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Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

It was mentioned that Gene Lyons was in an episode of THE FUGITIVE, and it was guessed that the episode was "Man In A Chariot."

That is correct, but that episode actually contains a trio of Trek guest stars as pictured:

Peter Duryea, who played Jose Tyler in the Pike-commanded STAR TREK pilot:
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Stewart Moss, who played both Tormolen and Hanar:
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and the aforementioned Gene Lyons, Ambassador Fox:
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Speaking of Ed Begley Sr., was he ever in a TOS episode, even in the background, or was I really mistaking Hagan Beggs' name for his all these years like I thought?
 
The films rather than the series, but I was surprised when I finished season 1 of Knight Rider today to find Robin Curtis in a pre-Saavik role.

I don't rag on Curtis as much as many do (even if I do firmly think Alley was the better Saavik), but this was presumably a very early role for her as her performance was the first in the season to make David Hasselhoff look like an actor in comparison.
 
While I still prefer Kirstie over Robin, as Saviik, I discovered that Robin is an absolute sweetheart at a small convention I attended a few years after the film came out. Any irrational animosity I felt toward her because "she wasn't Kirstie" totally dissipated.
 
William Campbell's coolness factor is higher than I thought...he was in Love Me Tender in 1956, when Elvis was the coolest thing on the planet.
 
A season 7 Mannix jackpot - Mannix is hired by Surak, to find a briefcase stolen by Cloud William and fenced by Ambassador Petrie!

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A season 7 Mannix jackpot - Mannix is hired by Surak, to find a briefcase stolen by Cloud William and fenced by Ambassador Petrie!

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Were you shocked to hear Cloud William's real voice? Not quite the deep, somber tones we heard on Star Trek, was it?
 
William Campbell's coolness factor is higher than I thought...he was in Love Me Tender in 1956, when Elvis was the coolest thing on the planet.

Being relief pilot to John Wayne and Robert Stack was pretty cool, too.

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A season 7 Mannix jackpot - Mannix is hired by Surak, to find a briefcase stolen by Cloud William and fenced by Ambassador Petrie!

Oh, that's great!

Not shocked, 'cause I've seen him as a baddy in a bunch of 60s & 70s shows since.

Like here, Jenson, with a mustache, makes the standard bad guy muscle move of ambushing Jim Rockford at his trailer. He doesn't look as big as he usually does next to James Garner.

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You have to wonder why Rockford didn't move the trailer more often to avoid various bad guys. I mean, it's a mobile home. Although I do remember one episode where he took it out to the woods to hide out from someone.
 
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