Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

I don't know why, either, but I used to think that all the time too.

 

Wow, me too -- I'm surprised Marth wasn't on TOS.

Maybe he resembles a TOS actor? Or maybe it's just that he was ubiquitous in shows around the same time and after, so we often saw him alongside actors who were in TOS.

 

That's weird as I was going to quote Davis Roberts as the Coroner in Demon in Lace, an episode of Kolchak:The Night Stalker!
JB

 

On second thought, I think that for me, it's probably because Frank Marth was in Battlestar Galactica, so he's filed in the "actors I recognize from the space shows of my childhood" folder in my brain.

No, it isn't Bissell he reminds me of -- not at all. The associations I get when I imagine him being connected with Trek are of some kind of jumpsuit-wearing blue-collar character like one of the Janus VI miners. Marth had a rough-edged quality that lent itself to playing heavies and tough guys, while Bissell was more a tweedy professor or avuncular authority figure type.

 

That might be it. There is a certain resemblance there.

 

I keep thinking Harlod J. Stone was in A Piece of the Action. He does sort of resemble Anthony Caruso, so I'm not all that crazy.

 

Yep me too, I pictured him as a Janus or Rigel miner. Marth played a lot of "hard hat" types and cops; Whit Bissell was almost always a doctor or government official.

 

This morning's episode of 'Have Gun, Will Travel' is a sequel to a previous episode written by Gene Roddenberry where the prison chaplain was named 'Robert April'.
This episode reuses the same actors and names as the previous one and references the events of the earlier episode as happening 'last year'.

 

I tried watching Pretty Maids All in a Row. It was unwatchable, so I just gave up after I caught James Doohan and William Campbell.

 

Saw Anan-7 (David Opatoshu) in “Valley of the Shadow” from the fourth season of The Twilight Zone. Played a very similar character to his role in “A Taste of Armageddon”.

The episode also featured James Doohan.

 

William Marshall as the PM of an African country in minor turmoil on the Danger Man/Secret Agent episode "The Galloping Major"
Giving a speech on TV:


Giving excuses to the British secret service:


Giving a classic William Marshall rant:

 

I don't see much resemblance, though I guess their voices are a bit similar.

Did you know Charles Drake played the romantic lead in the last Marx Brothers movie, A Night in Casablanca?