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Born in either 1939 or 1943 according to various sources, Manard appeared in several movies and made guest spots on popular TV shows for many decades, such as Officer Michael Francis Murphy on The Flash, but he is perhaps best known for his role as "Hap" Ashby in the low budget science-fiction adventure Trancers, in a supporting role as a ...
YearTitleRoleNotes1970Lieutenant SeelikEpisode: "The Amateur"1971–1972Scoggins / Hartsfield / Smokey4 episodes1976Skit characters1 episode1976Biker Wedding ClergyTelevision film; also writerBiff Manard (1943-2014) was an American actor and writer who appeared in Zone Troopers, Trancers, and The Flash. He also posed as the centerfold for the May 1975 issue of Playgirl magazine.
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Biff Manard was born on November 26, 1943 in San Diego, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Zone Troopers (1985), Trancers (1984) and The Flash (1990). He died on May 19, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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Biff Manard (26 November 1943 – 19 May 2014; age 70) was the actor who played the holographic ruffian in the Star Trek: The Next Generation second season episode "Elementary, Dear Data". He may have been best known for his role as Officer Murphy on The Flash in the early 1990s. Manard also played Hap Ashby in Trancers (1985, with Richard Herd and Michael McGrady) and Trancers II (1991, co-starring Jeffrey Combs).
One of Manard's earliest television appearances was a guest spot in a 1970 episode of Mission: Impossible, during which time Leonard Nimoy was a regular player on that series. (Manard's episode, "The Amateur", also featured Peter Brocco and Anthony Zerbe.) Twenty five years later Manard's episode, Manard appeared in the 1995 Bonanza TV special, Under Attack, also featuring Nimoy. Manard was seen in at least four episodes of Bonanza between 1971 and 1972, including one with Don Keefer and another with Noble Willingham. He also appeared in a short film called Cowboysan with Ted Cassidy and directed by Susan Oliver.
In 1981, Manard appeared on CHiPs while Michael Dorn was a regular on the show. His other TV credits include appearances on Knots Landing (with Allan Miller and Bert Remsen), Night Court (starring John Larroquette, with Paddi Edwards), Full House (with Shannon Cochran), and Hunter (with Jeremy Roberts). Besides Trancers, his feature film credits include Pray TV (1980, with Charlie Brill), Underground Aces (1981, with Frank Gorshin and Sid Haig), St. Helens (1981, with Nehemiah Persoff), and Buddy Buddy (1981, with Michael Ensign and Ed Begley, Jr.), Off the Wall (1983, starring Paul Sorvino and Monte Markham), The Wrong Guys (1988, with Jonathan Schmock), 1992's Desert Kickboxer (with Robert O'Reilly), Art Deco Detective (1994, co-starring Stephen McHattie) and Blankman (with Jason Alexander), 1996's Stitch (with Mariette Hartley), and 1997's Eight Days a Week (with Darleen Carr, Van Epperson, Catherine Hicks, and Mark L. Taylor).
After an eight year absence from film and television, Manard appeared in an episode of the short-lived CBS series Smith, starring Virginia Madsen. The episode in which he appeared also featured William Lucking, Billy Mayo, and Barbara J. Tarbuck.
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May 19, 2014 · Biff Manard is known as an Actor and Writer. Some of his work includes Trancers, Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth, Zone Troopers, Eight Days a Week, Buddy Buddy, The Flash, The Flash II: Revenge of the Trickster, and Shanks.
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Feb 15, 2021 · The La Jolla landmark was two years old when News 8’s Janine Tartaglia caught Hoover High graduate Biff Manard’s act. The former class clown got lots of laughs from the crowd.
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