D. C. Douglas

D. C. Douglas is an American actor and voice actor.

He played Pa Kettle on Syfy's Z Nation, Zepht on Star Trek: Enterprise, and has appeared in several soap operas, including Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless.

Douglas' parents divorced when he was five years old and he was raised primarily by his mother in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s through the early 1980s.

At age seven he decided that he was going to be an actor after watching an episode of Hollywood and the Stars.

He performed in San Jose and Walnut Creek community theatre, but it was his Ygnacio Valley High School drama teacher who encouraged him to follow through on his dream.

At sixteen, Douglas traveled alone to New York to audition for Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

He wasn't accepted and while his back-up plan was to live in New York, his visit there deterred him from that idea.

Instead, he chose Los Angeles and moved there in 1985.

Douglas graduated from the only accredited acting trade school in Los Angeles at the time - Estelle Harman Actors Workshop.

He co-founded the improvisation troupe Section Eight and was also a member of Theatre of NOTE for several years.

He produced Some Things You Need to Know Before the World Ends (A Final Evening with the Illuminati) at the Hollywood United Methodist Church as a benefit for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, performing the role of Brother Lawrence opposite Theatre of NOTE co-founder, Kevin Carr.

The production was well received and became an LA Weekly "Pick-of-the-Week."

Douglas' first film was 1989's Future Force with David Carradine.

While all his scenes were only with Carradine, Douglas never met him as their characters only spoke through a futuristic video conference system.

Film highlights include playing a possessed ghost hunter in Black Ops with Lance Henriksen, a disturbing turn as "Dad" in Smartass with Joey King, a deranged cop in Helen Alone with Priscilla Barnes, and a harried producer in Labor Pains with Lindsay Lohan.

Douglas performed in many other Equity Waiver 99-seat Theatre productions throughout the 1990s.

Douglas' first network TV role was on the hit ABC 90's sitcom Coach in which his 3 lines were cut in the final broadcast.

Most notable as the manipulative Bellman in a Days of Our Lives 1991 honeymoon arc, and as two different characters on The Young and The Restless - Chad Atherton in a 1996 arc, and Kurz, a crime boss taunting Tristan Rogers's character in a 2014 arc. In 2017, Douglas appeared on The Bold and The Beautiful for his 26th time in 20 years in his 6th role.

In 2021, Douglas announced that he is rebooting his acting career with a focus on independent cinema.

In 1996, after sporadic small co-star roles, he landed a small role in Boston Common, an NBC pilot.

When the show was picked up for a season he returned in a recurring role as the D.C., the antagonist to Hedy Burress's character.

Douglas' television career involved primarily conservative or antagonist roles.

Highlights include 24, Star Trek: Enterprise, NYPD Blue, ER, Charmed, Without a Trace, NCIS, Criminal Minds, Castle and The Encounter.

in 1996, Douglas wrote, produced and starred in Falling Words, his first festival film short.

Douglas has worked with The Asylum since 2002, having appeared in ten films.

In 2013, he was cast as a serial killer in Apocalypse Kiss and changed his appearance to look similar to Resident Evil villain Albert Wesker.

The producers were fans of Douglas' work in the video game franchise.

In 2015, while pitching the producers at The Asylum a film project that would pay homage to Resident Evil 5, a zombie video game Douglas worked on and had gained fan appreciation for, they were inspired to cast him as Pa Kettle in Z Nation, a zombie Syfy show, for a 3 episode arc.

While never considered for a lead contract role on the many Los Angeles based soaps, Douglas did guest star on all of them numerous times.

In 2015, while working on The Asylum's Alpha House film, Douglas bonded with the film's writers, Jacob Cooney and Brandon Trenz.

Together, they developed the idea for Isle of the Dead.

Douglas pitched the concept to The Asylum producers David Michael Latt, David Rimawi and Paul Bales.

He voiced Albert Wesker in ten Resident Evil games, Legion in Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3, and Yoshikage Kira in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable (2016).

Douglas was born in Berkeley, California.

His father was a salesman and his mother is an artist, a writer, and spiritual advisor.

His maternal grandparents were vaudeville performers.

His grandmother, Grace Hathaway, continued in burlesque as a dancer and his grandfather, Joe Miller, became known in San Francisco for his talks at the Theosophy Lodge and his weekly Thursday morning group walks through Golden Gate Park.

The film was completed in 2016 with Douglas as Aiden Wexler, opposite Joey Lawrence and Maryse Mizanin, and aired on the SyFy network.

Other The Asylum film highlights include Titanic II as the hapless ship captain, Sharknado 2 as Bud, one of the only characters to die by an alligator in a shark movie, and Aquarium of the Dead as the clueless Aquarium tour guide.

In 2021, Douglas was cast in three unrelated Lifetime Network films: The Killer in My Backyard, Killer Stepmom, and Drowning In Secrets.