Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[Forbin]

Another Gene Roddenberry script in the Have Gun - episode "Trial at Tablerock." The trial in question being a kangaroo court railroading a local shootist, but Paladin witnessed the killing, which was clearly self defense, and offers to be the defense attorney. Too bad the defendant turned out to need killin' in the end anyway.

 

[Forbin]

Dee Kelly!! Teamed up with Lee Van Cleef, trying to get an ex-con to tell them where he hid is treasure, in the Have Gun - episode titled, um, "The Treasure."

The ex-con is dead, but maybe his wife knows where the treasure is. "You better get used to this face, 'cause I'm gonna stick by you like glue until you tell me."

 

[Henoch]

This morning: The Monkees, ep.1, "Royal Flush". Theodore Marcuse (Korob of Catspaw) spars with ...Chekov?

 

[ItsGreen]

On this Memorial Day, the movie Patton (1970) is on and here is Michael Strong (Roger Korby) as Brigadier General Hobart Carver.... "Patton....God help us!"

 

[PCz911]

On this Memorial Day, the movie Patton (1970) is on and here is Michael Strong (Roger Korby) as Brigadier General Hobart Carver.... "Patton....God help us!"

Not to be too pedantic but… his helmet has the rank insignia of a colonel

 

[ItsGreen]

"Not to be too pedantic but… his helmet has the rank insignia of a colonel"
This was Michael Strong first scene in the movie a little after the opening monologue. (looking things up...) "Brigadier General Hobart Carver" in Patton was based on the real life "Hobart R. Gay". Gay was promoted to Brigadier General on June 24, 1943, so perhaps his rank was Colonel early on...Nice catch.

 

[Forbin]

We occasionally slip in some TOS movie references, so... The 1971 episode of Dan August I watched today featured young(ish) Laurence Luckinbill as the suspect no one suspected, a political candidate who murdered his sister to prevent her from revealing to the world that he was gay.

 

[Forbin]

The next Dan August ep, "The Law," gives us Lee Meriwether as the daughter of a judge who's either going mad or being gaslighted. Honorary pre-Trek Trek actor Walter Pigeon plays the judge. Larry Hagman, who wasn't a spaceman but played one on TV, lurks around being suspicious.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I didn't want to create a new thread so I thought I would post it here.

I'm watching a YouTube retrospective on the syndicated TV series "Team Knight Rider" and the commentator mentions that as the first (and only) season progressed, it leaned more and more into pop culture references; followed by a brief clip of the team standing around a computer monitor where one says that the probe was designed by Professor Jackson Roykirk. A TOS reference in a late nineties syndicated TV series.

 

[Forbin]

Aaaand the next Dan August had Jason Evers pop up in a surprisingly short part as a race car driver with some key evidence.

 

[M'Sharak]

I didn't want to create a new thread so I thought I would post it here.

I'm watching a YouTube retrospective on the syndicated TV series "Team Knight Rider" and the commentator mentions that as the first (and only) season progressed, it leaned more and more into pop culture references; followed by a brief clip of the team standing around a computer monitor where one says that the probe was designed by Professor Jackson Roykirk. A TOS reference in a late nineties syndicated TV series.

Looks like there actually was a "Professor Roykirk" in that episode, played by William Christopher.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Looks like there actually was a "Professor Roykirk" in that episode, played by William Christopher.

Father Mulcahy from M.A.S.H.? OK that's just weird.

 

[Greg Cox]

WHEN THE BOYS MEET THE GIRLS (1965), a largely-forgotten musical starring Connie Francis, features Stanley Adams (aka Cyrano Jones) as a mobster/casino boss in Reno.

 

[Forbin]

Michael Pataki is a chameleon. I never recognize him until the end titles. Just saw him heavily bearded and wearing shades as a slimeball hanging out at a racetrack hitting on an ambulance nurse (who turned out to be in on a heist) in the Dan August ep "Trackdown." Get it? Racetrack? Trackdown? Hoo boy.

 

[Forbin]

Blink and you miss him! LORD Garth in a brief non-speaking role as an assassin in the very first episode of The Green Hornet.

 

[Forbin]

Okay, pics of Mike Pataki from the above mentioned Dan August episode, being slimy:

And the following episode, "Bullet for a Hero" (it was actually 3 bullets, but it was a small gun) featured Lou Antonio as an amputee 'Nam vet/suspect:

 

[Forbin]

I do watch shows made later than the 60s and 70s, really. Sometimes
Celia Loveski in the Twilight Zone ep "Queen of the Nile," wherein Ann Blythe plays an immortal Cleopatra sucking the life out of young men, and Celia plays her horrified 70-year-old daughter.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Barry Atwater is in the current episode of 'Harry O' on Decades+.

 

[Forbin]

The Green Hornet ep "Eat, Drink and be Dead," features Jason Evers as the head of a major bootlegging ring (in 1966??).

 

[J.T.B.]

Gunsmoke moves into color in season 12, fall of 1966. In the first episode, "Snap Decision," a sleazy gunfighter arrives in Dodge, played by Michael Strong.


Joseph Ruskin and Sid Haig in "Stage Stop."


Then on December 10, between "Conscience of the King" and "Balance of Terror," we have this in the episode "Quaker Girl."


Liam Sullivan, also.


Bonus: two of my all-time favorite character actors, Ben Johnson and Timothy Carey.