|  Avg.User Rating:  2 Ratings Actor Born:May 21, 1945 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA
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| A graduate of the ABC daytime drama All My Children, Richard Hatch managed to get off on the
wrong foot with critics and audiences alike with his first starring prime-time
TV role. In 1976, Hatch replaced Michael Douglas on the long-running cop
series The Streets of San Francisco. Before the
ink was dry on the contract, Hatch was issuing public complaints about the
shortcomings of his character, inspector Dan Robbins. This might have been
excused as the youthful hubris, but then Hatch took his beloved co-star Karl Malden to task for giving him acting
advice on the set. Not altogether surprisingly, Hatch was the subject of fewer
and fewer interviews and articles after Streets was cancelled in 1977. He tried to
attain film stardom, but things like Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon
Queen (1980) were enough to scuttle anyone's career. Luckily, Richard Hatch was able to garner a fan
following with his role as Apollo on the 1979 sci-fi series Battlestar Gallactica; he also delivered
a superb performance as Jan of Jan and Dean in the 1978 TV biopic Dead Man's Curve. ~ Hal Erickson, All
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