F. Lee Bailey?
Speculative: TOS Era Actors who would have worked well on Star Trek
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F. Lee Bailey?
Christopher Lee!
Its hard to explain but if Shatner had known there was a proper actor then I think he would have upped his performance. If Raymond Burr or Christopher Lee was the Gorgan I think Shatner would have played it differently. You know you up your performance if everyone else up theres.
I think Shatner was off in this episode and it probably had more to do with the writing than anything else. This episode was a whole mess but I think the story was OK. Just a combination of and writing and bad acting and bad effects made it one of TOS worst episodes..
Not necessarily. A lot of TV acting is done without the other actor in the same scene. Anytime you see a dialogue scene staged as intercut close-ups -- say, cutting between a shot of Kirk over Spock's shoulder and a shot of Spock over Kirk's shoulder -- most of the time, the character whose face you can't see is being doubled by a stand-in, so that the actor can do other things like practice lines, get makeup and wardrobe done, rest in their trailer, etc.
Heck, Ricardo Montalban's scenes in The Wrath of Khan were filmed months after the rest of the crew's, on the same bridge set redressed for the Reliant. Shatner and Montalban never played off each other directly. They just pretended to. That's why it's called acting.
Yes, it can enhance a performance if you have someone to play off of directly, but in the absence of that, a good performance is still possible if the actor and director are good enough and care enough about what they're doing.
Except that Burr would already have been into Season 2 of Ironside at that time, so probably pretty busy.
I'd actually picture him more as a Romulan.
A Vulcan would be too Dave Bowman-ish. I'd like to see what Dullea could do when he can let his emotions out (something which actors in 2001 were specifically told NOT to do).
The thought of McGoohan playing a part on TOS boggles the mind!
Robert April?
Patrick McGoohan as Robert April? I like it!
Who would have made a good Joanna McCoy if the episode had been filmed as originally intended - Sally Field of Patty Duke?
How about Peggy Lipton or Lesley Ann Warren?
I started a thread where we had fun speculating on who would be a good Joanna McCoy almost exactly five years ago. Enjoy!
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/who-would-you-have-cast-as-joanna-mccoy.281960/
Patrick McGoohan as Robert April? I like it!
As long as there's no kissing.
Robert
Dullea did other movies than 2001. Try The Fox (1967)
"[M]ost of the time" is not necessarily so. Some actors will play the off-camera lines if they can. In fact, some actors consider it rude if the other actors won't do that. A director I know who knows Tom Hardy said Hardy told him that Stewart wouldn't play his off camera lines to him and that it hurt Hardy's performance.
I could be wrong (I don't have the data in front of me) but my recollection is that they did Montalban's scenes early in the shoot, meaning they pulled the TMP bridge apart to rearrange it for the Reliant, then put it back together as the Enterprise bridge and moved some of the stations around as compared to TMP. That the Enterprise bridge was used in pickups near the end of the production tends to support this.
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Roddy Mcdowall as Trelane
Frank Sinatra as a Klingon
a cross over with lost in space.
Frank Sinatra as a Klingon
a cross over with lost in space.
I heard John Landis tell a story somewhere that on Trading Places Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy didn't have anything to shoot one day so Landis didn't send a car for them; they were in their late 70s and he figured they could use a day off. Still early on a cold New York morning, the crew noticed two older gentlemen making their way up the block toward the office building where they were shooting. It was Ameche and Bellamy, who couldn't conceive of not being on set to give their off-camera lines for the other actors and had walked from their hotel some blocks away.
. Her flying saucer is right there. 
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