GR’s Big Acting Break!

[Spock's Barber]

Famous British director Alfred Hitchcock usually made cameo appearances in his movies, so that got me to thinking…what if GR did the same in one of TOS episodes?

I know he did a voiceover in Charlie X (“Real Turkeys!”), but now I’m talking an actual screen shot of GR. It could have just been a background redshirt, a planet inhabitant, an alien in full makeup, etc.

I’m thinking GR as a Klingon, partially disguised but still easily recognizable as The Great Bird of the Galaxy.

Your thoughts on where you would have liked to have seen GR on film?

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

It might've been poetic justice if he was cast an agonized Morg in SPOCK'S BRAIN, serving the needs of angry women....

 

[Spock's Barber]

It might've been poetic justice if he was cast an agonized Morg in SPOCK'S BRAIN, serving the needs of angry women....

My very first thought was one of these dudes, too.

 

[mb22]

Gene as a Romulan (at the 1966 24th World Science Fiction Convention):

 

[scotpens]

I can see G.R. as Gorgan the Friendly Angel from "And the Children Shall Lead." He certainly couldn't have done a worse acting job than Melvin Belli.

 

[Orac]

One of the inmates in Whom Gods Destroy:

 

[M'Sharak]

Let him be the "Nice place you got here, Mister Pike" guy in "The Cage".

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Gene as a Romulan (at the 1966 24th World Science Fiction Convention):

Mark Lenard now regretted his policy of free food for the crew.

I can see G.R. as Gorgan the Friendly Angel from "And the Children Shall Lead." He certainly couldn't have done a worse acting job than Melvin Belli.

The wardrobe is hideous even before it vomitizes.

 

[mb22]

Let him be the "Nice place you got here, Mister Pike" guy in "The Cage".

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Your thoughts on where you would have liked to have seen GR on film?

I wouldn't. I don't like looking at that guy's face anymore.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

According to Memory Alpha, Gene

"... can also be heard (along with Majel Barrett and other production people) in the background intercom chatter in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (and subsequent episodes reusing the same sound tracks)."​

The 'shopped image of Gene as Robert April that appeared in The Star Trek Encyclopedia can be found here.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

I wouldn't. I don't like looking at that guy's face anymore.

George S. Kirk it is.....

 

[Spock's Barber]

George S. Kirk it is.....

…Kirk with a mustache.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

…Kirk with a mustache.

Until now, I never noticed how much Shatner's body double/stunt man looks like Shatner from behind. If I didn't know better, I would have guessed that was an optical effect.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

…Kirk with a mustache.

And a rare silent Kirk, which to me gives more time for Scotty.

 

[cooleddie74]

I can see G.R. as Gorgan the Friendly Angel from "And the Children Shall Lead." He certainly couldn't have done a worse acting job than Melvin Belli.

Jack Ruby's defense attorney had chops. Unfortunately they weren't in the department of acting.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Jack Ruby's defense attorney had chops. Unfortunately they weren't in the department of acting.

You would think that any attorney would excel in dramatic oration, but not in his case I guess.