He is best known for his recurring role as Father Lonigan on the NBC daytime drama Passions, appearing in over four hundred episodes between 1999 and 2008.

Lonigan, a blind priest who had an uncanny knack for perceiving evil, was one of French's more than 150 credited appearances on television and in film.

[2] He played priests and other men of faith with such frequency that he brought a clerical collar to auditions.

He was also noted for having portrayed a number of different characters across the Star Trek universe, including the empath adjutant to Jean Simmons in "The Drumhead", cited as one of the best episodes in the franchise.

[2] Ovation Awards This article about a United States film actor born in the 1940s is a stub.