in the fall of 2012, sheridan signed on to play a recurring role on cw's "arrow", playing oliver queen's father who sacrificed himself so that his son could live on a deserted island due to their ship being destroyed in the middle of the ocean. he occasionally reappears, once as a ghost to his son while he's still on the island and also through a flashback centered around his character; the rest of his appearances so far have been through pictures.