The One Actor You Didn't Notice Played 7 NCIS Characters

Veteran tough-guy actor Patrick St. Esprit, who may be best known for his roles as Agent Robert Hicks in CBS' "S.W.A.T." and ranch owner Elliott Oswald on the FX show "Sons of Anarchy" (per IMDb), has played seven different characters on "NCIS" and its connected shows over the years.

On the original "NCIS," Esprit played Commander Weidman in the show's sixth season. His character was suspected to be involved in the murder of an NCIS agent in the episode "South By Southwest." Esprit also played LAPD lieutenant Roger Bates on "NCIS: Los Angeles" in four episodes over the course of three seasons, and these roles are nowhere near the only times he's found himself in the "NCIS" universe.

Esprit appeared in "JAG" – the show that started it all for the "NCIS" universe — as three different characters over the course of the program. First, he played Markov in the episode "Webb Of Lies," and then he played an unnamed officer on the naval ship USS Patrick Henry. Esprit's third appearance on "JAG" was as Colonel Bootney in two episodes of the show's 10th and final season, "JAG: San Diego" and "Death At The Mosque."

Patrick St. Esprit was later cast as Vice Admiral Graham Rhodes in "Hawaii Five-0" in a role that popped up in two episodes over two seasons: first in the Season 4 episode "Hoku Welowelo" and then in Season 5 in the episode "Ka Makuakaneka." He also played an airplane pilot, Captain James Pike, in the first episode of "Scorpion."

And there you have it — all seven characters who were played by the same actor in the NCIS universe.