killer Dan Suggs in the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove. By the 1990s, O'Herlihy had permanently relocated to the UK, where he preferred to work in the theatre and on television, with roles on British television, including Coded Hostile, Sharpe, Jonathan Creek, and Midsomer Murders. In 2009, O'Herlihy returned to the big screen as Sheriff Vaines in the follow up to Neil Marshall's cult horror film, The Descent Part 2, and over a decade later returned to the screen again to play the leading role of writer John Anderson for director Nic Saunders in Queen of the Redwood Mountains, a film inspired by the authors of the Beat Generation, and due for release in 2021. Personal life O'Herlihy had four children. He died in Bath, Somerset, on September 15, 2021, at the age of 70 of undisclosed causes. Selected filmography Happy Days (1974) - Charles "Chuck" Cunningham The California Kid (1974) - Tom A Death in Canaan (1978) - Father Mark A Wedding (1978) - Wilson Briggs A Rumor of War (1980) - Stanton We'll Meet Again (1982) - Captain "Red" Berwash Superman III (1983) - Brad Wilson Never Say Never Again (1983) - Captain Jack Petachi The Secret Adversary (1983, TV Movie) - Julius P. Hersheimmer Space Riders (1984) - Ron Harris The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985, TV Movie) - Conrad E. Perkins Death Wish 3 (1985) - Manny Fraker A Killing on the Exchange (1987) Willow (1988) - Airk Thaughbaer Lonesome Dove (1989) - Dan Suggs Twin Peaks (1990) - Preston King Conagher (1991) - Chris Mahler The Last Outlaw (1993) - Marshal Sharp Sharpe's Eagle (1993) - Captain Leroy Sherlock Holmes (1994, Episode: "The Mazarin Stone") - John Garrideb The Shooter (1995) - Dick Powell Prince Valiant (1997) - King Thane Top of the World (1997) - Lieutenant Logan Command Approved (2000) - Arms Dealer Butterfly Man (2002) - Bill Kincaid Seven Days of Grace (2006) - MacNab The Descent Part 2 (2009) - Vaines Queen of the Redwood Mountains (2021) - John Anderson References External links 1951 births 2021 deaths 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors American male film actors American male stage actors American male television actors American people of Irish descent Male actors from Dublin (city) Male actors from Los Angeles British television actors People from Bath, Somerset