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Actor spotting
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They should have picked Connor Trinneer for the Dallas remake. He'd make an awesome JR.
There's a remake of Dallas? Yeesh. Trinneer would have made a good JR, but I think he would have been even better as Cliff Barnes.
Here's another one I spotted - it's kind of cheating, I guess, since for one thing, I don't know that it ought to be all that challenging to spot a Trek regular in another Trek role, and for another, Jeffery Combs is, like, everywhere (when in doubt, guess Jeffery Combs), but last night I for the first time figured out that he was the yucky pervert Tiron in the DS9 episode "Meridian." It shouldn't have taken me that long to spot him, either, since although the makeup is very disguising, his voice ought to have been unmistakable.
Sierra also turns up for a few minutes in Papillon, during one of the sequences where Steve McQueen is on the run after having escaped from Devil's Island - he sounds even more ethnic than Chano there, though (at least in the version which isn't somewhat comically Spanish-dubbed, as this one is.)
He was also the Iraqi ship captain in Hot Shots! Part Deux. His ship was called the Behn Gazzara.
Schallert was an extremely versatile character actor, sometimes ranging far afield from the kind and paternal type he played on The Patty Duke Show (see his guest appearances on The Wild Wild West for just a few examples.) He has also done a huge amount of voice-over work, was SAG president for a few years and spent many years working on stage in between TV roles.
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No he wasn't. He was the head of the CIA. The Taxman from Popeye was the President.
Harris Yulin also played:
- a mafia boss on an episode of Frasier
- a head guy from the Watcher's Council on Buffy
- a small role on Damages in S2 (I think he was Marcia Gay Harden's character's father)
- ?? I'm sure I've seen him somewhere else...
I was a kid when Ronald Reagan first ran for governor, and remember the campaign ads listing "president of the Screen Actors Guild" as one of his main qualifications. If only William Schallert had run for governor!
I remember that, too, but I suspect that's one job Schallert would not have wanted to touch with a ten-foot pole.
Yet another sterling qualification.
Even though Harris Yulin is in my favourite movie "Scarface", which I've probably watched more times than any other movie, I still think of Maritza every time I see him. Just saw him in a season 7 episode of "X-Files".
While re-watching that series recently, I also noticed Denise Crosby show up in season 8 as a doctor. I think she also played a doctor on "Dexter". Maybe casting directors just think she has the 'doctor look'?
I immediately recognized him as the voice of Piglet. That's why I couldn't take him seriously as Jack the Ripper.
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Here's one that's so obvious I'm almost embarrassed to point it out: Saul Rubinek, the bad-guy collector in TNG's "The Most Toys" is of course Artie Nielsen on Warehouse 13. I must have seen the promos for that show about 20 times before I finally remembered where I knew the guy who played Artie from.
Also, I got the one and only season of a great but obscure show, Eerie, Indiana, on DVD, and who played the Satan figure in the episode "Zombies in PJs"? Rene Auberjonois, of course.
Also, I got the one and only season of a great but obscure show, Eerie, Indiana, on DVD, and who played the Satan figure in the episode "Zombies in PJs"? Rene Auberjonois, of course.
I got to meet and chat with him at Shore Leave in 2006. He is a lovely, gracious man.
It's Phlox. Billingsley also appeared in an episode of NCIS called "In the Dark."
He appeared (in a nice, but small part) in the The West Wing episode "Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail."
I thought it was someone doing an 'over the top' imitation of him.
Yeah, he's a character actor that really gets around. He was a love interest of Daphne on "Frasier" for a number of episodes. He also had a string of appearances on the series "Blind Justice". He was on a two-part episode of Stargate SG-1, too. I haven't seen Warehouse 13... is his performance very similar to what he has done elsehwere? Although I like his characterizations, the ones I've seen seemed all fairly similar to each other; same intonations and mannerisms.
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