Los Angeles [US], Veteran actor Alan Scharf has passed away. He was 77 years old.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scharf died of colon cancer on April 28 at his home in Longueuil, Quebec. He is survived by his son, actor Jonathan Scharf.

Scharf rose to fame with his roles as the bad guys in Double Impact and Lethal Weapon III, and as Dr. Bradley Talmadge in the UPN sci-fi series Seven Days.

Born in England and raised in Vancouver, Scharf played the Romulans Tokath and Admiral Mendak in the 1991 and 1993 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and another alien, the powerful Magistrate Orgris, in the 1995 installment of Star Trek: Voyager. Played the role of.Scharf died of colon cancer at his home in Longueuil, Quebec, on April 28, his family announced.

Survivors include his son, actor Jonathan Scharff (ER, Raising the Bar, Hell on Wheels, Van Helsing).

Born in England and raised in Vancouver, Scharf played the Romulans Tokath and Admiral Mendak in the 1991 and 1993 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and another alien, the powerful Magistrate Orgris, in the 1995 installment of Star Trek: Voyager. Played the role of.

Scharf starred as the evil Nigel Griffith in the action film Double Impact (1991) battling twins Alex and Chad Wagner (both portrayed by Jean-Claude Van Damme), then in Lethal Weapon III (1992) and Covert Internal Affairs. Played the role of Herman Walters, head of the

He appeared in all 66 episodes of Seven Days, which ran for three seasons from 1998–2001, as National Security Agency member Talmadge, the director of Backstep Project operations.His big screen projects include The Bay Boy (1984), Deserters (1984), Overnight (1986), Street Justice (1987), Iron Eagle II (1988), The Portrait (1992), The Wrong Guy directed by David Steinberg . (1997), Aka Albert Walker (2003) and The Hamster Cage (2005).