Cassidy was a much better actor.
Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles
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Cassidy was a much better actor.
Tiberius James Hooker.Though this isn't exactly a "surprise" guest star role I couldn't help but to see a way to make an homage:
(My Trek loving son told me to post this somewhere so I'm making the leap. If it doesn't resonate with you please be kind as this is the first time I've attempted this kind of thing
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Yep, I know who they both are.
(I said to my wife, Ted Cassidy must have been busy the week they shot this.)
The Barbary Coast episode "An Iron Clad Plan" features Louise Sorel as an uptight health dept employee (who Doug McClure naturally loosens up at the end), and Bob the Discount Klingon as an... entrepreneur trying to sell secret US military plans to various foreign governments. Shatner disguises himself as a Prussian agent to get at the plans.
Some TOS Trek faces in the fairly awful 1982 sword and sorcery film, The Sword and the Sorcerer. Lee Horsely and Kathleen Beller star, with villain Richard Lynch (TNG connection there) and evil demon Richard Moll.
Jeff Corey showed up as a cranky tavern owner:
And Joseph Ruskin popped up briefly as one of Lynch's henchmen:
Somewhere in the film was George Murdock, who played "God" at the end of Star Trek V, but I couldn't actually find him to get a screen grab.
Jeff Corey showed up as a cranky tavern owner:
And Joseph Ruskin popped up briefly as one of Lynch's henchmen:
Somewhere in the film was George Murdock, who played "God" at the end of Star Trek V, but I couldn't actually find him to get a screen grab.
I liked Jeff Corey better in Conan the Destroyer.
Something of vague interest regarding a mildly infamous bit of business in TAS, which I'm posting here on the thin basis that Anthony Caruso is in the episode--The plot of Mission: Impossible, "Shape-Up" (Oct. 16, 1971), involves a ship named the Orion. Every actor who speaks the ship's name pronounces it "OR-ee-on".
The Barbary Coast episode "Mary Had More Than a Little," featured the Reverend Whit Bissel, and leading citizen Phillip Pine, together again for the first time.
and the usual parade of crazy disguises that let Shatner have a blast with his role in this show:
That's the delightful Judy Strangis, just late of Room 222, and not yet suffering as Dyna Girl, as the titular Mary. yes, I said titular.
and the usual parade of crazy disguises that let Shatner have a blast with his role in this show:
That's the delightful Judy Strangis, just late of Room 222, and not yet suffering as Dyna Girl, as the titular Mary. yes, I said titular.
It's probably been mentioned before but our lovely Rayna from "Requiem for Methusela" was a long time Days of Our Lives alumnus. She played Vivian Alamain for many years!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Alamain
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Alamain
Shatner always manages to look like Shatner in his disguises.The Barbary Coast episode "Mary Had More Than a Little," featured the Reverend Whit Bissel, and leading citizen Phillip Pine, together again for the first time.
and the usual parade of crazy disguises that let Shatner have a blast with his role in this show:
That's the delightful Judy Strangis, just late of Room 222, and not yet suffering as Dyna Girl, as the titular Mary. yes, I said titular.
Oh yes. But you can tell he's having a lot of fun with it. It let him ham it up beyond even his normal hamming it up. And he had surprising good comic timing!
I'm unfamiliar with the show, but that sounds a lot like Ross Martin on WWW.
Yep.
On Mission Impossible, Rollin Hand (Martin Landau) seemed be called on to impersonate people who looked like Rollin Hand a lot.
Oh yeah...in one episode, a small town had two or three people also played by Martin Landau for Rollin to choose from.
Barbary Coast basically was a thinly-disguised retread of TWWW, with Shatner doing the Artemus Gordon often-in-disguise role and Doug McClure as the James West-type leading man (only I think he was a reformed gambler and sometime con artist instead of an ex-Army officer? Something like that.)
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Yep.
On Mission Impossible, Rollin Hand (Martin Landau) seemed be called on to impersonate people who looked like Rollin Hand a lot.
Well, logically that's how it should work. Instead of having one impersonator who was magically expected to match everyone, the realistic thing to do would be to find someone who already resembles the subject. That was the intent in the original M:I pilot, when Landau was just a special guest star -- that Rollin was brought in specifically because of his resemblance to the dictator they needed to double. By contrast, when he had to wear a full-face mask to briefly impersonate Dan Briggs, it was visibly far less convincing, unlike the fancifully perfect masks they used later in the series.
But once they made Landau a regular, it led to the contrivance of the team repeatedly needing to impersonate people who looked like Landau, either because Landau played them or because they cast an actor who resembled him (Paul Stevens was the main one, playing three different characters that Rollin impersonated in various episodes).
I understand the value of sticking with a regular team, but sometimes I wish M:I had stuck with the original intention that the team composition would vary from week to week, tailored for each mission. Instead of one universal master of disguise, they should've saved the "disguise artist" role for a succession of featured guest stars. If nothing else, they could've avoided the unfortunate times that they put Landau or Nimoy in yellowface makeup to impersonate Asians, instead bringing in someone like James Hong or George Takei (who was an M:I guest team member once, but as a medical expert) to play the role.
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