American actor George Murdock's uneven facial features enabled him to play many an offbeat part in his early professional years, none more offbeat than the ventriloquist's dummy come to life in the 1962 Twilight Zone episode The Dummy. Murdock went on to play obnoxious and intrusive authority figures.
He made Sammy Jackson's life hell as Captain Krupnick in the 1964 sitcom version of No Time for Sergeants, and fifteen years later did same for Hal Linden as an internal-affairs snoop on Barney Miller. More recently, George Murdock has played judges, admirals, senators....and, on one occasion at least (Star Trek V), he was God Himself. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide. 