Kent McCord

Kent McCord (born September 26, 1942) is an American actor best known for his role as Officer Jim Reed on the television series Adam-12.

Biography

McCord was born Kent Franklin McWhirter in Los Angeles, California. Using the stage name Kent McCord, he first appeared on television in 1962 on ABC's The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet. He became a close friend of Ricky Nelson and made a total of twelve appearances on the program over the next few years. He also landed small parts in three Elvis Presley films.

After working in a variety of secondary roles, he got his big break in 1968 when he was given a lead role next to Martin Milner as rookie LAPD police officer James A. "Jim" Reed on Adam-12, a police drama television series created by Jack Webb. The popular show ran on NBC from 1968 to 1975 and made McCord a household name. In Jack Webb's Dragnet 1967, he made guest appearances either as "Kent McWhirter" or "Kent McCord".

In 1972, McCord was elected to the National Board of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild and served on the Board for eleven years. He is currently 1st National Vice President^[1] and serves on the National Board of Directors^[2] as well.

In 1980, McCord played the lead character Troy on the short-lived series Galactica 1980. He was then pegged to play Jack Webb's partner in another revival of Dragnet, but the project ended with Webb's death in 1982. Also in 1982, McCord had a role as Dave Unger, a navigator on the "Lunar Shuttle" Mayflower in that year's big summer comedy Airplane II: The Sequel, McCord's only known comedy role. McCord re-teamed with Martin Milner, his co-star in "Adam-12", in the cable tv-movie Nashville Beat (1990), originally shown on the now defunct The Nashville Network. In this story that Kent McCord partially wrote, McCord played an LAPD detective who teams up with his old partner (Martin Milner) in Nashville. From 1994 through 1995, McCord played the recurring role of Scott Keller on seaQuest DSV, and in 1999 he was introduced to a new generation of fans as a semi-regular guest star on the science fiction television cult hit, Farscape. He played two versions (one human and one alien appearing in the physical form of the human) of the same character, Jack Crichton.

In 2003, he ran for President of the Screen Actors Guild but lost to Melissa Gilbert by a margin of 42% to her 50%.

References

External links

• McCord's Official Web Site
• Kent McCord at the Internet Movie Database
• Kent McCord at TV.com