David Sage
Biography
David Sage (born 13 July 1940; age 84) is the actor who played the role of Tarmin in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fifth season episode "Violations". He filmed his scenes between Tuesday 29 October 1991 and Friday 1 November 1991 and on Tuesday 5 November 1991 on Paramount Stage 8 and 9. Sage is often seen playing the role of a judge. This was the case with his 1991 appearance on Quantum Leap, starring future Star Trek: Enterprise actors Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell and guest-starring Richard Herd. It was also the case in a 1986 episode of L.A. Law which featured Bibi Besch, Denise Crosby, Anne Haney, and series regular Corbin Bernsen. Sage frequently plays political figures such as senators and mayors, including his role as Senator Walter on Dallas in 1988. Career; His earliest known television appearance was a 1983 episode of The Greatest American Hero, opposite Judson Scott. He was next seen in an episode of Hardcastle and McCormick, starring Brian Keith and Daniel Hugh Kelly in the title roles. In 1985, he appeared on St. Elsewhere, starring William Daniels, Chad Allen, Jeff Allin, Ed Begley, Jr., Ronny Cox, Norman Lloyd, Deborah May, France Nuyen, Christina Pickles, Jennifer Savidge, Brian Tochi, Alfre Woodard, and Jane Wyatt. Sage appeared in two episodes of Falcon Crest: the first also featured his Next Generation co-star Jonathan Frakes; the second (in which he played a judge) guest-starred fellow Trek performers Leslie Bevis, Michael Ensign, Michael Ensign, Ellen Geer, Jeff Kober, Loren Lester, and Barbara J. Tarbuck. Jonathan Banks, Brett Cullen, and Robert Foxworth were regulars on the series. His other TV credits include Hunter (with K Callan, Bruce Davison, and John McLiam), the 1980s remake of The Twilight Zone (with Andrew Robinson, Mark L. Taylor and Jerry Hardin), Hill Street Blues (with Barbara Bosson, Martha Hackett, and James B. Sikking), Murder, She Wrote (with Barbara Bosson and William Windom), Gabriel's Fire (with Phillip Glasser, Gregory Itzin, David Opatoshu, and Madge Sinclair), Seinfeld (with Jason Alexander, Stephen McHattie, and Heidi Swedberg), L.A. Law (with Corbin Bernsen, Ron Canada, and Larry Drake), Picket Fences (with Ray Walston), Babylon 5 (with Ian Abercrombie, Mary Kay Adams, Christopher Darga, Andreas Katsulas, Glenn Morshower and Bill Mumy), Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (with Erick Avari, K Callan, Teri Hatcher, and Charles Napier), JAG (with Kevin Conway and Javier Grajeda), The Practice (with Gregory Itzin and Bruce McGill), and the pilot episode of The West Wing. His only feature film credits are a small role in Galaxies Are Colliding (1992, starring Kelsey Grammer), and a role as a senator in The Birdcage (1996, starring Robin Williams, featuring Ann Cusack, Lee Delano, James W. Jansen, Tim Kelleher, and Herschel Sparber). Sage suffered a massive stroke early in 2002 which ended his career and he now lives in Van Nuys with his wife, Judy, and their three pets Louie, Annie, and Christopher
Known For & Full Filmography30 Titles
Drama Series - 1999, 16 episodes • as John Van Dyke
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.
Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes • as Dr. Dembrow
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes • as Tarmin
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.
Drama Series - 1995, 16 episodes • as Judge Lonigan
Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth.
Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • as Stavros
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • as (uncredited)
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.
Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes • as Clayburgh the Jeweler
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.
Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes • as Centauri Merchant
Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.
Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes • as Judge
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • as Minister
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.
Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes • as Judge Robert M. Breech
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • as Aaron Hofheinz
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • as Dr. Andrew Garreth
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes • as John Cosgrove
A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man of Steel's early adult years in Metropolis. With the unknowing help of Lois Lane, Clark Kent created Superman there in Metropolis after finding work at the world-famous Daily Planet newspaper, where he meets fellow reporter Lois Lane.
Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes • as Dr. Alan Golden
A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man of Steel's early adult years in Metropolis. With the unknowing help of Lois Lane, Clark Kent created Superman there in Metropolis after finding work at the world-famous Daily Planet newspaper, where he meets fellow reporter Lois Lane.
Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes • as Surgeon
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions.
Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes • as President of a Country
Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George Utley is the handyman at the inn and Leslie Vanderkellen is the maid, with ambitions of being an Olympic Ski champion; she is later replaced by her cousin Stephanie, an heiress who hates her job. Her boyfriend is Dick's yuppie TV producer, Michael Harris. There are many other quirky characters in this fictional little town, including Dick's neighbors Larry, Darryl, and Darryl...three brothers who buy the Minuteman Cafe from Kirk Devane. Besides sharing a name, Darryl and Darryl never speak.
Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Alan's Father (uncredited)
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes • as Lawyer
Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. Similarly to Tales from the Darkside, Monsters shared the same producer, and in some ways succeeded the show. It differed in some respects nonetheless. While Tales sometimes dabbled in stories of science fiction and fantasy, this series was more strictly horror. As the name implies, each episode features a different monster, from the animatronic puppet of a fictional children's television program to mutated, weapon-wielding lab rats.
Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through 1986. The series stars Brian Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver Mark "Skid" McCormick. The series premise was somewhat recycled from a previous Cannell series, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe.
Movie - 1996, 2h 15m • as Senator Eli Jackson
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's conservative parents.
Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
A working-class family struggles to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois.
Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes • as Fred Mascarpone
Talented female attorney, Christine Cromwell, searches for justice, and the truth, when her friends and clients are accused of murder.
Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
The Bradys is a six-episode American drama series that aired on CBS in 1990. It was a revival of the early 1970s sitcom, The Brady Bunch, and was about the trials and tribulations of the extended Brady family some 15 years after the end of the earlier series. It followed two earlier short-lived spin-off/continuation series: The Brady Bunch Hour and The Brady Brides.
Drama Series - 1996, 16 episodes • as Captain Hingle
Campus Cops is an American sitcom, about two campus policeman who worked at Canfield University, that aired on the USA network in 1996.
Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • as Business Man
The feature-length pilot for this Emmy award-winning show. Babylon 5 is the latest in a series of space stations built by humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, has been poisoned. It is the new commanding officer, Jeffrey Sinclair, who has the responsibility of finding the culprit. Otherwise, the space station will fail in its role of bringing many alien races together.
Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • as Miller Swanson
A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa.
Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as Dr. Miller
A teen, who is always in trouble in school and has been sent to reform school, turns her life around when a counselor discovers she is dyslexic.