Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[FormerLurker]

IIRC, Jonas Grumby was an NCO, probably a PO or CPO.

 

[Myko]

Rex Holman, Ed McCready and John Arndt all appeared in the Streets of San Francisco episode The Thirty Year Pin!
JB

And David Opatashu too, according to IMDB.

 

[johnnybear]

And David Opatashu too, according to IMDB.

Yes, yes I forgot about him, Myko! Or David O-Pattash-shu as the announcer called him! I always thought his name was O-patas-hu! Bit like Ramon Bieri who I thought was called Rah-mon Beeree but apparently he is Beer-eye!
JB

 

[J.T.B.]

IIRC, Jonas Grumby was an NCO, probably a PO or CPO.

But captain of the S.S. Minnow.

 

[Christopher]

According to The Unofficial Gilligan's Island Handbook by Joey Green (Warner Books, 1988), p. 30:

The Skipper's naval career is sketchy. He served in the navy and fought in World War II in the South Pacific, earning the rank of captain, although we never learn what destroyer he served aboard or for how many years. He had three ships shot out from under him by the Japanese fleet, and while being strafed on Subchaser 307 by enemy fighters, a mile off Guadalcanal, he converted the ship's radio into a transmitter. He was the best poker player in all of the Seventh Fleet and led the navy band for five years aboard his ship.

Wikipedia adds, "He claims to be the CO of the 177th Infantry Regiment, which is a U.S. Army regiment, but whether that actually happened or was just a wish-fulfilling fantasy is open to debate, for later on in the series he says that he was simply a cook."

 

[FormerLurker]

And David Opatashu too, according to IMDB.

I thought his name was Opatoshu. That's how he was billed on both The Six Million Dollar Man and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

 

[Christopher]

^That's right, David Opatoshu. Looks like it's an Americanization of the Polish version (Opatoszu) of the Yiddish name Opatowski.

 

[The Old Mixer]

I just saw Paul Carr in a season 1 episode of Adam-12, and while he was on the receiving end of some domestic violence, he didn't die.

 

[FormerLurker]

Wasn't his role in the second season of Buck Rogers the longest he played a role without dying? For a while there, he was the Sean Bean of the '70s.

 

[johnnybear]

^That's right, David Opatoshu. Looks like it's an Americanization of the Polish version (Opatoszu) of the Yiddish name Opatowski.

Well researched there, Chris!
JB

 

[EnsignHarper]

I just saw Paul Carr in a season 1 episode of Adam-12, and while he was on the receiving end of some domestic violence, he didn't die.

The first season of A-12 has all sorts of Trek visitors - Bruce Watson, Peter Duryea and Barbara Baldavin all appear - Baldavin plays the (probably long suffering) wife of Ed Wells, resident PITA of the squad.

 

[J.T.B.]

I just saw Paul Carr in a season 1 episode of Adam-12, and while he was on the receiving end of some domestic violence, he didn't die.

He also didn't die when he was Malloy's smug, pipe-smoking college professor.

Baldavin plays the (probably long suffering) wife of Ed Wells, resident PITA of the squad.

Then later IIRC she was Malloy's date when they tangled with the biker gang in the ghost town!

 

[johnnybear]

Ken Lynch, Philip Pine, Carl Byrd, Lawrence Montaigne all turned up in Streets of San Francisco's The First Day of Forever!
JB

 

[J.T.B.]

Grant Woods (Mr. Kelowitz) got a regular series gig doing an Irish brogue as Capt. Myles Keogh in the short-lived 1967 ABC series Custer.

 

[Forbin]

The LAST ever episode of It Takes a Thief featured suspicious stewardess Kate Woodville...

and murderous eco-terrorist-on-film Johh Colicos

 

[locutus101]

Shatner and Nimoy were both on Columbo. Shatner twice, at least.

 

[Christopher]

Shatner and Nimoy were both on Columbo. Shatner twice, at least.

Only twice for Shatner. Once in the original series ("Fade In to Murder," one of the all-time classics, where he played a pompous TV actor -- very much against type, I know), once in the revival movies ("Butterfly in Shades of Grey," where he played a Limbaugh-esque conservative shock jock). Nimoy appeared once, as a surgeon in "A Stitch in Crime" (with Anne Francis).

 

[locutus101]

Only twice for Shatner. Once in the original series ("Fade In to Murder," one of the all-time classics, where he played a pompous TV actor -- very much against type, I know), once in the revival movies ("Butterfly in Shades of Grey," where he played a Limbaugh-esque conservative shock jock). Nimoy appeared once, as a surgeon in "A Stitch in Crime" (with Anne Francis).

But each time as cold blooded murderers, which I hope is against type.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Only twice for Shatner. Once in the original series ("Fade In to Murder," one of the all-time classics, where he played a pompous TV actor -- very much against type, I know), once in the revival movies ("Butterfly in Shades of Grey," where he played a Limbaugh-esque conservative shock jock). Nimoy appeared once, as a surgeon in "A Stitch in Crime" (with Anne Francis).

Walter Koenig also has a bit part in "Fade In To Murder" as a policeman.

 

[johnnybear]

William Windom turns up in Streets of San Francisco's 45 minutes from home as a man who believes he's killed a floozie in her home by accident when in reality it was her nasty boyfriend!
JB