And the early '50s, and the '40s, and the late 1930s.
Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles
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Good point.
You know, as long as we're on the subject of noted "Latin lover" actors, I'm a little surprised Ricardo Montalban hasn't shown up on Zorro yet. I checked IMDb, and he doesn't arrive until the last of the four hourlong specials Disney did in 1961, which Disney+ unfortunately doesn't appear to have. He's also the main villain in a 1974 TV remake of The Mark of Zorro, opposite Frank Langella as Zorro and Louise Sorel as the female lead. Now, that's a serious Trek-guest game.
We're watching Twilght Zone DVDs for dinner this week, and were delighted to have come around to Shatner's iconic "Terror at 20,000 Feet." We also noticed for the first time that the gremlin on the wing has soles on his feetie pajamas.!
Nitpick: It's "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," not "Terror."
This is a common mistake, possibly due to the fact that Shatner also starred in TV-movie titled "The Horror at 37,000 Feet."
And this is where I'm compelled to mention that "Nightmare" was written by Richard Matheson, who also wrote "The Enemy Within" for TOS.
Which recently aired on the "Creature Features" YouTube channel. I had vague memories of watching it on one of the local late-night shows. It's a decent, if rather unspectacular, made-for-tv horror movie. I had to chuckle when they lit a fire in the cabin of the airplane to keep the demon at bay.
They have another made-for-tv movie on their channel with Shatner called "The People" which reunites him with his "Miri" co-star Kim Darby.
Which of course I know perfectly well, but things like knowing something perfectly well never keep me from makiing a public mistake.
Italian-American actor Anthony Caruso as a swarthy Mexican bandito seeking justice for one of his men, from among a stagecoach-full of likely suspects, in the Have Gun - episode "The Revenger."
Hal Needham is also credited as one of the bandits, but I couldn't pick him out of the bunch.
Hal Needham is also credited as one of the bandits, but I couldn't pick him out of the bunch.
MST3K Turkey Day Marathon is on and they're airing "Catalina Caper", and Peter Duryea is one of the "teenagers" in the group.
Okay, this is freakin hilarious - Riptide, the aforementioned 1984 Stephen J Cannel series about two beach bums and their nerdy friend who have a detective agency operating out of their boat... The gang is below decks running some info through their 1984 remote modem hack of the police computer system. Behind them is a monitor flashing totally random electrical diagrams, mathematical formulae, and suddenly - Franz Joseph Enterprise deck plans! Here's deck 5 flashing by:
Okay, this is freakin hilarious - Riptide, the aforementioned 1984 Stephen J Cannel series about two beach bums and their nerdy friend who have a detective agency operating out of their boat... The gang is below decks running some info through their 1984 remote modem hack of the police computer system. Behind them is a monitor flashing totally random electrical diagrams, mathematical formulae, and suddenly - Franz Joseph Enterprise deck plans! Here's deck 5 flashing by:
Great catch!
Also Keith Andes, holding the gun in your 4th pic.The Have Gun - ep "The Piano" features the lovely Anoinette Bower, who hires Paladin to pay off the kidnappers who are holding famous pianist Franz Lister's concert "music box" for ransom.
The Have Gun - ep "The Piano" features the lovely Anoinette Bower, who hires Paladin to pay off the kidnappers who are holding famous pianist Franz Lister's concert "music box" for ransom.
Antoinette Bower is SO much better looking with good hair. The wigs Star Trek put her in were so terrible that Sylvia barely registered as a beautiful woman with me, throughout my childhood. She just came across as sinister and a pain in Kirk's ass, not the temptress she was supposed to be.
Oh, I agree - a lot of female guest stars had ridiculous hair and looked so much better in their normal styles.
THAT's who that was!! I checked his IMDB but they changed the format this week and I couldn't find a Trek reference.
Yeah, they've messed up a nice sensible page layout and made everything much more cluttered and difficult. I just looked at your screencap and thought "He looks familiar. Who is that?"
He had an outrageous German accent and played it quite foppish. It just didn't click as Akuta for me.
Didn't immediately click as Akuta for me, either. It was just something about facial features / shape of the face that pinged the "familiar" detector.
I haven't seen the Have Gun... episode in question, but there have definitely been instances of someone working behind outrageous postures and gestures and accents, and I only realized as the end credits rolled who I'd been watching the whole time*. Those can be fun.
* This one, for example -- not at all the type of character the actor typically played.
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