Leland Orser (born August 6, 1960) is an American film and television actor. Orser is a character actor, known best for playing parts of deranged, psychotic, and degenerate characters. Orser has appeared in small roles in a wide variety of films and television shows.

Orser made his television debut in 1991 on the show Gabriel's Fire. His next roles were bit parts and small roles on The Golden Girls, Cheers, L.A. Law, The X-Files, NYPD Blue, SVU and Crime Scene Investigation.

He has had bit parts in many popular films. He appeared 1995's Se7en as the man arrested at a brothel, and victim of the lust sin, he was credited as "Crazed Man in Massage Parlour". He played Purvis in 1997's Resurrection, one of the alien's victims. He also appeared in Saving Private Ryan as the pilot of the crashed glider.

He has also appeared in various parts in the Star Trek franchise, among them playing a Changeling posing as a Romulan Colonel in the Deep Space Nine episode "The Die is Cast" and a homicidal hologram in an episode of Star Trek Voyager.

Since 2004 he has played Dr. Lucien Dubenko, chief of surgery who is a recurring character on the television show ER.

He is married to the actress Jeanne Tripplehorn.

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