dangerous mission.

Roy Thinnes played an intrepid writer and investigator of the supernatural David Norliss in 1973's The Norliss Tapes, a pilot for an unproduced TV series, and portrayed a suspicious schoolmaster in the TV movie Satan's School for Girls.

Roy Thinnes appeared in the disaster films Airport 1975 as the co-pilot, and The Hindenburg as a sadistic SS captain.

Roy Thinnes was cast in Alfred Hitchcock's 1976 film Family Plot in the role of nefarious jeweler Arthur Adamson when Hitchcock's first choice, William Devane, was unavailable.

Roy Thinnes had already shot several scenes for the film when Devane suddenly became available.

Roy Thinnes confronted Hitchcock in a restaurant and asked the director why he was fired.

Roy Thinnes appeared in the 1979 miniseries From Here to Eternity as Captain Dana Holmes.

Roy Thinnes later played Roger Collins in the 1991 revival of TV's Dark Shadows.

Roy Thinnes appeared on One Life to Live as Alex Crown from 1984 to 1985, and as Sloan Carpenter from 1992 to 1995.

Roy Thinnes played a lead role in "The Final Chapter," the first episode of the 1977 series Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected, and in "The Crystal Scarab", a first-season episode of Poltergeist: The Legacy in 1996.

Roy Thinnes was once considered by Paramount for the part of Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Roy Thinnes made two appearances in The X-Files as Jeremiah Smith, an alien rebel with healing and shape-shifting abilities.

Twice Roy Thinnes appeared on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live playing two different characters.

In 2005, Roy Thinnes co-starred as Dr Theophile Peyron in the movie The Eyes of Van Gogh about Vincent van Gogh and his voluntary stay in an insane asylum.

Roy Thinnes was married to actress Lynn Loring from 1967 to 1984.