Robert Donald Kilpatrick, Junior., better known as Patrick Kilpatrick, is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and journalist.
Background
Kilpatrick was born in Orange, Virginia, the son of Robert Donald Kilpatrick, Senior and Elle Fay Hines Kilpatrick. His father was a World World War II "Beach Jumper", a predecessor to the modern United States. Navy Seals, who received a Silver Star and Purple Heart in the Pacific and was a winner of the National Collegiate Baseball Championship for the University of Richmond. When Kilpatrick was six, his father moved the family to Connecticut from Virginia, where his father began his career as an insurance executive.
Education
After nearly dying in a car crash at the age of 17 on November 17, 1967, Kilpatrick graduated from the University of Richmond in 1972, and was rehabilitated to the point where he could later perform his own stunts.
Career
He has appeared in over 117 films and television series. His ancestors are Scottish, Irish, and English, having come to the United States. as early as 1640, and he has relatives who fought in both the American Revolution and for the Confederacy in the Civil War. Kilpatrick"s father founded Cigna Corporation later in life, and died on January 27, 1997 at the age of 72.
His mother was a girls" physical education instructor at The Gilbert School in Connecticut.
The family returned to Virginia in the early 1970s. Kilpatrick is best known for his appearances as villains, in films such as Death Warrant, Last Manitoba Standing, and Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995) where he played a mercenary on a train.
He has appeared in Replacement Killers (1998), 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up (1995), Eraser (1996), and The Presidio (1988). He also starred in Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997) and more recently in Parasomnia (2008).
One of the few films that Kilpatrick played a lead role in was 1994"s Open Fire.
He also appeared in Never Surrender (2009) and The Zombinator (2012)
Kilpatrick had a theatrical run in the Los Angeles Theater for the Shakespeare play Anthony and Cleopatra. He has appeared in many television series, including Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1994), Walker, Texas Ranger (1994), Babylon 5 (1995), Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman as Sergeant O"Connor for 9 episodes from 1996 to 1997, Emergency (1997), The X-Files (2001), General Hospital (2003), Computer Society of India: Crime Scene Investigation (2005), 24 (2005), Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008) and Chuck ("Chuck Versus the Gravitron"). In 1995, he co-starred in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Initiations", in the 2000 episode "Drive" and in 1998 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode entitled "The Siege of Arkansas-558".
Kilpatrick starred in Nicolas Roeg"s film Insignificance and the Public Broadcasting Service miniseries American Playhouse.
He has acted off-Broadway in Hanoi Hilton at the Harold Clurman Theater (1984), Linda Her and The Fairy Garden (1984) at the Second Stage, and in regional theater, Requiem for a Heavyweight (1985). He has directed off-Broadway with "Zone of Bells/Room of Seesaws (1984), and assistant directed on Broadway with The Golden Age (1984) and Entertaining Mr.
Sloan. He was a founding member and literary manager of Divine Theater Company (1983–1984).
Kilpatrick is president and Chief Executive Officer of Uncommon Dialogue Films. He teaches and speaks about acting, directing, producing, and screenwriting at universities such as Hampden-Sydney College and University of Wisconsin.
An outdoorsman and competitive shooter/hunter/fly and sea fisherman, Kilpatrick is a reserve policeman for the home department of Lake Arthur, New Mexico. He is also a certified aerial gunner for predator control.
Kilpatrick is registered as a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, California"s 33rd congressional district for the year 2014.