In the 1998 film Pandora’s Clock, which actor plays airline captain James Holland?

In the 1998 film Pandora’s Clock, Richard Dean Anderson plays airline captain James Holland.

Pandora’s Clock is a two-part television film directed by Eric Laneuville. Anderson’s character commands a passenger aircraft during a crisis involving a dangerous infectious disease. The title uses the Pandora metaphor for a threatening problem that has been released, while the plot focuses on aviation, quarantine, and public-health decisions.

The production is based on the novel Pandora’s Clock by John J. Nance, an airline captain and aviation writer. The story combines an airborne emergency with a race to identify the illness and prevent a wider outbreak. It was broadcast as a television miniseries rather than released as a theatrical feature.

Richard Dean Anderson was already widely known for playing Angus MacGyver in MacGyver. He later starred as Jack O’Neill in Stargate SG-1. Those roles can make the casting easy to confuse with other aviation-disaster films, but Anderson is the actor credited as Captain James Holland in Pandora’s Clock.