Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

William Windom and Ian Wolfe are appearing in an episode of Ironsides on the Decades binge.
I had to laugh as Ian Wolfe is playing a Butler a few years before playing Hirsch on WKRP.

 

I expect Ian Wolfe probably played a lot of butlers in his career. Looking at his IMDb filmography, I find 7 roles prior to Hirsch that were credited as "the Butler," going back to 1942, and that's probably not a complete list. Also a half-dozen "Clerk" roles and various government officials -- and a Librarian in 1943.

 

Yet another appearance of Arlene Martel on The Monkees this weekend. This time as a sleek, blonde "enemy spy" in a slinky dress. Woof!! There was a scene where she and her obese middle-aged male partner tried to blend in by wearing Sonny and Cher fuzzy vests and cool shades. The picture froze and a caption popped up: "They've got to be kidding!"

 

More Ian Wolfe: He was in four of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies. In 1943's Sherlock Holmes in Washington, he was uncredited as the store clerk at an antique shop that was a front for the Nazi-spy villain. In the following year's The Scarlet Claw (three films later -- they churned them out fast those days), he was, yes, the butler of the first murder victim (but he didn't do it). In the very next film, The Pearl of Death (loosely based on "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons"), he played the vendor of the Napoleon busts. And in the final installment of the series, Dressed to Kill, he was the Commissioner of Scotland Yard.

 

Wolfe also played Colin Clive's nasty father in Mad Love, the 1935 Peter Lorre version of "The Hands of Orlac".

 

Spotted John Hoyt in CURSE OF THE UNDEAD, an odd-but-entertaining vampire-western from 1959. He played the town doctor, who never did figure out why all the young women in town were wasting away while sporting odd bite-marks on the necks . . ..

(In his defense, the movie was set in the Old West, long before Dracula movies were a thing.)

 

Another future Trek guest in a Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movie: John Abbott (Ayelborne) as a cruise ship passenger in Pursuit to Algiers (1945). (Also Martin Kosleck, who played an inventor in the John Astin Riddler episodes of Batman '66.)

 

Logan Ramsey and Ken Lynch appear in Battlestar Galactica's Experiment in Terra as well!
JB

 

Here's an obscure find! One Step Beyond, first season (1959), this young lady of 11 suffers a frightening Premonition.







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Young Beverly Washburn.

 

Funny how as she got older Washburn's hair density increased! And her face was hideous I always thought as a youngster!
JB

 

George Takei in "The Encounter," a particularly odd episode of The Twilight Zone... especially the very end.

He discusses it in this interview:


Kor

 

One I just found out about: Batman/Green Hornet producer William Dozier did a failed Dick Tracy pilot co-starring Jan Shutan as policewoman Lizz Worthington. The series also would've starred a pre-Brady Bunch Eve Plumb as Tracy's daughter (though she wasn't in the pilot), and the pilot had Batman's Victor Buono as the villain.

 

Paul Fix as Commander Kronus in Battlestar Galactica's Take the Celestra!
JB

 

Here's an article on it, with pics, for those interested.

http://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/dozier_dick_tracy/

 

Checked out Night of the Lupus from the library yesterday to see if was as bad as I remembered from watching it on late night TV as a child.
It was.
I also wanted to watch it because I remembered DeForest Kelly being in it; what I didn't realize was that Paul Fix was in it as well, playing the local sheriff.
That's two Enterprise doctor's for the price of one.
One other thing I noticed upon re-watch was that once Paul Fix shows up at about the halfway point in the movie, De Kelly fades into the background and has only one more line after that.
It's almost as though the budget didn't allow for any more speaking lines for two people and all Kelly could do was stand around looking concerned.

 

That's "Night of the Lepus".

Lepus = Rabbit
Lupus = Wolf/dog

They were rabbits.

I got the chance once upon a time to ask DeForest Kelley if he and Paul Fix ever talked on set of NotL about Kelley effectively taking Fix's job. He said no, they never got around to that.

 

It's not Lupus. It's never Lupus.

 

Unless it's Mission: Impossible.