NCIS: Origins Adds Patrick Fischler as Boss of Pendleton Office
Patrick Fischler has been tapped to head up the NIS office on CBS‘ upcoming NCIS: Origins prequel series.
As first reported by our sister site Deadline, Fischler will fill the recurring role of Special Agent in Charge Cliff Walker, who oversees the agency’s fledgling Pendleton office.
Fischler’s myriad previous TV credits include Mad Men, Once Upon a Time, Happy!, Impeachment: American Crime Story and Barry.
Also new to Origins is Julian Black Antelope (Tribal) in the recurring role of Chief Medical Examiner Kai Blackrock.
Ordered to series in January, NCIS: Origins is set in the early ’90s and follows a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs (played by Austin Stowell) as a new agent at the NCIS Camp Pendleton office. The show will chronicle Gibbs’ early career as he forges his own path on a team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks (SIX‘s Kyle Schmid).
Besides Stowell and Schmid, series regulars include Mariel Molino (Promised Land) as Special Agent Lala Domingue, Diany Rodriguez (The Blacklist) as Special Agent Vera Strickland (a role originated by Nip/Tuck‘s Roma Maffia in the Season 11 NCIS installment “Under the Radar”), and Tyla Abercrumbie (The Chi) as Field Operation Support Officer Mary Jo Sullivan, a “mama bear” who has wryly dubbed herself “HSIC” — Head Secretary in Charge.
Other recurring players, like Fischler and Antelope, include Robert Taylor (Longmire) as Gibbs’ dad, Jackson; Daniel Bellomy (Power Book II: Ghost) as “probie” Special Agent Granville “Granny” Dawson, and Caleb Martin Foote (Made for Love) as Special Agent Benjamin “Randy” Randolf.
Onetime NCIS front man Mark Harmon will not appear in the series, but he will serve as its narrator as well as executive producer. His son, Sean Harmon, who has played Young Gibbs in NCIS flashbacks and came up with the idea for the prequel series, will also serve as an EP, alongside co-showrunners Gina Lucita Monreal and David J. North.
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Ugh.
This guy has been around for decades in both guest, recurring and series regular roles and there’s yet to be one performance I’ve enjoyed of his.
Agree.
He’s creepy.
He’s the one who told Betty Don was cheating on her!
This is already a retcon. Hiatus part 2 has Gibbs saying Mike was the SAC in Pendleton unless that was a typo.
Well, just ’cause this guy starts out as SAC doesn’t mean he’ll stay as SAC. Just the main team alone has had SAC Gibbs, DiNozzo (“Campfire!”), and Parker. Nothing to say that Franks couldn’t replace this guy, either later in the season or in future seasons. (…Probably after it turns out this guy’s a creepy baddie…)
Fischler kills every performance. From Mad Men to Once. Great addition.
I literally don’t think there’s a show that he hasn’t been on. He rocks!!
So, the ME will have Kai for a first name. The same first name as one of the Hawaii show’s characters.
SMH
Not even their ancillary characters are original. If they cast any female characters, they’ll probably name her Kate or Lucy.
Won’t be watching this spin-off. Maybe if they had kept NCIS Hawaii & let NCIS Sydney go, I might have but just not into anymore NCIS except for the Tony/Ziva spin-off.
So far this spin off isn’t appealing. I don’t know what they were thinking with casting.
This casting just killed the show for me. I’d rather have more “NCIS: Hawai’i”.
So now we know that Gibbs will need to take down his first boss because he’s a baddie, right?
I am looking forward to watching it.
He was also on….NCIS 2008.
Who cares won’t be watching. Hope the ratings ate c awful. They cancel good shows to put this and Sydney in their place