Scott Bakula

Biography

Scott Stewart Bakula (born October 9, 1954) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Sam Beckett in the television series Quantum Leap, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1991 and was nominated for four Emmy Awards. He also had a prominent role as Captain Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise. Bakula also guest starred in seasons two and three of NBC's Chuck as the title character's father Stephen Bartowski.

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Selected Filmography

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit(1999)TV Series · 1 epas Kent Webster
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert(2015)TV Series · 1 epas Self
• The Simpsons(1989)TV Series · 1 epas Scott Bakula (voice)
• NCIS(2003)TV Series · 4 epsas Dwayne Pride
• Family Guy(1999)TV Series · 1 epas Scott Bakula
• Late Show with David Letterman(1993)TV Series · 1 epas Self - Guest
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson(2005)TV Series · 1 epas Self - Guest
• Desperate Housewives(2004)TV Series · 4 epsas Trip Weston
• Two and a Half Men(2003)TV Series · 1 epas Jerry
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia(2005)TV Series · 1 epas Scott Bakula
• Boston Legal(2004)TV Series · 1 epas Jack Ross
• Star Trek: Enterprise(2001)TV Series · 97 epsas Jonathan Archer
• Golden Globe Awards(1944)TV Series · 3 epsas Self
• Quantum Leap(1989)TV Series · 96 epsas Sam Beckett
• Tony Awards(1956)TV Series · 1 epas Self - Presenter
• Chuck(2007)TV Series · 7 epsas Steve Bartowski
• NCIS: New Orleans(2014)TV Series · 155 epsas Dwayne Pride
• Matlock(1986)TV Series · 2 epsas Jed Palmer
• Only Murders in the Building(2021)TV Series · 1 epas Scott Bakula
• What We Do in the Shadows(2019)TV Series · 1 epas Scott Bakula

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• Scott Bakula To Headline Detective Drama In Works At CBS From Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment

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• Scott Bakula to Lead Detective Drama In the Works at CBS

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