Stephen Macht
Acting • Born 1942-05-01
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Stephen Robert Macht is an American television and film actor. Spotted by a Universal Studios talent scout while starring at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada in 1975, Macht was signed to a contract and by the mid 1970s had left teaching and was making frequent appearances in TV episodes and movies. In Raid on Entebbe, he portrayed Yoni Netanyahu, the Israeli officer killed in the rescue of hostages in Uganda. In 1978, he had a lead role in The Immigrants a syndicated miniseries about the rise of the son of Italian immigrants in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. The successful television movie American Dream led to a critically acclaimed short-lived series which cast Macht in the role of a family man who chucks the suburban life to set up home in the inner city of Chicago. The following season, he landed the role of Joe Cooper, on Knots Landing. Other notable roles included playing Nancy McKeon's father in Strange Voices. He was Benedict Arnold in the miniseries George Washington and played one of the survivors of an air crash in Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac. He spent three seasons on Cagney & Lacey. During his run on the show, he moved behind the cameras to make his directorial debut. In 1993, Macht played Krim Aldos in "The Siege", an early Season 2 episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Macht had been Gene Roddenberry's first choice to play Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, but the role eventually went to Patrick Stewart in 1986. More recent credits have included A Friendship in Vienna; Memories of Midnight, and in Moment of Truth: A Mother's Deception. Macht appeared in Babylon 5, One Life to Live, General Hospital, and Suits. Macht's work in feature films has been more sporadic, beginning with a turn as one of The Choirboys. He also had roles in Nightwing, The Mountain Men, Galaxina, The Last Winter, The Monster Squad, Stephen King's Graveyard Shift, Amityville: It's About Time, The Legend of Galgameth, and Watchers Reborn. Macht has also played Dr. Harris in three instalments of the Trancers series of films.
Filmography
98 credits
A Caribbean Mystery
Movie • 1983
Greg Dyson
Galaxina
Movie • 1980
Sgt. Thor
Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing
Movie • 2023
Self
The Last Winter
Movie • 1984
Eddie
The Monster Squad
Movie • 1987
Del
The Legend of Bloody Mary
Movie • 2008
Magistrate
Swallows
Movie • 1999
Nightwing
Movie • 1979
Walker Chee
Trancers III
Movie • 1992
Harris
Trancers 5: Sudden Deth
Movie • 1994
Harris
Trancers 4: Jack of Swords
Movie • 1994
Harris
The Choirboys
Movie • 1977
Spencer Van Moot
Graveyard Shift
Movie • 1990
Warwick
Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac
Movie • 1984
Joe Stiley
The Mountain Men
Movie • 1980
Heavy Eagle
Final Voyage
Movie • 1999
Captain Doyle
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Movie • 1986
Frank Walker
Blind Witness
Movie • 1989
Gordon Kemlich
Galgameth
Movie • 1997
El El
A Friendship in Vienna
Movie • 1988
Franz Dournenvald
DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
Movie • 2003
Paul Wolfowitz
No Blame
Movie • 1988
Carl
Amelia Earhart
Movie • 1976
Paul Mantz
A Mother's Deception
Movie • 1994
Harry McGill
The Tenth Level
Movie • 1976
Dahlquist
Moment of Truth: A Child Too Many
Movie • 1993
Bill Davis
Amityville 1992: It's About Time
Movie • 1992
Jacob Sterling
Watchers Reborn
Movie • 1998
Lem Johnson
Killjoy
Movie • 1981
Dr. Max Heller
Atlas Shrugged: Part II
Movie • 2012
Clem Weatherby
The Immigrants
Movie • 1978
Daniel Lavetta
One Hot Summer Night
Movie • 1998
Abel Ganz
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
Movie • 1980
Maj. William 'Bud' Uanna
My Boyfriend's Back
Movie • 1989
Joseph
Agent Red
Movie • 2000
General Stillwell
Siringo
Movie • 1995
Wade Lewis
The Super Cops
Movie • 1974
Detective Finley (uncredited)
Wolfman's Got Nards
Movie • 2018
Self
Fear Stalk
Movie • 1989
Tom
The Deadly Visitor
Movie • 1973
Mulvaney
Ring of Passion
Movie • 1978
Max Schmeling
Hunters of the Reef
Movie • 1978
La Salle
Raid on Entebbe
Movie • 1976
Lt. Col. 'Yonni' Netanyahu
Strange Voices
Movie • 1987
Dave Glover
Outside the Law
Movie • 2002
Dick Dawson
Samson and Delilah
Movie • 1984
Maluck
Touch Me
Movie • 1997
Robert
American Dream
Movie • 1981
Danny Novak
Contract for Life: The S.A.D.D. Story
Movie • 1984
Bob Anastas
Trancers: The Whole Dethly Affair
Movie • 2025
Harris
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Attorney Jason Farrell
Boston Public
TV • 2000
Mr. Valone
Castle
TV • 2009
Bill Wellington
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
TV • 1993
Brandt
Boomtown
TV • 2002
John Donadoni
Jack & Jill
TV • 1999
Sliders
TV • 1995
Kromanus
The Others
TV • 2000
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Frank Hailey
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1985
Carl Cansino
Walker, Texas Ranger
TV • 1993
Buck Coburn
Hill Street Blues
TV • 1981
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
TV • 1983
Hotel
TV • 1982
Knots Landing
TV • 1979
Joe Cooper
Kojak
TV • 1973
Max Fisk
The Practice
TV • 1997
Gordon Armbrust
Babylon 5
TV • 1994
Na'Far
Cagney & Lacey
TV • 1982
Millennium
TV • 1996
Mr. Lott
Melrose Place
TV • 1992
Ed
JAG
TV • 1995
James Gribaldi
Viper
TV • 1994
Alan Reece
The Wedding Bells
TV • 2007
Rabbi Fishman
Kingston: Confidential
TV • 1977
Gideon's Crossing
TV • 2000
Blacke's Magic
TV • 1986
George Washington
TV • 1984
General Benedict Arnold
Big Hawaii
TV • 1977
American Dream
TV • 1981
Columbo
TV • 1971
David Kincaid
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Frank Stinson
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Lloyd Mentone
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Arthur Wainwright
The Mentalist
TV • 2008
Hollis Percy
Kojak
TV • 1973
Joe Arrow
Memories of Midnight
TV • 1991
Doctor Hamilton
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV • 1974
Joe
Suits
TV • 2011
Henry Gerard
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
TV • 1993
General Krim
Sliders
TV • 1995
Krislov
Highlander: The Series
TV • 1992
Alexei Voshin
Suits
TV • 2011
Professor Henry Gerard
Femme Fatales
TV • 2011
Leland Ryan
Cagney & Lacey
TV • 1982
David Keeler
Hill Street Blues
TV • 1981
Phil Dugan
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Dan Keppner
Loose Change
TV • 1978
Peter Lane