I don't know why, either, but I used to think that all the time too.
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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.
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.
I was thinking maybe the former, though I always (naturally enough) have trouble placing what role/episode he was supposed to have been in.
Don't think it's the latter in my case, as I've been immersed in so many shows from that era the past few years that I've come to recognize lots of actors I didn't know before, without thinking they were in TOS.
But I'm gratified that it wasn't just me!
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!
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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.
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.
I noticed that in his credits but that doesn't explain it for me, as my practical memory of original BSG is pretty fuzzy.
That's definitely a possibility. For some reason I associate him with Jason Evers's character in "Wink of an Eye," though the actors aren't very similar.
Now this is quite the twist on the concept--try to figure out which specific episode Frank Marth wasn't in!
That might be it. There is a certain resemblance there.
I can also picture Marth as a Starfleet captain or commodore.
Whenever I get around to doing another TOS rewatch, I'll certainly have to keep an eye out for Not Frank Marth!
Whenever I get around to doing another TOS rewatch, I'll certainly have to keep an eye out for Not Frank Marth!
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'.
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.
Hawaii Five-O, "Which Way Did They Go?" (Dec. 24, 1969): Santa put William Windom in our stocking (mask):
But we must have been a little naughty this year, because the guy he's abducting is Phillip Pine in (very bad) yellowface.
But we must have been a little naughty this year, because the guy he's abducting is Phillip Pine in (very bad) yellowface.
According to IMDb, William Smithers has the distinction of having been the top-billed guest on an episode of Hawaii 5-O that only aired once, on January 7, 1970. The plot of "Bored, She Hung Herself" dealt with a yoga technique that induced auto-asphyxiation via hanging...which reportedly was fatally imitated by a viewer and resulted in CBS being sued. The episode was never rerun in either the original run of the series or syndication, and has never been released on home video or streaming services. CBS All Access doesn't even account for it in its Season 2 numbering scheme.
Commodore Stocker! That's who I was getting Frank Marth confused with--Charles Drake!
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?
I think it was mainly in voices and delivery.
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