Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

Watching Collossus: The Forbin Project on Blu-ray last night and there's the omnipresent William Schallert as Director Graubert of the CIA.

 

I'm glad to know that exists. When I watched it on DVD a few years ago, it seemed the only available edition was an edited-for-TV, pan-and-scan version. I presume the Blu-Ray would be from the original master.

 

Yes, Shout Factory has issued it on blu-ray, in widescreen, and it's looking pretty good. Been a few years since I'd seen the film and I still find it entertaiining. I found it here: https://www.amazon.com/Colossus-Pro...vies-tv&sprefix=forbin+project,aps,223&sr=1-1

 

Oh, then maybe they'll put it on their free streaming site eventually. I'll have to watch out for it.

 

You rang?

 

When he's not killing intelligent chimpanzees from the future or suffering from Lycanthropy Eric Braeden was in The Forbin Project!
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Universal only licensed the physical rights. Colossus won't be showing up on Shout! Factory TV anytime soon.

 

Isn't that Dr. Hasslein from Escape From The POTA?

 

Oh, too bad.

 

Watching The Gallant Hours starring James Cagney as Admiral "Bull" Halsey, and there's William Schallert (what movies/television shows was this guy not in?) in an uncredited role as Capt. Lanphier of the USAAF.

(Also in this film is Ward Costello who appeared in a couple of TNG episodes as Admiral Quinn.)

 

Richard Webb in Terror At High Point, an episode of The Fugitive!
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Mariette Hartley, Russell Takaki in Married, a double episode of The Incredible Hulk!
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For which, I believe, Hartley won an Emmy.

 

Yes she did.It was the first time, and for decades the only time, someone won an acting award (Oscar or Emmy variety) for a genre program or film. Many have been nominated since, but the second time someone won was recent (it might have even been Heath Ledger for playing the Joker, I don't remember).

 

There were a few prior examples. Fredric March won the Academy Award for Best Actor for DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE back in thirties, Ruth Gordon won Best Supporting Actress for playing a Satanist in ROSEMARY'S BABY.

Since, yes, Ledger won for the Joker, and Whoopi Goldberg also picked up an Oscar for her role in GHOST.

 

Is there a new meaning of the word "genre"? Actors have always won Oscars and Emmys in different genres, the adventure genre, the Western genre, the crime genre, the romance genre etc.

 

Hardly new -- it's long been used as a shorthand for SF/fantasy/horror as opposed to "mainstream" fiction. Granted, it's technically inaccurate, but it's been around for decades.

 

I see, thanks. It's new to me, anyway. Seems like a great potential for misunderstanding.

 

As I said, I didn't remember. Whoopi was indeed deserving, and longer ago than I assumed. What I did remember was Sigourney Weaver being nominated for Aliens, and of course not winning, and Sir Ralph Richardson being nominated posthumously for Greystoke (he also did not win).

As to Ruth Gordon, I was unfamiliar with the Oscars until many years later, and her win never registered with me. Fredric March, on the other hand, won during a time when film was what there was. As such, all genres were given equal weight in terms of recognition for excellence, in all categories. Then television came along.

Television gave the viewers, and the the studio heads, such a broad forum for straight drama that genre (meaning SF and fantasy, of course) programming and features lost a lot of status. Many actors that had done well in genre roles switched to the straight drama roles to be recognized for their talent, and the genre presentations lost status once again. Weren't Ruth Gordon, Mariette Hartley, and Whoopi Goldberg the only three between Ruth and Whoopi to win for genre roles during that time?

 

I Spy, season 1, "My Mother the Spy." Sally Kellerman as an American spy trying to protect her new baby; Theo Marcuse as a top enemy spy using the baby to get her to talk.

Both of them in clever spy disguises: