Erick Avari, born Nariman Eruch Avari, is an Indian-American actor with 150 different credits portraying two dozen nationalities to his name. He has appeared in almost every major SF project of the last few decades, and is one of only two actors to play the same role in Stargate (1994) and Stargate SG-1, as Kasuf, Dr. Daniel Jackson's father-in-law. On HT, he (briefly) plays Christopher Chance's old friend Gerard in "Victoria".