Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

Just saw an old SF movie called "The 27th Day". An alien gives five Earth people a powerful weapon. The alien was played by Arnold Moss, best know to Trek fans as Anton Karidian/Kodos.

 

I had a friend who took acting lessons from Moss. My friend thought Star Trek was beneath Moss. Personally I think the scene in Karidian's cabin between Moss and Shatner is one of the great dramatic pause contests in TV history!

 

The copilot would like to say that it's possible there's a Romulan spy right here on this plane.


Extra credit TNG link: there's a Douwd at the controls.


The Twilight Zone, "The Odyssey of Flight 33." Which aired right after the episode named "22." Coincidence? I think NOT!

 

Guest rocks!


Branded, "The Ghost of Murietta."

 

Malibu U., a summer series. The episode aired July 28, 1967.

 

Thanks for the reminder.

 

Does anyone think that Leonard Nimoy was the US version of Roger Moore by any chance?
JB

 

Any time Nimoy called Phelps "Jim" on M:I it jarred me a little.

 

Ron Soble as an Indian in Rawhide, "The Incident of the Tinker's Damn."





Also notable was that great Italian character actor Iron Eyes Cody with a non-speaking background role as a scout.

 

Roy Jenson, Lawrence Montaigne, Brock Peters in Framed (1975)
JB

 

Kind of a shame that Anne Francis was never a Trek guest. Indeed, it seems only two Forbidden Planet cast members made it into TOS, Warren Stevens and Morgan Jones. Surprisingly, though, two minor players from FP were in TNG -- George Wallace (Bosun) was Admiral Simon in "Man of the People," and William Boyett (uncredited Crewman) played two different police officers (one holographic, one historic) in "The Big Goodbye" and "Time's Arrow, Part II."

 

William Windom, Paul Sorensen in 45 Minutes From Home, an episode of The Streets of San Francisco!
JB

 

Honestly, I *was* surprised that Windom landed a regular/recurring role on Murder, She Wrote.

 

The last ever episode of Branded! "Kellie" featured Richard Webb (Ben Finney from "Court Martial," made about a year later) as the really mean head of a group of bank robbers.


The title character, here being roughed up by mean ol' Webb, was played by 15-year-old Morgan Brittany, who grew up to be quite the stunner, and was on Dallas.


Taking potshots at McCord in the dark:


Nudge-nudge. Yup, he's dead. (That's John Carradine checking)

 

If you think that's hard to deal with, watch Klemperer as Adolf Eichmann in the movie Operation Eichmann.

Moss was most likely signed to a contract with the production company of HH, Bing Crosby Productions, which was made at Desilu, not by Desliu, both of which ironically became owned by Viacom/Paramount/CBS-Paramount/CBS Television Studios.

 

Charles Drake (Commodore Stocker) played the sheriff in "It Came from Outer Space". And along the same lines Jeff Corey (Plasus) was in "Superman and the Mole Men" as a character named Luke Benson.