Gerrit Graham is an American

United States

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 actor

Actor

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 and songwriter

Songwriter

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. He's appeared in such films as Used Cars

Used Cars

Used Cars is a 1980 comedy satire film. It stars Kurt Russell, Jack Warden , Deborah Harmon, and Gerrit Graham.Kurt Russell portrays a devious car salesman working for affable but monumentally unsuccessful used car dealer Luke Fuchs . Luke's principal rival, located directly across the street, is...

, TerrorVision

TerrorVision

TerrorVision is an American horror-comedy film released in 1986.The film was directed by Ted Nicolaou, produced and written by Albert and Charles Band and composed by Richard Band, all of whom would go on to found and work with Full Moon Features in 1989...

, National Lampoon's Class Reunion

National Lampoon's Class Reunion

National Lampoon's Class Reunion is a 1982 comedy film, directed by Michael Miller and written by John Hughes...

, and Greetings

Greetings (film)

Greetings is a 1968 film directed by Brian De Palma. The film, which featured a young Robert De Niro in his first major role, is a satirical film about men avoiding the Vietnam War draft....

, where he worked with Brian DePalma for the first time. He would again work with Depalma on Hi, Mom and Home Movies

Home Movies (film)

Home Movies is a 1980 independent film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Kirk Douglas, Nancy Allen, Vincent Gardenia, Keith Gordon, Theresa Saldana, and Gerrit Graham.-Plot:...

, as well as The Phantom of the Paradise, where he played Beef, the Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper

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-inspired rock star. He has also appeared in two different roles on the Star Trek

Star Trek

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 television series; as the Hunter of Tosk on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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, and as a member of the Q Continuum

Q Continuum

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 (adopting the name Quinn) in the Star Trek: Voyager

Star Trek: Voyager

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episode "Death Wish." He was also the voice of Franklin Sherman in the animated series The Critic

The Critic

The Critic is an American prime time animated series revolving around the life of film critic Jay Sherman, voiced by actor Jon Lovitz. It was created by Al Jean and Mike Reiss, both of whom had worked as writers on The Simpsons. The Critic had 23 episodes produced, first broadcast on ABC in 1994,...

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Graham attended but did not graduate from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 — class of 1970.