Biography
American actor James J. Sloyan's first film was 1970's The Travelling Executioner; he subsequently played major feature roles in films as diverse as
The Sting (1973) and
Xanadu (1980). Sloyan was a regular on TV's Westside Medical (1977, top-billed as Dr. Sam Lanagan) and Oh Madeline (1987, as Charlie Wayne, husband of series star
Madeline Kahn), and a semi-regular as insurance investigator Robert Butler on the 1990-91 season of Murder She Wrote. His many TV-movie roles include Ronald Ziegler in 1978's
Blind Ambition. These days, Sloyan is a habitue of science fiction shows, with guest spots on
The X-Files, Strange Luck, and all three of the latter-day
Star Trek incarnations (The Next Generation, Deep Space 9 and
Voyager). James J. Sloyan is married to actress Deirdre Lanahan. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide