William Sadler
William Thomas Sadler  is the acclaimed actor from Buffalo, New York, who appeared as Luther Sloan in three episodes of .

Biography
Although he began his acting career performing on the stage and has made several television appearances, his most extensive work has been in films. Perhaps his best known film roles are those of "Colonel Stuart" in 1990's Die Hard 2 (which featured his DS9 co-star Colm Meaney as the Irish Air pilot whose plane is crashed by Sadler's villainous Colonel Stuart and starred  guest star Robert Costanzo) and "Heywood" in 1994's The Shawshank Redemption. Among his co-stars in the latter film were fellow Star Trek alumni Dion Anderson, Bill Bolender, Brian Brophy, Clancy Brown, Jude Ciccolella, Don McManus, Bob Gunton, and Mark Rolston.

Sadler is also known for his role as the "Grim Reaper" in 1991's Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, for which he won a Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. That film co-starred his DS9 co-star Hal Landon, Jr. and Roy Brocksmith, whom Sadler had previously co-starred with in the first episode of Tales from the Crypt (which also featured Patti Yasutake). Sadler would go on to play a different Grim Reaper in the Tales from the Crypt episode "The Assassin", co-starring Jonathan Banks and Marshall R. Teague, in which Sadler appeared opposite "the Crypt Keeper" voiced by John Kassir. He reprised his role as the Grim Reaper in the 2020 film .

Sadler's many other film credits include Trespass (1992, with Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.), Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (1995, with Brenda Bakke, John Kassir, Dick Miller, John Schuck, Tim de Zarn, and John Larroquette), and The Green Mile (1999, with James Cromwell and Paula Malcomson). He was also a star on the science fiction TV series Roswell. On that show Ronald D. Moore became a chief writer, Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts were (co-)producers, Jonathan Frakes was an executive producer and frequent director, and which also guest-starred Frakes as himself in two episodes, one of which also starred John Billingsley in a scene in which the main character Max Evans auditions for a part on .

He later starred in the series Wonderfalls – created by Bryan Fuller – which ran for only one season in 2004, and Traveler, which again lasted for one summer season in 2007. The latter series also starred Steven Culp and Neal McDonough. He also had a recurring role on the HBO series The Pacific, which also features Conor O'Farrell. He also appeared in Alex Kurtzman's and Roberto Orci's remake of Hawaii Five-O as John "Jack" McGarrett, Steve McGarrett's father and the former Honolulu PD training officer/partner of Daniel Dae Kim's character Chin Ho Kelly.

Sadler portrayed NYPD Detective Micheal Sheehan in the 2019 mini-series "When They See us" focusing in the investigation into the 1989 Central Park Rape Case. The production costarred Len Cariou as prosecutor Robert Morgenthau.

Sadler has also played President Ellis in Iron Man 3 and in episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..

Appearances as Sloan

Other Trek connections
Additional non-Trek film and television projects in which Sadler has appeared with fellow Star Trek performers include:

Television

Guest Appearances
The Equalizer episode "Shades of Darkness" (1986) with Robert Lansing and Keith Szarabajka
St. Elsewhere episode "The Abby Singer Show" (1988) with Ed Begley, Jr., Ronny Cox, France Nuyen, Alfre Woodard, and Jane Wyatt
Murphy Brown episode "Off the Job Experience" (1989) with Alan Oppenheimer
Poltergeist: The Legacy episode "The Fifth Sepulcher" (1996) with W. Morgan Sheppard
JAG episode "Retrial" (2004) with Dean Stockwell and Ray Wise
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "Killer" (2006) with Susanna Thompson
Numb3rs episode "Democracy" (2007) with Danica Erickson
Fringe episode "The Equation" (2008), created by J.J. Abrams
Criminal Minds episode "Reckoner" (2009) with Lawrence Pressman

Movies
The Great Wallendas (1978) with Casey Biggs
Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase (1981) with his "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" co-star Adrienne Barbeau
Unconquered (1981) with Bob Gunton and Noble Willingham
The Last to Go (1991) with Phillip Richard Allen, Terry O'Quinn, and Tim Ransom
Tagget (1991) with Tim De Zarn, Glenn Morshower and Leon Russom
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor (1993) with Bruce Bolender, Bruce French, Alice Krige, Neal McDonough
The Omen (1995) with Norman Lloyd
Witness Protection (1999) with Jim Metzler and Leon Russom

Films
Yes, he appeared in both a number of movies, and a number of films!
Off Beat (1986) with Anthony Zerbe and Mike Starr
Project X (1987) with Shelly Desai, Robin Gammell, Dick Miller, and Daniel Roebuck
K-9 (1989) with Jeff Allin, Daniel Davis, and Sherman Howard
The Hot Spot (1990) with Virginia Madsen and Leon Rippy
Hard to Kill (1990) with Branscombe Richmond
Freaked (1993) with Lee Arenberg, Derek McGrath, and Don Stark
Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood (1996) with John Kassir, Whoopi Goldberg and Chris Sarandon
Ambushed (1998) with Virginia Madsen
Stealth Fighter (1999) with Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.
The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003) with France Nuyen and Ray Wise
Purple Heart (2005) with Ed Lauter
Confess (2005) with Josh Pais
Iron Man 3 (2013) with Miguel Ferrer, Tom Virtue, Sala Baker, Chien Funan, Ilram Choi, Kiante Elam, Mark Ginther, Mark Wagner, Darin Cooper, Spencer Garrett, and Baron Jay

Trivia
Sadler was born on the same day as  actor Ron Perlman. The two would later perform together in the play "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui".

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Performers
DS9 performers