Trivia

Directed, wrote and starred in his own Battlestar Galactica fan Film "Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming" in which he reunited all the surviving original Battlestar Galactica cast members. Working with a minimal budget, the film was an extended four-minute trailer. The CG animation and effects were handled by volunteers recruited by Hatch over the Internet. The volunteers worked on their own from home. Because of the variety of volunteers and their skill levels, the models, animations, lighting, rendering, and effects varied greatly in quality.

Is the only actor to appear on both Battlestar Galactica (1978) and Battlestar Galactica (2004).

Had one son: Paul Hatch (born 1967).

Wrote books based on the Battlestar Galactica (1978) series (2000).

In the late 1980s, between acting work, he began teaching self-confidence seminars.

Born in Santa Monica, Hatch made his film debut in spring 1965 in a home movie of an afternoon party, filmed by Roddy McDowall at his Malibu beach house. Others at the party were Sal Mineo, Christopher Plummer, Robert Walker Jr., Natalie Wood, Jack Warden, Juliet Mills, and John Frankenheimer.

Hatch was cremated. His ashes were sprinkled into Echo Park Lake.

Led an adventure cruise in the Western Caribbean every winter for fans (2006).

Richard Hatch hosted a weekly relationship radio show entitled "Love on the Edge".

The October 19, 1988, issue of Variety, in the Italian Film Production column, announced the movie "Incantesimo Fatale" or "Fatal Spell" began filming October 1, 1988. Mario Gariazzo (as Ray Garret) directed. The cast included Richard Hatch and Carroll Baker. No evidence the film was ever completed or released.

Wrote the article "Communication from the Heart" in the "California Sun" (1996).

He was the son of Elizabeth (White) and John Raymond Hatch. His mother was born in Flaxcombe, Saskatchewan, Canada, to American parents, from Maryland. Largely of English ancestry, Richard had deep Colonial American roots, in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire on his father's side, and Maryland on his mother's.

When the original Battlestar Galactica's toy merchandising was arranged, Hatch held out for more money of his likeness for an action figure to the point where the involved toy company, Mattel, ultimately balked. As such, Captain Apollo, although a lead character in the series, is conspicuously absent from the original Mattel toy line, but the character does appear in later revival toy lines.

Attended OmegaCon in Birmingham, Alabama (March 2008)

Attended facts2008 convention in Ghent, Belgium. (October 2008)

(May 1-3, 2009) Attended FedCon 18 in Bonn, Germany.

No relation to Richard Hatch from the reality series Survivor (2000).

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