Gerrit Graham

Gerrit Graham is one of those character actors I find quietly indispensable. A Columbia-educated New Yorker, he popped up in several Brian De Palma films and showed up across two Star Trek series, which tells you how adaptable he was. I have a soft spot for his comic turn opposite Kurt Russell in Used Cars and his voice work as Franklin Sherman on The Critic. What impresses me most is the range of his toolkit: he acted, he wrote scripts, he wrote songs. He never seemed to chase the spotlight, and I deeply respect performers who build a world from the supporting margins rather than the center, and his death in September 2026 at 77 feels like a real loss.

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Name (English)

Gerrit Graham

Name (Japanese)

ゲリット・グレアム

Reading

げりっと・ぐれあむ

Born

November 27, 1948 – September 15, 2026

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

screenwriter / television actor / film actor / actor / songwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rat

University

Columbia University

• Official sitehttps://www.gerritgraham.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit%20Graham
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1354875

Tags

• New York
• screenwriter
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.