Happy Birthday Marc Singer! He is a well known genre actor who began sci fi acting in the Planet of the Apes tv series episode, “The Gladiators” (1974). Singer was in the Vietnam War film, Go Tell the Spartans (1978) as Captain Al Olivetti. One of his most well known roles was as Dar in The Beastmaster (1982) co-written and directed by Don Coscarelli. Singer continued in sci fi playing camera man, Mike Donavan in the V (1983) tv mini-series. Donavan was caught up in not capturing the Visitor occupation, but taking part in the resistance! This was followed by another mini-series, V: The Final Battle (1984) without series creator Kenneth Johnson. It was finally turned into a sequel in novel form by Johnson in V: The Second Generation (2008).
V was not the final battle since it led to a V (1984-1985) tv series. Singer appeared in the Twilight Zone episode in “Extra Innings” (1988). Marc Singer played Paul Ferguson in Watchers II (1990), the sequel to the film based on the Dean Koontz novel. Commander Steve Krieger was portrayed by Singer in the sci-fi/horror film, Dead Space (1991). Then, he returned as Dar in Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991). “The Long Rain” (1992) episode of The Ray Bradbury Theater series starred Singer. He voiced Dr. Kirk Langstrom, the Man-Bat, in 1992 episodes of Batman: The Animated Series. Singer played Caleb Cole in the “Mountain Men” (1992) episode of the Highlander series.
He returned again as Dar in the tv movie, Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus (1996). A time lost Lancelot du Lac was portrayed by Singer in Lancelot: Guardian of Time (1997). In the Beastmaster tv series he played Dartanus from (2001-2002). He directed the episode, “Destiny” (2001) of the Beastmaster show. The fantasy movie, Dragonquest (2009) starred Marc Singer as the warrior Maxim. The V re-boot series episode, “Mother’s Day” (2011) featured Singer playing the character of Lars Tremont. General Matthew Shrieve was played by Singer in 2015 episodes of the Arrow series. He was also Peter Braxton in the reboot of Beauty and the Beast for 2016 episodes. Singer was Sheriff Johnson in the thriller, The Undertaker’s Wife (2021). Happy Birthday Marc Singer!
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