American actor who played Kyle Riker, the estranged father of William Riker, in the second-season Next Generation episode The Icarus Factor.
Mitchell Ryan (1934 to 2022) was an American actor known for the original Dark Shadows, the villain General McAllister in Lethal Weapon, and Edward Montgomery in the comedy Dharma and Greg.
In the second-season Next Generation episode The Icarus Factor he plays Kyle Riker, a civilian strategist who comes aboard to brief his son on the command of the USS Aries. The two have not spoken in fifteen years, and their resentment is finally worked out in a bout of anbo-jyutsu.
The episode also reveals Kyle's past relationship with Dr Pulaski.