Mark Lenard - an amazing actor!

[Dell Yount]

His performance as the Romulan Commander
in the original series episode: "Balance of Terror"
makes it my #1 favorite of all the original shows.

Such a gifted actor, in fact, that the producers saw fit
to bring him back to play the role of Spock's father...
Vulcan ambassador, Sarek. His was a wonderful career!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0501697/

 

[Kelso]

He'll always be General Urko to me.

 

[Maurice]

I liek Lenard in his Trek appearances, but I'm not going to pass judgement on how amazing or not he was on the basis of those appearances. It's too small a sample.

 

[Warp Core Breach]

What about that Buck Rogers episode where he had an afro and carried his head around like a basketball? That was some fine acting, too.

 

[UnknownSample]

He'll always be General Urko to me.

Hell yeah! He knew how to have a good time in a BART station! Not really....

Mark Lenard was good in the series Here Come The Brides, which I'd like to see again.

 

[Forbin]

I recently saw him in a Hawaii 5-0 episode where he played an sging Japanese spy who suffered a psychotic break and tried to complete the sabotage on Hickam Field that he failed to complete 25 years earlier.

Gotta say, his performance was ridiculous. His version of a Japanese accent and speach pattern sounded more like a cartoon American Indian. His martial arts attempts were laughable, and he never looked like anything except a big stocky white guy wearing very obvious fake eye pieces.

Loved every minute of him when he was on Trek, however.

 

[Kelso]

What about that Buck Rogers episode where he had an afro and carried his head around like a basketball? That was some fine acting, too.

Paul Carr was also in that two-parter.

 

[T'Bonz]

No matter what else Mark was in, he will always be associated with Sarek to me. He did such a lovely job of it.

The Romulan Commander part was good too. Hell, I actually wrote a story based on that.

My only Star Trek regret ever is that I never was privileged to meet him. He appeared at cons during my decade hiatus from Trek, when I was raising my kids. *sigh*

I have his autograph, but I'd have loved to have shaken his hand or taken a picture with him.

 

[Zeppster]

He was the first guy to play a Romulan, Vulcan, and Klingon in Star Trek.

 

[T'Bonz]

Well, I'll forgive him for the Klingon part, I suppose.

 

[Forbin]

Well, I'll forgive him for the Klingon part, I suppose.

It was a bone-headed move.

 

[Swarles Barkley]

I was just thinking about Lenard's work on Trek the other day. To me, his work as Sarek is the template for how a Vulcan ought to be portrayed. Stoic, dignified, but not stiff or arrogant as so many of the Vulcan characters in the spinoff shows seemed to be. Since Spock is after all only half Vulcan, for me Lenard's Sarek remains the prototypical Vulcan.

And he kicked ass as a Romulan too.

 

[Outpost4]

Well, I'll forgive him for the Klingon part, I suppose.

It was a bone-headed move.

I wish I'd said that.

And glad I didn't, all at the same time.

 

[Green Shirt]

Mark Lenard was good in the series Here Come The Brides, which I'd like to see again.

Its on DVD.

 

[Ronald Held]

There is much truth in that statement.

 

[Forbin]

There is much truth in that statement.

Yes, it's true it's on DVD.

 

[Trevacious]

Mark Lenard was good in the series Here Come The Brides, which I'd like to see again.

I didn't know it at the time I read it, but the Star Trek novel "Ishmael" is a time-traveling crossover with that series.

 

[Cranston]

What about that Buck Rogers episode where he had an afro and carried his head around like a basketball? That was some fine acting, too.

I may be misremembering this, but when I saw Mark Lenard at a con in the mid-'80s, he talked about that episode. He said (IIRC) that the reason for that awful wig was that there was originally another actor cast for the role who didn't work out for some reason (or had to pull out or something), and he had to be replaced by Lenard at the last minute. But by that time, they'd already made the fake-head-prop to match the original actor, who had bushy hair...so the solution, rather than put new hair on the fake head, was to put a bushy wig on Lenard to make him match the fake head prop.

I agree with the H F Mudd -- Lenard's the prototypical Vulcan in my book.

He seemed like a nice guy. Signed my copy of the "Journey to Babel" screenplay.

 

[T'Bonz]

Well, I'll forgive him for the Klingon part, I suppose.

It was a bone-headed move.

*groan*

 

[Green Shirt]

Well, I'll forgive him for the Klingon part, I suppose.

It was a bone-headed move.

*groan*

This humor is a kick in the groan.